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January 29, 2012

Laser Beam Cuts Man in Half

at 5:53 am. Filed under Funny Hacks

 

 

Martin Raynsford has been doing some playing with his laser, talking some time to have some fun is very important. In this case he used his Laser Beam Cuts Man in Half, just like in the movies!

 


January 20, 2012

Litter Box Exhaust System using a Computer Fan

at 7:30 pm. Filed under Computer Hacks, Funny Hacks

 

Check out this DIY Litter Box Exhaust System. If the smell from your cat’s litter box is enough to have you cleaning the box many times a day you should consider an exhaust system. It was built using a 120 mm computer case fan, 4″ dryer duct, 12 vdc power supply, steel cans, electrical tapes, long zip ties, plywood and a few other various household items.  Some required tools are hot glue gun, knife, drill machine and permanent marker.

“This project costs less than $35 to make and can be prepared from affordable household’s and recyclable objects. The design is perfect for apartment dwellers.”

 


January 4, 2012

Turn Chumby web browser to Full-screen kiosk

at 9:11 pm. Filed under Complex Hacks, Funny Hacks

 

Cibomahto member mahto modified the Chumby web browser to a full-screen kiosk for his 8″ Insignia Infocast branded machine. You can probably make it to work with the other Chumbys too without learning flash or compiling anything.

 

The steps required to make it working are :

- At first grab the file here,

- unzip the contents into a USB stick or SD card,

- place the card in your Insignia, and reboot.

- you can change the URL that it loads by modifying the file debugchumby 

 

The complete source code for this browser can be downloaded here.

December 28, 2011

DIY Home Automation – using Voice activated commands

at 3:31 pm. Filed under Crazy Hacks, DIY Hacks, Funny Hacks

 

Check out this wonderful project that you can use to automate your home using voice commands without spending big bucks. To build this, you will only require few popularly used components like:

  • a VRbot voice recognition module
  • an AVR ATtiny2313
  • a 433MHz RF send module
  • low-cost wireless light swiches (or relays)

 VRBot speech recognition module is basically the core of this project. It recognizes 32 custom voice commands.  Once a command is recognized, a wireless switch is activated via a radio receiver.

Via: Hacknmod

Watch out this video to learn more:

 

  

 


December 23, 2011

Crazy hacked Monitor looks Invisible unless you are wearing special Glasses

at 6:37 pm. Filed under Complex Hacks, Crazy Hacks, DIY Hacks, Electronic Hacks, Funny Hacks

 

Instructables member Dimovi shares a wonderful hack where you can turn your old LCD monitor into a privacy monitor!  The crazy thing with this privacy monitor is that it  looks all white to everybody except you, because you are wearing “magic” glasses!

People might think you are crazy, staring at a blank white screen wearing sunglasses! But I guess that makes it even more fun!

Materials required for this build are:

  • An LCD monitor of course
  • Single use 3D glasses from the movie theater (old sunglasses are just fine)
  • Paint thinner (or some other solvent such as toluene, turpentine, acetone, methyl acetate, ethyl acetate etc)
  • Box cutter (and CNC laser cutter)
  • Screwdriver or a drill
  • Paper towels
  • Superglue

You can refer the step-by-step procedure of making this project here.

 


Crazy Walking Machine Project

at 6:33 am. Filed under Crazy Hacks, Electronic Hacks, Funny Hacks, Toy Hacks

 

Have you ever heard of a walking machine made from bent wires and run by a single 1.5V AA battery wherein the motor and battery can rotate with crank?

Hackolog member brought this amazing concept, where you can build your own walking machine just by using fewer components.  You can start by connecting the motor to the crank to which the wheels are fitted. Now when the wheels meet an obstruction the motor starts driving the crank round, the spinning eccentric weight of the motor causes the robot to jump up and down and the foot oscillates. 

To get an idea how the machine looks like, you can refer to the pic below:

 

 

December 21, 2011

Hacked Typewriter with Magical Effects

at 10:14 pm. Filed under Crazy Hacks, DIY Hacks, Electronic Hacks, Funny Hacks

 

Makezine in its blog reported that Yoonjo Choi has modernized her old typewriter by adding force sensors and monitor connectivity, so that her old photographs can now be flipped quickly through projection. The way in which her old photo displays on the monitor possesses a magical effect. The project draws attention to the photos in a way that a digital slideshow or picture frame cannot.

The most amazing feature is that you can only see the photo when you type at a certain rate. For example, if you type less than five letters within ten seconds you will only get a vague outline of the photo. If you type more than five and less than ten letters it gets a bit more crisp, and so forth.

 Watch out this video to know more about this hacked Typewriter:

 

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