Thanks to EASEUS for providing their EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition as the prize this week. Partition Master Professional allows you to perform complex partition management with ease. This contest will run for one week (April 18 – 23, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it.

Please do not give the answer in the comments. 

Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with "Name the Thing Contest" as the subject, and the message body consisting of:

• The name of the item in the above picture
• An example of what the item pictured above can be used for

The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries.

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Added May 2, 2009

The item to guess was an old floppy drive

The winner is Juan G. (There were 55 entries)

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Below is a picture of the software prize.

I can’t believe that it has been over 3 and a half years since I made the first hard drive clock. Since then there have been lots of cool clocks created by some talented people. Jason Amsel and Konstantin Klitenikfrom from Cornell University came up with this hard drive clock version (2nd on page), they added a nice touch screen that can be used to set the time. Ian Smith developed a very stable and finished hard drive clock design which looks like a piece of art!  The hard drive clock that Waldeck Schutzer from the Federal University of São Carlos built uses 12 LEDs which make it nice for a very clear position indication (last two images show the results). Baidu built a hard drive clock that has a built in LED display that also shows the time and other messages (first image and video show the results).

Am I missing any hard drive clocks? If you know of another one please let me know in the comments.

Alan Parekh Hard Drive Clock
Jason Amsel and Konstantin Klitenikfrom Hard Drive Clock
Ian Smith Hard Drive Clock
Waldeck Schutzer Hard Drive Clock (translated version)
Baidu Hard Drive Clock  (translated version)

Below is the Waldeck Schutzer Hard Drive Clock

I have seen lots of full size Competition Pull Tractors with multiple motors but I have never seen a RC truck with more than one motor. The RC result by Andy Tymowicz is one cool truck that has power to spare!

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If you want this Wood Ferrari V12 Engine masterpiece you better work fast since this Ebay auction is coming to an end in about 4 days. The 400 hours of build time sure show, hopefully when it is sold the creator can purchase a new keyboard since it is obvious that his current one has a stuck caps key.

"FERARI V12 365GTB/4 WOODEN DAYTONA MOTOR ,FULL SIZE , MADE OUT OF RARE WOODS ,ONLY 12 MADE BY BILL DIETZ IN MOSS LANDING CALIFORNIA ,THESE ENGINES WERE MADE OVER A 3 YEAR PERIOD ,USING PHOTOS AND A ACTUAL DAYTONA ENGINE , THE MOTOR WEIGHS 50 LBS IT TOOK OVER 400 HOURES PER MOTOR TO BUILD ,EACH IS SERIAL NUMBERD HIDDEN IN THE BLOCK ,THE BLOCK IS MADE OF PHILLIPPINE MAHOGANY ,THE PRESSURE PLATE AND PULLEYS OF WENGE ,THE CARBUETORS ARE TEAK WITH MAPLE VELOCITY STACKS AND THE OIL FILTERS ARE MADE FROM PADAUK ,THE STARTER AND TWIN DISTRIBUTOR CAPS ARE WALNUT WHILE THE DISTRIBUTOR ITSELF,AS WELL AS THE CAM END COVERS ,ARE MADE FROM HONDURAS MAHOGANY ,ALL THE SCREWS ,BOLTS ,AND STUDS ARE BIRCH AND THE WASTER PUMP AND INLET ARE MADE FROM HAWAIIN KOA ,THE OIL FILTER BASE IS WALNUT ,HE SPRINGS AND COILS ARE NAUTURAL WOOD CANING AND OTHER BITS ARE MADE FROM OAK."

Via: TechEBlog

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What can you do with LEGO, Lasers and Rubber Bands? Well glad you asked. This Remote Controlled Lego Turret could be constructed to guard any teenagers room, heck I could use it to keep people out of my office.

"Specifications:
Fully remote controlled
It uses only one engine

Ammo:
The regular rubber band
30 rubber bands

Engine:
8287 Lego Motor"

The Suzuk-E Electric Bike build continues. The last time they did some cool Gear Casting using CNC and Foam. This time they added some active cooling to the electric motor and used a CNC machine to make some stencils, constructed a custom LED Dimmer Circuit and lots of other fun projects.

“Over the course of several road and trail runs the motor temps were topping 100F as measured in the center of the outer steel magnet casing. If this were July, I’d be quite pleased, but this is Feb/March and the temps never were above freezing, one day was minus 10C. To continue along with the paint theme I opted to draft some simple stencils to do the lettering. The mill was set to 25 Inches per minute feed rate running a 0.020″ cutter set to a depth of 0.030″. The cut is a little ragged but certainly passable.”

This Maya Robot is the beginning of a cool robot. Maya is a 3D modeling program that allows you to build virtual models and then manipulate them. This robot allow the virtual world to move into the real world.