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https://hackaday.com/2010/05/18/cathode-ray-tube-leads-the-way-on-this-bot/ | Cathode Ray Tube Leads The Way On This Bot | Mike Szczys | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"crt",
"i2c",
"robot"
] | [Daqq’s] latest creation is this little
robot with a CRT mounted on the front
. Obviously ‘why?’ is the wrong question here, but we know this is right up his alley considering his propensity for the less common like this
plasma ball Nixie tube
. The solidly-built bot uses two stepper motor controlled wheels and an omni... | 32 | 32 | [
{
"comment_id": "143257",
"author": "mrgoogfan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-18T19:23:26",
"content": "I sure hope he put dem der optoisolators in dat robity bot.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143259",
"author": "Drew Mallager",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,377,441.093338 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/18/composing-music-with-the-force-trainer/ | Composing Music With The Force Trainer | Mike Szczys | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"force trainer",
"ftdi",
"music",
"processing"
] | In the ongoing quest to make the Force Trainer useful [Hunter Scott] developed
a music composition platform for your mind
(channel Jack Black’s voice for the last half of that sentence). Using the
Force Trainer’s serial port
[Hunter] feeds the data stream into a computer via an FTDI cable and uses Processing to make th... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "143256",
"author": "Dheath",
"timestamp": "2010-05-18T19:14:59",
"content": "It would be sort of nice to have this thing to see how active the person is and based on that chooses the next song in the playlist.So, for example when I’m reading a relaxing book I might prefer classical ... | 1,760,377,441.376844 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/18/command-line-video-processing-using-foss/ | Command Line Video Processing Using FOSS | Mike Szczys | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"ffmpeg",
"imagemagick",
"overlay",
"slice",
"sox",
"video"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fQM7JwwpA]
[Daniel Paluska] is getting away from the point-and-click by
editing videos from the command line
. Using the free open source software packages FFmpeg, Imagemagick, and Sox he produces new clips from multiple videos with effects like overlaying, slicing, and assigni... | 31 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "143218",
"author": "Nick McClanahan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-18T17:16:37",
"content": "Great video and demo!ffmpeg is really powerful & bash is the bomb for scripting, but it can be hard figuring out all the switches. I did something similar to stream & transcode podcasts for my mob... | 1,760,377,441.694768 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/18/modern-car-data-systems-lack-security/ | Modern Car Data Systems Lack Security | Mike Szczys | [
"Security Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"CAN",
"can-bus",
"odb-ii"
] | Tomorrow
a team of researchers
will present their paper on
Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile
(PDF) at the
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy
. Much like the
racing simulators
we’ve seen they’re exploiting the ODB-II port to get at the vehicle’s Controller-area network, or CAN-bus. We’re not surpri... | 65 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "143189",
"author": "Jonah",
"timestamp": "2010-05-18T16:23:09",
"content": "Does that mean that potentially talented people can writ some lines of codes and inject some sort of viruses in the computer car?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comm... | 1,760,377,441.522002 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/18/super-quick-and-cheap-trackball/ | Super Quick And Cheap Trackball | Caleb Kraft | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"mouse",
"trackball",
"trash"
] | [Elgatoandaluz] has posted this guide on how to
tear apart a standard optical mouse and build a custom trackball
. He’s using a ping pong ball , mounted above the laser as the trackball itself, which seems like it would be a little lite, but functional. The case is scrap cardboard. We really like that you could toss th... | 18 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "143175",
"author": "Dustin",
"timestamp": "2010-05-18T15:01:42",
"content": "Not a ping pong ball, a deodorant roll-on ball with its factory “socket.” Mmm… musky…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143176",
"author": "cobalt",... | 1,760,377,441.432592 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/17/magically-repair-avr-chips/ | Magically Repair AVR Chips | Mike Szczys | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"atmega",
"attiny",
"AVR",
"high voltage",
"hvpp",
"rescue"
] | If you’ve ever spent time working with AVR microcontrollers you’ve probably set the fuse bits incorrectly at least once. The
ATmega fusebit doctor
will automatically repair the fuse bits and get you back in business until your next mishap. The ATmega8 that powers the device has the chip signatures for the ATmega family... | 30 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "143076",
"author": "op",
"timestamp": "2010-05-17T22:50:51",
"content": "but what if you mess up the fusebits on your fusebit doctor?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143077",
"author": "mrgoogfan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-... | 1,760,377,441.58703 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/17/old-school-vending-machine-learns-new-tricks/ | Old School Vending Machine Learns New Tricks | Mike Szczys | [
"Beer Hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"beer",
"iphone",
"phidgets",
"qt100",
"soda",
"vending"
] | Thanks to craigslist [Chris] got his hands on a soda vending machine circa 1977. It still worked just fine (because things were still built to last back then) but he wanted to
add some super-secret upgrades to the beverage dispensary
. Two capacitive touch sensors were added to override the need for coins for those who... | 25 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "143046",
"author": "Mr Bishop",
"timestamp": "2010-05-17T20:12:49",
"content": "Awesome concept, but bad business plan. Oh and Beer? that could get you into trouble just saying (unless its a country with loose laws)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{... | 1,760,377,441.325799 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/17/building-an-oak-telescope/ | Building An Oak Telescope | Mike Szczys | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"oak",
"optics",
"telescope"
] | You might not think about the finish of your homemade telescope but if it’s build from solid oak you probably should. [Gregory Strike]
built this 8″ telescope
a few years back but just posted about it a few days ago. The optics are quite expensive but the rest of the build was done dirt cheap and he did a great job of ... | 26 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "143023",
"author": "mess_maker",
"timestamp": "2010-05-17T18:56:57",
"content": "@sllabginummm… nope. BTW, what does that have to do with the telescope?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143025",
"author": "Bob",
"timest... | 1,760,377,441.260293 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/17/tweet-a-watt-now-speaks-to-google-power-meter/ | Tweet-a-Watt Now Speaks To Google Power Meter | Mike Szczys | [
"google hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"google",
"power meter",
"python",
"tweet a watt"
] | Hackaday’s own [Devlin Thyne] has been working with Adafruit to come up with
a way to use the Tweet-a-Watt along with Google Power Meter
. Back in March we put out the word that
Google had unveiled the API for Power Meter
and [Devlin] is the first we’ve heard of to come up with a way to use your own equipment with the ... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "143006",
"author": "Nick McClanahan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-17T17:26:50",
"content": "I didn’t know about the PowerMeter API – looks pretty well documented. Only tracking 1 tweet-a-watt isn’t enough, but hopefully it will expand.Good stuff!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,441.632293 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/21/ubuntu-on-the-clarionmind-mid/ | Ubuntu On The ClarionMIND MID | Mike Szczys | [
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"clarionmind",
"ubuntu",
"unetbootin"
] | [DeadHP1] has been rolling and optimizing his own
Ubuntu distributions for the ClarionMIND
. He calls his work Mindbuntu and he’s squeezing out quite a bit of performance from the mobile Internet device. The video is running at 800×400, as well as wireless, sound, Google Earth with GPS support, and even compiz. Install... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "143987",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2010-05-21T16:32:22",
"content": "No 10.04 support?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "144000",
"author": "Sariel",
"timestamp": "2010-05-21T17:22:49",
"content": "@Tomubuntu 9.04... | 1,760,377,441.023195 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/20/automatic-fish-feeder/ | Automatic Fish Feeder | Mike Szczys | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"at89c2051",
"feeder",
"fish"
] | This
automatic fish feeder
didn’t take long to put together and it allows you to adjust how much food is dispensed. [Gagandeep Singh] built it around an Atmel AT89C2051 microcontroller. Like many of the
automated feeding systems
we see, this uses a character display and a few buttons for the user interface. We’re alway... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "143816",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2010-05-20T20:32:34",
"content": "So i’d imagine this only works for pellet food. I wonder if he has had problems with it jammingI suppose another way you could construct the dispenser would be to have a rotating disk assembly",
"parent_... | 1,760,377,441.751193 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/20/urine-a-candidate-for-energy-independence/ | Urine A Candidate For Energy Independence | Mike Szczys | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"fuel",
"hydrogen",
"pee",
"urine"
] | We thought we were supposed to have fusion-power for our DeLorean by now but it perhaps
urine-power is just around the corner
instead. [Gerardine Botte] has been working on creating hydrogen from urine, the world’s most abundant waste product. The voltage needed to break apart the urea atoms is less than half that of w... | 59 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "143801",
"author": "Thomas",
"timestamp": "2010-05-20T19:28:40",
"content": "That should stop people from trying to siphon your fuel with a garden hose and a gas can.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143802",
"author": "mfsam... | 1,760,377,441.83509 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/20/personal-pencil-production-plant/ | Personal Pencil Production Plant | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"pencil"
] | [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/9661763]
[Robb Godshaw] put together a pencil production line for home use. The whimsical assembly line starts with a graphite rod and extrudes clay polymer around it. From there it’s down a conveyor belt to get stamped and then into the oven made from a hacked toaster. The final step is to cut ... | 36 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "143739",
"author": "Joe",
"timestamp": "2010-05-20T15:14:13",
"content": "Neat.They look pre-chewed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143741",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2010-05-20T15:26:18",
"content": "And a l... | 1,760,377,442.560982 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/20/keyboard-input-for-playstation/ | Keyboard Input For PlayStation | Jakob Griffith | [
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Playstation Hacks"
] | [
"data",
"entry",
"keyboard",
"kupid",
"PICAXE",
"playstation",
"ps1",
"ps2",
"text",
"thutmose"
] | Anyone who has tried their hand at RPG Maker 1 (or any text input with a controller) knows how difficult it can be typing long paragraphs into the console. [Thutmose] is here to save the day with
Kupid 1.0
(2.0 in production). A PICAXE takes ps/2 keyboard input and converts it to a series of d-pad button presses for PS... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "143747",
"author": "t&p",
"timestamp": "2010-05-20T15:46:22",
"content": "people still use RPG maker? That was only good for poor kids, back-in-the-day, that couldn’t have their parents buy them a PC.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_... | 1,760,377,442.315611 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/19/balancing-cube-looks-more-like-a-star/ | Balancing Cube Looks More Like A Star | Mike Szczys | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"balance",
"bender",
"borg"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbT_XoSIlEo]
This
art-meets-robot has the grueling task of standing on one foot
all day long while
other robots get to bend
to their heart’s content. It balances on that single point by adjusting its center of gravity with six pendulum-like appendages. To make the system more lik... | 23 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "143560",
"author": "osgeld",
"timestamp": "2010-05-19T21:06:23",
"content": "spiffy",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "143564",
"author": "PacoBell",
"timestamp": "2010-05-19T21:10:39",
"content": "Interesting, but woul... | 1,760,377,442.752413 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/19/arduino-based-eatc-replacement/ | Arduino Based EATC Replacement | Mike Szczys | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"eatc",
"ford",
"mega",
"taurus"
] | The Electronic Automatic Temperature Control Module on [Dan Mattox’s] 2000 Ford Taurus bit the dust. The junkyards in the area didn’t have a matching replacement and a new one is pretty hard to come by so he
built an EATC replacement from an Arduino Mega
. It includes a solenoid controller board for the vent selector,... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "143527",
"author": "Justin",
"timestamp": "2010-05-19T20:09:36",
"content": "^^^It’s a Taurus, it will never look good.However, this is very cool. The art of fixing cars is lost on many people, including car mechanics it seems.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,377,442.201899 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/17/final-projects-wifi-coil-gun-turret/ | Final Projects: WiFi Coil Gun Turret | Caleb Kraft | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"coil",
"gauss"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU3QB3ScnGQ]
[Chris Farnell] and [Michael Helms] are the brains behind this scary looking piece of machinery. It is a
Coil gun, mounted on a turret, that is controlled over WiFi
. If that wasn’t scary enough, they have rigged it to their iphone/ipad for remote shooting. Though it... | 14 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "142979",
"author": "Gregg",
"timestamp": "2010-05-17T14:36:29",
"content": "Lol Mulit stage….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142982",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2010-05-17T14:56:43",
"content": "Gotta lo... | 1,760,377,442.799667 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/16/lunkenheimer-steam-whistle-doorbell/ | Lunkenheimer Steam Whistle, Doorbell | Jakob Griffith | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"doorbell",
"hearing loss",
"lunkenheimer",
"relay",
"solenoid",
"steam",
"whistle",
"wireless"
] | We’re going to straight out agree with [Pete] on how surprisingly quiet doorbells are now a days, and if we had it our way we would put his
Lunkenheimer train whistle doorbell
in every home*. The setup he uses is surprisingly simple, opting for a pre-built wireless doorbell that signals a microcontroller which in turn ... | 30 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "142795",
"author": "bogdanfirst",
"timestamp": "2010-05-16T20:35:17",
"content": "I really need one of these too.I have definitely missed the door few times and ended up being called on the phone.Great work, simple and effective…So what effect does it have on unsuspecting visitors? ... | 1,760,377,442.268234 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/kaossilator-on-the-cheap/ | Kaossilator On The Cheap | James Munns | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"kaoss",
"kaossilator",
"midi",
"Teensy"
] | We recently stumbled on a way to turn a regular laptop into a
poor man’s Kaossilator
. Using the touchpad of your laptop, some
PureData
software,
Touchpad2MIDI
and a couple custom patches, [zenpho] has set everyone up to create that crazy electronic music that kids listen to these days.
But what was that? You cant affo... | 23 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "142586",
"author": "Dick Gobbler",
"timestamp": "2010-05-15T23:53:29",
"content": "Second.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142590",
"author": "Dick Trickle",
"timestamp": "2010-05-16T00:00:08",
"content": "——————————... | 1,760,377,442.493193 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/a-black-box-mystery/ | A Black Box Mystery | James Munns | [
"Ask Hackaday"
] | [
"black",
"box",
"garage",
"pic"
] | One of the members of the SomethingAwful forum recently found a
black project box
on the street (as seen above), with no idea what the thing did. After (hopefully) making sure there were no explosives, [noapparentfunction] posted a picture online to see if someone could figure it out. According to them, this is what th... | 171 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "142548",
"author": "The Moogle",
"timestamp": "2010-05-15T22:07:27",
"content": "it could be anything, what we need is a photo of the traces",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142553",
"author": "magnavoid",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,377,442.646352 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/human-tetris-object-tracking-on-an-8-bit-microcontroller/ | Human Tetris: Object Tracking On An 8-bit Microcontroller | Phil Burgess | [
"classic hacks",
"hardware",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"8 bit",
"atmega",
"atmega644",
"Atmel",
"AVR",
"cornell",
"digitize",
"overlay",
"tetris",
"tracking",
"video"
] | Elaborating on an item previously mentioned among last weekend’s
Cornell final projects
list, this time with video:
For their ECE final project, [Adam Papamarcos] and [Kerran Flanagan] implemented
a real-time video object tracking system centered around an ATmega644 8-bit microcontroller
. Their board ingests an NTSC v... | 13 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "142534",
"author": "blubb",
"timestamp": "2010-05-15T21:13:48",
"content": "absolutly well done.. one day i will rebuild their board.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142539",
"author": "elektrophreak",
"timestamp": "2010... | 1,760,377,442.700585 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/hack-a-day%e2%80%99s-dictionary-of-questionable-utility%e2%84%a2/ | Hack A Day’s Dictionary Of Questionable Utility™ | Phil Burgess | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"dictionary",
"humor",
"puns",
"terminology"
] | We frequently receive inquiries from eager readers asking how they can best get started in electronics and computer projects. Countless great books have been written on these subjects, and of course now there’s our
answers.hackaday.com
site. But there’s a difference between being “book smart” and being “street smart.” ... | 43 | 43 | [
{
"comment_id": "142520",
"author": "TheFish",
"timestamp": "2010-05-15T20:23:19",
"content": "Ohm: The amount of resistance someone gives you when you pwn them at something, and take there score.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142521",
"au... | 1,760,377,442.879855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/minimalist-avr-programmer-is-just-fab/ | Minimalist AVR Programmer Is Just Fab! | Phil Burgess | [
"classic hacks",
"hardware"
] | [
"arduino",
"Atmel",
"attiny",
"AVR",
"bootloader",
"bootstrap",
"fab",
"fabrication",
"firmware",
"pcb",
"smd"
] | Whether you’re burning a new bootloader to an Arduino board, or doing away with a bootloader to flash Atmel chips directly, an in-system programmer (ISP) is an indispensable tool for working with AVR microcontrollers. If cost has held you back, it’s no longer an excuse:
FabISP
is a barebones USB-based AVR programmer th... | 62 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "142498",
"author": "poiso",
"timestamp": "2010-05-15T19:22:49",
"content": "Richard Quit being a dick and appreciate something created so even people with low income (IE students) can afford it.this is an awesome project for people like me who are In college right now and can barely... | 1,760,377,442.969468 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/15/button-mapping-for-all/ | Button Mapping For All | Mike Szczys | [
"HackIt"
] | [
"buttom mapping",
"controller",
"modern warfare"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G–u63Gka_0]
[Tim] came across
a Kotaku story about a handicapped gamer
who’s starting an
Internet petition for button mapping features
in all games. First of all, watch this guy play Modern Warfare 2 with a stock control, he’s got some mad skills. We’d normally be looking for a h... | 36 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "142462",
"author": "nubie",
"timestamp": "2010-05-15T14:50:08",
"content": "I agree with this wholeheartedly.Since Playstation there has been a standard in place for game controls.The Xbox threw that standard out the window with games like Flatout.The bottom button is Gas (at least ... | 1,760,377,443.250975 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/14/using-ipad-sim-with-an-iphone/ | Using IPad SIM With An IPhone | Mike Szczys | [
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"apn",
"ipad",
"iphone",
"sim"
] | [Aaron Nelson] tipped us off about a simple hack to
use an iPad SIM with an iPhone
. You won’t be able to use the iPhone as a phone, but the relatively cheap $29.99 for unlimited Internet was his goal. He used an old plastic gift card to cut out an adapter for the iPad’s micro SIM so that it will fit into the iPhone’s ... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "142335",
"author": "Sariel",
"timestamp": "2010-05-14T18:06:47",
"content": "thats killer! but why did you buy the ipad? Hope you make something cool out of it, maybe a giant tv remote for your HTPC? lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comme... | 1,760,377,443.155197 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/14/cat-door-unlocks-via-facial-recognition/ | Cat Door Unlocks Via Facial Recognition | Mike Szczys | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"cat",
"door",
"image",
"recognition"
] | Faced with critters trying to get in and a cat that loved to show them her latest kill, the folks at Quantum Picture came up with a system that
unlocks the cat door based on image recognition
. As you can see above, it uses a camera to capture the profile of anything approaching the cat door. That image is compared to ... | 50 | 44 | [
{
"comment_id": "142308",
"author": "Brad Hein",
"timestamp": "2010-05-14T17:03:43",
"content": "This is AWESOME!Keeps out the skunks and squirrels!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142314",
"author": "el_walto",
"timestamp": "2010-05-14T... | 1,760,377,443.091847 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/14/electromechanical-game-running-with-the-bulls/ | Electromechanical Game: Running With The Bulls | Caleb Kraft | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"bull",
"electromechanical",
"game"
] | [vime0 =http://vimeo.com/11700747]
We’ve been watching the progress of this build for a while on
Flickr
. It looks like they’ve finally completed the electromechanical game,
Running with the bulls
. Based off of the event by the same name, you have to keep your guy from being trampled by the bulls as the charge. The e... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "142297",
"author": "Bittencourt",
"timestamp": "2010-05-14T16:30:26",
"content": "Ops…I think there is something wrong with the embedded video",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142303",
"author": "fartface",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,377,443.854633 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/14/biopunk-watch-time-temperature-gaming/ | Biopunk Watch: Time, Temperature, Gaming | Mike Szczys | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"breakout",
"glove",
"paint",
"temperature",
"watch"
] | [Matthew Garten] built this
watch based on an Arduino
. The face is a small color display which allows you to choose to show time in digital, binary, or analog formats. In keeping with the recent trend here on Hackaday he has a glove-based add-on that has temperature sensors in the fingers; for Firefighters or those wi... | 17 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "142265",
"author": "ktosiek",
"timestamp": "2010-05-14T14:32:32",
"content": "Whats with this *punk naming this days?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142279",
"author": "osgeld",
"timestamp": "2010-05-14T15:46:06",
"... | 1,760,377,443.469444 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/wii-remote-connectivity-for-android-devices/ | Wii Remote Connectivity For Android Devices | Mike Szczys | [
"Android Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"android",
"emulator",
"nexus one",
"remote",
"wii"
] | [Pikipirs] developed an app that lets you
connect a Wii remote to an Android phone
. After the break you can see it used with a Sega emulator. The button presses seem very responsive, making for a nice gaming addition if you care to carry around the Wiimote in addition to your phone. It certainly seems to work better t... | 42 | 41 | [
{
"comment_id": "142106",
"author": "osgeld",
"timestamp": "2010-05-13T19:30:02",
"content": "you know why they dont make these commercially?cause its dumb",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1466268",
"author": "fennimore",
"times... | 1,760,377,443.638943 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/opengl-on-the-didj/ | OpenGL On The Didj | Mike Szczys | [
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"Didj",
"glquake",
"opengl",
"quake"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXI0crLTBc]
[Losinggeneration] managed to get a
homebrew OpenGL application working on the Didj
. It’s nice to see the community driven work advance on this device but something else also caught our attention from
the forum post
. Another poster pointed out that [losinggeneratio... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "142094",
"author": "sethj",
"timestamp": "2010-05-13T18:40:55",
"content": "YEAH!!!that thing will be running nintendo roms in no time!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142102",
"author": "0xDEADBEEF",
"timestamp": "2010-... | 1,760,377,443.900329 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/transistor-fabrication-so-simple-a-child-can-do-it/ | Transistor Fabrication: So Simple A Child Can Do It | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"fet",
"jeri ellsworth",
"silicone",
"transistor",
"wafer"
] | If manufacturing printed circuit boards has become too easy you should try your hand at producing transistors. [Jeri Ellsworth] put together a collection of
videos outlining the process
. These go way beyond the
IC fabrication
we saw from her in the past. It doesn’t take much, a 1000 degree oven with steam option, sili... | 60 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "142076",
"author": "walt",
"timestamp": "2010-05-13T17:16:51",
"content": "grrrr curse you @Tachikoma2nd :( (&3rd)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142079",
"author": "Jeri Ellsworth",
"timestamp": "2010-05-13T17:38:54",... | 1,760,377,443.816723 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/nike-ipod-as-a-tracking-device/ | Nike + IPod As A Tracking Device | Mike Szczys | [
"ipod hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"gumstix",
"ipod",
"nike",
"nike+ipod",
"tracking"
] | [Thomas] found a paper from 2006 that describes
using the Nike + iPod system as inexpensive tracking devices
. Yep, it’s old as dirt but we think it’s fascinating reading! [Scott Saponas] and his fellow authors take a hard look at the lack of security in the system in
a twelve-page PDF
. They cover several different wa... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "142078",
"author": "sc0rch3d",
"timestamp": "2010-05-13T17:31:36",
"content": "I use mine at least 4 times a week for marathon training. My last resort to getting off the grid was Apple’s way of keeping me permanently on the grid. :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"re... | 1,760,377,443.412231 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/13/ghetto-repairs-desoldering-with-a-candle/ | Ghetto Repairs: Desoldering With A Candle | Caleb Kraft | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"candle",
"ghetto"
] | Yes, that picture you are seeing is serious. [Roland] needed a chip for a damaged piece of electronics. He was lucky enough to find one on an old board at a local shop. The problem was, he didn’t have the hot air gun to remove the chip the correct way. Instead, he simply
cooked the board over a candle
to melt the solde... | 66 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "142007",
"author": "darkore",
"timestamp": "2010-05-13T14:01:23",
"content": "This isn’t anything more than lucky. Definitely not something I’d recommend to anyone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "142008",
"author": "medix",... | 1,760,377,443.729648 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/12/point-and-shoot-in-a-classic-camera-body/ | Point And Shoot In A Classic Camera Body | Mike Szczys | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"dsc-wx1",
"leica",
"zorki"
] | If you think there’s a gun inside that camera you’ve been fooled. We just like the juxtaposition of the 1940’s era camera with the iconic sidearms. What you see is
a point-and-shoot cameras inside of the classic Leica II body
(this is actually a
Zorki 1 knockoff
). It is much like the
Canon AE-1
hack but this time ther... | 39 | 38 | [
{
"comment_id": "141854",
"author": "juancubillo",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T20:32:48",
"content": "I though we had all agreed this type of posts are not for this site :S",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141855",
"author": "osgeld",
"times... | 1,760,377,444.032155 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/12/midi-gloves/ | Midi Gloves | Mike Szczys | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"garage band",
"glove",
"matlab",
"midi",
"piezo"
] | We’re being inundated with glove-based peripheral hacks. This is another final project from Cornell, keyboard out of the equation by
adding 8 piezo sensors to a pair of gloves
thereby shunning the
pinky
finger. We like this one because it’s easy to build and the midi interface implementation is well documented if you w... | 15 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "141811",
"author": "Xeracy",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T18:14:43",
"content": "“adding 8 piezo sensors to a pair of gloves” Link broken.FIRST!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141821",
"author": "nate",
"timestamp": "2010-0... | 1,760,377,443.954727 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/12/monitor-uv-exposure-with-your-sunglasses/ | Monitor UV Exposure With Your Sunglasses | Mike Szczys | [
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"lilypad",
"radiation",
"sun glasses",
"TSL230R",
"uv"
] | Tired of those awful sunburns? [Nikko Knappe’s]
UV sensing glasses
will warn you before you become crisp and red as a lobster. The bump added to the bridge support hides a TSL230R light frequency sensor. The device automatically switches on when the arms are unfolded and starts tracking cumulative exposure. If it detec... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "141800",
"author": "blodgar",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T17:52:21",
"content": "Yay! Go Ra-Boys!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141828",
"author": "Abbott",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T19:05:44",
"content": "Wow… interes... | 1,760,377,444.087343 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/12/building-air-variable-capacitors/ | Building Air Variable Capacitors | Mike Szczys | [
"Radio Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"capacitors",
"radio"
] | In keeping with our opinion that radio operators were the original electronic hackers here’s a guide to
building your own transmitting air variable capacitors
. Using some roof flashing, Plexiglas, and various fasteners [
David Hammack] was able to make it work. It’s not a perfect solution but he has some ideas to make... | 14 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "141766",
"author": "lurker",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T16:22:51",
"content": "Old but good – Couple hints though… Using a parallel plate capacitor calculator, you can easily build one with the number and size of plates you need for any capacitive range. Second, don’t use roof flash... | 1,760,377,444.136557 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/07/toner-transfer-explained-step-by-step/ | Toner Transfer Explained Step-by-step | Mike Szczys | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"copper chloride",
"etch",
"pcb",
"toner transfer"
] | [Tanjent] send us a link to his
tutorial on the toner transfer process
for fabricating circuit boards. We’ve seen a lot of these in the past, but we liked how his is straight to the point while also sharing several tips and options along the way. Notably, he ”tints” the copper clad before trying to adhere the toner to ... | 33 | 32 | [
{
"comment_id": "140769",
"author": "Brennan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-07T19:17:47",
"content": "I said it before and I’ll say it again – With a little bit of prep, the UV light exposure method is more accurate and can be done in about the same amount of time if not a few minutes more. The only downsi... | 1,760,377,444.277525 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/07/hand-made-manipulator-arm/ | Hand Made Manipulator Arm | Mike Szczys | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"arm",
"encoder",
"magnetic",
"servo",
"styrene"
] | We’re pretty used to seeing CAD used in the design process for most things. It’s a bit of a shocker to come across a project this involve, and this well executed, that didn’t use CAD.
[Anton] spent 100 hours
building this manipulator arm by hand
. He made the parts by drawing them on styrene and cutting them out with s... | 32 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "140720",
"author": "software free",
"timestamp": "2010-05-07T15:29:42",
"content": "great modification",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140731",
"author": "biqut2",
"timestamp": "2010-05-07T16:13:43",
"content": "inte... | 1,760,377,444.209508 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/07/peltier-cooler-based-cloud-chamber/ | Peltier Cooler Based Cloud Chamber | Caleb Kraft | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"cloud",
"peltier",
"radioactive"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKfx4Rjf0BU&feature=player_embedded]
[Rich] shares with us his build of a
Peltier cooler based cloud chamber
. This nifty little tool allows him to see the paths that radioactive particles take through alcohol vapor. The system he has come up with is fairly cheap at roughly $100.... | 22 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "140706",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2010-05-07T14:06:50",
"content": "Very cool. I’d like to see a few other ‘lightly’ radioactive things tested, like thoriated tungsten and lantern mantles.Good video as well. Short and to the point (right to the results!). No mumbling about ‘... | 1,760,377,444.798477 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/06/dslr-shoulder-holster-with-follow-focus/ | DSLR Shoulder Holster With Follow Focus | Mike Szczys | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"dslr",
"holster",
"mount",
"rig",
"wood",
"woodworker"
] | [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11435910]
[Erik] and [Jonathan Bergqvist] built this
shoulder mount for a Canon 7D camera
. It’s made from wood and it hooks over the top of the photographer’s shoulder with a handle for each hand. The left handle also controls the focus, using a similar method to the
hardware store follow focus... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "140570",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2010-05-06T19:17:40",
"content": "stupid comment time…..RUN AWAY!! HE HAS A RPG ON HIS SHOULDER!!!(see youtube video of cameraman being shot from helicopter if you dont get the comment)props for using raw materials instead of buying lumber t... | 1,760,377,444.975144 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/06/building-removable-epoxy-mounting-brackets/ | Building Removable Epoxy Mounting Brackets | Mike Szczys | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"bracket",
"epoxy",
"kodak",
"Sugru",
"zi8"
] | [Jykazu] wanted to use an external lens with his Kodak Zi8 but he didn’t want to alter the camera or glue something onto it. His solution was to
build a bracket out of epoxy dough
. He first covers the camera in scotch tape to protect the finish, then he kneads the dough to mix the two parts together, using it to form ... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "140564",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2010-05-06T18:42:24",
"content": "another person doing something stupidly simple that anyone could have thought of yet no one did(or atleast posted, im sure many of us have used putty epoxy in construction of things before)plumbing epoxy is ... | 1,760,377,444.486961 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/06/pc-side-im-me-hacks/ | PC Side IM-ME Hacks | Mike Szczys | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"im-me",
"keyboard",
"prompt",
"winamp"
] | [Paul Klemstine] is working on some PC-side
software hacks for the IM-ME
. We’ve seen a lot of hardware hacks for this device, such as
controlling the display
,
firmware flashing
, and using it as
a spectrum analyzer
, but if you don’t want to alter the device right away you can try [Paul’s] collection of hacks. Workin... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "140555",
"author": "CodeAsm",
"timestamp": "2010-05-06T17:38:58",
"content": "Nice work !Stupid color, but I got one anyway. one can always repaint it and use it for remote controlling something. want to control my Xbox xbmc.– first post –",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,444.530198 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/06/build-your-own-wikipedia-reader/ | Build Your Own Wikipedia Reader | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"arm cortex",
"lpc1117",
"m0",
"wikipedia"
] | One part inexpensive uC, one part touch-screen, one part Internet knowledge-base all come together to make up
this Wikipedia reader
. It functions in a very similar way to
commercial versions
by parsing XML dumps from the popular website to an SD card for use on the device. This is not limited to Wikipedia, but could j... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "140531",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2010-05-06T15:37:27",
"content": "That’s pretty slick!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140532",
"author": "CJ",
"timestamp": "2010-05-06T15:43:12",
"content": "AWESOME! It... | 1,760,377,444.745103 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/12/nerf-sentry-gun-build-in-progress/ | Nerf Sentry Gun Build In Progress | Caleb Kraft | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"nerf",
"sentry"
] | [John Park] is documenting his build of a Nerf Sentry gun. So far, he’s
rigged the trigger
and set up the
motorized base
. He’s documenting the process in fantastic detail with great photos along the way. If you want to see what it will be like when it is finished, check out these other
Nerf sentry guns
that we’ve
feat... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "141760",
"author": "Ho0d0o/Heatgap",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T15:58:01",
"content": "Cool idea. Something to do when bored I guess, other than that no real use for it.Would have been cool to have as a kid for “Nerf-Wars”.My favorite Nerf weapon was the old school bow and arrow Nerf ... | 1,760,377,444.847181 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/11/digikey-sort-by-price-script/ | Digikey Sort By Price Script | Jakob Griffith | [
"News"
] | [
"chrome",
"digikey",
"firefox",
"google",
"greasemonkey",
"mouser",
"script",
"sparkfun"
] | Does anyone else find it a little ironic the electronic retailer SparkFun is
advocating scripts to help Digikey
have a Sort By Price function? Regardless, to
reiterate
now
Firefox
(and we hear
Google Chrome
too) users with the
Greasemonkey
plugin can sort
Digikey
items. Personally, some of us here are just
Mouser
fans ... | 38 | 38 | [
{
"comment_id": "141597",
"author": "Nate",
"timestamp": "2010-05-12T00:07:13",
"content": "Completely agree on Mouser. Shouldn’t have to use 3rd party scripts to get basic functionality out of a website. That being said, Digikey (and Mouser) don’t really cater to much to the hobbyist. They are l... | 1,760,377,444.919448 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/11/maze-solving/ | Maze Solving | Mike Szczys | [
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"8051",
"maze",
"ping pong",
"servo"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Txt5rLSWU]
[Mitchel Humpherys] and his fellow developers didn’t just develop a maze-solving algorithm, they also
built a ping-pong ball maze platform that is computer controlled
. Using a webcam the computer picks up the high-contrast maze by peering down from above, calculates... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "141573",
"author": "sam",
"timestamp": "2010-05-11T21:05:04",
"content": "Honestly they could have done a little better on the board movement with some better servos and a more refined movement approach since ball-and-plate mechanisms aren’t hard to find information on. But props to... | 1,760,377,445.089876 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/11/ps3-patch-allows-linux-installation/ | PS3 Patch Allows Linux Installation | Mike Szczys | [
"Playstation Hacks",
"Rants"
] | [
"geohot",
"linux",
"otheros",
"sony"
] | [Geohot] came up with
a patch that allows OtherOS on 3.21 PS3 firmware
. You’ll remember that
Sony released version 3.21 specifically to prohibit OtherOS
which allows the installation of Linux for which
they were subsequently sued
. Well, now their “fix” doesn’t work on people willing to flash patched firmware which me... | 37 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "141527",
"author": "fr4nk",
"timestamp": "2010-05-11T17:23:36",
"content": "Old news, yes.However, the patch has not been released, AFAIK.It’s not in the usual places if it is beyond the hands of geohot.Please correct me if I’m wrong…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"re... | 1,760,377,445.049759 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/11/original-nes-plays-game-boy-games/ | Original NES Plays Game Boy Games? | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks",
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"cartridge",
"game boy",
"nes"
] | [Bunnyboy] pulled off some wizardry with this
custom NES cartridge
. Inside is the mainboard for a Game Boy as well as his own custom PCB with the comb connector needed to interface with an original Nintendo Entertainment System. In his own words it’s “a Super Game Boy without the Super”. The expansion port to for the ... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "141500",
"author": "Gert",
"timestamp": "2010-05-11T15:20:00",
"content": "Nice work. I’m still looking for a NES clone, (live in Belgium) there are hard to find and not very cheap.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141506",
"... | 1,760,377,445.151982 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/11/open3dp-looks-at-3d-printing-in-common-materials/ | Open3DP Looks At 3D Printing In Common Materials | Mike Szczys | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"ceramic",
"glass",
"kiln",
"sugar"
] | [Buddy Smith] sent us
a link to Open3DP
which he calls “REAL 3d printing hacks”. Open3DP showcases the projects of the Solheim Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at the University of Washington. They’re working on 3D printing in materials that can be commonly acquired and to that end
they publish recipes for powder printing
... | 11 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "141492",
"author": "Devin M",
"timestamp": "2010-05-11T14:36:10",
"content": "I hope that some day rapid proto tech will be cheap and freely avalable. Intresting article though.-Devin",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141495",
... | 1,760,377,445.198573 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/hack-your-crystals-frequency/ | Hack Your Crystal’s Frequency | Devlin Thyne | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"crystal",
"oscillate",
"penning",
"xtal"
] | [Drone] tipped us off about [Joachim]’s efforts to
alter a crystal’s frequency
. Through a process called penning, a crystal’s resonant frequency is lowered by painting the crystal with an indelible ink marker. Our curiosity piqued, we went off and found
more information about penning crystals
. It turns out this tech... | 53 | 46 | [
{
"comment_id": "141366",
"author": "MattA",
"timestamp": "2010-05-10T20:26:36",
"content": "Well, if you decide to acquire cheap surplus commercial or military equipment that may be “near” your desired band of operation… You may pen your crystals to get the desired frequency. One such application ... | 1,760,377,446.998917 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/09/manual-transmission-gear%c2%a0sensor/ | Manual Transmission Gear sensor | Mike Szczys | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"infrared",
"ir",
"manual transmission",
"neutral",
"remote start"
] | [Ben] bought a remote starter for his car but needed a way to make sure the manual transmission was in neutral when starting. He built this
infrared sensor frame to detect the position of the stick
. It uses four beam paths which will tell him the exact gear or neutral position of the shifter. For this project he just ... | 57 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "141074",
"author": "Colin",
"timestamp": "2010-05-09T17:04:55",
"content": "Wow, I wanted to purchase something like this for my own car! If you can make them this easily then my projects might come along after all!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,377,447.086969 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/08/nimbus-portable-n64/ | Nimbus, Portable N64 | Jakob Griffith | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"n64",
"nimbus",
"nintendo",
"portable",
"superpad",
"vacuum plastic",
"zenith"
] | We love a beautiful and successful
N64 portable mod
, (In case that fact wasn’t
already obvious
). And today we would like to add [cndowning’s] Nimbus N64 to our list of favorites.
The base is made from vacuum formed plastic while the buttons come from a modified superpad and the screen is a Zenith 5inch. We couldn’t f... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "140955",
"author": "GaryC",
"timestamp": "2010-05-08T19:20:23",
"content": "Vacuum sealed what’s that? lol.Nice portable though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140964",
"author": "Saragon",
"timestamp": "2010-05-08T20:2... | 1,760,377,446.86944 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/08/xkcd-takes-a-swipe-at-the-arduino/ | XKCD Takes A Swipe At The Arduino | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"arduino",
"categories",
"xkcd"
] | This
XKCD comic
takes a playful swipe and almost everything, including the Arduino. We’ve heard people claim that we have some sort of favoritism toward Arduino, and we don’t. People just submit a LOT of projects with them. But there is one point that we’ve seen a few times that should be addressed. In our categories w... | 97 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "140920",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2010-05-08T16:14:13",
"content": "Really?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140921",
"author": "blubb",
"timestamp": "2010-05-08T16:18:10",
"content": "I think a pic sectio... | 1,760,377,447.382714 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/08/making-magnetite-nanocrystals/ | Making Magnetite Nanocrystals | Caleb Kraft | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"Chemistry",
"nano"
] | Unlike many chemistry projects we post here,
making magnetite nanocrystals
doesn’t require anything that can’t be found in a local grocery store. All that is required is oil, vinegar, crystal drain opener, and rust. We don’t recognize the specific brand of drain cleaner that they are using, but we’re sure that you coul... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "140910",
"author": "mrgoogfan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-08T15:07:05",
"content": "Ferrofluid ftw.I have tried this method before though, and your ff wont last too long.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140912",
"author": "Insip... | 1,760,377,447.235497 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/08/cornell-final-project-list/ | Cornell Final Project List | Jakob Griffith | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"Atmel",
"cornell",
"finals",
"mega644",
"project",
"projects",
"university"
] | Looking for an interesting project to do using an Atmel Mega644?
Students at Cornell University
have got you covered. They were required to choose, design, and build a project using the microcontroller; and this year is quite promising with
video object tracking
, the always popular
theremins
,
helicopters
,
Potentiost... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "140909",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2010-05-08T15:03:52",
"content": "It seems like Cornell is teaching only AVR programming. That’s a little sad to see since there are so many other excellent products out there.I love the Pavlovian Mosquitoes. I would love to be able to si... | 1,760,377,447.42368 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/07/5x2-patch-board/ | 5×2 Patch Board | Mike Szczys | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"breadboard",
"breakout",
"idc",
"pin header",
"pin socket"
] | Sometimes we want to sit on the back porch, crack a beer, and do some prototyping. Other times we’d like to do the same but on the couch in the livingroom. To that end we added a 5×2 pin to 10×1 pin patch board to our solderless breadboard.
The 5×2 pin form factor is pretty common, used as an AVR programming header, on... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "140801",
"author": "Erik",
"timestamp": "2010-05-07T21:08:15",
"content": "I just plug a 5×2 header right into the protoboard, problem solved.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140802",
"author": "Hitek146",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,377,447.477042 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/07/reuse-that-pda-as-a-wrt-terminal/ | Reuse That PDA As A WRT Terminal | Mike Szczys | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"iiic",
"openwrt",
"palm",
"serial",
"terminal"
] | [Michu] used his old
Palm IIIc to make a serial interface
for his OpenWRT router. It’s a matter of cracking open both the router and the Palm device, then connecting the TTL lines from the router to the MAX 3386e level converter chip inside the Palm. From there, Pocketterm can connect to the router’s serial terminal.
A... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "140785",
"author": "osgeld",
"timestamp": "2010-05-07T20:22:14",
"content": "Hm, If I would have though this was HAD worthy I would have submitted long ago, I use my plam VII as a serial terminal for whatever I can plug into it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,377,447.291594 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/color-a-sound/ | Color A Sound | Mike Szczys | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"maxmsp",
"overhead",
"projector",
"synthesizer",
"transparency"
] | [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11606420]
This is an interesting take on a music box. [Blair Neal] is using an overhead projector with a roll of transparency to make
a synthesized music box
. A camera watches the projected image and feeds data to Max/MSP to produce the sounds. Customization merely requires creative image analy... | 8 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "141356",
"author": "Bittencourt",
"timestamp": "2010-05-10T19:14:12",
"content": "Very cool! it wold be nice to advance to something more “gestural” (I mean, more fluid drawings)and eventually make the inverse to “print” a music on a new way",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,377,447.515044 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/more-glove-based-interfaces/ | More Glove-based Interfaces | Mike Szczys | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"flex sensor",
"glove",
"rc",
"robot",
"sign language",
"vex"
] | You may remember seeing
the golf glove air guitar hack
last month. Here’s two more uses for gloves with sensors on them.
On the left is a glove interface with flex sensors on each digit as well as an accelerometer. The VEX module reads the sensors to
detect sign language as a command set
. A shake of the hand is picked... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "141358",
"author": "Bojan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-10T19:17:00",
"content": "Hi,I’m a phd student @ University of Bologna (Italy).Our Group developed a glove-based wireless interface 2 years ago, equipped with an ATmega8, accelerometer, bend sensors for the fingers and a bluetooth co... | 1,760,377,446.912052 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/fps-controller-hacks-getting-easier/ | FPS Controller Hacks Getting Easier | Mike Szczys | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"cube",
"fps",
"motion plus",
"wii",
"zapper"
] | It used to be a major production to build a gun-form-factor FPS controller but commercial tech has adopted many of those traditional hacks over the years. Now, [Nirav Patel] is
playing Cube with a Wii zapper and a SpacePoint
. All that was really required to make this happen is a patch to
Cube
, the open source FPS.
[N... | 12 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "141337",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2010-05-10T17:44:56",
"content": "This would be really cool if the pico projectors had more brightness and less cost.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141345",
"author": "Doktor Je... | 1,760,377,447.5665 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/toby-reel-mower-bot-evolved/ | TOBY: Reel Mower Bot evolved | Mike Szczys | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"motor",
"mower",
"rc",
"reel"
] | [Grayson Sigler] rolled out
a new version of his robotic mower
which he calls TOBY.
The previous design
added motors to a reel mower but he had trouble with traction. The new design is more of a utility robot platform that is used to tow the reel motor behind it. With better wheels, a much more stable base, and plenty ... | 13 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "141326",
"author": "CF",
"timestamp": "2010-05-10T16:28:24",
"content": "Name is kind of racist.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobythird paragraph! Sorry couldnt help it LOVE THE WORK though!!!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "14... | 1,760,377,447.803225 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/10/making-a-bluetooth-snes-controller/ | Making A Bluetooth SNES Controller | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"nes",
"snes"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP8JgqmVES8&]
[MODDEDbyBACTERIA] has posted this instructible on
how to make a bluetooth SNES controller
. The bulk of the parts come from a bluetooth MSI game pad, so this isn’t a scratch build, but the amount of modifications required definitely qualify this as a hack. We were ... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "141315",
"author": "Ryan Leach",
"timestamp": "2010-05-10T15:08:09",
"content": ":( there goes one more snes controller.good job on getting it to fit tho, just a pity you didn’t do it to a offbrand snes controller.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,377,448.028605 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/09/twilio-adds-touch-tone-telephone-control-for-arduino/ | Twilio Adds Touch Tone Telephone Control For Arduino | Mike Szczys | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"phone",
"touch tone",
"twilio"
] | An Arduino with an Ethernet shield, nothing new right? Not quite, [Chris] is showing us
how to use Twilio to control an Arduino
via a touch tone telephone. We saw
Twilio used before in a cellphone
video game but this time around an audio menu system comes into play. You can make your own menus whose options will be rea... | 17 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "141110",
"author": "okay",
"timestamp": "2010-05-09T19:14:35",
"content": "Okay, who is gonna sample the beginning DTMF tones to figure out the phone number and freak him out when the led start going on and off without him knowing :p",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,377,447.87722 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/09/multiple-material-3d-printing/ | Multiple Material 3D Printing | Mike Szczys | [
"HackIt"
] | [
"3d",
"abs",
"ployjet",
"polypropylene",
"printer"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Yq3glEyec]
It’s no surprise that we’re wild about 3D printing,
especially [Devlin]
. Now we’re absolutely out of our minds for this multi-material polyjet machine that is
featured in the video
above. Before we go any further it’s worth mentioning that this post is not advertisi... | 60 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "141094",
"author": "mrgoogfan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-09T18:13:57",
"content": "That. Is. Epic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141095",
"author": "darkstar",
"timestamp": "2010-05-09T18:16:08",
"content": "damn, loo... | 1,760,377,447.987973 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/vehicle-information-display-hacks/ | Vehicle Information Display Hacks | Mike Szczys | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"16f877",
"ATmega88",
"AVR",
"battery",
"electric car",
"formula 1",
"pic",
"rpm"
] | We’ve had a few folks send us info about their vehicle display hacks after seeing [Will O’Brien’s]
motorcycle computer
a few days ago.
On the left we have
a display for an electric vehicle
. [S1axter] is using a 4.3″ TFT screen to display charge information for each battery cell in the car. An ATmega88 collects the dat... | 20 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "140379",
"author": "Michael V",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T20:37:05",
"content": "Great stuff, especially as follow up to the post the other day about the motorcycle hack. The first one seems rather sophisticated, the second one seems extremely useful. PS: FP.",
"parent_id": null... | 1,760,377,448.159384 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/mad-machinist-masterpieces/ | Mad Machinist Masterpieces | Jakob Griffith | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"airsoft",
"alpine tpg-1",
"alumium",
"build",
"gun",
"model",
"monster truck",
"robot"
] | If a picture is worth 1000 words, by our count, [
Ryan Commbes
] has said 1.68×10^6 different things about his custom
robot
, airsoft, and
monster truck
builds. While we’re not ones to pick favorites, we agreed his
Alpine TPG-1
(picture at the top) build is a step above the rest. Sadly,
the forums
with his build log do... | 39 | 39 | [
{
"comment_id": "140353",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T19:31:03",
"content": "Beautiful work, since he lives in the UK if it works his ass is going to jail.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140355",
"author": "ClutchDude",
... | 1,760,377,448.103757 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/classic-canon-ae-1-gets-a-digital-upgrade/ | Classic Canon AE-1 Gets A Digital Upgrade | Mike Szczys | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"ae-1",
"canon",
"digital",
"powershot"
] | Shots of this
Canon AE-1 camera-gone-digital
have a lot of people scratching their heads. Originally there were a lot of “that’s been photoshopped” cries but the video after the break shows that it physically exists. This
particular model of camera
hasn’t been manufactured since 1984 so there’s little chance that the c... | 33 | 33 | [
{
"comment_id": "140333",
"author": "hpux735",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T18:06:46",
"content": "Awww…. this makes me sad. I loved my AE-1 until it was stolen! It was the best film camera I ever had. Kicked the crap out of the EOS Rebel it replaced.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,377,448.366648 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/custom-ps3-controller-software-emulation-version/ | Custom PS3 Controller: Software Emulation Version | Mike Szczys | [
"Playstation Hacks"
] | [
"emulator",
"linux",
"playstation 3",
"six-axis"
] | [Matlo] posted a tutorial that will walk you through
setting up a six-axis controller emulator
. In April he developed
a hardware solution using the Teensy
but this version just needs a Linux computer with a Bluetooth adapter. If you don’t mind adding a computer to the mix you can use any peripheral controller that wil... | 21 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "140343",
"author": "spook",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T18:47:29",
"content": "2.4 ghz yagi + PS3 emulation via linux over BT + PS3 controller macros = interesting potential for abuseguess you still have to register the controller w/ the target, but it should be fairly straight-forward... | 1,760,377,448.421175 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/adding-ram-to-the-nexus-one-without-soldering/ | Adding RAM To The Nexus One Without Soldering | Mike Szczys | [
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"android",
"google",
"kernel",
"nexus one",
"ram"
] | Want
21 megabytes more ram in your Nexus One
? [Coolbho3000] worked out a way to tweak the kernel and remap memory usage to free up some resources. That means this comes as a custom kernel image requiring no hardware alteration. Try it out and share your experiences in the comments. But if you don’t need more ram you c... | 19 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "140313",
"author": "Little_Neo",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T16:47:37",
"content": "I really need to get a Nexus One now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140325",
"author": "fartface",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T17:18:36",
... | 1,760,377,448.216358 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/possibly-the-most-beautiful-piece-of-hardware/ | Possibly The Most Beautiful Piece Of Hardware | Caleb Kraft | [
"Rants"
] | [
"mercury",
"rectifier"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNAKL9qtnIA]
I’m going to break from the typical Hackaday article format for a moment. I’m smitten, captivated by this wondrous new discovery. Forgive my ignorance for having never seen one of these before, I didn’t go to school for electronics. For those, who like myself wondere... | 63 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "140284",
"author": "Aaron",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T15:17:01",
"content": "Gorgeous.And thank you for taking a swipe at the steampunk kiddies. When they learn that “pretty but nonfunctional” doesn’t count, they’ll start being taken seriously.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1... | 1,760,377,448.508333 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/when-multimeters-go-boom/ | When Multimeters Go Boom | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"boom",
"capacitor"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-FZP1U2dkM]
Ever wondered how expensive versus cheap multimeters hold up to abuse? [Dave] gives us a pretty good idea by, well,
blowing them up
. He’s using a capacitor bank to put roughly 4.2 KiloVolts into the poor little meters. If you absolutely must skip to the multimeters,... | 35 | 34 | [
{
"comment_id": "140275",
"author": "greenyooper",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T14:44:33",
"content": "xx was a great though :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "140280",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T14:56:19",
... | 1,760,377,448.620021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/05/remote-operated-underwater-vehicle/ | Remote Operated Underwater Vehicle | Jakob Griffith | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"bilge pump",
"fiber optic",
"leak detector",
"paintball",
"PVC",
"rov",
"sla",
"underwater",
"water"
] | PVC hull, SLA batteries, Bilge Pumps, sounds like a good start to [Jimmy’s]
ROV project
. Paintball gun (as a BCD), dual live cameras paired with an Arduino making it internet controlled, all tethered with a fiber optic cable, sounds like [Jimmy’s] ROV got a whole lot more astounding.
While some very important parts ha... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "140266",
"author": "Hip",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T13:31:42",
"content": "Why SLA batteries?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140267",
"author": "blue carbuncle",
"timestamp": "2010-05-05T13:40:56",
"content": "My dad... | 1,760,377,448.554396 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/answers-hackaday-com-is-live/ | Answers.hackaday.com Is LIVE | Caleb Kraft | [
"Ask Hackaday"
] | [
"answers",
"features"
] | Quick, go to
answers.hackaday.com
and sign up for an account. Ages ago,
we announced
that we would be bringing a community driven question and answer system to Hackaday. We eventually got tired of waiting for the feature to be provided and
improvised
. Well, the wait is over. You can now post your own questions and ans... | 24 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "140134",
"author": "Drakonite",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T21:00:51",
"content": "Is this because I submitted an askHAD last night?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140145",
"author": "KayDat",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T21:3... | 1,760,377,448.742139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/paintball-graffitti/ | Paintball Graffitti | Mike Szczys | [
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"facade",
"graffitti",
"paintball",
"printer"
] | Paintball as a large format printer? That’s exactly what
facade printer
is. A paintball gun was mounted with two controllable axes of movement. A computer reads in the image data and prints it out by shooting paintballs to form a dot-matrix display. There’s a couple of wins here, the paintball paint can be washed off, ... | 26 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "140104",
"author": "Colecoman1982",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T19:10:40",
"content": "On the building next to the one depicted at the top of the summary, he should draw a portrait of Thomas Hobbes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "... | 1,760,377,448.682749 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/laser-command-game-uses-laser-for-control/ | Laser Command Game Uses Laser For Control | Mike Szczys | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"8x8",
"arduino",
"laser",
"led",
"matrix"
] | [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10819322]
[Eliji Hayashi’s]
project for a class at Carnegie Mellon
University is absolutely delightful! It is a game he calls Laser Command because a laser pointer is used as the gaming controller. An 8×8 LED matrix serves as the display, but is also used as an 8×8 light sensor, much the same wa... | 31 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "140087",
"author": "lefty",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T18:33:52",
"content": "pre-emptive…yep its an arduino, get over yourselves",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140094",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T18:51:01... | 1,760,377,449.027589 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/print-toner-directly-to-a-pcb/ | Print Toner Directly To A PCB | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"copper clad",
"laminator",
"laser printer",
"pcb",
"toner transfer"
] | We use the toner transfer method to fabricate printed circuit boards. The most difficult part of this is printing, ironing, and removing the paper from the toner that is used as an etchant resist material. [Mark Lerman] is developing a method to
apply toner directly to the copper clad using a laser printer
. Each of th... | 33 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "140072",
"author": "pascal",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T17:22:02",
"content": "Has anybody tried using a cutting plotter (like Silhouette) to cut spaces into the copper?My idea was to just cut into the copper, etch shortly to make the spaces broader & deeper, then as for printing appl... | 1,760,377,448.81187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/qfn-or-mlf-soldering-without-solder-paste/ | QFN Or MLF Soldering Without Solder Paste | Caleb Kraft | [
"how-to",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"mlf",
"paste",
"qfn",
"smd",
"solder"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/c_Qt5CtUlqY&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Take a few minutes to watch this amazingly informative video on
how to solder QFN or MLF components without solder paste
. The quality of the video and the information within is quite nice. Even if you don’t intend to work with these parts, you could pick u... | 22 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "140041",
"author": "Scott",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T15:33:12",
"content": "This was a very good guide. Using the coffee warmer is an idea which never occurred to me. Thanks for posting this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "1400... | 1,760,377,449.487864 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/emg-controlled-prosthesis/ | EMG Controlled Prosthesis | Mike Szczys | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"18f677a",
"electromyography",
"emg",
"pic",
"prosthetic"
] | This
prosthetic arm
is the result of a student project. [Amnon Demri] and his classmates built it with below-the-elbow amputees in mind. It uses
electromyography
to actuate the fingers and wrist. Four stick-on sensors are placed around the elbow to sense electrical activity there. These signals are interpreted by a PIC... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "140040",
"author": "Amnon",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T15:31:51",
"content": "For more info about this project please look at :http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robotica.co.il%2Fforums%2Fviewtopic.php%3Fp%3D16579%2316... | 1,760,377,448.96528 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/02/a-more-powerful-boost-charger/ | A More Powerful Boost Charger | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"boost converter",
"charger",
"minty boost"
] | [Meseta] built
a powerful boost charger
to top off his portable devices. He was inspired by the
Minty Boost
but wanted to overcome the rather limited capacity provided by the two-celled product. He ended up building his own DC to DC boost circuit rather than using an all-in-one IC. As you can see, the result uses four ... | 28 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "139637",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2010-05-02T22:42:42",
"content": "Love love love power-related projects.This is not only effective, but they even found a cool enclosure!Really nice!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,377,449.10372 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/02/diy-pulse-oximeter/ | DIY Pulse Oximeter | Mike Szczys | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"blood",
"freescale",
"pulse oximeter"
] | This
pulse oximeter
turned out very nicely. It is based around a Freescale microcontroller and detects pulse as well as oxygen saturation in your blood. The sensor is made of two wood pieces and allows two wavelengths of light to be shined through your finger. A sensor picks up the light on the other side of your stubb... | 28 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "139626",
"author": "Stephen",
"timestamp": "2010-05-02T21:50:13",
"content": "Sounds like a hypochondriac modders wet dream.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "2776866",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2015-10-29T1... | 1,760,377,449.162408 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/02/motion-sensing-light-module/ | Motion Sensing Light Module | Mike Szczys | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"ir",
"lights",
"motion sensor",
"rc5"
] | [Muris] is pumping out the home lighting hacks. He developed
this motion sensing module
as an add-on to the
IR switch we saw last week
. There’s some kind of fuse box above his entry door and its white cover, which you see above, is where he mounted an IR distance sensor to detect movement and switch on the lights. The... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "139617",
"author": "first",
"timestamp": "2010-05-02T20:31:35",
"content": "That’s a lot of LEDs",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139618",
"author": "mrgoogfan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-02T20:40:36",
"content": "I wonde... | 1,760,377,449.203593 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/01/custom-headphones-solve-wire-tangles/ | Custom Headphones Solve Wire Tangles | Jakob Griffith | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"ear",
"ear-buds",
"headphones",
"protection",
"speakers"
] | One complaint we hear about often is ear-bud’s cables getting tangled within backpacks. [Andrew]
was having
this “spaghetti” wire problem, and also wanted to listen to his music with ear protection on – where ear-buds are usually uncomfortable. The latter problem is fixed by placing speakers inside of folding ear prote... | 27 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "139450",
"author": "who dat",
"timestamp": "2010-05-01T21:12:23",
"content": "i am pretty sure there are multiple products on the market for the exact same thing- evlex makes something as well as other hearing- protecting mfgs. they even make ones with radios- so nothing impressive... | 1,760,377,449.265885 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/01/phasor-av-pal-demo-uses-atmega88/ | Phasor A/V PAL Demo Uses ATmega88 | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"ATmega88",
"AVR",
"composite",
"pal",
"phasor"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCN1bqRG-7o]
Above is a new demo video called Phasor developed by [Lft]. It is run from an AVR ATmega88 and a few passive components, and the result is pretty amazing. [Lft]
goes into detail about the tricks
he used to get this up and running. The chip is clocked at 17.73447 MHz ... | 51 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "139438",
"author": "Scott",
"timestamp": "2010-05-01T20:32:34",
"content": "I like the old craft better! I think it was probably because of the superior music.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment... | 1,760,377,449.644764 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/01/dpac-put-your-alarm-clock-to-shame/ | DPAC Put Your Alarm Clock To Shame | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"atmega324",
"clock",
"rn-134",
"wifly"
] | DPAC,
the Dynamically Programmable Alarm Clock
, goes far beyond what you would expect an alarm clock to do, yet we find all of its features useful. You can see there are four buttons at the bottom that control the menu scrolling. The second from the left currently reads “Sync”, a feature that the clock uses every 10 m... | 16 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "139421",
"author": "MS3FGX",
"timestamp": "2010-05-01T18:27:24",
"content": "Well…I don’t even know what to say about this one. Just incredible.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139425",
"author": "jsngrimm",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,377,449.433615 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/01/cpu-as-a-heat-sink/ | CPU As A Heat Sink | Mike Szczys | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"cpu",
"heat sink",
"openwrt",
"router"
] | We’ve noticed that wireless routers pump out a bunch of heat. [Jernej Kranjec]
wanted to make sure that he didn’t fry it
once he started adding more load to his router using OpenWRT. What he came up with is the idea of using an old CPU as a passive heat sink. He applied a bit of thermal paste to the center and some sup... | 51 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "139397",
"author": "????",
"timestamp": "2010-05-01T17:10:31",
"content": "how is this a hack? discuss.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139398",
"author": "Life2Death",
"timestamp": "2010-05-01T17:12:33",
"content": ... | 1,760,377,449.570849 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/04/pov-led-sphere/ | POV LED Sphere | Caleb Kraft | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"led",
"POV"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2dI7RiMVQ]
[Csaba Bleuer] has built this really nice
POV LED sphere
. Looking at the hand drawn schematic, it appears that he’s using an Atmega8 as the core. The resolution is pretty decent, and even shows fairly well on camera despite the refresh issues. Although much cleaner... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "140028",
"author": "spyder_21",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T14:30:00",
"content": "Nice job, but needs to spin faster.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140029",
"author": "Brennan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T14:33:27",
"c... | 1,760,377,449.686754 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/03/iphone-3-1-3-unteathered-jailbreak/ | IPhone 3.1.3 Unteathered Jailbreak | Mike Szczys | [
"iphone hacks",
"ipod hacks"
] | [
"3.1.3",
"jailbreak",
"spirit",
"Tether"
] | A method to
Jailbreak the new 3.1.3 iPhone rom
is here and it does away with tethering. Tethering is the problem that arose from the blackra1n exploit requiring a computer to reboot the iPhone. Although we saw
a hardware workaround
for that, it’s much nicer to do away with the issue completely. The new exploit is calle... | 39 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "139883",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T22:59:14",
"content": "why does apple bother trying to prevent their phones from being jailbroken if they know it is just going to be a couple of weeks before somebody circumvents whatever new restriction they have placed onto it.... | 1,760,377,449.898644 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/03/automated-chicken-coop-door/ | Automated Chicken Coop Door | Caleb Kraft | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"chicken",
"coop"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUKIlZIZDqc]
Here’s a pretty cool implementation of an
automated door, built for a chicken coop
. The electronics are fairly standard, an Arduino and a used cordless drill. The end product will be not only wireless, but automated based off of ambient light as well. We also found... | 42 | 39 | [
{
"comment_id": "139840",
"author": "mrgoogfan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T20:46:20",
"content": "a drill?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139841",
"author": "hunternet93",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T20:51:04",
"content": "A drill makes... | 1,760,377,450.031104 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/03/virtualbox-beta-runs-mac-os-x/ | VirtualBox Beta Runs Mac OS X | Phil Burgess | [
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"mac",
"macintosh",
"os x",
"OsX",
"virtualbox",
"virtualization"
] | A new beta build
of
VirtualBox
,
Sun’s
Oracle’s
free
x86 virtualization software, makes it possible to run Mac OS X as a guest operating system…no shenanigans or flaming hoops to jump through, just pop in the $30 retail Snow Leopard upgrade disc and go. This had previously only been possible with some awkward
Hackintos... | 37 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "139804",
"author": "vaporland",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T17:54:56",
"content": "(1) use the fixed size hard drive; the dyanamically expanding drive format doesn’t work in OS X(2) folder sharing in Virtual Box does not work in OS X, but the guest system can see the host system’s Mac ... | 1,760,377,449.776136 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/03/wyvern-quadcopter/ | Wyvern quadcopter | Mike Szczys | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"helicopter",
"quadcopter",
"rc"
] | [William Etter] and his classmates
built a quadcopter as a class project
. We love the details of these builds and they came through with some thorough documentation. Some highlights that we enjoyed were reading about
ABS body design
and construction, their
analysis of two versus three blade propellers
, and their
brea... | 9 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "139790",
"author": "fluidic",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T16:28:29",
"content": "Somehow this “budget aircraft” blog appears to have zero info on build cost.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139797",
"author": "n2o",
"timest... | 1,760,377,449.82507 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/03/remote-control-reel-mower/ | Remote Control Reel Mower | Mike Szczys | [
"green hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"electric",
"lawn",
"mower",
"rc",
"reel",
"solar"
] | Challenged by hot days and steep turf [Grayson Sigler]
modified his reel mower to use electric motors
. The end product will be radio controlled but he lacked the necessary parts to make it wireless right now. Not to be deterred, he used a wired controller for prototyping and testing that should be easily replaced once... | 19 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "139768",
"author": "tony",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T14:38:58",
"content": "Wow, that thing looks like all kinds of trouble. Pretty cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139772",
"author": "Jasen",
"timestamp": "2010-05-0... | 1,760,377,449.953406 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/03/headphone-tube-preamp-kit/ | Headphone Tube Preamp Kit | Mike Szczys | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"kit",
"preamp",
"tube",
"vacuum"
] | If you’re curious about tube amps but don’t have a firm enough knowledge base to dive right in you might want to try a kit. [Mark Houston]
reviewed one such kit
and we enjoyed reading about his experiences. It comes with everything you need save soldering tools, an enclosure, and the final connectors ([Mark] used RCA c... | 23 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "139754",
"author": "Alan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T13:08:39",
"content": "I like tubes also, but why is this better thana non-tube amp?Looks like it has several negatives like mismatched tubes and sensitivity to vibrations,so I’d like to know what makes is superior to asimple trans... | 1,760,377,450.088936 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/05/01/motorcycle%c2%a0computer/ | Motorcycle computer | Mike Szczys | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"DS18B20",
"motorcycle"
] | Hackaday writer of yore [
Will O’Brien
] has been working on this
hardware for his motorcycle
. Speed, voltage, gear, and temperature data is displayed on a 16×2 character LCD. The speed is pulled from the bike itself and the gear is calculated by comparing engine RPM to wheel RPM. He’s using
the popular DS1820
1-wire ... | 21 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "139379",
"author": "az1324",
"timestamp": "2010-05-01T15:21:00",
"content": "“but that can be reduced by etching a board and just using the necessary components.”WHAAAAAAAAAAT?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139380",
"autho... | 1,760,377,450.140539 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/04/30/adding-reset-to-an-ftdi-cable/ | Adding Reset To An FTDI Cable | Mike Szczys | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"ftdi",
"programmer"
] | Hackaday alum [
Adam Harris
]
hacked an FTDI cable
to use for programming his Arduino. After cracking open the plastic case he found the FTDI chip used is the same as the one in
the SparkFun programmer
. The only real difference was that his cable wasn’t resetting the Arduino, he had to do that manually. The solution w... | 18 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "139226",
"author": "Micah",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T21:19:46",
"content": "Umm… I just used one of these to connect to an Arduino the other day, and this “hack” is completely unnecessary. You can just use the RTS pin instead of the DTR signal and it will still work.",
"parent_... | 1,760,377,450.194047 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/04/30/using-ac-frequency-as-a-clock-signal/ | Using A/C Frequency As A Clock Signal | Mike Szczys | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"frequency"
] | A while back
we saw a logic clock that
used the alternating current frequency from the power grid to keep time. We asked for information on your projects that use this method and we got a lot of comments and tips. Today we’re sharing [Doug Jackson’s] method which he used in
his word clock
.
The
schematic above
is from ... | 31 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "139215",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T20:25:16",
"content": "It may be irrelevant, but I just noticed a funny typo in that script. It was a comment, though, so nbd. See if you can find it and guess why it’s funny.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,377,450.369306 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/04/30/ball-inverted-pendulum/ | Ball Inverted Pendulum | Caleb Kraft | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"balance",
"ball"
] | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI06lujiD7E]
We’ve seen several different balancing bot styles over the past few years, but this one is new to us. The
BallP, short for Ball inverted Pendulum
, balances on top of a ball. We’re not sure what the advantages are to this layout though. Anyone care to enlighten us? E... | 40 | 40 | [
{
"comment_id": "139201",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T19:04:41",
"content": "At least we found a use for those printable mecanum wheels!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139204",
"author": "Jeremy",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T... | 1,760,377,450.496526 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/04/30/optiboot-makes-your-arduino-faster-sleeker/ | Optiboot Makes Your Arduino Faster, Sleeker | Mike Szczys | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"baud",
"bootloader",
"optiboot"
] | Tired of waiting for that Arduino sketch to upload? Find yourself limited by code space?
Optiboot
eases both of these problems. The package is an alternative bootloader that runs at a higher baud rate (115200 versus 57600) and it takes up 1.5 KB less space than the stock version. This means your sketches can be larger ... | 31 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "139186",
"author": "Brennan",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T18:13:25",
"content": "Best. PCB Design. Ever.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139188",
"author": "walt",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T18:20:46",
"content": "naa. I ... | 1,760,377,451.125631 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/04/30/perfect-spiral-every-time/ | Perfect Spiral, Every Time | Jakob Griffith | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"air",
"automated",
"camera",
"canon",
"football",
"jug",
"launcher",
"machine",
"platform",
"potato",
"tracking"
] | [Carmine] let us know about his team’s
Automated Football Launcher
. Their goal was to combine a football launcher with motion tracking, to allow a player to practice running and catching with the perfect throw. Unfortunately, and we’re not quite sure
when
, they ended up changing out the
Jugs machine
for an air cannon... | 20 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "139167",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T15:18:59",
"content": "Rifled barrel + potato = huge distance with tons ‘o accuracy. Now just gotta figure out how to rifle a piece of PVC.. ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,377,450.428804 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2010/04/30/9-digit-pulse-counter/ | 9 Digit Pulse Counter | Caleb Kraft | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"pulse",
"stepper",
"tool"
] | At roughly $20 to build, this
9 digit pulse counter
is an excellent example of home built tools. The builder, [Josh] found himself repairing a device and in need of a pulse counter. With the components cheaply available, he just built his own. He says that it has a few limitations, like display brightness, but overall ... | 11 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "139138",
"author": "XenoMuta",
"timestamp": "2010-04-30T13:25:57",
"content": "Simply Sweet. Try putting some shades to the display, maybe negative photo film.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139147",
"author": "osgeld",
... | 1,760,377,450.546147 |
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