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Hacked Gadgets Happy Holidays 2009 Contest
The new year is just around the corner, how would you like some cool swag from Hacked Gadgets to kick it off? There will be 4 winners this time around. We will be giving away a digital subscription of Make Magazine to a lucky winner, two subscriptions to Nuts and Volts will be going to ...
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Internet Enabled Cat Feeder
  If you are on the road or at the office and just remembered that you forgot to feed the cats what do you do? Drive home and feed them right? Well if you are Mathew Newton you can use your phone or your work computer to feed the animals. This Internet Enabled Cat Feeder project ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad mounted as Seats in Bus
  Lenovo wanted to prove that their Laptops are very tough. The laptops feature full metal frame, shockproof hard drive protection and a spillproof keyboard. What better way of proving how durable they are then to install them on busses that are on their way to a Lenovo event . These ...
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Huge Binary Clock
  Thanks to t0n10 from Poland for sending in this cool project tip. Often bigger isn’t better, but when it comes to binary clocks. Bigger is definitely better! Have a look at the massive binary clock that the guys at Wroclaws Technology University made .   ...
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LED Christmas Tree Ornament
  If your holiday festivities are lacking some flashing LEDs then you have to look at the latest project that our friend Ian from Dangerous Prototypes has made. It’s a circuit board LED Christmas tree Ornament ! "Holiday cards that blink and beep have always fascinated ...
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AVR Micro Controller Class
  Keith Chester is going to be putting on a AVR Micro Controller Class on December 12, 2009. If you are in the area (see below) and want to learn a bit, check it out! " FUBAR Labs and Hive 76 - a New Jersey and Philadelphia hackerspace, respectively, are teaming up to provide ...
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Automatic Caps Lock Prank Circuit
  Manekinen from Poland send in some of his interesting projects. If you are wanting to play a great computer prank on someone this Automatic Caps Lock Circuit is sure to fit the bill. It automatically "presses" the caps lock button ever now and then! I can just imagine the ...
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The Magic Clock - Family location indicator
  When you work in an office there is usually a board up front that indicated who is in and out. At home there is no such convenience, but even if there was where are the your other family members? That problem has been solved by The Magic Clock , it uses Twitter and some electronics ...
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Robot Hand that can Feel
  I can’t imagine loosing my hand but now there are some interesting options. You could get a hook for the good old pirate look or get this Robot Hand the can Feel ! Via: Servo Magazine Blog "A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed ...
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Flashing RGB LED Project
  This is a simple LED project, do you know someone who wants to learn a bit about electronic? Maybe you just want to try out some of these cool Flashing RGB LEDs ! With a total project cost of between $2.00 and $3.00 the time is right to try some of these things out. They can add ...
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Name the Thing Contest - 108
Thanks to Protostack for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a ATMEGA168 Development Kit and a USBASP AVR Programmer to the winner. The development kit contains everything you need to start building ATMEGA168 circuits. The AVR programmer is based on the Thomas ...
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DIY Laser Light Show using Speakers
  If you have a laser pointer, a few speakers, an old radio and some small mirrors you are all set to make your own DIY Laser Light Show . Alex Wiebe from Flyinglow created the project based on one he read about in the pages of Make magazine.  The first video shows the system ...
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Solar Hot Water Heater
  I wasn’t aware that central hot water was rare in Brazil, here in Canada every home has central hot water and it is just taken for granted that every house has a large electric or gas heated hot water tank. Jacob Teater wanted to cut his electrical bill by installing a Solar ...
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Scarecrow by Contech - Motion Activated Sprinkler
  Hacked Gadgets went to Island Tech 2009 which was on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada to check on the technology that was being demonstrated. Contech was there showing some of their products, the Scarecrow was by far the most interesting. It isn’t a new product but ...
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Fastest Bicycle in the World
  Hacked Gadgets went to Island Tech 2009 which was on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada to check on the technology that was being demonstrated. It was an interesting feeling to be able to touch the fastest bicycle in the world! Designed by VARNA of British Columbia , it ...
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Phosphor E Ink Watch Review
  You have probably heard about E Ink before. It is the new technology that is being used in portable book reading platforms such as the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindle . Thanks to Phosphor for sending in a E Ink watch for us to review, even though there are many devices that are ...
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Camosun College Robotics
  Hacked Gadgets went to Island Tech 2009 which was on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada to check on the technology that was being demonstrated. Camosun College had some cool robots on display. Unfortunately the only ones that they had operational were two sumo-bots. The ...
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Organic Rankine Cycle - Camosun College
  Hacked Gadgets went to Island Tech 2009 which was on Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada to check on the technology that was being demonstrated. Daniel Perera, a graduate student of the Mechanical Engineering Technology program at Camosun College demonstrated a project he ...
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Gov 2.0 Summit Creating an Effective Platform
  This Creating an Effective Platform talk that was recorded at the Gov 2.0 Summit is very interesting. Listen to it to see how some very creative people think. To see all the recorded talks have a look here . Speakers are, John Markoff from New York Times,  Vint Cerf from ...
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CD-ROM Door Lock
  This is an interesting project that uses an old CD-ROM drive to make a CD-ROM Door Lock . Granted the system isn’t very secure however it would be trivial to connect it to a real deadbolt. It sounds like the system is voice activated but it is just the inventor asking his son ...
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