Rocket-Propelled Toy Car
This toy car, made from LEGOs, is powered by a blown-up balloon and uses the principle of rocket propulsion.
Posted by Tom Fox
Categories: Kids & Family, Fun & Games | No Comments
Electrical Tape Projects
Water-to-Wine Cooler
Our sacrilegious illusion converts water into flowing red wine.
Posted by Pierre Micheal and Robert Kaye
Categories: Food & Beverage, Hacks, Home | 4 Comments
ViBracelet
The goal of this project is to build a vibrating bracelet that alerts the wearer to incoming calls on an iPhone 4S. This device was originally created for a blind...
Posted by Veronica and Priya
Categories: Computers & Mobile | No Comments
Connect 4 Binary Clock
Remember that old Connect 4 game sitting in your basement/closet/chest/Batcave? You’ve always wanted to upcycle that into a functioning binary clock utilizing the awesome powers of an Arduino, haven’t you?...
Posted by Michael Esposito
Categories: Arduino, Home | No Comments
Using a Kinect as an Infrared Camera
The Kinect is a peripheral for the Xbox 360 console that allows a user to interact with the Xbox 360 without touching a controller. A general description of the Kinect...
Posted by Damon Conover
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Extreme LED Throwies
LED throwies are cheery glow-dots you can make in seconds from simple components and stick to any ferro-magnetic surface. But that’s just the beginning — here’s how to hack and...
Posted by Keith Hammond
Categories: Electronics | 3 Comments
Pinhole Panoramic Camera
I bought a new scanner recently, and soon found myself spelunking through drawers of old photos from my many misspent years in photography. Some of the most interesting shots were...
Posted by Ross Orr
Categories: Photography & Video | No Comments
Eternal Flame Indestructible LED Lantern
Build simple, rugged, floating LED lanterns that glow for days.
Posted by Steve Hoefer
Categories: Electronics, Art & Design | 12 Comments
Simple Van de Graaff Generator
When I was younger, I spent hours perusing Bill Beaty’s electrostatics web pages. At the time, I didn’t achieve any real successes trying to build his high-voltage contraptions, and so...
Posted by Adam Wolf
Categories: Science | 6 Comments
Space Invaders Tote
The Space Invaders are sensitive to the electromagnetic waves of mobile phones. When in close proximity to a mobile phone, the Space Invader is energized by an incoming call and...
Posted by Syuzi Pakhchyan
Categories: Electronics, Sewing | No Comments
Simple, Cheap, Multi-Channel, Sound-Reactive EL Wire
Most EL wire displays are static, because they use an inverter that simply turns the EL wire on (i.e. constant-on). Sound-reactive inverters are available, but most of these are only...
Posted by Yardley Dobon
Categories: Electronics, Hacks | No Comments
$10 Drawdio
These instructions will teach anyone that reads these how to make a drawdio with spare parts. It will cost $0-10 to make this little noisemaker. All of the parts can...
Posted by William Anderson
Categories: Electronics, Kids & Family | No Comments
