Make Your Own Rubber Stamps [Crafts]
If you want to add a personal touch to invitations, cards, and scrapbooks you can create your own custom rubber stamps by cutting an image into a rubber eraser. More »
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Roast Coffee Beans with an Iron Skillet, a Whisk, and a Colander [Video]
We've covered a few methods of roasting coffee beans at home over the years using a popcorn popper, a soup can and a drill, or a hand-crank popcorn popper. To that list we're now adding a method that o...
Speech recognition on an Arduino
Speech recognition is usually the purview of fairly high-powered computers chugging along at hundreds of Megahertz with megabytes of RAM. Bringing speech recognition to the low-power microcontroller you’d find in an Arduino sounds like the work of a mad scientist or Ph.D. candidate, but that’s exactly what [Arjo Chakravarty] did. He developed the ?Speech library for [...]
Adding Famicom audio channles to an NES without messing up the console
[Callan Brown] wrote in to show us a really interesting NES audio hack. [Callen] decided that he wanted the full Castlevania III audio experience, which (without modifications) can only be had through the original Japanese Famicom console. [Callen] weighed a few adapter options, and instead decided to come up with his own. The issue is [...]
Make Your Old Phone Feel Like New This Weekend [Weekendhacker]
So you've gotten off the upgrade treadmill, but you're still a little jealous of all those people getting the new iPhone 5. Or maybe your Galaxy S II doesn't feel as shiny when the new Galaxy S III is m...
Transit pass controls this home security system
[Folkert van Heusden] installed a bunch of cameras in and around his home. Ostensibly this is for watching the kitties from work, but we’re sure the more accepted purpose is for security. He and his wife don’t really want the cameras rolling when they’re at home. So he added a system by the front door [...]
MapQuest is a great alternative to Apple Maps. [Discussions Of The Day]
Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you m...
Wiring up a lot of LED segment displays
One look at this display and you know there’s a whole lot of pins that need to be wired up. Now look at what those display modules are mounted on. That’s right, [Kemley] is using point-to-point soldering to rig up this big display. It sports four sixteen segment modules on top for alpha-numeric information, and [...]
BiKN Connects Your iPhone to Your Stuff (or Children or Animals) So You'll Never Lose Them [Video]
iPhone: Are you constantly misplacing things or concerned when your young child or dog go wandering off? BiKN (pronounced like beacon) can track them down for you. BiKN is a case that pairs wirelessly...
NES light gun gets a burning laser upgrade
The Nintendo Light Gun makes a perfect burning laser. Of course it’s been gutted to make this happen. Nonetheless, the retro look can’t be beat, and the gun form factor is just what you need in a laser weapon. This will literally burn your eye out of your head, so [Justin] and his buddies over [...]