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 Check out the LikeLight, a fantastic project from Red Pepper. The light is made out of Lego with an Arduino microprocessor inside hooked to a few LEDs. It’s connect to the Internet. Every time a new person “likes” a specified page in Facebook the light blinks. He set it to Lil Wayne’s ... read more on Light Up Lego Facebook Like Hand...  It’s a television remote control that randomly changes the channel when you fart near the sensor! Schmidtn built this using an Arduino microcontroller with a methane gas sensor hooked up to a random number processor that randomly picks a channel number to switch it to. Most families fight over the remote control, this ... read more on Fart Operated Remote Control...  Today’s DIY project is a self-tweeting laser tripwire with webcam capture. The device uses a normal laser pointer, an Arduino, a mirror and a light-dependent resistor. It looks pretty complex to me, but they describe it as suitable for beginning modders. When the laser is tripped, a nearby computer sends a tweet ... read more on Tweeting Laser Tripwire with Webcam Capture...  Everyone loves to tap along to the beat on their legs so why not turn your jeans into an actual drum kit? We’ve seen the drumkit shirt before but this is more of a DIY project called the Ubiquitous Drum Pants created by Boris Smus. He used an Arduino, a pair ... read more on Ubiquitous Drum Pants...  Combining old and new into one neat hack, the folks at Tinkerlog took and old Commodore SQ 1000 electric typewriter and hooked it up via Arduino with an Ethernet Shield to the internet. The typewriter is set to print out any tweets that come in. It took some technical wizardry to get ... read more on A Twittering Typewriter (Twypper)...  The trend of hooking up inane household appliances to Twitter continues with the Tweetidor, a Twittering humidor. Humidors are used to keep your cigars fresh and tasty, and in this case connected to the internet. The humidor is hooked up with an arduino and a digital hygrometer and thermometer which sends out ... read more on Tweetidor: The Twittering Humidor @Tweetidor... |   | ||||
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