Author: John

Exteeeermiiiinaaaaate!!!

Daleks

Just what all kids want under the Christmas tree, there very own little homicidal alien cyborgs.
Someone needs to add a little computer to these and let them rove around in a maze somewhere (thats a hint for all PAReX members out there)

Due September 2005.

Challenge your friends to a Dalek battle! Who will exterminate who? You control the Daleks and duel with your opponent.

2 X 4 inch Daleks with controllers. Infrared movement control. flashing hit indicator head lights. Poseable arm and gun. 2 X IR Receivers on each Dalek (front and top of head). 1 X IR Emitter in each Dalek (Eyestalk). Featuring authentic sound and effects.
Pack comes with Doctor and Rose figure.

[ via Red Ferret]
Dr Who Battle Daleks Two Pack

TireTagz Spell Doom

Dork, er wheel lights

Ugh… I knew these were coming as soon as I saw the spoke lights for bikes.
Maybe I’d think better of them if they displayed the time and temperature, or flashed when your were going to change lanes or turn. OMG! You can’t have that! All changes in direction must be kept secret so as to not tip off the invisible cars that tail everyone… Ok, it looks like that to me, I mean how can you explain why turn signals seem to be a infrequently used option these days. Maybe drivers are just stupid and are easily distracted, if that’s the case then the Tire Tagz will be the death of us all,

TireTagz turn hubcaps into a tacky LED display

DIY GPS

Homemade GPS

This is pure DIY goodness.

This is a short description on how I spent some hours this summer building a simple GPS device. For some time now I have been wondering about the possibility to build such a device from mostly scavenged and old parts, the most important being (of course) a GPS receiver module, and an LCD display. And indeed it was possible. ,)

Loads of great things here, he used a slavaged LCD from a cell phone as a display, a NEMA GPA module from eBay, and even burned his own boards using a UV party light.

[via hackaday ]
Ghetto-GPS

Ceiva Adapter

Ceiva to PC Adapter

What the heck is it?It’s an adapter that lets you run a Ceiva from a computer. Whats a Ceiva you ask? A Ceiva is one of those posh digital picture frames that everyone is all keen on turning old laptops into. If your fresh out of old laptop, then go search eBay for a virgin Ceiva. Get one and you can be the talk of your hacker friends. Score big points with the SO by running the emergency ‘kids photos’ script when your mother-in-law stops by for a visit.

[ via MAKE ]
Ceiva picture frame serial port adapter