Just as Christmas rounds the corner the notion of LED Christmas lights shows up on the shelves of popular stores. Those things are juts too inviting not to hack up, eh? I mean you get like 70 LEDS or various colors in pre-wired sockets. How cool is that? The obvious hack is to ween them off from AC power and let them suck on batteries. The hack listed below is pretty much for the always on non-flashing LED or old fashioned incandescent bulb strings but I’m betting that the ones with the cycle controllers can also be hacked. I’ll be doing this in a few days, I’ll let you know how it works out. Try the hack out and have fun bending them to you will. Muhahaha!
Battery Christmas Lights: How to convert Xmas lights to run on batteries/DC (regular or LED)
I got an email from the boys over at 
Cruising over city buildings, a small remote controlled plane attempts to hold steady, very steady. With a flick of a switch the ground controller send a signal that commands the plane to activate a small servo. One one thousand, two one thousand. The switch is reversed and the servo returns to its former position. The plane starts it’s decent to the field. What just happened? Would you believe that the plot of the remotely operated aircraft just took a photo of the buildings using a pinhole camera? By using fast film (ISO 1600) Daniel is able to take surprisingly sharp photos. Go have a look at his blog and take a look you might be inspired to build your own.