Todd Harrison came up with a great way to scare anyone who dares to press the red button nose of his pumpkin. The Honking Pumpkin is sure to be a hit sitting on the front step of your house.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.11 at 11:32
Bumblebeepee from the Hacked Gadgets Forum entered the Halloween Project Contest with this cool Hidden Sound Trigger contraption. He used an infrared beam to detect when someone enters the target area, the buzzer output of the beam module presses play on an mp3 player which is amplified to drive some speakers and scare someone.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.10 at 16:19
Guysoft shows us how to create a Bumble-b LED Matrix Computer Interface. I have never used a Bumble-b but for $17 how could you go wrong? It seams like one of the best ways to communicate directly via USB to a computer.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.09 at 08:07
This POV Fan Display Hack by Hacking with Gum required a bit of reverse engineering to determine how the device worked in the first place, then a way to re-program the operation of the device to display a new message.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.09 at 07:19
[Oleg] of Circuits@Home and maker of the USB Isolation Board and the USB Host Shield has a new, two-part hack for his chemistry set. In Part 1 of this hack, [Oleg] discusses the method he uses to make a stir bar spin and what types of stir bars work the best.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.10.08 at 15:56
The fantastic Creatrope blog has a great article on quickly assembling animatronic Halloween gags using salvaged electric motors, pvc pipe, and “grid beam” construction.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.10.08 at 15:39
This is a cool scale mod. The Weight Logging Bathroom Scale saves the the time stamped weight for each use to an SD card. This allows the data to be plotted and analyzed.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.08 at 06:09
The Halloween Hanging Mobile Project was lots of fun. Hand drawn images were cut out using a Fireball V90 CNC machine as pieces of the spooky mobile.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.06 at 10:00
Reader [Mikey Sklar] told us about a review he wrote covering 3 different models of pocket multimeters. We’re sure that you’ve had the same experiences we have being the go-to-guy or got-to-gal for all things electrical.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2009.10.05 at 12:58
In the video the Spooky Dropper is setup to deliver a bat right in front of the victim. It could drop a spider, ghost, rat or anything else you can dream up! It can reset itself automatically using one normal servo and one that has been modified for continuous operation.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2009.10.05 at 06:19