Its a puppet!!

Hurrah!

Admiral Sackbar Hand Puppet




But is it a viable alternative to a £200 lightsaber?

Micro controller stair lighting

something similar here too. With a kit.

Ferrofluids

Making your own Ferrofluids


12x12 pixel display - snake video

cable drawings

PIR + motor + hose

=brilliant

nixie tube alarm clock

Maker shed hae released a nice kit nixie tube alarm clock - looks very nice indeed, but at $70 seems a little pricy.

VFDs can be picked up pretty cheap - ebay has similar items for £5 or so...

homebrew ebook readers

http://rossum.posterous.com/avr-homebrew-device-with-iphone-aspirations


[hack a day]

mmm.... so minimalist its mental.

pocket wikipedia

Man that looks very cool indeed... gotta be homebrewable...
will look into it

LED pocket watch

This looks sparkey and nice.. but far too fiddlely!

Daft Punk Costumes

ELwire is brilliant :)



Perhaps on a smaller scale, this could be integrated onto a messenger bag, one big spiral, blinking with an arduino?

Bike Lights

Summer is over folks, its getting dark out there....

big silly light project?


Seriously... look at that thing.. 1600 lumens of mental! the heatsink alone must weigh a ton!

Awsome form facor NES Emulator

Frekin sweet.

NES emulator, 4GB media player, FM radio, TV out. totally sick.



Reminds me of when I thought about mashing-up a nes controller with a mp3 player some time ago.. will have to look in the parts bin and see if i still have the bits..

how to

Moon for anyone?

X-prizes everywhere at the moment, and although they're pushing development of new technology for they're still not really obtainable for the lazy backroom hacker. Moonbots however, might just be.

Teams will be asked to submit designs illustrating how they will build, program and operate their robots using LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic kits.
Shame it stared in August.

Now.. where did i put that box of technic...

[via ieee]

Word Clock

Looks totally ace.

However, I bet its harder/ slower to read than numbers or hands on an analogue face.
At least you cant get it wrong - I frequently KNOW the time is 5 past when i look at my watch, but will involuntarily say "5 to" when asked...