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https://hackaday.com/2009/11/03/8-bit-device-quenches-iphone-envy/
|
8-bit Device Quenches IPhone Envy
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"handhelds hacks"
] |
[
"atmega644",
"AVR",
"iphone",
"microtouch",
"touch screen"
] |
[Peter] deserves an award for doing more with less. He’s
built a handheld device based on an AVR controller
that has features normally associated with much more powerful devices. Here’s what it doesn’t do: no phone calls, no text messages, no accelerometer, and best of all no app approval needed. What it does do is leverage inexpensive, readily available components combined with common homebrew development techniques to create a touch sensitive handheld.
The demo video embedded after the break details the device playing video, rendering 3D objects, and displaying pictures and ebooks with touch scrolling. All of this is running at 60 fps for a smooth picture. The whole thing is no larger than the 320×240 LCD that he salvaged from a broken MP3 player. An Atmel AVR ATmega644 microcontroller ties together the display, a resistive touch screen, and a microSD card for storage. The chip also controls the backlight, a Lithium Polymer battery, and uses USB for PC connectivity, charging, and even a mouse or keyboard interface. He etched the PCB himself for surface mount components and managed to do it with just four jumpers needed on the underside.
This is a big leap forward from the last
AVR based touch sensitive device
we saw. All of the functionality seen in the demo is run using 4k of memory and 32k of programming space. Because [Peter’s] powering this at 3.3v the system clock is limited to 12MHz but he’s managed to make it work. We asked him to post code and schematics and he didn’t hold back. Head over to the
microtouch project page
to download the code, Eagle CAD files, and PCB artwork. All of the demo files are there just waiting for you to build on his hard work. When you’ve got something running, don’t forget to
share it with us
!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF3-U9Lb12k]
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"comment_id": "105407",
"author": "defyboy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:35:43",
"content": "Sweet, put linux on it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105408",
"author": "PunMaster",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:36:11",
"content": "Amazing!! I absolutely love it!! :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105412",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:45:44",
"content": "Super awesome! I swear I remember seeing an earlier version of this months back – not sure if he had a featured article or just had a link in his comment, but I remember seeing a 3D cube demo of some sort… Very excellent work, that things not far from production ready.@PunMaster: Much <3 #Wiibrew",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105414",
"author": "D1g1talDragon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:55:49",
"content": "Very, very impressive. THIS is what Hack-a-day is all about.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105415",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:57:21",
"content": "this is what all the arduino amateurs should strive for",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105418",
"author": "Urza9814",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:07:27",
"content": "So, it can handle video…but what kind of video? My iPod nano could support video – but only completely uncompressed video. Took a few hundred megs to store a 3 minute clip. And I don’t see how with a 12MHz CPU it’s gonna be decompressing video on the fly – my 400MHz iPod touch can’t even manage that well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105420",
"author": "The Sharpie One",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:09:33",
"content": "Amazing… simply amazing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105421",
"author": "Fixion",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:10:17",
"content": "That is a truly impressive hack! Good job sir!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105422",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:10:33",
"content": "oh all you ipod lovers go away. The atmega chips are brill. I love the functionality of this for so little – My next project is something similar but i’m not striving for so much.Mowcius",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105428",
"author": "Spadefinger",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:35:22",
"content": "Wow.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105431",
"author": "jamieriddles",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:46:13",
"content": "^^^ditto",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105433",
"author": "Ayush",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:52:21",
"content": "*chills* jaw dropping",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105435",
"author": "alexw",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:52:58",
"content": "The lack of intelligent comments on Hack a Day is often a problem, but in this case it’s totally well founded. I definitely have nothing to say besides wow, assuming it’s legit.Literally, if you told me to make this video now, I’d have taken my iPhone guts out of the case and just used after effects to mask a homemade board over the back. That’s the only way I’d even be able to approach this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105436",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:53:57",
"content": "Pacman wasn’t even input polling and it still hiccuped.OMAP 3530 is the best possible solution for this application in terms of open source. It has OpenGL ES support so you don’t have to interface with primitive algorithms and it has 2.6 support. You could literally compete with the iphone 3G and/or ipod touch 3G with it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105455",
"author": "Pookie",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:36:46",
"content": "Pacman pauses when he eats a ghost. That’s just how he rolls; nothing to do with the CPU.",
"parent_id": "105436",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105447",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:18:28",
"content": "Did anyone look at the code? This guy wrote a mad amount of code. About ~10k lines and this is not trivial stuff. This was no weekend hack. Simply awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105450",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:22:14",
"content": "main magic comes from 320×240 LCD with build in controller",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105451",
"author": "kwantam",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:23:56",
"content": "^^^Of course you could compete with the iPhone using an OMAP 3530: it’s substantially faster than the iPhone’s processor and has a dedicated DSP, ISP, and graphics chip in it in addition to the Cortex-A8 that runs at a higher clock rate than the iPhone’s.That device is something like 6 orders of magnitude more powerful than this ATmega part in terms of raw processing power. It wouldn’t be particularly impressive to put this demo together with a Beagle board. This, on the other hand, pushes that micro more or less to its limit.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105452",
"author": "RoboGuy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:31:41",
"content": "Hey tj,I didn’t notice any hiccups. The site says he gets above 60 fps.The only place I could find your “best possible solution” was on a BeagleBoard. For $150. You can get a “refreshed” iPhone from BestBuy for $130. This guy paid $8 for his MCU, tops.If you can do this on your OMAP, I’d be happy to read about it. But don’t criticize people who do it with a 50th (roughly) of the processing power.prices from DigiKey.com and Bestbuy.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105454",
"author": "RoboGuy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:35:38",
"content": "Forgot to say this in my earlier post:THAT IS AWESOMEPeter deserves an award SHOP.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105464",
"author": "Dennis C.",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:10:20",
"content": "Wow. When I get the time I want to use the 3d engine on my TomeGS game system. I love seeing projects like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105470",
"author": "tim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:16:24",
"content": "So impressive i thougth it was a fake. I did read and compile the code, and it can do what we see.“video” are bitmaps copy from SDC. The 3D lib is very compact.But there is nothing in the code about the USB. ATmega644 has no USB support, so if it has to be done by software (fishl.de) it will eat 80% of cpu time and be very slow for updating the SDC.Harware design is beautifully minimalistic.LCD is available from sparkfun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105480",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:38:53",
"content": "LCD is also available from china for $32 with free shippingFunny how author of this great hack even mentions 50Mhz ARM Cortex-M3 for same price as ATmega664, and guess what – “DSO nano oscilloscope” Hackaday reviewed a week ago is build EXACTLY the same as this hack, but with STM32F103VBT6 instead of overpriced Atmega.Schematic for the DSO nano :http://bbs.e-design.com.cn/bbs/UploadFile/2009-10/20091023176982804.jpg",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "105487",
"author": "EvilNCarnate",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:45:47",
"content": "You know, there is an app for that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105498",
"author": "tim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T01:22:05",
"content": "you can have free samples of CortexM3 at ST.i got 9 !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105499",
"author": "enrico",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T01:26:02",
"content": "… i…i….ama….z…ingthat was fantastic. I mean sure, we all get excited when we get an led to blink when we try a new uC, but this…i didnt even do anything, and i have a sense of an accomplishment after that. brilliant.who knew that an 8bit uC running at a mere 12Mhz could do that.well done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "749136",
"author": "Todd",
"timestamp": "2012-08-23T03:29:53",
"content": "This guy definitely writes some lean code. 12 mhz of 8 bit Harvard arch and look at her go. These things cant even fetch and execute at the same time!",
"parent_id": "105499",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
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},
{
"comment_id": "105509",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T02:02:19",
"content": "Very impressive. Incredible!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105512",
"author": "Charper",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T02:26:11",
"content": "{wow}I’d love to know where this guy works on for a living.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105519",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T03:10:32",
"content": "very very nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105521",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T03:17:39",
"content": "An OMAP 3530 with the 256/256 setup and refined passive component map runs you under $90 USD and around $110 for additional minimalist PCB manufacturing. I’d say add around $80 USD for a OLED 4-wire touch screen with integrated I2C based controller.This has nice code development and stuff, but even with super refined algorithms it’s somewhat lacking, and uses about the same power as the OMAP setup. Both solutions support i* features, most notably censors.I’m not taking away from this person’s work, I think it’s awesome personally. I’d genuinely like to see someone put that much firmware work into something that makes major vendors who think they have the market on lock, take notice.The propeller would also be good for this.Also the pacman hiccup is kind of obvious in the video, and it’s not the steam buffering either. It looked like a graphical demo and not an actual game that polls and logs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "105522",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T03:19:03",
"content": "Most impressive!!!Hands down one of the best “Hacks” on hack a day in a long time.Now where can I get one for $19.95 imported from china in iPhone form8 bit huh so its like an NES",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105531",
"author": "Tim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:00:16",
"content": "This is why I go on hackaday every day!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105537",
"author": "gripen40k",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:33:27",
"content": "@tjI’m actually quite sure that the original pacman paused when he ate a ghost, that’s how I remember it anyways. To be honest it didn’t look like it was button polling. He could have mapped the buttons to interrupt capable pins and therefore doesn’t have to poll.I think that the OMAP idea is neat, but you have to admit that this is a much cheaper solution that’s quite capable. Cheaper being the operative word here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105541",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:49:28",
"content": "@gripen40k: Yeah I agree it’s really good engineering from all angles. Even with super tight code though it’s not going to handle even legacy bit stream media decoding.He clearly has the time to take it to the next level with the OMAP chip. The chip alone is only like $45 and there is documentation for everything except the security stuff in public domain, and 2.6 kernel support and drivers. The code development would even be drastically more streamline than his AVR whether on a Linux kernel or bare metal.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105548",
"author": "Snakker",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T06:13:43",
"content": "Impressive hack. I like the song too.. anyone know the title and artist ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105552",
"author": "AVR Micro",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T07:15:25",
"content": "Another great idea!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105553",
"author": "darek",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T07:22:56",
"content": "I got a question. If you look carefully on the video, when he shows pacman game it looks like the frame of maze is moving a little in oposit direction to the frame. Could it be a software bug or fake? On the others i couldn’t find such a thing…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105554",
"author": "smilr",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T07:37:08",
"content": "Very very awesome – my only gripe with it would be the resistive touch pad. See how much trouble he had operating it?I know he started out with a salvaged lcd, has anyone run accross a capacitive sensor film that could be added to an existing project, rather than a screen/touch sensor combination?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105557",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T07:46:20",
"content": "I think there was a glitch at the edge of the screen when he was swiping/scrolling pictures, but DAMN that was very fluid, and the fact he doesnt even buffers them and instead reads directly from SD card into LCD controller blew me away.I wonder how much ram would one need to do this with real JPG files straight out of digital camera.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105572",
"author": "Iv",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T10:12:04",
"content": "@defyboy : we are talking 32K of programming memory. Putting linux on this would be putting an incredible bloat.It is really good to see some people reminding us what one can do with minimalist hardware. I used to see realtime 3D with incredible effects on my 486 that would fit in very small files. (256 bytes demo anyone ?)Cell phones have been so bloated from the beginning that when Apple came and showed a fancy interface running smooth everyone was bewidled and thought that you had to have an iPhone to get this kind of gimmick. This clearly shows it was never the case.Give any decent demomaker access to a pixel device and to the software that controls it and he will put 3D effects on it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105577",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T11:35:03",
"content": "wow dude this is great! excellent!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105589",
"author": "geeklord",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T13:57:25",
"content": "That’s frickin awesome! I bet he could make some money off of that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105591",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T14:00:44",
"content": "This is win. I’ll take 8.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105595",
"author": "teck monkey",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T14:31:38",
"content": "too f-ing cool…this guy should get in touch with the wikireader guys",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105597",
"author": "Jay Vaughan",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T14:39:26",
"content": "Someone get this guy a deal to fab some PCB’s and start selling kits, coz this would be my ideal upgrade from a Mignon Gamekit and so on ..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105604",
"author": "Morden",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T15:46:35",
"content": "Pacman wasn’t hitching, that game is supposed to stall for a moment when you eat a ghost. Also the project itself is beautiful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105611",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T16:10:15",
"content": "I think there is a real need for turnkey modules like this (touchscreen,packaged,plenty of IO, open, easy to program, cheap). This would be the weakest, bigest would have power of BeagleBoard. Bit like Buglabs but standalone. These could be the basis of great projects.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105621",
"author": "Dennis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T17:39:40",
"content": "Ok. I have a question – where is battery or power supply ?? How its work without a power ? I dont see anything – no battery, no wire. So – its a fake video ???",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105630",
"author": "MoJo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T18:16:41",
"content": "Anyone got any links for buying the LCD? $32 sounds like a really good deal.Does he have the SD card wired to the display directly or something? It’s just that normally you can’t read more than about 70k/sec on a 20MHz AVR from an SD card with FAT filesystem. Maybe he uses a raw format or something, but since both the SD card and the display are SPI you could probably connect them directly with a bit of clever handling from the AVR.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "105635",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:01:07",
"content": "LCD is not talking SPI, those traces between SD and LCD are power + and -.You dont need to read a lot of data (full 64KB for every frame) – LCD controller supports scrolling, so you scroll the screen a little and just fill the new area with data.and even if you wanted to do full screen its not impossible, Here is a link to a dude that did full screen animation read from SD card on Atmega8http://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/viewtopic.php?t=439022&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=s65+animacje&start=30LCD is 132 x 176 pixels, just reading post processed data from SD and dumping on the screen, over 20 fps.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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},
{
"comment_id": "105636",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:05:48",
"content": "Can anyone tell me if he’s been featured before? I definitely recognize the work, just not sure from where.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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https://hackaday.com/2009/11/03/wozs-watch-makes-air-travelers-nervous/
|
Woz’s Watch Makes Air Travelers Nervous
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] |
[
"nixie",
"Steve Wozniak",
"Woz",
"wristwatch"
] |
[
Steve Wozniak
], Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world, lives a hacker life you couldn’t even dream about. The folks over at
medGadget ran into him and learned about his watch
. In their interview (embedded after the break) [Steve] shows off the Nixie tube wristwatch
that we can only assume he created himself
.
The watch consists of two tiny tubes, a PCB, and battery. There must be an accelerometer in there because the display is switched off unless the watch is held at a certain configurable angle. Once held in the correct position the display flashes the hours, then the minutes.
The time is set by two buttons inside the watch’s case. [Steve] goes on to explain the trepidation his fellow passengers have when he disassembles the watch mid-flight and starts to monkey around with the buttons inside. Not to be stopped at electronic tomfoolery, he also shares his delight in sneaking ceramic knives on board so that he can properly cut his steaks.
Lifestyle aside,
the small Nixie clock packages
we’ve seen don’t even come close to this. We assume this is pretty hard on the battery and wonder if the watch gets hot if you’re stuck in a long meeting and constantly looking at the time. We can get over both of those limitations just for the cool factor alone.
Update:
Reader [Stephen] left a comment pointing to
the origin of the watch
. It is controlled by a PIC microprocessor, boasts a four-month battery life at 50 viewings per day, and there’s
some code available
. It is for sale but currently out of stock.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4R3hODnTGo]
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{
"comment_id": "105381",
"author": "Ho0d0o/Heatgap",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:33:36",
"content": "For the life of me I can’t find the site atm, but I did find the supposed maker of Waz’s nixie watch. The site had a quote from him about the watch if I remember correctly. So I’m fairly sure he commissioned the watch to be made by these guys. I will do my best to hunt the site down and report back with a link.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "647604",
"author": "WOZ",
"timestamp": "2012-05-09T04:51:38",
"content": "The website is Woz Watch dot com",
"parent_id": "105381",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105382",
"author": "Tuckie",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:33:59",
"content": "This has been out for years and Woz didn’t create it. A quick google would have taken you to the site he probably bought it at:http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/As well as other examples:http://www.amug.org/~jthomas/watch.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105384",
"author": "Stephen",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:38:49",
"content": "I’m not entirely sure, but Woz’s watch looks like it came from here:http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105385",
"author": "Neal",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:46:52",
"content": "Here you go:http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105387",
"author": "jc",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:52:32",
"content": "It wasn’t commissioned. David made a run of them, and the Woz bought one.If you’re interested in things Nixie, consider joining the NeoNixie-L group on Yahoo Groups.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105392",
"author": "Nicholas Overstreet",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:08:34",
"content": "I love that watch… I remember seeing it a year or 2 ago… kind of wish I had ordered one then, as they’re out of stock now with no ETA on a new model :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105394",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:20:38",
"content": "Shockingly, that isn’t the only Nixie watch ever made. The first one was by Jeff Thomashttp://www.amug.org/~jthomas/watch.htmlBrian",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105413",
"author": "Stephen",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:55:21",
"content": "I’m wondering how hackaday’s commenting system works, since Tuckie’s comment was posted long after mine but has somehow appeared before it with an earlier timestamp….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105443",
"author": "julian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:02:39",
"content": "i was sneaking ceramic knives onto planes right after 9/11. just saying…did steve photodocument it? because i did!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105478",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:30:26",
"content": "I sneak ceramic planes onto planes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105486",
"author": "Greg",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:43:54",
"content": "It’s simultaneously funny and sad that people fear stuff like this. the panic over the Aqua teen “bomb” is another example. we live in a world run by this stuff, and yet it’s imprisoned in pretty little boxes with “do not open” stickers and so hacking is instantly assumed to be sinister. good on you, woz. have a danger-steak for me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105524",
"author": "Abbott",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T03:31:36",
"content": "@Stephen:If you’ve posted several times before, your posts appear instantaneously. Otherwise they wait to I suppose moderate them.Nice watch, though, as many others have stated, its been out for awhile. I’m working on a design for an alarm clock using nixies, and a decatron for tenths of a second. I’ll be trying to post it when it’s done. Won’t surprise me if it doesn’t make it, seeing as how its been done plenty now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105638",
"author": "Jeff Ledger",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:17:20",
"content": "The luxury of fame.. If one of us did this, we’d be taken by air marshals and never seen again.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105640",
"author": "fred",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:32:56",
"content": "Want!The batteries on this will probably last longer than the sinclair red-led watch I had in the 70’s!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105669",
"author": "Joel",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:34:49",
"content": "The knife he uses to cut steaks on a plane is actually his business card, I think I recall him saying it was made of stainless steel.Austenitic stainless is non-magnetic, and the amount of metal in a buisiness card is, of course, not very much, so it does not have to be ceramic to pass security.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105836",
"author": "dan fruzzetti",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T08:02:35",
"content": "You freakin kids… I can’t believe that… I haven’t read the link, so if the lift angle is software-configured rather than configured by a physical switch, then maybe there is.but my guess? mercury switch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105918",
"author": "linus",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:09:03",
"content": "Hiro Protagonist would destroy the Woz.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106011",
"author": "Steve 3",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T02:10:32",
"content": "There are no mercury switches. The tilt angle is read constantly by an angle sensing chip relative to gravitation angle and fed to the PIC microprocessor. The code is setup so you can self determine a good reference angle to hold the watch at to have it display. There are a few user settable options in the code, all set with the internal button switches. I know this from the manual that came with mine which is S/N 3 of the original production lot. I love mine, and wear it to special functions. My first battery lasted a year.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "106325",
"author": "Nicko",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T10:23:10",
"content": "I have one of the prototypes as there was much discussion among the technical types on neonixie-l about the best way to do the power management.The case was designed by John Smout ofhttp://www.jsdesign.co.uk/who makes lovely things nixie-related – seehttp://www.clock-it.net/– a very talented designer.The case was machined by an on-line machining shop. Main problem is lack of tubes as they are not made any more.I’ve had mine for a new years – since at least 2005 – here’s a very bad photo of John & I looking like hypnotised rabbits in headlights with our watches – mine hasn’t lit as my wrist angle was not correct when the photo was taken –http://www.desmith.net/NMdS/Shack/John%20&%20Nick%2008-Apr-06.jpg",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "112418",
"author": "bothersaidpooh",
"timestamp": "2009-12-19T12:45:11",
"content": "another substitute for nixies is EL sheet.i discovered by accident that its possible to “zap” areas of the sheet so that they no longer emit light by using a near UV laser.(safety goggles required!)with a little persuasion any piece of EL sheet such as a green backlight can be retasked into a numerical display.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "112419",
"author": "bothersaidpooh",
"timestamp": "2009-12-19T12:47:16",
"content": "fwiw you can now get FC30 sensors which take 300uA when running and can detect six distinct angles.what would also work is the triple axis accelerometer from a demised macbook (haha) as these have analogue output.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "171816",
"author": "Dan Fruzzetti",
"timestamp": "2010-08-21T03:42:55",
"content": "Steve – thanks for the info. In retrospect it seems idiotic to suggest a mercury switch considering this is 2010 and not 1969, but let me ask: does the angle-sensing switch work reliably for this even in motion? When driving does it exhibit the same occasional-on behavior you would expect from a mercury switch with its contents sloshing around?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "2778150",
"author": "Nick de Smith",
"timestamp": "2015-10-30T14:47:43",
"content": "Late response, but anyway… Firstly, don;t look at your watch when driving :)Secondly, I’ve had one of these watches since they were prototypes (my one is pre-serial number) – the angle-sensor is pretty good – I’ve not seen it come on unexpectedly or had any comments to that effect.Its a great, innovative, design. Which is why the Woz loves them (he’s bought several).",
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"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
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{
"comment_id": "175216",
"author": "t0ast",
"timestamp": "2010-08-30T16:30:07",
"content": "Snow Crash :]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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https://hackaday.com/2009/11/03/improved-arm-mounted-flame-thrower/
|
Improved Arm Mounted Flame Thrower
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] |
[
"burn baby burn",
"fire",
"flame thrower",
"prometheus",
"pyro",
"x-men"
] |
[Everett] is at it again with Prometheus, an
arm mounted flame thrower
.This is the third generation of the project and makes some huge advances over the
second generation
we saw last year. We’d say he’s reached cinema/stage-performance quality with his design.
The self-contained system is completely arm mounted with a fuel reservoir mounting behind the elbow. The new version adds an adjustable flow valve actuated by a servo motor to regulate the flame size. An arc generator has been incorporated to replace the lighter from the last version. A microcontroller measures wrist angle and takes care of creating the arc and regulating the fuel supply.
Prometheus is small, controllable, and frightening. See a full demonstration as well as some video of the prototyping process after the break. Does this make you wonder how much burn cream [Evertt’s] needed over the years?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2oEP3RWppA]
Extended demonstration video.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QeBvtntWs]
Build log video.
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{
"comment_id": "105354",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:13:51",
"content": "This is how super-villains get started.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1240071",
"author": "Keiro",
"timestamp": "2014-03-06T04:22:59",
"content": "Yeah, well it could help for surviving a zombie infestation. Or Korea.",
"parent_id": "105354",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105357",
"author": "Rory",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:15:43",
"content": "Thats really cool.I’d make one of them…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105358",
"author": "phil",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:18:29",
"content": "anyone else see a dragon/snake with fangs in that first picture",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105363",
"author": "Tercio",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:35:36",
"content": "He should feel himself the Pyro – a character of X-Men comics… =)Very cool!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105364",
"author": "dave",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:35:51",
"content": "That idiot set his hand on fire at 0:54 in the first video!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105367",
"author": "khani3s",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:38:27",
"content": "I never use something like that without wearing a heavy leather glove.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1240080",
"author": "Keiro",
"timestamp": "2014-03-06T04:30:18",
"content": "Or Pyromancer gloves, A.K.A. Flame Resistant gloves. I prefer to go without. It’s fun to watch things burn feeling like a wizard.",
"parent_id": "105367",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105368",
"author": "andi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:40:36",
"content": "I still see the need for an emergency cut off – sensing a jerk reaction, for example – but I must admit that this… this…is mighty cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105369",
"author": "chicosoft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:42:14",
"content": "One day something goes bad and his arm goes booom..But that is a cool hack…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105370",
"author": "Cody",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:43:13",
"content": "This on one arm, (http://lawrancecranston.deviantart.com/) That guy’s tazer glove on the other, and you got a super villain.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105371",
"author": "emuboy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T18:44:53",
"content": "this is dangerus…not the ArduNIX….hu…can I have an arduino shell of this? :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105373",
"author": "filgy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:08:51",
"content": "I wonder.. could a battery powered air compressor with an electronically controlled regulator be added to increase the flame height? :)I also wonder if he smears his arm with a flame retardant gell of some sort.. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105374",
"author": "defyboy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:12:24",
"content": "Greak work Everett, thanks Hackaday",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105377",
"author": "durp",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:20:53",
"content": "That is all kinds of awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105379",
"author": "vonskippy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:21:17",
"content": "Playing with fire – yeah, that’s a good idea.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105383",
"author": "Tampa accident attorney",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:37:26",
"content": "The third generation is awesome! Great video and post!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105389",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:00:58",
"content": "How black do you think his ceiling is now!I would prefer one like Tony Stark’s personally.The taser one linked looks kinda cool too.Mowcius",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105390",
"author": "Unreal",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:02:48",
"content": "Looks very similar to some of the pyro used by Rammstein in their live gigs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105391",
"author": "TedH",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:05:26",
"content": "Anyone interested in laying bets an how long it is before we see the headline “Fool inventor burns face off”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105393",
"author": "Spadefinger",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:10:10",
"content": "Awesome. Absolutely friggin awesome.@philYeah, that was the first thing I noticed too. I’m wondering if it was photoshopped. It’s a good pic either way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105395",
"author": "Jerome",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:25:43",
"content": "and you guys tell me to wear a helmet when I drive my 25mph electric scooter!LOLL",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1240095",
"author": "Keiro",
"timestamp": "2014-03-06T04:38:00",
"content": "The Scooter, Electric glove, Flame glove, and Freezer Jacket. Contract of the beast who sleeps beneath the earth/sky/volcano/ice.Sweet.",
"parent_id": "105395",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105396",
"author": "Jerome",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:30:35",
"content": "for project like that, I would of use high quality servo or simply use tiny geared motor like the old Sanyo motors from solarbotics.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105397",
"author": "Me",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:43:58",
"content": "Everett is hot!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105398",
"author": "Andy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:53:18",
"content": "I would definately think twice before shaking his hand.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105399",
"author": "DanAdamKOF",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T20:56:56",
"content": "HADOOOOUKEN",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105409",
"author": "pookeye",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:37:46",
"content": "… and the point of this is….what?I’m not being a troll… I really don’t understand the point of this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1240103",
"author": "Keiro",
"timestamp": "2014-03-06T04:40:45",
"content": "Because we are pyromaniacs and can’t get a real flamethrower.",
"parent_id": "105409",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105417",
"author": "Pat",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:01:49",
"content": "Hey, I used to work with this guy, and he knows what he’s doing. No, it’s not photoshopped Spadefinger. I’ve seen it in real life, or at least a prototype of his first one. He’s the real deal guys, a real true hacker, and an amazing mind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105437",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:53:57",
"content": "That is awesome but there’s no social setting I can imagine that I can show that and not get looks.Very awesome nevertheless.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105440",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T22:59:21",
"content": "way to bang the rocks together!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105449",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T23:22:09",
"content": "lol @ Jerome, true nuff. I consider myself a pyro, hell, even a risk taker – but a flame like that indoors is beyond ballsy.@pookeyehttp://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105474",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:20:28",
"content": "this is one REALLY sweet hack/build2 thumbs up =D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105479",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:35:40",
"content": "Mmmmm. The world needs more crazy inventive people to take risks like this. How else are we gonna get super powers?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105503",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T01:38:23",
"content": "Great work Everett! I totally wanna play with this next time you’re in Troy!-Scully",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105510",
"author": "thach",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T02:12:44",
"content": "That’s cool. Some suggestion though. He should have the chip monitor his middle finger extensor muscle rather than his wrist motion. that way he can monitor how fast he open his hand. Doing so you can make it start the arc when you open you hand quickly as if you want to start a fire ball. Then to control the intensity of the flame he could monitor his bicept muscle. By flexing your bicept you get a larger flame.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105513",
"author": "moo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T02:38:59",
"content": "the flame looks like a cobra or dragon or something o.0",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105534",
"author": "bhartley",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:09:32",
"content": "Now all he needs is one for his left hand that shoots water.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105535",
"author": "Dere",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:24:33",
"content": "how many times you think he burnt him self??",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105538",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:38:34",
"content": "Ahh, but will you use this power for good, or evil?Unkind that you did not normalize the audio in the two videos. The second one came out LOUD as we have turned up the volume to hear you speak in the first.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105544",
"author": "Derrick",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T05:16:32",
"content": "Combine this with that arduino hack of the force trainer toy and the possibilities are *endless*.Alphawave controlled pressure boost? Yes please. Well… it could have… unfortunate consequences if you somehow lit yourself on fire and got overly anxious about the whole burning thing. But still.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105551",
"author": "khani3s",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T06:47:27",
"content": "@bhartley: Now all he needs is one for his left hand that shoots water.Liquid Nitrogen is much better (and dangerous).Or maybe ultracool alcohol luncher!!!!Very cold and sticky. And you can set fire after!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105555",
"author": "rooftop ridicule",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T07:38:46",
"content": "I use something exactly like that all the time every day.I never use something like that without eating a heavy leather glove",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105559",
"author": "cde",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T07:50:09",
"content": "Playing with fire is how humanity went from animals to toll users. Playing with fire was the start of human civilization, our first invention, and the first real sentient manipulation of our environment.Playing with fire is a good thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105629",
"author": "Robert",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T18:12:01",
"content": "HADOUKEN!Playing with fire-dangerousMaking a hand made flamethrower-more dangerousMaking a hand made, hand mounted flamethrower-even more dangerousMaking a hand made, hand mounted flamethrower WITHOUT THE USE OF FIREPROOF GLOVES-Insane.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105704",
"author": "k0ldBurn",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:53:18",
"content": "Robert has a point, this is awesome but he should really have gloves on, and possibly something more fire resistant than a t-shirt or a mask. Nobody thinks that they’ll blast themselves in the face with something like this but it can happen.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105818",
"author": "Ben",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T05:50:46",
"content": "55 seconds in you seem too have a problem with a constant amount of fluid being released when you move around.Hopefully you didn’t burn your hand lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106097",
"author": "teck monkey",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T19:39:21",
"content": "i like the idea alot and the hack for the forcetrainer.a machinic’s heat-resistent/or fire proof glove would be a good idea..also i agree with placing the flexsensor on all of the fingers would save them from getting burned…gives me EVIL ideas for some armor >:)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106218",
"author": "darkshadow6921",
"timestamp": "2009-11-07T07:37:36",
"content": "Evil is born, and only one Firefighter can bring him to justice or die trying.Coming soon to theaters near you.(dang narrators voice in my head again)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106352",
"author": "bullygram",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T19:41:05",
"content": "this project is cool.but safety should be always first!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106691",
"author": "thinking",
"timestamp": "2009-11-10T19:08:28",
"content": "Iron man may be fictional but since he is a tech hero then someday he could become an actual superhero. I wish creative people like this would become rich so they could fund more research.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106761",
"author": "nin82",
"timestamp": "2009-11-11T02:45:58",
"content": "this was my explanation 12 years ago for ken and ryu x)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106965",
"author": "Spork",
"timestamp": "2009-11-12T08:48:13",
"content": "Just wanted to point out that he obviously knows what he is doing and that fire is dangerous.You people type like he is 12 years old.Nice build, looks like it would be all kinds of fun for special effects and toasting marshmallows.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.739665
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/05/electronic-jewelry/
|
Electronic Jewelry
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"LED Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] |
[
"jewelry",
"led"
] |
[Ellindsey000] posted this
neat little pendant to his flickr stream
. We like the way it looks, and the fact that it is a functional circuit.
The schematic
is even pretty neat. We would maybe wear this, as a belt buckle or something. When we looked at this though, we thought it looked really familiar. Yeah, it kind of looks like the arc reactor from Iron Man, but what we thought of was this
cool looking walker
. As you could probably already tell, it’s the same person. Great job again [Ellindsey000], and thanks for posting the schemtaic.
| 19
| 18
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105942",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:25:22",
"content": "The link to “neat little pendant to his flickr stream” is dead. Hovering over it shows “http:///”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105943",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:25:52",
"content": "http://www.flickr.com/photos/11257550@N04/4061292835/in/photostream/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105945",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:27:45",
"content": "Fixed the link, sorry guys.thanks Skitchin.",
"parent_id": "105943",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105944",
"author": "novolo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:26:44",
"content": "the first link is empty….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105954",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:17:09",
"content": "Eh, this is pretty cool. You could do the same thing with fluorescent acrylic if you don’t happen to have uranium marbles laying around.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105955",
"author": "David S",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:26:30",
"content": "Is there any chance you can post a video? I’m sure I have a lot of friends would find this very cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105964",
"author": "mic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:07:09",
"content": "For the love of god do not wear that to the airport! Everywhere else it’s pretty cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105969",
"author": "pelrun",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:16:51",
"content": "Sweet! And I’ve got some uranium glass marbles (not uranium marbles, *shudder*) to boot!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105976",
"author": "cyrozap",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:49:44",
"content": "Don’t wear it in an airport!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106005",
"author": "taylor",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T01:51:22",
"content": "Ugh, i seriously need to post an instructables of my Arc reactor i made for halloween.-taylor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106057",
"author": "The File Clerk",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T10:49:36",
"content": "This would also be awsome for the energy core of an iron man costume",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106061",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T12:16:53",
"content": "all those coils on this thing could be used for a step-up converter (booster), so smaller battery could be used instead of this 9V box.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106132",
"author": "nandom",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T22:31:19",
"content": "airport ppl are smart dont wear in boston",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106309",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T05:33:04",
"content": "I think this could easily be featured in a Dr. Who episode.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106677",
"author": "schematic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-10T18:03:40",
"content": "Hi, I found your blog in a new directory of blogs today, I read a few of your other posts and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108426",
"author": "shelley thompson",
"timestamp": "2009-11-23T03:17:08",
"content": "Alpina watches are always in style and the entire collection is available everyday from Sziro Jewelry. As a Alpina watches authorized dealer, Sziro’s will guarantee your Alpina watch is authentic, brand new (not pre-owned), and is protected by Alpina’s warranty. We can also order any Alpina watch which we currently are not carrying in stock. Most special order watches ship in only a few days or less from Alpina . Protect your investment – only purchase your Alpina watch from an authorized dealer, Sziro Jewelry.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111781",
"author": "Rumors Jewelry Store",
"timestamp": "2009-12-15T07:08:57",
"content": "What exactly are hacks?If you have time, please check out our latest cutting edge fine jewlery storeshttp://www.rumorsjewelrystore.comjewelry earrings, jewelry rings to custom made jewelry for our modern day superwoman.“Carry on your legacy.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "126356",
"author": "Erin Wyndhm",
"timestamp": "2010-02-26T04:23:31",
"content": "Hey, love knows no linguistic bounds.Even binary. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141073",
"author": "Ninian Hawk",
"timestamp": "2010-05-09T16:52:45",
"content": "I would love to see a step by step guide on how to make one of these!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.244639
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/05/laser-etching-fruit/
|
Laser Etching Fruit
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"home hacks",
"Laser Hacks"
] |
[
"etching",
"fruit"
] |
Ever annoyed by those pesky stickers on your fruit? They never seem to pull off in one piece and they always leave a little glue behind. Well, the industry might be moving away from them in favor of
laser etching each piece of fruit
. They are using a low energy carbon dioxide laser to etch the skin. The FDA is in the final stages of approval for using this in the states. It is already in use in New Zealand. We might find this a bit weird, but we’ve
seen weirder
.
[via
slashdot
]
| 22
| 22
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105919",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:10:38",
"content": "why would you call this “weird?” i think it’s pretty cool!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105920",
"author": "ino",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:11:40",
"content": "agreed",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105924",
"author": "peter",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:27:10",
"content": "the problem here is that for some applications of fruit, you dont want permanent engravings on your peel. like if you are using it for decor or doing some sort of food art thing with it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105925",
"author": "Taylor",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:27:25",
"content": "yeah i dont see whats weird about this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105928",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:35:39",
"content": "This works for fruit with thick skin but what about apples and the sorts? Won’t this pierce the skin?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105932",
"author": "jjrh",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:42:28",
"content": "@peter: it could also add to the visual by putting designs and stuff other than the logo on the fruit.I wonder how long it will be before we start seeing huge ads for stuff other than the fruit company’s logo.Laser etched fruit, you know your in the future when.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105936",
"author": "Tim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:01:11",
"content": "Old news. They have been doing this on apples for well over a year. It damages the fruit less.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105937",
"author": "hyperjer",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:01:23",
"content": "how long till we see hamburger buns burned with lasers with the McDonalds Logo lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105948",
"author": "Mark",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:37:17",
"content": "Looks pretty cool, but I wonder if you could do barcodes with it, since stickers are sometimes used for that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105956",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:37:18",
"content": "that means a flood of cheap affordable portable laser etchers form China – awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105957",
"author": "kiwi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:40:11",
"content": "Yeah this was trialed in New Zealand about a year ago and people didn’t like it for all sorts of reasons so we went back to the crappy stickers. I quite liked the laser engraving personally.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105958",
"author": "kiwi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:43:42",
"content": "http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10352393",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105963",
"author": "eric archer",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:59:09",
"content": "I’d personally miss the stick-on fruit labels. I’ve collected them for years; my microwave oven is completely covered with veggie stickers. Now I’m working on filling up other surfaces. Its kind of like looking into the past… a big cluster of mango stickers (yum) brings back memories of summer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105966",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:10:35",
"content": "@hyperjer:no,no,no. much better: imagine rounding up cattle for branding, each cowboy equipped with a shoulder mounted co2-laser.but as for apples: id’like to eat the skin -unbranded.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105977",
"author": "happy gilmore",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:51:34",
"content": "what’s wrong w/the stickers? both the sticker, ink, and adhesive are safe to eat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105988",
"author": "_matt",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:12:00",
"content": "Paintballs are also safe to eat, but I don’t like eating those either.I approve, although the apple thing does bring up a good point.If the skin isn’t normally eaten, it should be etched, otherwise etching of others is optional.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106034",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T05:33:17",
"content": "WHAT AN EXCELLENT HACK YOU HAVE HERE SIRS.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106050",
"author": "JavaNut13",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T08:42:37",
"content": "IT IS NOT USED IN NZ!!!It was used for about a month, and then it was dropped. I only ever saw one apple with the name engraved on the side.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106134",
"author": "TalkingJazz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T22:39:45",
"content": "I seem to remember recently Kellogs had trialled branding their cornflakes with their logo.Personally, i’m not in favor of this (but i do think it’s cool). A lot of fruit is hand picked and packaged. Lasering fruit would involve much more machine-handling would it not? and much more handling in general before being packaged?I love my fruit stickers! but do i love lasers more…?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106166",
"author": "SoulSalmon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-07T00:48:29",
"content": "Huh?I find the stickers come off easily, maybe the American stickers are just cheap then :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106375",
"author": "Legato",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T23:18:08",
"content": "The sticker is called a PLU.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106619",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-11-10T07:36:51",
"content": "I think it would be better to use an electrically heated branding iron. It could even be made from a soldiering iron tip. (I think)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.51559
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/05/automated-coffee-bean-roaster/
|
Automated Coffee Bean Roaster
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] |
[
"coffee",
"roast"
] |
We’ve featured several different ways to roast coffee beans over the years. This is the next logical step. [Nightlife31] shows us how to use an Arduino and a popcorn popper to create a
fully automated coffee bean roaster
. You’ll have to modify your popcorn machine to be controllable. This means installing your temp sensor and relays. You can see a basic schematic for that in the project page. The rest involves making a fairly simple circuit on an Arduino protoboard attachment. The end result is quite nice. We wouldn’t mind waking up to some freshly roasted coffee beans in the morning. We’ve seen these done with
PID controls
, and directly
controlled by a computer
. There’s even this one that has a much more involved build with a
convection oven mounted on top
instead of a popcorn popper.
| 29
| 25
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105895",
"author": "clinton",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T17:10:56",
"content": "nice. now i just need to wake up on time too.great article though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105896",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T17:12:48",
"content": "Although of course we all know that the ideal time to brew is 2-3 days _after_ roasting, so we naturally would only want to wake up to fresh roast for the smell….right??",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105897",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T17:14:51",
"content": "@chris,nope, didn’t know that. yeah, guess we gotta wake up to the smell of our future coffee.",
"parent_id": "105896",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105900",
"author": "placebo.3ffect",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T17:29:41",
"content": "Chris-that’s just what I was thinking.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105915",
"author": "R.Eulberg",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T18:18:54",
"content": "temperature as a metric would only be good per a ‘lot’ of beans, if it was able to spot second crack (via audio?) then cool properly –then this would rock!BTW- don’t roast in you house, you will regret it. It’s not dangerous, just smelly and smoky.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105921",
"author": "Andy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:12:17",
"content": "Roasting coffee doesn’t smell all that great. Kind of like burnt popcorn in darker roasts.Don’t get me wrong, I’m building one of these immediately. Just… outdoors.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105922",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:19:01",
"content": "I used to help do a little IT and Graphic design for a local coffee roaster. I don’t know what they were roasting, but it smelled really good. Well, for short periods. It was pretty strong and would probably get obnoxious after a while.",
"parent_id": "105921",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105935",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:57:24",
"content": "Ok guys,You can stop hijacking posts to bash Arduinos. We don’t get paid for posting them. People use them, get over it.Yes, I deleted your posts. Please stay on topic or move on to a post you are interested in.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105941",
"author": "Alastair",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:24:36",
"content": "“We wouldn’t mind waking up to some freshly roasted coffee beans in the morning.”Freshly roasted coffee beans are supposed to sit out in the open for 12-24hrs to let the beans release CO2. After that, they’re fair game.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105959",
"author": "Pete",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:43:52",
"content": "Wow Caleb, what happened to the right to freedom of speech? Just in case you need a primerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech.I for one, like my hacks open source and my comments and thoughts uncensored. Does Hack A Day disagree with these ideals?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105960",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:46:57",
"content": "I’m not infringing on their freedom of speech, that’s silly.Comments have gotten out of hand with the hijacking of threads. I’m just keeping it on topic. They are free to start a site called “I hate arduinos.com”.",
"parent_id": "105959",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105965",
"author": "Pete",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:08:50",
"content": "@CalebUm, You are censoring Hack a Day viewers comments based on your view. This is basically the definition of denying freedom of speech. Why would you want to do that? Your visitors are telling you the content that they want to see, free of charge. Businesses spend tons of money trying to get feedback from customers. Perhaps it’s not so silly after all.Having said that, I am not an Arduino hater. They have their place. But, People will be divided on this just like the PIC/AVR battle.Listen to the readers or you might not have to worry about the anti-Arduino comments any more.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105968",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:13:50",
"content": "@pete,We delete spam too, is that infringing on their rights? no.I’m not going to debate this any further. Like any site(or forum), we’ll do what we can to keep it on topic. Got a problem with how this roaster is built? got ideas to improve it? Let’s hear it.Let’s compromise, I’ll start an Arduino venting post in the near future so people can give some actual input instead of hijacking threads just to bash it.",
"parent_id": "105965",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105967",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:11:39",
"content": "i think this is really alsome and im pritty sure that this fully qualifies as a hack. nice work",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105970",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:18:28",
"content": "@Calebdont even start, you know spam have nothing to do with this so you argument is invalid. just accept that you start to censoring site",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105981",
"author": "__--***--__--***--__",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T23:30:52",
"content": "@CalebThank you for keeping me from have to read all the off topic garbage.Mod: -1, Off topic",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105984",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T23:50:45",
"content": "This looks really interesting and something I’d love to try.I learned something – that coffee beans need a rest after roasting.I for one am happy not to read the arduino jokes which stopped being funny 6 months ago, or hating which is completely pointless. This is an interesting post, why some of you try to attack topic of the the post out of mindless hhabit? It is really counter productive to the atmosphere of the site.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105986",
"author": "Pete",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:04:33",
"content": "@JamesArduinos are good for getting something up and running quickly. Like the Halloween costumes with the street signal and the robot costume with feedback for the candy input that we have seen floating around recently – awesome.I doubt the author of this “hack” will give up coffee anytime soon, thus an arduino is not the right tool for the job. A purpose built circuit and a well documented write up is what is needed here.Arduino should be a stepping stone and not the end all be all to embedded programming or “physical computing” as some call it.A lot of very smart people work with arduinos and the developers/library coders too. Just know when to use one and when to do some real EE.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105990",
"author": "matt",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:21:30",
"content": "lol @ pete and therian…BAWWWWWWAnyway, I don’t like coffee at all, and the whole roasting thing is completely new info.“Ooh, let’s make some popcorn!”“Unless you like coffee flavored popcorn, I wouldn’t advise it.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106002",
"author": "Cynyr",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T01:14:53",
"content": "The picture shown there makes this look like it is a proof of concept design. The LCD is ribbon-ed into a breadboard. So I’m betting that if it works well it will get at least cased, or the main processor changed out for a smaller more frugal one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106021",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T03:49:15",
"content": "@CalebThank you for “Moderating” the YouTube posts. Freedom of speech belongs to the person who owns the press. Doesn’t take much to set up a WordPress Blog if anyone out there thinks they need more freedom.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106023",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T04:11:03",
"content": "OMG someone’s deleting annoying posts that are repeated in every thread that has an arduino.STFU already. I’m glad he’s deleting your god damn whiney posts.And another clue from the clue bat that you all need hit up side the head with:You have no right to freedom of speech here. None. Zilch. Nada. Zero. Absolfuckinglutely nothing.Thank you Caleb, keep deleting these idiots.Nice Hack btw. I might make one for the gf.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106038",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T06:37:19",
"content": "Only kids and retarded adults need moderation because they might not handle it well by themselves. Can you imagine those 2 category here hack a bwaah, maybe it was a bad example",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106045",
"author": "Mike D.",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T08:00:56",
"content": "A little moderating here is okay in my opinion. Making newbies feel like they picked the wrong microcontroller platform is bad for the hobby. Its the old Ford vs. Chevy bench racing.P.S. Nightlife 31: Thanks for sharing your project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106053",
"author": "Matthias_H",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T09:10:02",
"content": "Censorship paranoiacs, calm down. We are all guests here, and the Hack a Day guys’ exercising their property rights has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with restricting someone’s freedom of speech. This is just as silly as entering someone’s private home, exploding a stink bomb, and then complaining about someone opening the windows. Not an Arduino user myself, it makes me happy to see that this platform serves as an inspiration for so many projects ranging vom below trivial to absolutely mindboggling, and I am looking forward to seeing lots more of them in the future.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106054",
"author": "Matthias_H",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T09:11:56",
"content": "projects ranging VOM below trivial? LOL, looks like my German lost it again :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106110",
"author": "my name here",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T20:31:32",
"content": "@R.Eulberg: if it was able to anticipate second crack it would be even better, since I like to stop roasting just before.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107473",
"author": "hrpuffnstuff",
"timestamp": "2009-11-16T03:00:23",
"content": "I think I’ll start using repurposed C64’s instead of those weeno’s. I have an 80’s popcorn maker itchin to roast up some Kona beans",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "136004",
"author": "wholebean coffee",
"timestamp": "2010-04-14T08:56:23",
"content": "Thank you for sharing the web link – but unfortunately it seems to be down? Does anybody have a mirror or another source?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.642252
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/04/mac-mini-getting-a-little-more-useful/
|
Mac Mini – Getting A Little More Useful
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"home entertainment hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] |
[
"htpc",
"infrared",
"ir",
"mac",
"non invasive"
] |
We’re pretty sure Apple decided to implement an IR sensor in their Mac Mini line simply to mock the user. For those who are unaware, the built in sensor only works with the standard Apple Remote; unless you happen to have a programmable PDA or similar you’re SOL. An alternative solution would be to install a USB IR receiver. But then your beautiful Mac Mini is forced to sit alongside an ugly black box. Why not have the best of both worlds? [SqueeZe] wrote an
(almost) entirely non invasive tutorial
for placing a USB IR receiver inside his Mac Mini. Reminds us of
a certain hack
a while back, but the objective was to get the IR receiver outside of the unit rather than inside. Different people, different worlds.
[Thanks Kiran]
| 25
| 24
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105759",
"author": "Steve Jobs",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:07:50",
"content": "Or you could just, you know, not buy a mac",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105763",
"author": "Ethical Hacker",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:20:02",
"content": "I guess if you made the poor decision to buy this hunk of crap, then yes this is a pretty neat hack. But hackers should avoid violating apple’s IP and just not buy Apple’s products in the first place.Same goes with iPhones, jailbreaking an iPhone is is a violation of Apple’s IP unless you replace all of the software with software you actually have rights to (see open source/free software).hack ethically ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105764",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:20:36",
"content": "Umm, wouldn’t this be much easier if you just get a Logitech Harmony remote?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105766",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:26:38",
"content": "No media setup is complete without a Harmony Remote after all…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105772",
"author": "BoxOfSnoo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:51:12",
"content": "So this is like any other device that has its own remote? Whoa. Grab your torches and pitchforks, Apple haters!As others have said, a Harmony – or any other programmable remote – will work just fine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105778",
"author": "Cynyr",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:02:49",
"content": "reason(s) to buy a mac mini;1) Small2) reasonably powerful (especially the newer ones with the nvidia 9400M in them3) much much more open than the apple TV.I’m betting a lot of people will say then can build something similar for the same price. I know i can, but I also know that I cannot do it in the same volume. Thats a custom case with a custom heatsink with a custom motherboard. It’s smaller than mini-itx and bigger than nano-itx(good luck finding one that has hardware assisted video decodes of 1080P h264 @>30Mb/sec). SO really it’s the size and power that is interesting.The beagleboard with xbmc on it seems very very good, especially once the support for aacs on linux matures. I’d much rather have that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105780",
"author": "Frank McSteez",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:10:28",
"content": "I’m not impressed at all. If he used a USB hub, soldered it to the motherboard, cut the traces to the built-in plug, then wired the hub out to that, it would have been unnoticable.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105783",
"author": "Kevin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:23:15",
"content": "The problem has nothing to do with the remote control, but everything to do with the receiver. Even if you have a Harmony remote, you still have to have a receiver that Windows Media Center understands, and the built-in one just isn’t it.As for the mac mini, it’s is an awesome machine as a media center. It’s small, powerful and quiet, and works perfectly with Windows Media Center.For some people there are more important things than the price.Ethical Hacker: what has this hack got to do with Apple’s IP or the iPhone?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105785",
"author": "Kiran",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:30:10",
"content": "Frank, he mentions at the bottom of the post:“Ok, so it isn’t completely internal. You could, I suppose, solder it to one of the internal USB ports, but if your warranty wasn’t gone before, it would be then.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105787",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:44:17",
"content": "void the warranty! hack that mac’n’trash til it becomes useful!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105814",
"author": "teh haterbot",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T05:27:27",
"content": "… or you could just get a real computer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105821",
"author": "Urza9814",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T05:56:14",
"content": "Hah…any time I see mention of the apple remote I think of when my gf first got her apple TV. She buys nothing but macs. And all apple remotes are the same. So she’d be trying to navigate the Apple TV and all of a sudden both of her macbooks would start blasting music out or playing a movie or something….it was actually rather hilarious. She finally did manage to figure out how to disable the remote for the computer…but then the problem becomes that you can’t disable it for the apple TV, so if she wants to use the remote on the computer….well, she can’t.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105991",
"author": "e3mac",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:23:49",
"content": "There is an option in both the apple tv and mac os x to pair the remote to that device. Then the device only accepts input from that remote.",
"parent_id": "105821",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105852",
"author": "Liam",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T11:13:28",
"content": "@Ethical Hacker: Ethics are not defined by law.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105855",
"author": "Ethicalness",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T11:33:33",
"content": "@Liam, you sir are right on the target.An ethical hacker makes what should be personally thought as right, right. What suits him/her is done by the end user for any product is hacked.An example is custom rat rods… no top and aren’t drivable in rain. It does not sound ethical but consider them hackers with sheet metal…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105859",
"author": "max montana",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T12:27:54",
"content": "Fail , i mean he don’t want a little black box , but he does have a ugly usb cable sticking out his mac mini .And aren’t the signals on the original Ir receiver usb ? why he didn’t tapped that signals to the new circuit board ?Would have been much neater",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105862",
"author": "cantido",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T13:00:25",
"content": "I’m pretty sure the actual hardware isn’t locked to the Apple remote,.. Under linux it is possible to use the IR like any other IR transceiver as far as I can remember (I haven’t used the IR on this machine for ages). So there is really no need to take the mac apart.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105869",
"author": "Just Sayin'",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T14:38:42",
"content": "@Urza9814, why didn’t she just pair the remotes? Once a remote is paired to a device, it will only work that device and no other, until it is re-paired.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105880",
"author": "The_Evil_Machinist",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T16:10:20",
"content": "Sometimes you need to ask yourself, “What would Woz do?” So then you’d throw in a zotac mini itx in there with a core 2 extreme quad core. Stick the cpu heat sink out the top and then mount a physical apple over the sink to hide it (stylishly). After you stick the HD 5850 out the side, then you can start building the SSD RAID 0 array that also acts as feet for the thing. Then throw 8GB ram in it, throw away the superdrive, you now have a perfectly hacked mac. Woz style.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105987",
"author": "buggy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:05:45",
"content": "@The_Evil_Machinist, No no no, Woz was all about chip economy and silicon esoterica. He would have used the CPU fan for timing control and routed the IR signals through the keyboard controller during the vertical blanking interrupt. Every 4 microseconds the input would be sent through a barrel shifter to a fifo buffer in the audio chip where it would be read by the CPU during every fourth interrupt.It would be hand coded in assembly and take up 350 bytes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105996",
"author": "Funky Gibbon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:37:12",
"content": "Best use for a mini mac i’ve seen is this onehttp://www.bit-tech.net/news/modding/2005/06/10/itoilet_mod/1",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106059",
"author": "Mark",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T11:47:44",
"content": "The remote that came with my EyeTV Hybrid works just fine with the built in IR sensor in my Mac.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106065",
"author": "r4 ds",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T14:17:07",
"content": "I am going to definitely try this. I got the mini instead of the apple TV as it can serve a dual purpose. Both allowing me to use it as a computer AND a media center.Awesome, thanks for the great hacks!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107444",
"author": "dan",
"timestamp": "2009-11-15T22:39:44",
"content": "If anyone does this and wants to sell me the original apple IR board get in touch – dsg102 at gmail dot com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "136711",
"author": "Biffo",
"timestamp": "2010-04-18T15:37:32",
"content": "Link is dead where to find please??",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.359305
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/04/hack-a-day-into-the-future/
|
Hack A Day; Into The Future
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"News"
] |
[
"announcement",
"future",
"troll"
] |
Through the years, our reader base has grown like we never could have imagined. We thank everyone for reading, and owe our gratitude to all who have sent in submissions. We live for them. The more high quality submissions you send in, the more we’ll post. Along with you, we’ve taken part in some really great projects and enjoyed the writing of
some really
great people
.
Now it is time to share our plans for the future with you. We have two announcements that we would like to get your thoughts on.
#1. Content:
Hack a Day first started as an offshoot of Engadget. It was a place where we were able to look at things from a hacker perspective. Contrary to what some people believe, it wasn’t all hardcore electronic engineering. It wasn’t even all projects.
We had fun
, and discussed
our thoughts
on
many things
that weren’t
that complicated
.
As we move forward, we will be covering a wide variety of posts. From
simple things
, like
teardowns
to the
amazingly complex
projects that inspire us all. We intend to get you original content from the perspective of people who are not just consumers, but hackers of all different skill levels.
We are working to make it easier to browse the site, with your specific interests in mind. Our first motion was to add the “Classic Hacks” category which gathers up the more complicated projects. We’re open to other ideas of how to best categorize the content to make your experience better.
#2. Social Interaction:
Since the beginning of Hack a Day, we have been inundated with questions and requests. People are asking for help on existing projects as well as trying to break into the complexities that can lay in front of a beginner. We’ve seen unofficial Hack a Day forums come and go, but we think it is time that we did something ourselves. We’ve been working behind the scenes on a really slick system which allows people to ask questions, get answers, and even rate and give feedback.You will hopefully see this appear in a matter of weeks as we finish up the last bits.
We look forward to seeing some of you shine, sharing your knowledge with the hacker community.
| 95
| 50
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105677",
"author": "rooftop ridicule",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:15:37",
"content": "cool yay number one. this band is on board",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105680",
"author": "Benjamin Sølberg",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:18:04",
"content": "Dear HackADayI have been with you from the very start. Even since much has changed you keept the spirit.Thank you for that, thank you very much.Regardsyet another happy reader.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105681",
"author": "Josh",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:18:16",
"content": "Thank god. I thought the “not a hack” posters would never shut up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105682",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:19:12",
"content": "if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.this site ain’t broke.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105683",
"author": "aesop",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:21:00",
"content": "Well, I guess now we know why Elliot left. Are you guys trying to turn this into lifehacker or something?I read the blog for technically sophisticated hacks. Recently, they’ve been less impressive [with the notable exception of the AVR-driven touchscreen].Turning this into a non-technical blog will likely lose my readership. I can get plenty of the “hacker perspective” at my local hackspace. I came here to see cool new hacks.I hope you reconsider your decision.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105688",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:26:24",
"content": "@aesop, Eliot liked simple stuff too.http://hackaday.com/2005/05/17/synergy-km-switch/http://hackaday.com/2005/05/30/guinness-beersicle/",
"parent_id": "105683",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105685",
"author": "Sean",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:24:33",
"content": "A Q&A section is an interesting idea. It is always fun to try and solve fresh new problems. I look forward to it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105687",
"author": "Nick Caiello",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:25:18",
"content": "It’s not a matter of the site being broken or not. This is the new direction that we’ve decided to take things. We hope that most of you will support us in this decision, but we know that it’s inevitable that some of you will not. Regardless, we’re excited to announce both the new direction that we’ll be going in and the upcoming release of our new answers system.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105686",
"author": "Phil",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:25:26",
"content": "You guys have been a really important part in my inspiration for being a hacker. Colossal props for keeping Hack A Day up and constantly evolving. Keep on kicking ass.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105689",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:26:55",
"content": "@aesopThey’re not changing anything. They’re asking everybody to stay the same. Can you read?Keep it up, HaD. You’re on my short list of daily websites to check.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105690",
"author": "Static",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:28:01",
"content": "Keep up the good work. Keeping the less technical hacks on, along side the ultra-tech hacks, allows for new users to “get their feet wet”, before jumping into the deep end.Perhaps allowing registered readers to rate a given hack on a variety of scales (or just one scale), might alleviate issues. The next step would be to give readers the ability to ignore hacks below a given “Hack-Level”.I check this site daily, I’ve implemented a couple. I’d love to devote some time to build something “Hackaday-worthy”.Thanks for the update (and the bit of history. Engadget is the site I read just before yours), and keep up the strong work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105692",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:29:37",
"content": "@static,The answers system is very dynamic, allowing for the best answers to be rewarded.I also think a skill level rating on the site posts would be nice. We just haven’t found a way to implement it smoothly yet.",
"parent_id": "105690",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105691",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:28:59",
"content": "All sounds good.Keep growing!BTWDoes this mean the site will go back to “beta” because new software was implemented?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105693",
"author": "yuppicide",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:31:33",
"content": "I like some of the ideas posed.I wish there was a Hack A Day forum. I could use a place similar to a Ben Heck type site. I have a few simple projects that I need to find someone to help build and usually a forum like that is a good place to get information or get someone to build for me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105698",
"author": "MS619",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:44:10",
"content": "HAD has been going downhill for a while. Where are the lazy sundays? where are the hack a day links? and at one point, hacks weren’t even being posted every day.Keep it one good hack a day, some original content once a week, and intermittent “links” posts. I’m sorry, but it just seems like everybody got lazy. The team hackaday forums were great, yet there was almost zero participation from the HAD editors. I’m sorry, but this site started out great, and just kind of used the existing momentum without really try to put too much more in.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105702",
"author": "chuckjonez",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:49:31",
"content": "Great Job HAD, glad to see you putting some effort into improvements. Also nice to see you prove the trolls wrong about the content.@MS619,Please go back to wasting your potential? I’m not sure what you are saying here. They never put enough effort in, now that they are, you are complaining? wtf.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105703",
"author": "MS619",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:52:28",
"content": "Now that I’ve vented, let me say this. I haven’t been a regular reader for a while now, so take what I say with a grain of salt. Also, HAD links was my favorite post, I always liked at least half of the items in it and you could take information away from all of them. Bring back HAD links, no one cared if there was stuff in there that wasn’t a “hack”, it was just fun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105705",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:54:11",
"content": "@ms619,HAD links evolved into roundups. Many roundups are just posts of stuff that didn’t quite deserve a post of its own. Just like the HAD links used to be.",
"parent_id": "105703",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105706",
"author": "gomer pyle",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:54:30",
"content": "This is NOT a hack! /sarcasmIt’s actually pretty easy to skip the uninteresting stuff. I’m not sure who suggested it, but I agree that everyone should work toward submitting good hacks if they bitch about the content. Trolling is unfortunately a fact of life now. It would be nice to be able to “bury” trolls.I’ve found some good ideas even in simple hacks on the site. More content is a welcome sight to me. Even a simple hack can be elegant. Cheers!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105707",
"author": "Uchi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:54:59",
"content": "I remember the good ol’ Engadget off shoot days ^^.The Q/A system, as an addition, sounds good. That is if it’s not spam filled (or empty O:) and ratings aren’t for the sake of rating a comment (I wonder if this is inevitable).I have some faith in the people of HaD xD. I’d advise myself to keep quiet about my initial response ’cause it’s usually one of repulsion and let the changes grow on me– which hopefully they will. I trust the HaD feel and hacks will not be lost?P.s. I’ve got the HaD in my “Bookmark Toolbar” along with teh rss feed. ^^Haha ragmoroling. Eat my wall of text. xP",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105708",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:00:12",
"content": "@uchi,It’s actually not a big change in content. Just a clarification for those who think everything should be of the most complex variety. We never were that, and we don’t intend to be that.The Q/A system looks really cool. We hope we can keep it running smooth but only time will tell. I think it is a good thing that it will require more involvement from us, the HAD staff.",
"parent_id": "105707",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105709",
"author": "rooftop ridicule",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:01:32",
"content": "i say again better too much than too little. i will never ever complain about too many posts. i can spare the extra scroll wheel motion, i can burn that calorie. and i’m to lazy to hold down an extra button to capitalize my i’s",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105711",
"author": "placebo.3ffect",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:10:43",
"content": "I’m excited for the changes! overall this is a really good site. It’s true some of the posts have been questionable. However with multiple posts a day, there is usually something that catches my attention.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105715",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:14:15",
"content": "I like the site though I definitely prefer reading about more complicated technically detailed projects. Why not let the rss be tag filtered and give yourselves the option to have an unfilterable post? That way people could add tag=!teardown to their rss url and drop those posts.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105723",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:25:21",
"content": "There has been an “unofficial” forum for a long time at Team Hack-a-Day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105726",
"author": "rd",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:30:59",
"content": "People keep using the word “complex” to describe hacks that appeal to the more knowledgeable readers. I might be nitpicking semantics here, but I don’t think this to be the case. I think the “brilliantly simple” hacks are the ones that appeal to everyone, beginner to advanced. The perfect example was the attiny13 that emulated an RFID tag. It had just two components: an MCU and a single inductor. The inductor acted as an antenna, a power source (rectified by the I/O pin protection diodes), and the clock source. If I was asked for the perfect example of a hack, I’d point to this.As long as stories like that continue to be posted, I’ll keep reading. I don’t care for the yet-another-Arduino-powered-noise-machine-with-blinky-lights posts as much, but I know that brilliant hacks are few and far between.Just don’t let this site turn into lifehacker.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105727",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:31:38",
"content": "Had no idea how long I’d been a reader till referring back to some of those old articles. The number of commenters has grown dramatically, so hopefully the new system will give a better place to congregate. Keep on keepin on hackaday!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105728",
"author": "Richard",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:35:37",
"content": "The changes sound like positive steps, taken for the right reasons, and I fully support them.Accepting that different people have different skill-levels and different tastes in hackery, I agree there’s some mileage in the idea of making filtered RSS feeds if it’s feasible – that way the ones who run on rails and only like one sort of hack can read only one sort of hack without the rest of us having to listen to them bellyaching about everything else… that way we can all enjoy what you’re doing without the naysayers continually pissing in the coffee. :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105729",
"author": "Xeracy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:36:39",
"content": "One thing i love about HAD that it hard to find these days is simplicity. This site is so streamlined (and i check it multiple times a day) that i dont know if ive ever clicked the sidebar. If the site starts getting too convoluted, it may detract from the “to-the-point” atmosphere that i love this site for.A forum is a great idea in theory, but how often do you see posts that arent like “I dont have any idea what im doing, but i want to build a rocket ship! Give me instructions, plz!” Anytime someone does post some useful information, its lost to the ages in flames on the 4th page of a 10 page thread which you are never going to find.I dont need any social networking from HAD, just good hacks and how-to’s, from the simple and benign (like mine) to the crazy complex grad-student level. It provides good experience and learning for everyone.Hope the changes dont piss too many people off :D GL, HAD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105733",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:39:31",
"content": "@xeracy,The question answer system should help limit some of the “I have no idea what electronics are but want to build xx”. It will simply drop off the bottom since it won’t get any action. We will have to be proactive though. We’ll see how it works out.",
"parent_id": "105729",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105730",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:38:12",
"content": "Level 1 cleared.Entering level 2.Passcode: goforit",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105732",
"author": "emuboy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:39:11",
"content": "Hack-a-day grow me in the hackers sphere, all I know is in the pages of this site…thanks for allhack hack-a-day ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105734",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:39:44",
"content": "add article rate system, so people dont have to look like dicks to show whatthey think.and maybe instead of having “classic hacks” category there should be “lame hacks” category and classic hacks on front page ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105736",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:42:19",
"content": "@therian,People only look like dicks when they act like dicks.I think an article rating system would be nice. But maybe a filter system based on skill level would be more efficient.",
"parent_id": "105734",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105735",
"author": "Scott",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:41:43",
"content": "#2 – forums idea – I really like this. Share the experience and help your fellow hacker.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105737",
"author": "john",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:43:37",
"content": "Hey team- remember that people are way more likely to comment when annoyed than when pleased. I suspect that the “not a hack” crowd and those who post threats about not reading the blog if some imagined standard of technical difficulty isn’t met are a small but vocal minority of readers. (The threat of not reading something is pretty silly in itself, come to think of it.) I check HAD every day, and it keeps me totally juiced and inspired. I even canceled my subscription to Make magazine– with project porn this good, who needs print?I welcome the addition of more social features, I just hope the haters don’t have the team too worried.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105738",
"author": "UniverseGlance",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:44:14",
"content": "Well, I may not matter, but I am from Brazil and I don’t know much o of electronics but I access this site everyday and it gave me inspiration to follow the path of Engineering, so I thank you a lot, and hope you guys make this site even better, when I begin to understand the things a little better I hope I can help.Thank you a Lot, really!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105740",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:53:59",
"content": "@Caleb Kraft: what about a point system i.e. minus xx points for Arduino usage, + for custom PCB, + for SMD components, etc – would certainly require more effort and categorizing, and is impossible to retrofit the old content. I’m not even sure I think it’s a good idea, just throwing it out there.Also, I think it’s really awesome the staff here actually takes the time to read through the comments, makes me respect this place that much more.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105742",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:58:29",
"content": "@Skitchin,A point system is interesting. The problem with automatically detracting because someone uses an Arduino is that it might take away from a truly nice project. You never know. We see them everywhere. Maybe one day you’ll see one in your favorite post ever. It’ll just be used for something more than flashing lights, or taking a picture when two hot wheels crash.Should we take points off for people using power tools? I mean it takes more knowledge and effort to do it all by hand right?",
"parent_id": "105740",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105743",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:59:49",
"content": "Force signup before posting comments. Then allow filtering of users comments so I can filter out the trolls and moaners, complaining about “another arduino feature”.Aside from that, I was a comp. sci grad never touched a piece of hardware in a hacking sense unless it was a slight case mod when building/Frankensteining a PC.I’ve now gotten into hardware, not quite hacking yet (yes arduino – to start with, then I hope to progress some).That was directly because of the stuff I read on HAD.Yay…change.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105744",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:12:19",
"content": "This is awesome news, thanks for the announcement.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105745",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:15:57",
"content": "I found you guys searching the internet for a DIY project about 3-4 years ago and ever since then, I’ve been hooked on what you guys have to offer. Keep up the good work!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105752",
"author": "Hate",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:43:30",
"content": "I want to be a MOD on the HaD Forums…Sincerely, i’m interested in assisting the future of HaD – hack a day old style with new jizz.Consider me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105753",
"author": "Link",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:43:32",
"content": "A Q&A sounds nice; there are many things I want to do but I have little to no experience. I hope I don’t get ripped apart with my nubbish questions I’ll be sure to have :DAs for the posts which some commenters complain is “not a hack”; it generally is interesting, technology related news, that usually doesn’t turn up on other sites. Keep up the good work!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105755",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:53:30",
"content": "Too much text, did not read.Pics or gtfo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105756",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:54:36",
"content": "awesome :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105758",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:59:42",
"content": "I like the idea tehgringe posted about signup for comments. I know it would be a lot of work, but implementing some sort of login system where we can ignore the trolls would be nice.As for the Q&A, I know many of us would be glad to help answer questions, and to read responses as well. I know I’ve learned as much from reading Q&A/forum posts on electronic sites as I have from reading books and tutorials, or attending classes. People are often able to share new insights and more creative ideas through these informal channels than through a book or website dedicated to a generalized topic.I’ve been enjoying HaD for quite a while, and like the content the way it is. The mix is great: some really complex, some really simple. Even the occasional arduino post is fine. I think this site offers something for just about everyone. Keep up the good work, and ignore those who just come here to find an outlet for their anger at life.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105767",
"author": "Daryl",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:27:14",
"content": "I like the idea of a Q/A side to the site. Should be fun to hear what sort of roadblocks others are running into and maybe get a few of my own figured out. It would be nice to be able to have an ignore user button next to each comment so we don’t have to keep hearing non-hackers and non-submitters say that anything using a learning platform isn’t a hack, but in the end, HaD has a site to run, and I would much rather you continue to find good posts and not spend time on moderation or trying to add the latest wiz-bang to the site. I love the articles, and love the RSS feed. I’m on every morning and every night. Keep up the good work!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105768",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:29:54",
"content": "don’t listen to the haters :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105770",
"author": "mp",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:43:04",
"content": "if the layout changes i’m gone",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105773",
"author": "bigalexe",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:52:16",
"content": "Hack-A-Day is the reason a Drafting/CNC Machinist Student is now enrolled in PLC’s (Programmable Logic Controllers) and Digital Circuits next semester after taking intro to DC/AC Circuits this semester in addition to his required courses.So really Hack-A-Day can be credited for contributing to taking a perfectly well Mechanical Engineering career path student and sending him careening head first into Electrical Engineering.PS. Thanks for sending me the DWG of your logo about a year ago. It didn’t end up on this PC Case but may be on the next one!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105776",
"author": "daley",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:58:15",
"content": "I was just thinking the other day that I wish there was a forum associated with HaD. I too think that it would be a place to ask questions and share ideas and criticism (seems there are few of us left that can take some!). Let’s face it – some of these 50+ post blogs could easily fill a forum.I also commend the efforts to putting in more than one hack per day. I like to visit at least once a day, and while there are hacks that don’t apply to me (not interested, too complex/simple, whatever), having more than just one improves the odds there *will* be something of interest to me.The site needs to make money, and to do that it needs viewers that click on ads. No viewers, no money. Simple as that. That being said, you can’t please everyone – ya just gotta please *most* everyone. I’m pleased, and I hope others are as well – I’d like to see HaD grow even more.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105779",
"author": "Haku",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:10:20",
"content": "H-a-D forum? yes please!I used to quite enjoy posting on the Revision3 Systm forum, until they killed off Systm (gits!). Reading this & a couple of other hacking sites is nice but leaving a comment or two on a hack doesn’t quite feel enough, I’d really like to see and engage on some quality posting/discussions on hacking projects & topics.I’ve recently started posting/reading a PICAXE forum because I’m enjoying programming them and it’s nice to share knowledge and I’m learning quite a bit from reading interesting problems/solutions – but it’s mainly geared towards microcontroller programming, I’d like to read/contribute to more general stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105781",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:18:37",
"content": "“The site needs to make money, and to do that it needs viewers that click on ads.”does anyone click on ads ? can someone confirm than he/she click on ads at least once in past 5 yearsthere is research that confirm that internet users in 3-7 month develop unconscious reflex to not even look on adds and have blind spot on them especially bright and flash ones. Because of this sometime sites menus recognized by brain as ads and people have trouble navigating, they simple not noticing site menu which somehow look simular to ad",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105782",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:22:48",
"content": "Sweet. Really happy about the question/answer thing (sounds like something similar to stackoverflow?).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105788",
"author": "rick",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:46:36",
"content": "Where’s steve when we need him? :OI still enjoy HAD. Hack is such a subjective term, seriously.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105792",
"author": "localroger",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T03:16:53",
"content": "My USD$0.02: love the site, always have, and don’t have a problem with the occasional Arduino popping up :-) SRSLY it’s the internets, people will show up to complain that it’s too pretty and dry on a beautiful Sunday if they think it will get a reaction. I like what you’ve been doing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.90776
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/04/25-scariest-experiments/
|
25 Scariest Experiments
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Medical Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] |
[
"masturbation",
"scary"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq06D0xRWmc]
Warning:
This video contains actual footage of a severed dog head, kept alive. Watch at your own peril.
[Annalee] over at io9.com has gathered together the
25 scariest science experiments
. There are some truly frightening pieces, like the
cyborg beetles
which we’ve seen before, all the way to silly stuff like the guy who re grew his thumb using pig powder. Next time you’re thinking of admonishing someone for
creating a flamethrower
, or a
super fast scooter
, consider for a moment that they’re not
burning peoples nasal passages to stop masturbation
or creating zombie severed dog heads like the one in the video above.
| 113
| 50
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105642",
"author": "evaproto",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:46:30",
"content": "Talking about phantom limbs More like Phantom body. And Man that must be painful. Very cool however.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105643",
"author": "Joe",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:52:01",
"content": "“Zombie” dog heads? Only if you call people on heart and lung bypass machines during surgery zombies. The dog experiments were legit science and paved the way for current open heart surgeries.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105645",
"author": "very displeased reader",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:13:15",
"content": "i didn’t know that hackaday was 4chan now that’s fucked up, i mean seriously i can understand if it was just a guy talking about it and the diagrams but actual video footage of the dog head? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU HACKADAY",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105646",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:17:48",
"content": "@ displeased reader,sorry, it didn’t occur to me that this would be upsetting to our readers. An obvious oversight on my part. I’ve now added a warning.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105648",
"author": "steve-o",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:24:08",
"content": "Awesome clip!! Shoulda been posted on the 31st though, would have been much more fitting!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105649",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:25:02",
"content": "Yeah, real life scientific experiments are scary and bad. They should be banned and burned, just like books!Sorry, couldn’t help myself. I honestly am not sure if the comparison of Hack a Day to 4chan was for real, but either way, it was good for a laugh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105652",
"author": "Life2Death",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:35:42",
"content": "looks like the video continues. i’d like to see this zombie dog in action!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105653",
"author": "iR377",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:43:53",
"content": "I like the two tags you chose: masturbation and scary. You don’t want to mix those two things up!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105654",
"author": "barry99705",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:48:25",
"content": "I thought this was a hoax? This same “scientist” had video of a lung “breathing” outside of a body, which can’t happen.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105655",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:50:21",
"content": "@barry,I recall reading something about that ages ago. Got any more info? I don’t know about you guys, but I would be kind of happy to find out this was a hoax.",
"parent_id": "105654",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105656",
"author": "Bakamoichigei",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:50:47",
"content": "FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU–!!!That’s creepy as hell, and yet absolutely fascinating. :OAlso, don’t feed the trolls.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105657",
"author": "BigD145",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:54:06",
"content": "@JoeYeah, people should be protected from reality.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105658",
"author": "Knicholai Phrost",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:03:49",
"content": "Finally some good DIY advice, been having a lot of problems developing zombi squirrels…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "105661",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:06:35",
"content": "@Knicholai,janitor? is that you?",
"parent_id": "105658",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105997",
"author": "e3mac",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T00:37:16",
"content": "Its Jan Itor",
"parent_id": "105658",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "105660",
"author": "d0b0",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:05:12",
"content": "I call shenanigans. The dogs head looked like it moved more due to neck and shoulder muscles. Does a dog lick it’s nose due to stimulus?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105662",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:10:44",
"content": "Ok, now put the dog back together. A Hackers not worth much if they can’t put a hacked device back to working order.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105663",
"author": "RandomGuy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:13:37",
"content": "That’s crazy. With the lungs, were they just pumping air in and out to oxygenate blood?I imagine there are videos in a vault somewhere of soviet scientists running their heart-lung bypass machine with a whole dog, or even a person…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105665",
"author": "zokier",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:26:30",
"content": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105666",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:30:43",
"content": "@barry: these experiments can’t be fake because modern surgery is based on them. They actually did all this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105667",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:33:38",
"content": "“It seems likely that while experiments were really carried out, the operation depicted in the video was staged for the purpose of producing this science film.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105670",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:37:31",
"content": "please.calebstophackaday used to be a good site, that featured hacks. you know, re purposing things, building things.now its all how to steal from google books or oh hey look, someone cut off a dogs head.We should have a way to vote on articles, or maybe color code them as to authors so we can only read articles written by people we enjoy reading.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105671",
"author": "partially.fake",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:46:12",
"content": "The video is just partially fake. Lung and heart bypass experiments make sense.The decapitated dog head is questionable as they don’t go into the details. Metabolically they don’t mention a cleaning out the metabolic waste produced by cells (kidney/liver is missing). Also the part where the mouth moves is a little disturbing. There are a lot of muscles required to perform those actions, the dog head doesn’t even moved. There seems to be some anchor (like the rest of the dog body).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105672",
"author": "colecoman1982",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:48:57",
"content": "I’m assuming this is the video of the Russian scientist’s work (there was an American scientist named White who accomplished a similar experiment by grafting the head of a live dog onto another dog’s shoulder kinda like the Greek myth of Cerberus). I looked into this a bit and what most people have concluded is that the results he claimed in his research papers are, probably, true but that the movie itself was staged by Soviet propaganda agents to exaggerate the success and win “points” during the cold war. My understanding is that the real dog head wasn’t quite as responsive and didn’t live quite as long as the video claims.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105674",
"author": "colecoman1982",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T21:50:15",
"content": "Forgot to mention that I haven’t, actually, watched the video as I feel it’s probably a little inappropriate to watch at work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105675",
"author": "nek0",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:03:37",
"content": "WTF? a dog? c’mon, jails are filled with potential material for experiments…btw, this more to /b/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105678",
"author": "JimSocks",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:16:16",
"content": "That scores a 9.8 on my $^#*ed-up-ometer. Where is the un-play button?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105695",
"author": "rooftop ridicule",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:38:14",
"content": "this is my favorite website ever.add /s/ and i wouldn’t need to go to any other websites.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105696",
"author": "rooftop ridicule",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:40:58",
"content": "honestly i say better too much content than too little. did caezar ever say “damn too much entertainment goin on cut that out.” no false he didn’t",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105700",
"author": "morbid curiosity",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:47:45",
"content": "oh man, i was looking into this stuff back in September on wikipedia. all the morbid experiments that the Germans, Japanese, and Soviets did were disturbingly interesting. the only problem is, i forgot what the terms i was looking up where… messed up stuff… but interesting nonetheless.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105710",
"author": "Jack Sprat",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:07:01",
"content": "I don’t know what you guys are talking about. Creating body parts is the ultimate hack. If it actually worked, awesome. I doubt it would work for very long. It would need insulin and various other hormones. The blood might start coagulating in their air mixer device, and wouldn’t that suck to have cold blood going through your arteries.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105720",
"author": "Dr: Jan Itor",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:20:43",
"content": "someone called me??… huh?’..okay… so come on!… this is interesting but… come on… I’ve seen a guy getting decapitated a dude torn in half, a dismembered girl… but this… this is just plain sad, if you’re going to “hack a head”, at least do it with a human, not with a completely innocent animal… plus maybe you can get the guy to talk about how he feels.I’m sorry Caleb, but I don’t think this is the right blog to post this kind of stuff.now… I’ll be back to hacking the penny in the door machine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105721",
"author": "Mike C",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:22:24",
"content": "That dog head thing, although cool, is seriously fucked up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105722",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:22:25",
"content": "now that is REALLY cool :) hmmm with some tweeking my army of zombie chipmunks will be complete whahahahahahahaha",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105731",
"author": "jim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:38:53",
"content": "Fake! Apparently the experts don’t think it could move its head if it was severed. However, a heart lung machine was developed by the Russians, so I imagine there’s a few dead science dogs out there.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms#Fact_or_fiction.3F",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105739",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:49:18",
"content": "CRUEL ASSHOLEScant they use RATS instead of HUMAN BEST FRIEND",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105747",
"author": "vic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:28:52",
"content": "therian : Do rats inherently have less a right to life than dogs or is it just because you decided so ? (Personally I’m fine with this. It’s a fallacy to believe medicine can advance without in vivo experiments)While a head without a body is cool, a body without a head is even cooler. Especially when the animal survives without any apparent problem (fed by its owner) for 18 month. That’s the famous Mike, the headless chicken:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105749",
"author": "The Hatchet",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:30:42",
"content": "Its easy to hack body parts… all you need is a hatchet and then get out the trusty “autojector mk2” hook it up to the artery and veins and your away…no arduino needed :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105750",
"author": "mic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:34:11",
"content": "Therian it’s cruel and unusual to do that to any animal. I don’t like to see a dog like that either, but you will end up doing something sick no matter what. That’s just a given. The catholic church did experiments trying to graft monkey heads or some shit like that. With barbarously prehistoric equipment no less. Maybe modern experiments should be done on war criminals (I guess that would be stooping too far though.).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105751",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:42:36",
"content": "I do believe that the head part is fake and could easily be reproduced to make soviet science look advanced. However, the lung and heart bypasses do seem to be real.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105761",
"author": "FDP",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:16:57",
"content": "There IS more of the video:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4894196323956293980&q=Experiments+in+the+Revival+of+Organisms&hl=en#",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105765",
"author": "Matt Downer",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:25:59",
"content": "I got this movie clip off a friend a while ago and watched it. Pretty crazy if it’s real!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105771",
"author": "derezdev",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:43:46",
"content": "As entertaining as it is, the video is fake. The dogs body is recessed under the table (an old carnival trick) with some fur off to the side to cover the hole. If the head had been severed, it would not have the range of motion that is being exhibited. The tongue would not work as well as it is being shown to do. I don’t believe that the face would respond as it did either. The dog appears to have been sedated. The “experiments” that they are performing actually disprove its authenticity.I am curious to know what is in the special sauce.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105774",
"author": "reed",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:53:47",
"content": "Anyone take a look at the blog with the 25 scariest experiments.Apparently, reprap and the LHC are in the top 25 scariest experiments. What crap.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105777",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:58:39",
"content": "@vic“Do rats inherently have less a right to life than dogs or is it just because you decided so ? ”at least rats not as intelligent as dogs. And Dogs are most intelligent animals we have around (well I don’t think many of us have dolphins or monkeys as pets). Rats dont serve in army, they dont sacrifice themself in arctic cold to heat with their body heat lost person in snow which they found before rescue team. Rats dont guar owner grave for 5 years. Rats don’t give their live to save human family member from atteck or go against their nature instincts and protect cattle.And rats don’t conciser us astheir family/herdso yes it better to sacrifice for cience rats than someone who accept human to their own herb and tread him as family member.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105784",
"author": "inginear",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:24:54",
"content": "what is with all the hate people? this is cool science stuff that paved the way for the lives we live today. all the people comparing hack a day to 4chan obviously clicked a link to hack a day by accident hoping to see a severed dog’s head. if the dog’s head is actually severed the video conveniently does not show how the tubes and machine are connected to the dog’s head. and as others have said, the head would not move as much as it did if it was just laying on a table not connected to a body.now if we could shrink the machine down to a backpack size, put it on the backs of deceased manual labor workers, obviously with a micro-controller interfaced to the brain for control, we could have cheaper labor than we have now but with a whole lot better quality of work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105786",
"author": "vic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:38:12",
"content": "So you’re saying intelligence is a good criteria to judge one’s right to live. Interesting.You got me on cattle-herding rats though. I could not find a single example.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105789",
"author": "AnthonyDi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T02:51:44",
"content": "HAHA they hacked the dog",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105800",
"author": "sad_panda",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T03:49:34",
"content": "This makes me sad. They could have used something less friendly like a freaking bear or a goat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105802",
"author": "XMaster1",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T03:57:32",
"content": "The thing is like life support, that can keep you “breathing” and your heart pumping. It is kinda odd that the dog was not yelping out in pain when its head was there though? Wonder if the brain was “alive” at that point.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105806",
"author": "TheFish",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T04:36:44",
"content": "XMaster1, the dogs head cannot make a sound, no lungs!!! and yes this is cruel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105809",
"author": "TheFish",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T04:42:14",
"content": "forgot to add, yes this is cruel but it has helped medical science, and this is kinda like running an engine out side of a car, or running a cpu across the table from your motherboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105811",
"author": "anonymous coward",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T04:54:29",
"content": "7:16 Underneath the pump. that looks like an arduino, ergo real hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.819816
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/04/stereoscopic-3d-with-a-pic-micro/
|
Stereoscopic 3d With A PIC Micro
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Portable Video Hacks"
] |
[
"3d",
"stereoscopic"
] |
[Pyrofer] sent in his
stereoscopic game project
and we are just giddy with excitement. He has hacked apart an old TomyTronic 3D handheld viewer and put new guts in. He’s using a PIC micro to push stereoscopic imagery to twin LCDs. He wrote all code from scratch including the 3d library, wii nunchuck driver, and LCD driver. This thing even has bluetooth so he can play multiplayer if he ever makes a second one. The whole unit is kept alive via a lithium polymer battery so you don’t have to worry about any cords other than the wii nunchuck. This thing is awesome, we would love to play with one. You can see a video after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UA4bnOLKw]
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| 13
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105618",
"author": "John harrison",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T17:13:04",
"content": "Looks like he has given up on the twin LCD screens and now just has one screen that works for both eyes. Somebody should come up with a view master hack that you can stick an iPhone in…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105627",
"author": "bob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T18:06:58",
"content": "@John harrisonWould certainly save on the battery.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105637",
"author": "EFH",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T19:10:17",
"content": "Sweet hack, and nice build.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105650",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T20:25:52",
"content": "I remember having this game when I was 8. I screwed it apart and couldn’t get it back together… now 20 years later I wish I still had the parts.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105725",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:30:26",
"content": "interesting idea",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105741",
"author": "Haku",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T23:55:59",
"content": "Looks like the craft from Elite.That would be so cool, to be able to play Elite on a re-purposed Tomytronic 3D :)You could throw an accelerometer into the mix so you have to tilt your head to steer the ship, like the Radica Stealth game which you hold like a Tomytronic 3D and has a rudimentary gyroscope like sensor for flight control but only one screen instead of two.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105748",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T00:29:57",
"content": "“My eyes…”neat. so much cleaner than some of the other goggle hacks we’ve seen lately.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105760",
"author": "Zeno Arrow",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T01:11:51",
"content": "@HakuI like that idea a lot. : )",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105793",
"author": "Roman Dulgarov",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T03:18:01",
"content": "I did something similar with a PSP. My biggest issue was getting the focus right to where it wouldnt give you headaches. The screen simply too small for this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105854",
"author": "George Stone",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T11:19:08",
"content": "Not a hack. He didn’t make the LCD screen himself.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105912",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T18:14:04",
"content": "I took a walk across a pretty large toy store and I could find no View-Master-alikes and the personnel only shrugged when I asked them. This is funny, one’d think that they are not more obsolete today than they were 20 years ago when they were omnipresent.On a side note: wouldn’t stereoscopic resolution be severely limited by low resolution of regular LCD displays? Youtube has some stereo clips and when I zoom them out to the resolution of a typical Nokia-phone screen, differences between left and right eye seem to scale away to sub-pixel range.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105947",
"author": "amos1969",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T20:32:37",
"content": "@John HarrisonDo you mean something like this for Android based phones:http://phandroid.com/2009/10/27/android-virtual-reality-goggles-how-to-video/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "110878",
"author": "Sikiş",
"timestamp": "2009-12-08T20:15:26",
"content": "n’t stereoscopic resolution be severely limited by low resolution of regular LCD displays? Youtube has some stereo clips and when I zoom them out to the resolution of a typical Nokia-ph",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.299472
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/01/well-take-the-fries/
|
We’ll Take The Fries.
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"handhelds hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] |
[
"ATtiny24",
"choices",
"noise diode",
"paradox",
"random number"
] |
We’ve all been there; hardest decision we’ve ever had to make. College and debt or freedom but no career? Start a family or live out alone? The number 2 with a small shake or side of fries?!
[Leon] sent in his
random number generator
, oddly enough not to just generate a number, but help us through with those life altering decisions. Using a
noise diode
like setup he’s able to generate random bits, which an ATtiny24 then converts and displays on a 7 segment LED. His generator also has the ability to set upper and lower limits. Seems like an awful lot of work to avoid the freedom of choice
paradox
, but we enjoyed the project none the less. Check out a video after the break.
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrfKvZFOuk&feature=player_embedded%5D
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| 32
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{
"comment_id": "105123",
"author": "Magnavoid",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T23:14:22",
"content": "Interesting… Very Interesting.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105124",
"author": "protozo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T23:15:03",
"content": "ah finally the oddity i have been looking for =P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105129",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T23:38:45",
"content": "Bah, got my hopes up with the intro, was hoping there was finally a hack for that college/no career bs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105130",
"author": "smilr",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T00:00:06",
"content": "I’m actually more intrigued by the form factor than the circuit itself. (both are cool imo)I haven’t run across any hacks utilizing custom keyfobs before. I looked over his part list and see the fob is a part available from digikey. I hadn’t realized they carried such things :)Now I’ve got ideas running through my head for home / car automation ran from these sort of things.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105133",
"author": "Tuckie",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T00:24:19",
"content": "It reminds me of the book, The Traveler (some characters used a random number generator to keep decisions truly random)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105136",
"author": "Zake",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T00:52:09",
"content": "coin toss v2.0 :Pgreat!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105138",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T01:09:52",
"content": "And for those who just cant make a decision on there own there’s this complex device.Or you could just carry around a coin/dice or my favorite the Magic 8 Ball = )",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105139",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T01:16:08",
"content": "it’s good to see some proper randomness in a small project :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105141",
"author": "Leon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T01:30:39",
"content": "@smilrI was surprised to find how many different key fobs are easily available — just google “key fob enclosure”. Some, manufactures will even sell any quantity directly (polycase) or give you some samples. That Serpac case fit my requirements (2 buttons, room for a display, location of buttons, overall size), but it might not fit yours, so look around to find a best match (or just make a random choice…)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105146",
"author": "Franklyn",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T02:13:41",
"content": "Instead of trying to force a digital bit and then forming the number in software wouldn’t it be just easier to use and ADC and read out the voltage ?.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105148",
"author": "Leon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T03:05:56",
"content": "@FranklynI looked in to it but decided that wasn’t the way to go. I’d probably need the op-amp for amplification anyway — the signal right out of the transistor is only a couple mV, and the maximum resolution of the 10 bit ADC would be 3/2^10~=3mV (assuming that the ADC is really that good).Since the op-amp chip had two op-amps on it, using the second one to make the signal digital seemed like the way to go.Moreover, even if I did use the ADC directly, I’d still need to do work in software to take in the one or two useful bits per reading, debias them, make sure the number is in the right range, etc.If there’s a version two, I may well look in to a controller with a better ADC for this purpose, since getting rid of the op-amp would keep the part count down (although I seem to recall that AVRs with 10 bit ADCs were my only options due to size constraints… although I might be misremembering.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105149",
"author": "Franklyn",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T03:30:22",
"content": "Thanks for clearing that up. I actually found the design quite interesting it’s definitely not something i’d think up on my own. Thanks for posting the writeup.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105154",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T04:58:21",
"content": "Nice little project, well written up. The bound setting is a nice embelshment. Hat tip to Leon {and thanks for the Pad2Pad link}.I’ve actually done a fair bit with practical randomisation problems, so if anyone is inspired by this hack, a few protips;* A pseudo-random number (PRN) generator, such as the CRC16 polynomial, either based in hard or software, isn’t *actually* random. It’s simply a count in an odd order, but *repeating*, and the first and second half of the count are mirror-images offset by one.For most applications a PRN is quite random enough, but in some applications a basic rule asserts itself, a digital computer cannot *alone* produce a truly random (“Stochastic”) number (i.e. where the next state cannot be determined from the current state).{Windoze is an exception}In fact it is exactly this predictability in PRN generators that is exploited in Spread Spectrum radio techniques to get the receiver PRN to slide into lock with the transmitter PRN.* A flicked coin toss is not truly random unless the coin is flicked strongly enough to make it rise at least a foot (30cm), it *rings* {and you quickly get a sore thumb}.* A simple but very effective way of generating a truly random number is to put a human in the loop. We ended up running an overflowing s/w counter flat out while waiting for button presses, rediscovering the old Apple-II trick. You could build a simple decision-maker just using a 4060 running fast, but here the microcontroller is justified by the hex range, and ease of bound setting {I really like the human>pot>micro}.* Multiplying random numbers together does not make them more random.It’s a very inviting idea that if you have a random number routine, the more often you call it, the more random it will be. Sounds logical.But it isn’t so.a) If you are using a PRN and you call it repeatedly it becomes *LESS* random, rather like the moiré effect with “watered silk”, due to self-correlation. (One odd outcome of this was a routine that never once produced the two of clubs over 30,000 deals)b) With stochastic noise sources (mostly analogue) multiple readings make no difference at all, the first reading of the noise diode voltage is as random as any other.A variation of (a) is to get a random number, then get random numbers that number of times (rand x rand), grabbing the last. As above.But In Real Life tossing a coin, rattling dice, or shuffling cards, it is surprising how much tossing, rattling, or shuffling is required to *actually* (not just apparently) randomise the process. {Solitaire on W95 plays quite differently to a real deck and I am very sus of their dealing routine}HTHH :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105158",
"author": "luigi517",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T06:20:46",
"content": "awe, I was hoping this hack actually involved french fries. :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105161",
"author": "Kit",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T06:32:44",
"content": "We should all make one to evade our Tabula Rasa overloads through unpredictable action.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105171",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T08:24:15",
"content": "This would be great for Mr. Monk :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105172",
"author": "jimmys",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T08:25:00",
"content": "leon-You mentioned that you moved away from the PIC line because there was no free C compiler for linux and OSX. The PIC16F support looks recent but you may be interested in SDCC – sdcc.sourceforge.net .",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105175",
"author": "lexi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T09:23:21",
"content": "Or you could study in a country where a degree doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg. I payed $10k for four years of full time studies :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105179",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T09:58:25",
"content": "I got a scholarship for all my studies :)Didn’t pay a cent and now I’m debt free.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105181",
"author": "Taehl",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T10:39:10",
"content": "Aha! This is just the thing for me! Up until now, I had always used the clock trick for making random decisions (and wear an analogue watch just for this reason).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105183",
"author": "babble",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T10:52:11",
"content": "I just masturbate all day, it saves needing to make decisions, nor do I need to fool myself into thinking I am being random.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105187",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T13:12:53",
"content": "Lol, keychain random number generator is random.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105192",
"author": "Louis II",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T14:33:30",
"content": "…I swear this intro was used an an article just a week and a half a go… maybe 2.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105193",
"author": "DeathsPal",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T14:41:43",
"content": "I can see it now. 2 D&D geeks are standing on a sidewalk some ware, one says something worthy of being flogged, the other reaches into his pocked dials up a key-chain to 6 (representing d6x1) and says “Roll you charisma!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105202",
"author": "Leon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T17:06:04",
"content": "@jimmysThat’s good to know. I made the PIC/AVR decision some time ago. I seem to recall the PIC compiler existed, but was at an early stage.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105216",
"author": "Killerabbit",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T18:50:07",
"content": "@lexiYou spent $10k and didn’t even learn how to spell “paid?”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105271",
"author": "Jikki",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T00:17:49",
"content": "@ KillerabbitPerhaps it’s not an english speaking country lexi’s talking about. And what does it matter anyway?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105296",
"author": "GenesisOfMoY",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T03:19:53",
"content": "fjdkalfjdklajfdafljLazy? Funny? or just Random, heh heh",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105335",
"author": "Jonas",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T14:27:23",
"content": "Useful for new age dice living :)If you havent read it read “The dice man” from 1971 by Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft) it’s awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105346",
"author": "mic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T17:26:30",
"content": "Looks well done but not all that useful. A portable stick on combo lock cracker… leave it there see what happens.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105926",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:27:44",
"content": "People complain they need to pay for studying but meanwhile once they have a degree they are assured a high income forever basically, get over yourself eh, you can only complain if you were actually prevented by the cost, not if you could make it but just don’t like to pay.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106208",
"author": "Tod",
"timestamp": "2009-11-07T05:37:23",
"content": "Now the hard question… Do I use the generator or not? Got a hack for that?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,553.978303
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/01/easy-dial-telephone/
|
Easy Dial Telephone
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"home hacks"
] |
[
"auto-dial",
"dtmf",
"dual tone multiple frequency",
"telephone"
] |
[Taufeeq’s] Grandmother needed to be able to call her family members but due to ailing eyesight and memory this was a difficult task. He decided to help her with this by building
a telephone that will auto-dial a number
at the push of a button. [Taufeeq] built a case to hang on the wall which houses a hook for the receiver and two auto-dial buttons. The buttons are lighted and loosely based on the
LED push buttons
we covered in January. Housed in a separate box are a microcontroller and a dual tone multiple frequency IC used to dial the numbers. These are patched into a PCB from a standard telephone.
The result looks great and makes using the phone much easier with the simplified controls. We’ve included the demonstration video after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZm_H9hE4Zc]
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{
"comment_id": "105093",
"author": "Will",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:36:46",
"content": "That’s awesome – interesting, neat, practical, helping-of-grandmas… Any one of those would make it cool, but it has it all!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105095",
"author": "Gardenee",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:37:43",
"content": "This was just the thing I needed! :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105094",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:37:53",
"content": "Nice, until she needs to dial 911.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105096",
"author": "Taufeeq Elahi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:48:21",
"content": "Thanks everyone for all the warm comments. I will try getting a better video of my phone.@bob : We can always have more buttons on the phone to include emergency calls. I did not want to put more buttons on the console. That would require her to remember which button dials whos number. (something she is not good at at her age)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105097",
"author": "VV",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:55:28",
"content": "Would be great if you could build this in, and still have the normal keypad. That way you could use it as a standard phone, but with an addded “speed dial like” extention",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105099",
"author": "Raver1975",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:18:20",
"content": "Wouldn’t buying a cheapo phone with programmable auto dial buttons have been a better use of your time?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105100",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:33:23",
"content": "only 2 numbers, how sad",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105103",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:41:32",
"content": "@BobAppropriate technologies for other countries often don’t fit in with most technocentric people’s idea of the way things should work. For 911 to be a problem, you need a functioning 911 type service. Which if it’s available is just another lighted button set up so it won’t get accidentally pushed",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105104",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:43:02",
"content": "Raver1975, you are obviously on the wrong website.Taufeeq Elahi, a red button for 911 on the side or out of the way might work, although children might press it trying to contact batman.Just a thought, since the phone only need to “hear” the tones, might the circuits from those birthday cards that record greeting work? They could easily be embedded into the handset and wired to the mic. Would be especially good for a wireless handset.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105105",
"author": "IceBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:46:50",
"content": "@Taufeeq Elahi:Nic work!@Raver1975:If you had read Taufeeq Elahi’s post before posting, you’d have read that he didn’t want a phone with more buttons, which would get confusing.And that “better use of your time” it’s getting tiresome. When a non-hack is posted, morons come screaming OMG NOT A HACK, when a real hack does get posted, we get the USELESS HACK idiots.Wouldn’t doing something else than posting here be a better use of your time? Sheesh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105111",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T21:13:57",
"content": "Why not make bigger buttons and put a picture of the person she wants to call on it? Or is her eyesight so bad that the buttons would need to be so ginormous that she’d need help pressing them? :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105116",
"author": "Jon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T22:09:27",
"content": "Most autodial phones these days don’t have the one button/one press to dial a number. Older phones had 10+ buttons where a single press dialed a given number, but most phones today have a more complicated arrangement, like press a button to get to autodial, then press one of the regular number keys to select which number. For the cognitively impaired, this can be a difficult task.When my dad started having problems dialing the phone, we were fortunate to find a bunch of phones at a surplus place that had about 20 autodial buttons. Pick up the phone and press one. Exactly what he needed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105119",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T22:11:54",
"content": "It’d be nice to see more stuff done with POTS. Since SS7 took over it’s pretty much just a network everyone ignores outside typical subscriber use and a occasional scan.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105126",
"author": "also a bob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T23:21:30",
"content": "helping grandma is always time well spent. good show.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105140",
"author": "vonskippy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T01:18:37",
"content": "So gran’s not a big pizza lover eh?Mine would definitely need the 3rd button for Deangleo’s takeout.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105144",
"author": "FW",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T01:56:11",
"content": "Poor gramma – having to dial numbers in binary… :(Seriously, nice idea. This would work out well for my older relatives and I might just go down the same road. Nice work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105153",
"author": "JanousKhan",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T04:50:16",
"content": "Nice, any chance of making it auto dial a default number after a short time. would be nice to have the phone dial a number if the phone is taken off the hook for say 1 min.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105159",
"author": "Benny M",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T06:28:27",
"content": "I think that would be illegal. Aren’t there laws in most western countries saying that hardware that hasn’t been checked and authorised by a Telecommunications authority?Nonetheless, very well done!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105162",
"author": "Zendu",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T06:50:16",
"content": "It seems a pretty large oversight to not put an emergency button on the base. Also, why not label the buttons, even a sharpie would be better than it is now…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105166",
"author": "Taufeeq Elahi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T07:37:13",
"content": "@IceBrain :Thanks, and yours was an interesting post :) “USELESS HACK” ha ha.@sneakpoo :No, she cant see a picture of the person she wants to call. But lighted button is easy to find a press.@Jon :Wow, good luck for your dad. He was lucky to find a phone that fitted his needs.I had to build one to fulfil the requirement.@vonskippy :ha ha, no she does not eat pizza!@FW :Do keep me posted on my email if you ever make one for your old relatives.Enhance the idea, it will be my pleasure.@JanousKhan :Yes such a function can be implemented.@Benny M :Yes, sure there are rules. But this device is a piggy back on a regular telephone. In this case, I am not tampering with the POTS in any way. Its just that a microcontroller is dialing a number instead of your fingers. Things like stealing electricity from telephone line is unlawful.@Zendu :As i repeatedly said, she cant see properly. Not to speak of reading lables. Her eyes have been operated a few times and currently undergoing laser treatment. So the best thing is to have a big receiver that is easily locatable, and buttons that emit light, so she can see the yellow spot on the wall that she has to press. its a purpose built phone, and had the exact thing that was needed in the given situation. Putting an emergency button or a pizza button, or a big button wont do any good to it :) You might put a huge button for a parkensons patient, it depends on the need.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105170",
"author": "arrangemonk",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T08:15:41",
"content": "yeah, touchscreen and 2 buttons, she has to press the left or right button until she recognizes the dude she wants to call",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105173",
"author": "Random667",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T08:56:28",
"content": "Just buy your grandmother a jitterbug you cheap ass!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105185",
"author": "je5us",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T11:55:49",
"content": "although, labels for the buttons wouldn’t be a bad idea, she just might have visitors over who can read and need to ring someone",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105191",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T14:27:07",
"content": "man, everyone’s a critic! I second the 1st post. good job!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105200",
"author": "Doom2099",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T16:37:02",
"content": "great hack.reminds me of a important government phone.“Yes, Mr. President we received the launch codes.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105207",
"author": "superlopez",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T17:55:44",
"content": "“Balloons will be in readily accessible locations, visible from nearby roadways and accompanied by DARPA representatives”1 calculate max line of sight to a red ballon of all US road from air for (something like FL100)2 sign on facebook to request help from private pilots , coordinate search areas3 …4 profit!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105310",
"author": "Taufeeq Elahi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T05:46:37",
"content": "@Random667 :Everyone here who produces hacks and backward experiments must be an ass for you. You are logged on to the wrong website if you want to buy something from market and use it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105406",
"author": "miguel",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T21:34:58",
"content": "um isnt this called speed dial?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108177",
"author": "mbear",
"timestamp": "2009-11-20T16:41:20",
"content": "“@sneakpoo :No, she cant see a picture of the person she wants to call. But lighted button is easy to find a press.”“@Zendu :As i repeatedly said, she can’t see properly. Not to speak of reading lables. Her eyes have been operated a few times and currently undergoing laser treatment. So the best thing is to have a big receiver that is easily locatable, and buttons that emit light, so she can see the yellow spot on the wall that she has to press. ”Taufeeq, I can already see your next Grandma Gift: Updating the phone so that next to it is a backlit photograph collage of her family members and their “new” phone numbers. (Which in this case is probably just a big red arrow pointing to the correct button! ;) )",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "282946",
"author": "Jullicer E. Dico",
"timestamp": "2010-12-12T14:03:13",
"content": "this was nice!can you give me a circuit of with both a auto-dial and push to dial please i badly needed it for my project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.220803
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/01/android-ported-to-meizu-m8/
|
Android Ported To Meizu M8
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks"
] |
[
"android",
"Meizu M8",
"Windows CE"
] |
[Evow04] has been working hard to
run Android on a Meizu M8 smartphone
and we’re beginning to enjoy the fruits of his labor. The
Meizu M8
is a Chinese cell phone very similar in appearance and hardware to the iPhone. The factory firmware runs Windows CE 6 but there is no official support for Android. It looks like [Evow04’s]
upgrade method is fairly easy
; copy an IMG and BIN file to the root of the phone, backup the Windows CE portion, and then use the upgrade mode to flash the two files.
We’re pretty impressed with Android, especially the potential that it represents. Having another device that runs the OS is a good thing but at $350-$400 this isn’t any cheaper than just buying an Android phone.
| 8
| 8
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105075",
"author": "Terc",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:36:20",
"content": "Very nice. I love the idea of Android on iPhone hardware, and this is pretty close.Not sure I’d give up my iPhone 3GS anytime soon, but if Android on the same hardware was an option that “anytime soon” might come a little earlier.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105081",
"author": "thethirdmoose",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T18:27:36",
"content": "This is pretty cool. You don’t need a contract, it has a big screen and it has a lot of flash memory. I think it has potential as a high end Android PMP, like the Archos 5 PIDs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105084",
"author": "L0rdDrag0n",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T18:49:15",
"content": "Now if we could just get a Android ported to the Iphone and Ipod Touch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105088",
"author": "aw",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:05:15",
"content": "I wish there was more development for pocket pc devices. I know there was a few who tried porting it for the X50v/x51v but it seems like all the development has stopped.They aren’t phones but are often less than $100. The ipod touch does pretty well, same OS as iphone without the phone feature so… android might be fun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105120",
"author": "nikomo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T22:28:13",
"content": "No 3G, wifi drivers not working, GSM module not working, about the same price as other Android phones.. I’d do it if I had one, but nah. I wish the phone would be like 100€, I’d do this then, I could live with an EDGE connection.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105145",
"author": "CalcProgrammer1",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T02:01:25",
"content": "@awSeconded, I have an Axim X50v and it is a great device. I don’t need phone capability on a portable device, I need features like media (audio and video) playback, basic emulators/games, Internet browsing, file transfer via WiFi, etc. Android would be nice on the X50v as an alternative to Windows Mobile.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105147",
"author": "Hiroe",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T02:14:54",
"content": "it would be nice if some enterprising hacker would do it on the cheapest windows mobile phone around (I’m looking a you)http://www.dealextreme.com/advsearch.dx/search.windows/searchType.s/adv/PriceMin.p/0/PriceMax.p/9999/InStockOnly.s/0/IsReviewedOnly.s/0/PrimaryCategoryID.c/599/ReleaseDateRange.t/0",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105178",
"author": "luminarious",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T09:51:23",
"content": "Here in Estonia for example Android phones are definitely not cheap (HTC Tattoo being the cheapest at 6000.- EEK == ~550$) as all phones are sold unlocked. So I for one welcome a cheaper alternative, even if I have to wait a bit for the drivers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.270296
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/11/01/happy-birthday-internet-heres-40000/
|
Happy Birthday Internet, Here’s $40,000
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"Misc Hacks",
"News"
] |
[
"balloon",
"challange",
"darpa",
"internet",
"social networking"
] |
Darpa has
another contest
coming up. You may remember some past Darpa competitions, like the
2007 Urban Challenge
. Where hackers, engineers, and scientists alike came together to build autonomous vehicles. The game this year is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Internet.
The rules
are simple enough, find a bunch of red balloons and mark their latitude and longitude. The hard part? There is only 10 balloons – spread across America. It will take an extreme amount of social network engineering, but it all pays off with first place receiving $40,000.
| 45
| 45
|
[
{
"comment_id": "105057",
"author": "jamieriddles",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:21:16",
"content": "Google Earth?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105058",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:25:26",
"content": "First person to destroy one gets an award (or arrested)Has each one got security? Or is that part of the challenge, find where they were before they got destroyed. :pHow long are they going to be around for?Annoyingly I’m not in America but sounds fun.Go on Sparkfun!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105059",
"author": "Jerome",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:25:48",
"content": "get 40,000 people to help, they all get 1$I would be curious to see if you could spot a floating objet in google earth.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105060",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:26:45",
"content": "“Google Earth?”Only updated about every 4 years or something (coming on 5 where I live).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105061",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:27:44",
"content": "“I would be curious to see if you could spot a floating objet in google earth.”Presumably tied down or the organisers would not know where they were either.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105063",
"author": "thethirdmoose",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:49:31",
"content": "They are only going to have them visible for 1 day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105065",
"author": "Strangeknight",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:55:43",
"content": "It’s the first ten locations of ARPANET. If you look on Wikipedia at the history of the internet, the ARPANET was established as a 4 node network on December 5th 1969, and the map of the TCP/IP test network of January 1982 shows 10 nodes connected to the ARPANET. Check it out and tell me if I’m wrong…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105066",
"author": "RazorConcepts",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T16:01:07",
"content": "Picture^^http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/188/18897.jpg",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105067",
"author": "grammar nazi",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T16:35:54",
"content": "“There is only 10 balloons” Surely that should read “There ARE only 10 balloons”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105069",
"author": "jdog",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T16:52:23",
"content": "agree with grammar nazi….”there is only 10 balloons” is worthy of Wired….not hackaday",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105073",
"author": "Tim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:24:36",
"content": "I was thinking of registering i have lots of facebook friends and i think they would help… cant wait till the 5th",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105074",
"author": "Laser Pup",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:31:53",
"content": "“There is only 10 balloons”?There ARE only 10 balloons.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105078",
"author": "hibby",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:51:25",
"content": "“First person to destroy one gets an award (or arrested)”Better than that, set up another 89 at various other locations.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105082",
"author": "277480",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T18:29:47",
"content": "Actually, ROTSKY, “IS” is also acceptable if speaking of the ballons as one subject as opposed to ten seperate things.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105083",
"author": "Andar_b",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T18:47:22",
"content": "Then it would be a “group of 10 balloons” or a “total of ten balloons”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105086",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T18:56:16",
"content": "“It’s the first ten locations of ARPANET. If you look on Wikipedia at the history of the internet, the ARPANET was established as a 4 node network on December 5th 1969, and the map of the TCP/IP test network of January 1982 shows 10 nodes connected to the ARPANET. Check it out and tell me if I’m wrong…”Sounds good, we’ll just have to wait and see. When is it anyway? Today?“Better than that, set up another 89 at various other locations.”Brilliant idea!Who lives in america?Who knows where to buy big red balloons?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105087",
"author": "DrRob5880",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T18:59:52",
"content": "This is awesome. I could see this being turned into a movie where the character hacks satellites way to easily with a simple GUI and wins in like 15 minutes.All while impressing a girl, or saving a puppy, or helping the elderly.oh and 277480, let’s not get into a semantics war. It was posting grammatically incorrect, and has thusly been ripped for it. BTW the term you are looking for is collective noun. Which in this instance, it is not.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105089",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:08:42",
"content": "I will give anyone $1,500 dollars if YOU give me coordinates to ONE of the 10 balloons and I WIN the competition. Your balloon coords must not have all ready been submitted by someone else.willna@rocketmail.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105090",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:10:32",
"content": "“I will give anyone $1,500 dollars if YOU give me coordinates to ONE of the 10 balloons and I WIN the competition. Your balloon coords must not have all ready been submitted by someone else.willna@rocketmail.com”That’s hardly fair, you should give them $4000 or more if it’s one that’s hard to findMowcius",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105098",
"author": "wolfy02",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T19:56:41",
"content": "i found one! its at the top of Mount St Helens! Now one of you go destroy it, I didn’t bring my balloon poker.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105101",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:40:45",
"content": "celebrate the internet… post 10,000 fake red balloons.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105106",
"author": "Xiver",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:57:54",
"content": "I’m gonna buy about 200 of these and set them lose.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105109",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T21:07:08",
"content": "“celebrate the internet… post 10,000 fake red balloons.”We’ve got until december 5th to find a supplier of a couple of hundred large red weather balloonsCome on eveyone, have a bit of fun. Should make it more challenging anyway.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105110",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T21:12:24",
"content": "http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=weather+balloon+red&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&LH_BIN=1&LH_IncludeSIF=1&_odkw=weather+balloon&_osacat=0Ebay, the source for sabotageMowcius",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105168",
"author": "Finde",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T08:08:14",
"content": "Surely there should be 99 of them?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105169",
"author": "F7",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T08:10:03",
"content": "I found them! They were all at local car dealerships. Weird, eh?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105194",
"author": "wolfy02",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T15:10:05",
"content": "“Ebay, the source for sabotage”HAHA! nice, never thought of it like that till now. Ebay, for all your black market needs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105204",
"author": "8",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T17:16:22",
"content": "i saw one of these!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105218",
"author": "hyoomen",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T18:51:24",
"content": "I agree with and highly encourage the posting of fake weather balloons. Create an underground site where we can track fake balloons and we extend the likelihood of faking the real ones by ourselves as the noise:signal ratio increases.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105225",
"author": "tyco",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T19:36:47",
"content": "“get 40,000 people to help, they all get 1$”Actually, they’d each get only 55 cents, after the prize is taxed at the maximum tax rate of 45%.Assuming the money will probably be distributed by paypal, reduce that 55 cents by the transaction fee of 35 cents and every participant gets two shiny new dimes. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105279",
"author": "Michichael",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T01:29:13",
"content": "Better yet – find one, replace it with like a blue one or something. >:P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105339",
"author": "joe57005",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T16:14:37",
"content": "I’m rather disappointed everyone’s talking about sabotage, rather than actually how to win.My idea for finding them would be a few carefully crafted google image searches of facebook and twitter for all posts with the words red baloon between when the baloons are put up and taken down, then search the text matches for any locations or landmarks, then using md5 and simple image recognition, remove all duplicate images. Of course, this is well beyond my skill set. I might try anyway using a bash script. (maybe wget and grep will be enough)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105344",
"author": "MyYz400",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T16:54:22",
"content": "“then using md5 and simple image recognition, remove all duplicate images.”Yes how-ever you will possibly have hundreds of images taken from different camera of the same balloon. It would be hard for a computer to know that 100 different images are the same balloon or not. It would only eliminate copies of the same image. Reducing your count by half or so. Still very hard to do. How-ever a keyword search on places like MS, FB, Twitter, etc. might yield better results.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105349",
"author": "clide",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T17:48:40",
"content": "What I would do if I was any good a programming is create an an Android application that lets users take a picture of the balloon and the DARPA representative (to help weed out fakes) and record the GPS location. Then just offer up $2000 to the first 10 people to submit correct locations if I win the competition. Also having an iPhone app would be even better, but I don’t know if there is enough time to get it approved.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105953",
"author": "john",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T21:16:45",
"content": "Some friends and I put together a site to crowd source in the locations and split the winnings. Check it out at darpaballoonhunt.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106319",
"author": "RandomJay",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T07:56:42",
"content": "To what ends would someone go for 40gs? What is DARPA’s goal?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106327",
"author": "SlyWax",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T10:53:08",
"content": "Cutting off the noise from the signal will be the issue there.So the one who make noise and know it will be the winner.If you want to make money, may be you should not try to find the 10 balloon, but sell the location of one to a TV or some media independently of them winning the price, if the story get enough attention they might be interested in being the first media to reveal the location.But with that money involved i predict a DOS attack on the DARPA website or at least hack attempts. Maybe the DARPA website will resist, but what about the competing websites?Well maybe that will turn in a Internet security test after all!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "109883",
"author": "Ramon",
"timestamp": "2009-12-02T01:23:22",
"content": "To what ends would someone go for 40gs? What is DARPA’s goal?Exactly. Why would the Defense Department want to know how quickly a group of Americans could organize themselves to identify and locate a similar event happening in different places around the country? Why would anyone want to help them? All power to the ebay baloon buyers! Unless they’re really trying to see how fast they can dive up the price of an obscure commodity on ebay. Or maybe they want to see how many people will intentionally sabotage a Defense Department project, if only given the chance. Or maybe..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "109907",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-12-02T05:01:37",
"content": "Google Earth is not real time, folks. It depends on satellite imagery and is typically months behind real time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "109915",
"author": "Chris Hanson",
"timestamp": "2009-12-02T06:48:44",
"content": "I’ve established a team of my own, called Team DeciNena. We will win because we have the wittiest name. ;)And we are “cupcake-free”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "110291",
"author": "MIT",
"timestamp": "2009-12-04T03:29:07",
"content": "Join the MIT team, invite your friends and you can win money, helpscience, and help charity!Find all the information about our approach athttp://balloon.media.mit.edu/THANK YOU AND… GOOD LUCK!The MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "110529",
"author": "Lou",
"timestamp": "2009-12-05T14:12:42",
"content": "Instead of trusting that a team will actually pull through for you, why not win the prize for yourself:http://www.openredballoon.com– the site is completely transparent and shows all balloon locations. The catch? You have to pick the winning combination of balloons!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "122290",
"author": "Tracy Mulcahy",
"timestamp": "2010-02-06T10:38:57",
"content": "Hi there, I came across your blog page using Google while trying to find Weather Balloons and your post caught my attention .",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "122300",
"author": "Cheats",
"timestamp": "2010-02-06T12:40:35",
"content": "Google Earth is not real time, folks. It depends on satellite imagery and is typically months behind real time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "122301",
"author": "ligtvizle",
"timestamp": "2010-02-06T12:42:02",
"content": "To what ends would someone go for 40gs? What is DARPA’s goal?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.351464
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/31/another-mini-keepon/
|
Another Mini KeepOn?
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"keepon",
"robot"
] |
[flickr video = 4060182274]
[Eustice Scrubb] has
posted some videos and pictures
of a robotic “eye stalk” that he’s building. It looks like the final version is using 3 servos in an arrangement like tendons through a slinky jr. The ping-pong ball on the top has a BlinkM inside it. You can see a video after the break that shows the three servo tendons in motion. The whole thing is controlled by an Arduino and one of his pictures states that it plays mp3s and has an internal pendulum. None of his pictures seem to implicitly state what it is meant to do though.
[flickr video = 4045132205]
| 21
| 21
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104970",
"author": "f.r0ze.n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:14:25",
"content": "what’s that awesome keyboard behind?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104971",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:17:03",
"content": "I’m scared to know the true intentions of said device o_o",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104972",
"author": "dnyv",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:19:24",
"content": "looks like something you sit on lmao",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104975",
"author": "MakesLoveToArduinos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:27:35",
"content": "All I can think of is Mr. Garrison’s “IT” vehicle from South Park…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104978",
"author": "allyourbasekris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T18:01:52",
"content": "Probably a Halloween prop, paint an eyeball on it and cover it in a rubber sleeve and it’ll look spooky.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104981",
"author": "mickalob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:09:49",
"content": "lame",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104988",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:54:25",
"content": "would be better with an arduino.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104990",
"author": "Alexander",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T20:15:45",
"content": "Bobob, it does include an arduino. Look at the second video!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104993",
"author": "Zymastorik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T21:00:23",
"content": "sigh",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104996",
"author": "m1Ke",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T21:25:33",
"content": "Looks like something the porn industry would use…LoooL @ MakesLoveToArduinosAll I can think of is Mr. Garrison’s “IT” vehicle from South Park:P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105019",
"author": "Spork",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:33:34",
"content": "@bobobWhether or not that was meant to be comical, I laughed.*sigh*… another day another arduino post.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105023",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T02:47:00",
"content": "holy shit,you’re kidding me….an ARDUINO POWERED DILDO….i know you guys at hack a day have to get a certain number of arduino posts in every month,but isn’t this taking it a little far????",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105024",
"author": "RazorConcepts",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T03:32:20",
"content": "But then why is there a blinkm at the tip?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105025",
"author": "riazap",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T03:38:40",
"content": "@bobob and othersFuck you and GTFO. Ever think that maybe lots of people use arduinos because they’re a good hacking platform and it opens lots of doors to people who otherwise wouldn’t hack?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105028",
"author": "EvilNCarnate",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T03:49:47",
"content": "@riazapEver think that people make the sideways comments about the Arduino just as a jest. Might need to check your sarcasm meter, I think its malfunctioning. Or if its broken just build one, I heard you can make a great one with an Arduino.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105035",
"author": "Ian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T04:46:27",
"content": "@EvilNCarnateWell played sir. You receive 1 internet cookie for your deed. :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105039",
"author": "Jonas",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T05:59:22",
"content": "Am I the only one who thinks this looks like an elaborate (in all it’s glory) yet quite inadequate sextoy?… :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105040",
"author": "KitPaws",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T06:02:57",
"content": "It looks like it’ll be a dancing little robot thing. Hence the ability to play mp3s.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105041",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T06:04:42",
"content": "@EvilNCarnatewow-your commenting kung-fu is strong sir. well done.@riazapi never meant to insinuate that the arduino is not a great hacking platform,obviously if it can be used to create a robotic dildo,the possibilities are endless. as a matter of act,sometimes i like to rub an arduino on my genitals just for the pure pleasure it gives me. i’m even thinking of starting an arduino porn site,with pictures of arduinos in various sexually suggestive poses.btw,how’s that new meter coming along?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105048",
"author": "mikula",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T10:43:54",
"content": "butt plugg",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105077",
"author": "SOOPERGOOMAN187",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:46:41",
"content": "@ EvilNCarnate You sir made Me laugh really hard. Now that’s netiquette.Looks cool, maybe put a cam in there also? Facial recog.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.405104
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/31/name-that-thing/
|
Name That Thing
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"contests"
] |
[
"name that thing"
] |
[Alan] over at HackedGadgets.com has been doing a
“Name the Thing” contest
where he occasionally posts an image and people try to figure out what it is. We’ve seen similar posts on some other web sites too. We usually don’t post them here because they’re not only not a hack, they’re usually not even projects. This one, however, caught our eye.
We apologize for posting this, without telling you what it is. The simplest explanation is that curiosity is getting the best of us. We were hoping that you guys could help out. What is this thing? Can we have two?
| 55
| 50
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104940",
"author": "yonsje",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:12:19",
"content": "Well it’s certainly an interresting contest this week.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104942",
"author": "f8l_0e",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:21:55",
"content": "First guess, a calculator. Second guess, maybe a frequency counter. Sure does have a lot of nixie tubes though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104943",
"author": "Dan K",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:23:36",
"content": "A good source for nixie tubes?no? Herm, how about a frequency counter?Dan K",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104944",
"author": "ScooterSES",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:25:29",
"content": "Probably a 50’s era calculator.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104945",
"author": "f8l_0e",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:29:56",
"content": "I think my first guess was right. It seems to be a Casio AL-1000 programmable calculator.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104946",
"author": "BIOS",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:30:57",
"content": "Obviously some kind of weighted device for keeping your papers on your desk.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104947",
"author": "localroger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:32:25",
"content": "It’s a programmable calculator, probably ca. 1970 to 1974. My father’s physics lab had one of similar construction made by Olivetti, which was able to run little programs saved on magnetic cards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104948",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:33:29",
"content": "Whatever it is… it’s pretty :p",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104950",
"author": "Rampage",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:37:19",
"content": "A Boat Anchor???",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104951",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:39:24",
"content": "F8l was righthttp://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio_al-1000.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104953",
"author": "localroger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:42:27",
"content": "Ah, looking at the detail photos it could go as early as 1960; that circuit board they isolate is solid-state but doesn’t use IC’s. But it is definitely a programmable calc; that circuit board appears to be a small amount of core memory.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104954",
"author": "localroger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:44:19",
"content": "blizzarddemon wins!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104955",
"author": "ACEdotcom",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:44:19",
"content": "that thing is so freakin sexy",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104956",
"author": "hrpuffnstuff",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:48:33",
"content": "Looks like something the mafia would tie a victim to and drop them into the ocean. Is that whats meant by being green?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104958",
"author": "Michael V",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:04:30",
"content": "It is absolutely a Casio AL-1000 Calculator. I have worked with these extensively.http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio_al-1000.htmlThe above link will direct you to a webpage all about the CASIO AL-1000 programmable calculator, created in 1967.Peace!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104960",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:11:21",
"content": "Too late Michael V, already way ahead of you. : P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104961",
"author": "ktosik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:13:04",
"content": "I think this is a pile of electronic scrap",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104964",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:35:17",
"content": "It’s the tuning controls for a television.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104965",
"author": "josh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:36:13",
"content": "That is the most bad-ass calculator I’ve ever seen! I wonder if they’d let me use it on my Physics test… =D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104968",
"author": "The Steven",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:00:59",
"content": "I’m thinking an electro-mechanical version of an Enygma Device",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104969",
"author": "Dub",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:05:21",
"content": "I think it’s an enigma",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104982",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:13:45",
"content": "1970s era telephone company clock/calendar display.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104984",
"author": "tnt23",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:27:21",
"content": "Looks very much like early Soviet nixie calculators. Check out this Iskra 12 one:http://www.leningrad.su/museum/show_big.php?n=480",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104986",
"author": "Physic.dude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:40:18",
"content": "Yup, it’s a calculator…look herehttp://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/toshbc1411.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104987",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:43:56",
"content": "It doesn’t look much like the enigma machine. (Yes, I’m aware that it’s been identified above)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Scherbius-1928-patent.pngThe same picture is published in “The Codebreakers” by David Kahn which is mostly a history of encryption, but there are enough examples of actual encryption in there to learn from (like how to break some simple monoalphabetic and polyalphabetic ciphers).The book is actually quite old but it’s still being published. It’s a thick tome and absolutely fascinating. I recommend the book because of its value to hack-minded individuals.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104999",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T21:49:12",
"content": "Ah; I thought the mspaint spray that blacked out the obvious giveaway (keypad) was actually part of the device – like some black fuzz or something.Would have been way easier to blind guess if that was pointed out in advance… not that there was any problem figuring this one out…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105001",
"author": "Patrick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T22:38:08",
"content": "As someone who knows very little about electronic components, I must say that I am impressed with they general level of knowledge displayed regularly by you folks.It’s always enlightening to read the comments here.Kudos.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105006",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T23:21:11",
"content": "I totally agree with Patrick. I love popping over to Hack a Day to see what new things the guys have found and what you have to say about them.“Enlightening”? Absolutely!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105008",
"author": "polossatik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T23:59:19",
"content": "IMHO you should have waited until the contest was over to satisfy your curiosity … you’re ruing the whole idea of that contest.But nice thing, never seen it seen it was out of date way before i started to play with electronics … :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105009",
"author": "arcnemisis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T00:11:10",
"content": "wow.12.3Kg (27lbs).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105010",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T00:27:07",
"content": "Flux CapacitorIt looks like some boring analog device used for signal conversion or modulation.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105014",
"author": "JB",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:06:45",
"content": "An old Arduino prototype? :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105016",
"author": "Piku",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:21:56",
"content": "As others have pointed out, it most definitely is a Casio AL-1000. You don’t need to know anything about what one of those is. All you need is the ability to compare the photo at the top of this post with the third photo on this page, which has already been linked to in earlier replieshttp://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/casio_al-1000.html“Guess the thing” competitions are only good if they’re photos of actual stuff the person setting the competition has, rather than random stuff found on the web.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105017",
"author": "snorkle256",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:22:52",
"content": "Looks like the device I use to count my sheep.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105021",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T02:09:28",
"content": "It’s that Casio calculator or another close model line like those people said. It does look like a computer from the S100 period.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105027",
"author": "jsngrimm",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T03:44:29",
"content": "i figured it was a calculator because of the nixie display and the wheel next to the keypad is the floating point ajustment (the ms paint spray is covering the keypad)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105029",
"author": "jadon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T03:59:48",
"content": "i knew it was a calculatorand its so pretty so reparable so simple so largecan i have it:)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105031",
"author": "ChalkBored",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T04:07:28",
"content": "Can it handle a division by zero without bursting into flames?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105033",
"author": "Alan Parekh",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T04:36:17",
"content": "Hey guys. Looks like there are lots of correct guesses here!Hi Piku, the contest last week was something that was cracked open on my bench. :)http://hackedgadgets.com/2009/10/24/name-the-thing-contest-104/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105034",
"author": "overlord00",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T04:39:41",
"content": "binary calculator",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105038",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T05:16:04",
"content": "14 Nixies! And I’ll bet they still work, too. Magnetic core is nice to work with too.I had the innards out of a calculating scale that looked quite similar, but I doubt it would be S-100 as most of these manufacturers used in-house arrangements.HP once made a similar desktop mini-computer like this that would still rip the trunk off a large elephant, weight and capability.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105042",
"author": "jproach",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T07:02:32",
"content": "Does anyone know the answer to 104 posted by Alan above?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105043",
"author": "Sergei Frolov",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T07:20:51",
"content": "Nixie display is very cool. But what about stroboscopic display?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCiJS3BU0i4",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105047",
"author": "inginear",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T10:25:15",
"content": "i should have looked here before i entered the contest. since it has 14 nixie tubes i thought it was one of the old airport arrival/departure signs. although airport signs were alphanumeric. oh well, i’ll just have to enter the next contest that offers credit at adafruit.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105053",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T11:42:14",
"content": "The close-ups of the magnetic core memory cells on the vintagecalculators page is really cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105056",
"author": "sgf",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T14:21:07",
"content": "S100 is waaaaaaaay later. That’s microprocessor stuff. This thing is full of discrete components.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105062",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:35:23",
"content": "Yea the magnetic core memory is bad ass. stroboscopic display is also bad ass. The immense efforts it must have took to make theses machines back then. The AL-1000 must have cost a lot back then. “The portable 27lb calculator”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105064",
"author": "silvershovler",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T15:54:42",
"content": "well since we know know what it happens to be. i still want to guess. is it the remote control for sputnik? Farnsworth doomsday device type 3? Polish cell phone circa 1955? Canadian easy bake oven? Iranian magnatron circa 2007? or my personal favorite, prototype for one laptop per child winner?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105070",
"author": "Piero",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:07:15",
"content": "It is an old machine to scan rats. The rat would be placed on the metal pad. The cables underneath it would send electronic impulses through the rat’s body to scan it. This would make it possible to find out what diseases it might carry and if it ate your cheese. When all the little light bulbs had gone off, the process would be completed. The photo-scan would then remain impressed on the red slides at the back, which was handy for they could be ket in a folder for future reference on the rat’s health. Unfortunately, as a side effect the machine would fry the rat, as the picture shows. So it quickly fell into disuse.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105102",
"author": "cgmark",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T20:41:28",
"content": "magnetic core memory is cool. It just takes up too much space. It was used to store data for the moon missions computers. They wired in the bits because things like eprom were not available. If the wire passed through a core it was a 1 , no core a 0 and the entire program the computers ran were encoded that way.Now imagine when you find a program error and have to rewire several thousand wires :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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|
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/31/broken-tv-brought-to-life-in-lego-body/
|
Broken TV Brought To Life In LEGO Body
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"home entertainment hacks"
] |
[
"inverter",
"lego",
"Maxnavox",
"tv"
] |
After letting it sit around for about 3 years, [Blake] decided it was time to fix his broken 15″ television. A little trouble shooting showed the problem was with the inverter. The backlight would come on for a few seconds, off for a few seconds, then repeat. By freeing the Magnavox 15MF400T from its metal case he got it working again, but couldn’t find the source of the short. His solution: build a new case out of non-conductive material. Voilà! We have the 15″ LEGO monitor.
It’s not
a very complicated LEGO build
, but it’s the first case mod we’ve seen in a long time that isn’t strictly gratuitous. Join us after the break for more pictures.
Above we see the backside of the monitor. The ladders are a nice touch.
Here is the PCB where the video connections are made. The board appears to be free-floating. Finding a more permanent way of attaching this and perhaps building a LEGO access panel would be a nice improvement.
These are the left over parts of the case. If these are the only discarded parts and the rest of it is useful again, we think it’s a success.
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[
{
"comment_id": "104935",
"author": "wolfy02",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T14:26:25",
"content": "wow, i loved my legos when I was a kid. might have to break em out for a few projects like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104937",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T14:28:15",
"content": "legos, the fun and usefull tool",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104938",
"author": "2ti6x",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T14:50:17",
"content": "anyone else finds theres something missing on the taskbar?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104939",
"author": "Coligny",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T14:55:31",
"content": "The word miserable could perfectly describe this hack…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104952",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:42:12",
"content": "lol Love the ladders",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104966",
"author": "Kealper",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:44:30",
"content": "@2ti6x:indeed…there is no system tray, no clock, and no start button, and there is two sets of minimize/maximize buttons on that firefox window…shopped, or a really strange copy of windows… :S",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104967",
"author": "vsnine",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T16:50:00",
"content": "it is probably a second monitor running a program like UltraMon. It gives you a second taskbar for applications running on your second monitor and doesn’t necessarily show a clock.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104973",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:21:41",
"content": "Auto-hide taskbar and custom windows theme; it’s more common than you may think, especially with pirated windows discs with bonus stuff slipstreamed into them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104974",
"author": "adamziegler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:27:07",
"content": "Maybe its not windows.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104976",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:36:45",
"content": "but look at Firefox top all crap there taking 1/4 of view space !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104977",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T17:54:06",
"content": "Thats deffinatly a secondary monitor with Ultramon. It gives you a taskbar with no start and no system tray.It also adds 2 buttons to the top of your window that allow you to maximize the window across all screens, and the other one moves the window to the next monitor.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104997",
"author": "Erik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T21:40:46",
"content": "I love the police minifigure on top. It just makes the case that much cooler. Now I just need my monitor to break the same way so I can warrant doing the same to my computer :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105000",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T22:24:14",
"content": "OMGCouldn’t he find a better case? For example to mount the screen on a wooden board and the PCBs behind it. But this is the most inpractical soulution I can think of and it looks gay too.poor hackaday",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105003",
"author": "Nick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T22:46:42",
"content": "Mike beat me to it >_< But yeah, the guys running ultramon. I've used it myself a bit but never really liked it much.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105020",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:43:16",
"content": "….gotta love trollsthis is 1 of the best case mods sofarhm, speaking of case mods, has anyone made a case out of old motherboards yet?btw, i just found a 3.2 ghz hp in the alley with a 80 gig hdd, score!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105052",
"author": "Coligny",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T11:29:55",
"content": "Yeah sure, saying that using lego as makeshift casing is miserable is considered trolling… What aboot the fact that even a monkey can do better than this, the fact that a Hack is supposed to be a clever use of something, out of the box thinking or showing some skills ? A retard using lego bricks in a way that would put shame to a toddler is not a hack. It’s a tribute to mediocrity.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105054",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T11:44:12",
"content": "I was expecting a crazy lego structure with a CRT in it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s not a TV without a CRT – it’s an LCD/TFT/Plasma/LED/Laser panel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105113",
"author": "bothersaidpooh",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T21:36:09",
"content": "cool would have been ripping out the (dead) backlight tubes, removing the panel and then grafting the panel into the case of a dead crt monitor, with a high wattage LED behind the panel.even better, take the centre polarisers off the panel(s) (best to use one with scratches for this), sandwich the panels together and make a 3-D monitor.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105274",
"author": "Gabe",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T00:54:52",
"content": "You wankers and you’re, “what would have been better… miasma. spare us allExcellent way to get rid of a broken tv and some useless chinese plastic parts imo. Throw it in the kids room & call it a day. This way you can stream your propaganda direct even while they’re sleeping!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105973",
"author": "Jayson",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T22:38:22",
"content": "I can see the benefit of using legos to make a new frame. Yeah, it may be a little bulky, but if you can find a strong enough glue it will be more durable than the original plastic. Also, you can make your own designs or even set up a lighting scheme with transparent legos.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108155",
"author": "Blake",
"timestamp": "2009-11-20T09:32:39",
"content": "Id like to extend a thank you to all the people who mock my creation. Hackaday wasn’t made(as far as i know) for people who think they can do better to try to prove it by telling others that their idea was stupid and that they could have done it better. I was just posting a bit about what I had done for the people who care to look at it. If you could have done it better, fine. Go do better. I used what I had available on short notice, and I am quiet proud of what I’ve done.To clear up any questions, YES I am using Ultramon to extend my task bar to my second monitor. I didnt include my main monitor in the pictures because the article was about the rebirthed one. The difficult part of the monitor was having to use VGA ports for both monitors. Required going in and messing with the BIOs til it worked. My Version of Vista is NOT pirated in any way.Thank you for the positive comments from the people who did post them, and to those who bash on others ideas, go play in traffic. Dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.658034
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/xbmc-running-on-arm/
|
XBMC Running On ARM
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"home entertainment hacks"
] |
[
"arm",
"beagleboard",
"xbmc"
] |
The XBMC team has posted
a teaser showing the current state of the ARM port
of this popular open source media software. We’ve embedded it after the break where you can see the package boot up and playback HD video. In it we see that the system is decoding the signal well, but image rendering needs some tweaking before this will be ready.
The
hardware used is a Beagleboard
which runs a 600 MHz ARM processor, has OpenGL 2D/3D acceleration, puts out HD via a DVI port, and is selling for about $150. The 3″ by 3″ board can be connected to a network using a USB WiFi dongle. Although integrating XBMC by
hacking TV firmware
is a long way off, we’d consider velcroing one of these to the back of our HDTV and getting rid of the hulking PC behind the entertainment center.
Can’t wait for this version to hit a stable release and don’t mind using hardware that is just a bit bigger?
Check out this guide
for setting up XBMC on the
$200 Acer Aspire Revo
.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYq7f-CrnOc]
[Photo:
Koenkooi
]
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| 25
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104868",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:00:13",
"content": "cool, the beagleboard is a nice piece of hardware, and this seems like a useful program for it.I wonder if it has the specs to deal with larger res video, though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104870",
"author": "x500",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:14:55",
"content": "Might have to get myself one of those to play with. Hopefully they get out the packages soon.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104871",
"author": "Cynyr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:16:41",
"content": "1) a “hulking pc” is mentioned in the description, replace that with a mac mini (run linux + xbmc if you want, or boxee on osx)2) also i was under the impression that with vdpau an ATOM with a nvidia 9400m should be able to play back that same big buck bunny clip.3) I’m sure this thing beats both in power consumption, especially when idle.4) This is awesome, I’d love to see all of the fmpeg codecs ported as well, and i’ll take 3.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104881",
"author": "ejonesss",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T23:37:41",
"content": "in theory XBMC should run on an ipod since ipods use the arm processor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104882",
"author": "MS3FGX",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T23:47:54",
"content": "XBMC is, at least in my mind, one of the most incredible open source/homebrew projects in history. I love to hear about it getting ported to new hardware or getting some new feature that commercial set top boxes costing hundreds of dollars don’t even have.I am very interested in getting a functional HD-capable XBMC install on a device like this. I have XBMC on my modded Xbox, but it just can’t handle HD content (the few videos that will play rarely go above 10 FPS). I wonder if it would be possible to get XBMC on the Roku player? I have no idea what the status of Roku firmware hacking is, but the thing is a great form-factor and is already running Linux.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104888",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:34:55",
"content": "XBMC rocks…I make a lot of use using old xboxes. My project list also has it down to go on a little itty bitty box that handles HD to replace the now dated looking xbox.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104890",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:40:47",
"content": "cool but I don’t think the arm has enough horsepower for this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104893",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T01:07:33",
"content": "I use XBMC all the time, it’s my media center of choice, and I am impressed, sign me up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104899",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T01:51:43",
"content": "Hmmm… I really need to get a Beagleboard to play with. Nice to see the platform is being targeted by devs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104900",
"author": "wonslung",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T02:01:36",
"content": "guys, the ARM processor on the beagleboard is much more powerful than that of a typical IPOD or IPHONEIt’s the ARM cortex a8It’s QUITE powerful. The corex a9 is even more powerful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104904",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T03:44:11",
"content": "The Overo boards are hands down the best implementation of the ARM cores to date. They basically blow the beagleboard away and have the same price range, some cases less, and have a drastically better support system and community.The beagleboard has the TI OMAP3530, which is the fastest ARM core you can get without special licensing and/or at least bulk purchasing. I’d still go with Overo boards for the same price range. 2/4 of them have the OMAP3530 with OpenGL support.Also I think the 3530 has a 256MB address limit on DRAM and flash, beyond that requires a external controller. The Overo boards max it, and I think the latest Beagleboard REV did too.FYI the really well designed partitioning and bootrom security combo known as TrustZone is in no way open to the public or documented anywhere. So, if you’re a security researcher don’t bother, most consumer electronics don’t even use it(probably why they are all reversed.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104909",
"author": "nrp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T04:51:43",
"content": "Overo is nice, but more expensive once you take into account needing a $50 I/O board to really use it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104924",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T09:38:19",
"content": "By the way you guys need to try and watch Micro Men, a docu-drama-comedy thingy that the BBC did a few weeks ago. Its pretty interesting, showing the rat race between Sinclair and Curry (founder of Acron and the primordial origins of the ARM chip).http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n5b92/Micro_MIts no longer available i iPlayer but where there is an Internet…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104929",
"author": "Karl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T11:27:41",
"content": "Loved seeing this and really looking forward to what might come of it. i just wanted to say, it is possilbe to play HD content on XBMC on an orignal xbox,http://k-world.me.uk/?p=468here is my write up on what has to be done, imcluding a sample video for you to test on yours.Thanks",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104931",
"author": "GSV Ethics Gradient",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T12:31:15",
"content": "*OpenGL ES",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104957",
"author": "Chris winter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T15:52:27",
"content": "Nice work the xbmc crew need god status.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105011",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T00:32:47",
"content": "The OpenGL ES correction is kind of frivolous…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105195",
"author": "BLKMGK",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T15:21:59",
"content": "I use an ASROCK 330 which is an ION machine. Max 40watts usage, plays 1080P H.264 video at high bitrates VERY well including the BBC “Earth” clip that everyone uses to abuse systems – Killa’ Video.I have NO doubt that this ARM would run cooler and use less juice but the ASROCK is fine by me and is now also handling my Torrents with ease. For about $349 it’s the best XBMC box I’ve seen yet and it runs off a wall wart :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105199",
"author": "lwatcdr",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T16:34:30",
"content": "The Beagle Board is more than powerful enough for HD video. The one thing it is missing is Flash. I would buy one in a second if I could use it to watch Hulu and CBS.com. Now if we could just get a hack to allow it to playback “protected” blue ray and get NetFlix and Amazon streaming on it you would have an almost perfect media center PC.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105209",
"author": "fartface",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T18:09:28",
"content": "This rocks because XBMC is the absolute best media center interface and setup that exists. It blows anything from Microsoft out of the water HARD.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105266",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T23:48:40",
"content": "Nokia’s N900 port please! :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106349",
"author": "Reeve",
"timestamp": "2009-11-08T19:11:51",
"content": "It’d be awesome if he could make a sata cradle instead of a flash card one, then u can make a mini case with a pair of small fans and have a neat XBMC box",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107490",
"author": "Falloutboy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-16T09:58:14",
"content": "I would like SATA tooand to add DVB-S2 Tuner would be nice, best would be a DVB-S/S2/C plug and play Tuner, like them from DMM, changeable, that would be niceDVB-S2 USB Devices don’t have hardware decoding, and i don’t think that they will work with the Beagleboard.would be a nice , cheap Receiver, when a smartmouse/Phoenix Cardreader is added via RS232",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "145603",
"author": "PinkFreud",
"timestamp": "2010-05-28T12:09:11",
"content": "I’m using the $199 Aspire Revo 1600 single-core Atom + ION with XBMC as my bedroom media center. It’s been flawless. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "145664",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2010-05-28T16:48:12",
"content": "@KarlThe ‘example’ image you have is either not HD, or you reduced the size of the png. Its only showing up as 1263×528.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.773041
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/time-lapse-courtesy-of-arduino/
|
Time-lapse Courtesy Of Arduino
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"intervelometer",
"ir",
"nikon",
"time-lapse"
] |
[Ross] put together a small
package for use with time-lapse
photography. The Nikon camera he’s using can snap a picture when it receives an IR command. [Ross’] solution connects an IR LED to an Arduino to generate this signal. The delay between frames is set with a potentiometer that is read in through the ADC. This is quite a bit less involved than
the last solution we saw
.
The unit consisting of an Arduino clone, a 9v battery, and the IR LED on a cable is easy to fit into a camera bag. He’s posted the code and we’ve embedded an example of his work after the break. An enclosure as well as time references around the potentiometer would complete this handy tool.
[flickr video=http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyenormous/3239591795/]
| 11
| 10
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104839",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:20:59",
"content": "Typical Arudino Envy post here…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104841",
"author": "Kaj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:42:07",
"content": "Hmm… cool idea. To suggest a possible future improvement, perhaps an LCD or simple LED display to show what the interval is set to.Good hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104845",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:47:15",
"content": "@Kaj: I disagree…the other controllerthat was linked in the story has an LCD for this purpose. I like this solution for its simplicity… chances are (even if you don’t have an Arduino) that you have the components on hand to make something akin to this. Really, just putting a piece of paper around the POT and marking times at different points on the dial would be good enough for me.",
"parent_id": "104841",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104842",
"author": "asdf",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:44:38",
"content": "@KajRoss notes that as a future improvement on his site…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104855",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:23:21",
"content": "I wonder if the purple-looking LED in that pic is actually IR viewed by a CCD, or if he meant UV?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104858",
"author": "ross",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:47:25",
"content": "M4CGYV3R: yep, that’s the way the camera picked up the IR LED. It wasn’t triggered by the intervalometer for that shot, and the timing must have been just right to pick it up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104859",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:50:47",
"content": "If you’re going for simple I’d slap a pot on this thing instead:http://users.tkk.fi/~jwagner/electr/d70remote/Easy to make and works perfectly. I slapped one together the night of the yearly Perseid fireworks. Sadly my camera was ALWAYS pointed just to the side of the shooting stars. Missed one in particular that was absolutely stunning, came straight over my head and “into the water” in front of me and stayed on the sky for a few seconds. But I’m not bitter…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104896",
"author": "Matt Joyce",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T01:33:10",
"content": "http://www.nycresistor.com/2009/06/07/time-lapse-video-how-to/That’s the one I did for the Canon 10D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104920",
"author": "Kaj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T07:43:59",
"content": "@asdf , @Mike Szczys – Ah, then I concede with a “My Bad” for not catching that he noted that improvement :) . Good day all.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104998",
"author": "Tuckie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T21:44:08",
"content": "That looks like it was shot in automatic mode. Manual mode would really smooth it out.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105545",
"author": "etharooni",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T05:33:24",
"content": "Cool! I made one too!http://etharooni.polorix.net/NikonRemote.html/selfpromotion",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.707433
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/processor-built-with-transistor-transistor-logic/
|
Processor Built With Transistor-Transistor Logic
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"computer hacks"
] |
[
"74ls",
"cpu",
"processor",
"transistor",
"ttl",
"wirewrap",
"z80"
] |
[Donn] wanted know exactly what is going on inside of a processor so naturally
he built a CPU out of TTL components
. He had previously built a couple of versions of a computer
based on the Z80 processor
. Using the troubleshooting skills he learned and a second-hand textbook, he set to work using 74LS series chips connected using the wire-wrap method we’re familiar with
from other cpu projects
.
The finished product runs well at 1.8 megahertz, but he also included a 2 hertz clock and a step clock for debugging. At the slower speeds, the register board (seen at the left in the picture above) lights LEDs and can be used to tell what the CPU is currently working on. Programming is accomplished through either a dumb terminal or a PC running a terminal emulator.
His writeup is from about five years ago but that didn’t prevent us from getting that fuzzy feeling in the geek-center of our brain when we read about it. It is well written and thorough so if you’re into this kind of thing there’s plenty to enjoy.
[Thanks Raleigh]
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| 26
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104823",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T18:10:57",
"content": "omg not a hack!!! less software news!!! whar the arduino!!!kidding, kidding :pI kinda want to do something like one of these, but not if it means doing that much wirewrap :\\",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104824",
"author": "chango",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T18:27:37",
"content": "@nave: FPGA? Or get some cheap boards made?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104825",
"author": "old",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T18:27:46",
"content": "so old",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104831",
"author": "thecityspiders",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T18:52:12",
"content": "Two thumbs up.I love projects like this.Kinda reminds me of some led array board projects I’ve done by hand along with the TTL control logic I wired with point to point boards.the circuit layout also reminds me of some of the discrete Logic boards in the DEC processor cards i have seen in some older mainframes.Good Job!!! keep it up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104833",
"author": "Chris_C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:00:46",
"content": "I wanted to make a cpu from ttl chips when I was a kid… maybe should have!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104846",
"author": "Brandonman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:48:34",
"content": "Very old, but that page was my inspiration to get started on a project similar to this probably a year or so ago. Which reminds me, I still need to continue work on that…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104847",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:49:22",
"content": "Awesome project! Sometimes I dream of implementing a microprogrammed CPU, but I’m too lazy and FPGA-spoiled. Something like Wang 2200 would be interesting.@Chris_C, not all is lost yet, go for it :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104852",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:12:20",
"content": "What the heck could be the advantage of that much wirewrap?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104873",
"author": "everyotherposter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:22:26",
"content": "“Well, that is a neat project. It totally reminds of this one time I did X because I am so awesome that I could Y. Next time however, I would recommend Z’ing it like I plan to do to have a truly noteworthy hack.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104883",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T23:51:42",
"content": "If you ever wanted to entertain yourself (suffer through) making one of these then go take a college class on digital logic; we made pretty complex stuff with just nand gates… lots and lots of nand gates…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104885",
"author": "Marvin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:05:14",
"content": "I work in a steel plant which uses a TTL based computer system to perform metallurgical calculations, handles 32 interactive Terminals, 20 non-interactive terminals, 15 printers, 10 serial connections to plc and other systems and several digital i/o.And that with 2 Megabytes of memory and 8MHz clock speed.Awsome machine entirely built out of TTL circuits, the most complex one being an 74181 4-bit ALU. (ok maybe the UART chips used are more complex, but they’re only a peripheral :))The machine is in use since 1979 and is still working like a charm.I’d love to implement this thing into an FPGA…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104887",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:26:19",
"content": "@xrazorwirex:College-level Digital Circuits is awesome. :)I’m a lab assistant for that class(among others) and I have to say it’s one of my favorites. The things you can do with basic logic chips never ceases to fascinate me.This makes me want to do something similar… I’m going to dig out my Digital textbook and see what I can come up with. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104889",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:37:33",
"content": "1337",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104902",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T03:26:24",
"content": "Very nice! I’ve also seen some nice analog circuits that did this same thing. You usually see them along with old S100 bus docs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104916",
"author": "rrowell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T06:19:35",
"content": "If you have never wire-wrapped a logic system with only old-school logic chips then you just would not understand. These days all the jaded kids say “FPGAs are cheap and easy” and you are right, I agree life is good :-) However, wire wrap was a beautiful thing, there is a reason NASA used in on the space shuttle. Kudos sir, an exquisitely ancient hack to remind of us an era bygone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104979",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:07:48",
"content": "Welcome to 1968!Good way to show you understand better than most how a CPU works. Gate-level logic construction; a lost art.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105026",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T03:40:10",
"content": "http://www.cca.org/tech/rcs/pdp12.htmlI owned a few of these in the past, that’s where you can really get some appreciation for wire-wrapping and detailed logic. And core memory!Among other features were the front panel with a separate light for EVERYTHING (not like the PDP-8/e which used a single row of indicators and a rotary selector so you could only see one “batch” at a time) and fully variable speed from one instruction per minute or whatever up to full, and with LINC mode it could boot from a magnetic tape with a single command from the front panel.The CRT tube (worked like an oscilliscope, all text characters had to be “Drawn”) could be used as a “terminal display” with only the keyboard of the usual printing terminal (teletype) used for input, saves a lot of paper that way!Being a “lab” machine it had A/D and D/A connections plus binding posts to six SPDT relayswhich also each had their own indicator lights on the panel!Great old systems, wish I still had one just to show the fancy-pants kids…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105150",
"author": "McScrewdriver",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T04:11:43",
"content": "Congratulations. The next step is logical, RTL logic in a 2 bit system, with 5 instructions.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105157",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T05:26:03",
"content": "how do you get 5 instructions into 2 bits with only 4 possible values?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105213",
"author": "MCscrewdriver",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T18:26:20",
"content": "kedavis, you are right :) I was just wondering what is the absolute minimum number of bits, and instructions for a system?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105223",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T19:27:57",
"content": "I’d say the Intel 4004 provides the best example for that. Most people don’t even know the 4004 ever existed, but most people these days probably don’t know about the 8008 or 8080 either, maybe not even the Z80 at this point. 4-bit architecture gives the flexibility to deal with 8-bit bytes somewhat easily and to use some bits to indicate that an instruction is longer than just one “word” or byte without using up the whole thing.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004Interesting reading!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105298",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T03:46:51",
"content": "Actually I learned on the 12-bit DEC PDP-8/L and I don’t think it had 56 separate instructions. But it didn’t have as many registers as the 4004 either.Let’s see…0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 were both basically instruction ‘groups’ with either a memory address or device code. Only group 7 was separate operations, and there weren’t very many of them.Seems to me that having 56 instruction like the 4004 would have been a step UP… Then again the PDP-8 existed since the early 1960s, or even earlier if you include the predecessor PDP-5.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105518",
"author": "McScrewdriver",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T03:09:14",
"content": "Kedavis, look at this gem:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400_series. Scroll down to History section and look at this image:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YUNTEN.gif. Four bits, 6 instructions. Makes me happy every time I see it :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105532",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T04:03:32",
"content": "but it can’t DO anything. and why have a “return from interrupt” instruction in the middle of that nothing?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107205",
"author": "Сергей",
"timestamp": "2009-11-13T19:42:21",
"content": "I guess it would be funny to do the same thing with brains.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "176939",
"author": "Art G. Granzeier III",
"timestamp": "2010-09-03T22:36:54",
"content": "MCscrewdriverTake a look at Prof. Douglas Jones’ Ultimate RISC (http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/arch/risc/). This computer has only one instruction – MOVE. Even with that limitation, this is actually a practical computer and can do pretty much whatever any other computer can do.In his paper, Dr. Jones describes several commercial computers which came close to his Single Instruction Computer.Search Google for SISC, Single Instruction Set computer or OISC for more about computers which had only one instruction.Art>kedavis, you are right :) I was just wondering >what is the absolute minimum number of bits, and >instructions for a system?>>Posted at 10:26 am on Nov 2nd, 2009 by >MCscrewdriver",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.834965
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/how-to-create-truetype-from-an-image/
|
How To Create TrueType From An Image
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Misc Hacks"
] |
[
"font",
"fontforge",
"glyph",
"TrueType",
"VT220"
] |
[Viacheslav] wanted his virtual terminal to have the look of a DEC VT220. He was unable to find a font set that looked just right so he set out to
make his own TrueType font
. He managed to find a sample image of the glyphs that the
VT220
used as fonts. Using a collection of free software he sliced the image into 256 different parts, resized and converted to one-bit index images, and converted these to vector graphics. This was accomplished with a bit of python, an image tracing program, and font editor called
FontForge
.
Take some time to dabble with these font tools. With an adequate sample you should be able to reproduce any font set. We won’t achieve anything as sophisticated as
the font printed with bacteria
, but this will be a start in the right direction.
| 13
| 12
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104812",
"author": "PunMaster",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:28:42",
"content": "Your “VT220” link just goes to the Wikipedia main page… :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3250684",
"author": "Mick",
"timestamp": "2016-11-01T22:13:26",
"content": "Really?",
"parent_id": "104812",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104816",
"author": "Andrew Yeomans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:39:16",
"content": "Brings back memories! The neat thing about real VT200s is that they had a programmable font set. So naturally I created an upside-down version. Good for a laugh on April Fool’s day, just had to transmit the upside-down font to the VT220.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104822",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T18:03:30",
"content": "@PunMaster: Thanks, fixed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104830",
"author": "zokier",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T18:39:14",
"content": "seems kinda silly to vectorize and and make truetype font, which then works only in one size. wouldn’t a bitmap font or something work better?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104836",
"author": "Alpha",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:09:38",
"content": "This is cool!It also reminds me.. I made an online ANSI char viewer thing for viewing text reminiscent of the old BBS days.http://www.bigmech.com/misc/ansi/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104860",
"author": "alex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:53:40",
"content": "hahaha oh wow. that looks awesome. good job man!i just changed my terminal font to this and traveled through time to about 20 years ago",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104874",
"author": "justin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:23:14",
"content": "It’s nice and retro, but I prefer bitmapped fonts.I use “LucidaTypewriter sans” at 9pt (no bold allowed), which makes the text in gnome-terminal look exactly like the old Solaris OpenWindows ‘cmdtool’.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104908",
"author": "shadow",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T04:31:07",
"content": "Holy shit, an actual hack on hack-a-day, surely there must be be an arduino hidden somewhere",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104983",
"author": "tnt23",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T19:18:17",
"content": "I wonder how Viacheslav managed to not use Arduino!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104992",
"author": "Joe Knight",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T20:59:03",
"content": "If only it could be used on a standard size such as 14 or 16…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105005",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T23:15:13",
"content": "It should be used at sizes that result in pixel heights that are multiples of 20. Otherwise, interlaced lines just don’t work right, I probably can’t help it. I don’t know many terminal programs that don’t allow setting custom size (like 15): if the size is not in the list, usually you can enter it manually. Some font scalers are better than others, too.@tnt23: arduino debugging must be much easier with this font in the serial terminal ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "141093",
"author": "Paul Potter",
"timestamp": "2010-05-09T18:07:04",
"content": "Fantastic work. I’ve been after a VT font for ages. I’m now using it in PuTTY. If anybody wants to know the correct setting to get all the line drawing characters etc, feel free to email me via the link on my site.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.881869
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/arduino-python-integration/
|
Arduino “python” Integration
|
Phil Burgess
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"home hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"boarduino",
"ethernet",
"lcd",
"php",
"snake",
"vivarium"
] |
[Cyberspice] informs us she likes snakes. Hey, who doesn’t? She’ll soon be adopting a lovely ball python and wanted to keep close tabs on the sensitive creature’s environment. To that end
she assembled a network-enabled vivarium monitoring system
based on Adafruit’s Boarduino (a minimalist Arduino
clone
), a TMP36 analog temperature sensor, Saelig’s WIZ810MJ Ethernet interface, and a common LCD screen. The Arduino rig periodically issues updates to a web server, which can then generate informative graphs using a set of PHP scripts (what, no
Python
?).
Okay, so we could probably count on one hand the number of readers in need of fancy reptile monitoring and still have fingers left over. There are countless other applications where networked sensor monitoring of this sort is a frequent
necessity
, so the article could be a good starting point for your own projects. There’s lots of source code to work with, on both the Arduino and web server sides. And the parts list demonstrates serious frugality: the Boarduino, the generic LCD, and especially the Ethernet interface; even with the breadboard adapter, this unit is about half the cost of the usual Arduino
Ethernet shield
, leaving more funds available for the
snake
food budget!
| 9
| 9
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104795",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T16:10:25",
"content": "Anyone else see the SEO?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104801",
"author": "nanomonkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T16:52:01",
"content": "tj, I know I’ve searched for Python and Arduino at least a handful of times. Very clever.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104803",
"author": "Boudico",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:01:11",
"content": "There’s a lot more herp keepers out there than you think. This is a slick setup",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104808",
"author": "placebo.3ffect",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:13:53",
"content": "I like. I need a setup like this for my bearded dragons!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104879",
"author": "sgf",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:40:03",
"content": "For some reason, it makes me very happy that this post is not about Python, the language.And it’s a cool hack, too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104922",
"author": "NotoriousAlpha",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T08:21:15",
"content": "Very useful for my water dragon!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104934",
"author": "Larry",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T14:12:19",
"content": "For anybody interested in a cheep way to monitor or control something over the Internet I bought on eBay for $25 a controller board with everything you need. Just plug it into your router, open a port and you are good to go. Check out the manual:http://store.compute-aid.com/spec/WebControlUserGuide.pdf",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105125",
"author": "Effigy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T23:19:13",
"content": "Interestingly enough I have a nearly identical set-up running with three sensors for my three cages and a USB run to my comp for monitoring. Instead of an LCD I use Python the language to whip up a monitor and log. its pretty nice equipment for reptile keeping and I’m waiting for someone to productize it any day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "136792",
"author": "wat",
"timestamp": "2010-04-19T03:45:23",
"content": "I came looking for Python and Arduino! Not some stupid reptiles!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,554.931815
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/single-servo-robot/
|
Single Servo Robot
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"single servo",
"talk"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFRPZRovn74]
[Guilherme Martins] rose to a challenge to build a robot with a single servo. His robot is a puppet controller,
called talkie walkie
. In real time, it will move its mouth to the sound of what you are saying. For those really curious, he’s speaking Portuguese and he roughly says “Hi, how’s it going”. He’s using an Arduino with a custom sound sensor, a single servo, a box, and a folder paper mouth.
Building a single servo robot shouldn’t be that much of a challenge, we’ve even seen walking robots with a single motor. There’s this 2 legged
crawler
, and we recall seeing a 4 legged B.E.A.M. walker with a single servo, but can’t find it right now.
[via
RobotsDreams
]
| 10
| 10
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104779",
"author": "budhaboy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:05:52",
"content": "scarry terry’s single servo talking bucky skull does the same thing, without an ardino.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104780",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:09:45",
"content": "well now that it has an arduino anyway, why not make same arduino sing daisy bell and lipsync to it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104784",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:36:06",
"content": "That cockroach robot DASH used only one motor to drive all six of its legs for running and climbing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104792",
"author": "George Stone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T16:08:28",
"content": "Why are they using in arduino for something like this? They could use the hollowed out innards of a huntsman spider and a 555.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104799",
"author": "Jeremy C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T16:37:39",
"content": "Yeah, seems like a little bit of control overkill… But the end product is quite nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104807",
"author": "Boudico",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:12:18",
"content": "Definitely has possibilities for muppet-like critters. Pretty cool",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104818",
"author": "bad_ace",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:48:32",
"content": "The Firby toy robot also had one servo ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104866",
"author": "goga",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T21:49:41",
"content": "Here’s a 4-legged unimotorhttp://www.streettech.com/robotbook/walkerFinal1.htm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104911",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T05:14:09",
"content": "robotics not, animatronics… i guess maybe.as usual, all arduino all the time?!.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105196",
"author": "0x808080",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T15:33:05",
"content": "I await new URL:http://arduinoaday.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.095156
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/aida-the-dashboard-bot/
|
AIDA The Dashboard Bot
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"AIDA",
"dash",
"gps"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQLyjwskQo]
In an attempt to create more interaction with our vehicles,
researchers have created AIDA
. AIDA is basically a car computer and GPS that has some well designed personification. That cute little face will learn your daily habits and schedules and make recommendations to keep you out of traffic. We really like the idea, and the little bit we see of AIDA already has us falling in love, but won’t the placement be a distraction? We already know some people who give their car a name and treat it like a person, we don’t want to imagine what would happen if their car actually had some interactive personality. AIDA’s motion and emotive display are worthy of the
crabfu
challenge
for sure, but do we want AIDA on our dashboard? Yes, most emphatically. She can sit right by the little hula girl.
[via
BotJunkie
]
| 10
| 10
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104778",
"author": "JimXugle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:05:28",
"content": "Yes… but does it run linux? can I add my own programmed behaviors? can I integrate it with my music system? can I get it to stream last.fm? will it compare gas prices from each gas station along my route? can it integrate weather patterns into its routes? (ie not drive me into a hail storm)and most importantly…can I give it an awesome british butler accent?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104785",
"author": "will[2]",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:41:45",
"content": "I sat in a previous version of this project (or perhaps a different but similar project.) At that time it was a BMW. It was cool enough, but felt basically like a very well integrated TomTom, nothing more. Yes it routes you automatically, but these are things I learn to do (probably faster) as a regular commuter. This would probably be helpful for out-of-towners as a straight-up GPS, but I don’t see it being useful as much more than that. Also, at the point when I saw it, it was basically a bunch of off-the-shelf hardware and software, retrofitted well into a nice car. Seemed like a waste of MIT grad students to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104849",
"author": "will[2]",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:06:46",
"content": "@JimXugleThe version I saw was running off two IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads running the latest Ubuntu release. It seemed like overkill to me, and I was also surprised to see that the computers (which were running the voice recognition, maps, UI, etc and were interfacing with the car computer via OBD-II or something of the like) were both apparently running X with Gnome… I would think that all of the systems would have done just fine on one laptop, probably without a UI. Then again, they may have been using X to draw the UI they were displaying on the in-dash monitor.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104872",
"author": "trimzulu",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:21:16",
"content": "Ummm… what if I wanted stumble into the street fair? No thanks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104878",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:37:58",
"content": "depending on the day I might want to drive through the street fair at high speeds, would adia stop me?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104895",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T01:32:01",
"content": "After one week – After two weeks – After a month –After a month I’d know my way around! I know when I need fuel, I also know when need to go shopping. If I wasn’t sure when I needed to go shopping, I’d rather hear it from my fridge or cupboards, not my car!Looks nice and cool, but practical? NOot on your nelly!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104910",
"author": "Z",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T05:09:24",
"content": "Anyone have any idea how they made the physical display? Seems extremely clean.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104917",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T06:36:46",
"content": "This seems vaguely alot like Clippy <.<",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105015",
"author": "johnstampede",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:17:31",
"content": "Funny enough, a Playstation game series called .//hack features an AI enemy called AIDA that siphons human souls interacting with a virtual world…I may just steer clear of this for a while.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105072",
"author": "Danny",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T17:09:34",
"content": "Luckily I have a brain and can make my own desitions on which way I want to drive. Why is so much technology aiming to make us stop thinking. I would probably get very anoyed by this robot and rip it out of the dashboard pretty soon. I hate when my car GPS just wont shut up if I drive another route then it suggests… :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.053254
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/cheating-rockband-again/
|
Cheating RockBand (again)
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"iphone hacks"
] |
[
"cheat",
"guitar hero",
"iphone",
"rockband"
] |
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0mIkkwUq0g&feature=player_embedded%5D
Sure making a
robot that plays the game
RockBand for you seems a little cheap at first, but no human can possibly hit that 30 triplet note straight ending in a button mashing contest. To finally get his high score [Joe] made a setup to play the game for him, on the iPhone. We’ve seen some
very different
Guitar Hero hacks
before, but none that had to get around the
touch capacitance screen
on the iPhone. What version of the game should be hacked next? We think
Football Hero
would be a good start.
[via
Make
]
| 17
| 17
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104764",
"author": "Stu",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:26:13",
"content": "Pointless but cool……..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104766",
"author": "jeff-o",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:38:52",
"content": "@Stu: Pointless? But it does have a point – to beat every song on its most difficult setting. Something mere mortals are not capable of doing.Nice hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104767",
"author": "Decepticon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:42:26",
"content": "would be better if it didn’t miss notes. Not gonna beat those insane songs at the moment.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104768",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:42:32",
"content": "it messes up fairly often in the video. probably due to latency from the servos or something.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104769",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:43:59",
"content": "hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104770",
"author": "0x808080",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T14:00:06",
"content": "Misses or not it’s better than me…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104771",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T14:13:28",
"content": "it really more of just cant seem to hit blue. maybe some adjustment could make it better.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104774",
"author": "saulverde",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T14:36:24",
"content": "Blue and green need some calibration. I don’t think I saw blue hit a note. Nice job though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104786",
"author": "Sash",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:46:57",
"content": "Who needs a robot?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYZUjQgah3U",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104809",
"author": "darksim905",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:14:31",
"content": "@Sash:You just made me feel bad at video games… forever. :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104820",
"author": "DarkStar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:53:02",
"content": "@darksim905: Me too. Holy crap, those Asians may be tiny, but they’re quick too!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104837",
"author": "bandwevil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:10:43",
"content": "@Sash: That’s nothing.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZxqRWPi_pU&hl=en&fs=1&]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104850",
"author": "Jikki",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T20:08:43",
"content": "@SashThat game looks like it’s actually in time with the music. From what I can tell most of the guitar heros and clone games have really bad song… maps?Anyway, not a bad hack, but I hate the games soo much. Lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104869",
"author": "tfs",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:09:27",
"content": "@BandwevilCan the brain even process images from the eye that quickly in real time? In order to play that fast, they basically memorize the patters of the song. After playing the same thing a million and a half times, they have an amazing ability to accurately button mash in the correct patterns.I hope that person plays the piano or does something with their talent besides play the same video game every day. I wonder at what age their hands are going to be messed up from doing the same motion repetitively.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105342",
"author": "las vegas criminal lawyer",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T16:32:33",
"content": "Pretty cool… The robot is better than me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "114241",
"author": "olivier",
"timestamp": "2009-12-31T20:24:43",
"content": "lmfao the robot finger that was supposed to play blue messed up",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "129571",
"author": "videogames cheats",
"timestamp": "2010-03-13T01:39:23",
"content": "hi, found this page on yahoo, really dig the site. keep up the good content!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.069731
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/
|
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Linux Hacks",
"News"
] |
[
"9.10",
"foss",
"karmic koala",
"ubuntu"
] |
Today is the official release of the
latest version of Ubuntu
, the most popular Linux-based operating system. Someone mentioned that there had been a
new release of the Windows OS
recently and if you’re thinking of going with that one, we feel you should a least
give Ubuntu a try
. Now in its 11th official release and codenamed Karmic Koala, this version of Ubuntu continues the traditional six month development cycle by succeeding Jaunty Jackalope which was released in April of this year.
We’ve been running the beta release of
Ubuntu Netbook Remix
for several weeks now. It cut boot time down to between 5-10 seconds and WiFi is already connected by the time the Desktop loads. Speed isn’t the only new feature, graphics have been redesigned, there is a new app store that serves as a front end for the extensive free software repositories, and the newest kernel and software versions are included.
We’ve been using this open source operating system since its third release, Breezy Badger. We love it for the quality, convenience, and the fact that we can get our fingers into the code and hack around a bit.
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| 50
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104644",
"author": "Naer Dinsul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:13:18",
"content": "Uhm, not to be a pedant, but I believe you meant “succeeding Jaunty Jackalope which was released in April of this year”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104645",
"author": "SheeEttin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:16:04",
"content": "I also believe he meant “every six months”, not “sixth a month”. That’d be an incredibly difficult release schedule. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104648",
"author": "vonskippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:31:08",
"content": "Yawn………this is a hack how?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104649",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:31:36",
"content": "I have been running since last week when the release candidate was posted. This release is fast, pretty, and stable. Stability has been an issue since Gutsy (though even the worst Ubuntu release has been more stable than any Windows release).Minor annoyances are:Flash has been buggy on the 64-bit version. Flash is displayed but I can not interact with flash buttons. That makes youtube a bit annoying, I can start a video but no rewind/fast forward/pause.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104653",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:57:24",
"content": "I’ve tried Ubuntu a few times, and I’ve really tried to like it, but I can’t. I keep going back to Windows. James’ comment about problems with Flash highlights why: things just don’t work on Linux.As for Windows’ stability: I’ve never had problems with it. I have a firewall, I don’t have anti-virus software, and I haven’t been infected by a virus since I got my first PC in 1980. I honestly don’t know what people are complaining about.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104654",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:58:17",
"content": "not to be a troll or anything but whats up with the news related posts here?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104655",
"author": "Chip Bucannon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:02:56",
"content": "Bob, I agree with you and have similar feelings. I have seen what the big deal is, and I always find myself trying out each new ubuntu release, and then finding that something does not want to work.Then the solution requires a whole new skill set just to make a web cam or printer function.XP Professional isint going to leave my computers anytime soon it would seem.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104657",
"author": "Jamesy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:23:54",
"content": "Ubuntu tries to be like Windows and OSX and in my mind, that’s not what linux is about. Linux’s power comes from the command line, not from using a GUI to do even the most basic of tasks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104659",
"author": "misha",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:27:25",
"content": "@Chip, I respect your decision, but it is equally vexing in the opposite perspective: when you have an engineering degree and program for a living (I’m not implying you don’t, I have no idea) and you use windows and see a very basic component malfunction (i.e. destabilization due to spyware, or many of the typical annoyances with proprietary software like “it doesn’t do this with the $50 version, for that you need the $100 version which expires in 1 year” ) it pisses you off to no end. You wonder, “why can’t a huge company fix a basic problem like [this]”. To me, the Linux annoyances are understandable, whereas MS has no excuse to bumble on certain things.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104661",
"author": "JG",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:33:15",
"content": "Linux has its annoyances. They are the learning curve and the online support (google.com). Linux is a great operating system though. If you would rather spend $250 on Windows than use google to troubleshoot problems with Linux, then go for it. It’s your money. I’ll keep the money and use Kubuntu. It still gives you the power of the command line with the convenience of a GUI for simple tasks.The thing with Linux…when you have a problem, there are thousands of others with the same problem. You do a google search for the problem and find a solution. It is usually as simple as cut and paste commands to fix it. Or maybe just download the latest version of flash and insert it in the proper browser folder.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104662",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:34:37",
"content": "@Naer and @SheeEttin: Fixed, thanks!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104663",
"author": "Life2Death",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:34:37",
"content": "Honestly I can argue that a good GUI beats a command line any day. A good GUI includes a command line for batch files, scripts and what not. I havent seen a good command line to date. Cisco IOS sucks, Linux sucks, Windows Sucks. That said, XP has the best GUI available so far, and runs what I want to run.I wont be going to Win7 anytime soon, not with the problems I’ve seen on our media center(s) (one is Vista SP1 and one is Win7RC)You should be able to do everything just as fast in the GUI as the console, or you did something wrong. Key presses count as button pushes, so do the math.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104664",
"author": "Ian Calvert",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:35:37",
"content": "@Bob“I don’t have anti-virus software, and I haven’t been infected by a virus”Good to know AV software is pointless. Unless of course, not all viruses are designed to completely fuck things up. Some viruses, shockingly, were crafted to make money.You could be part of a botnet, how would you know?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104666",
"author": "Dubious",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:41:08",
"content": "” I dont have anti-virus software, and I havent been infected by a virus since I got my first PC in 1980″Are you serious? With the tens of thousands of virus’ floating around, you can honestly say you have never had one when you have no real way of detecting them?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104667",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:47:51",
"content": "So, Linux grew on me. Like many others I simply refused saying “I don’t want to dick around with permissions, and trying to find drivers to make this, that or the other work”. I’ve since grown up.I realised that as will all things Open Source it is the community that drives it. You pick any decent open source piece of software, and behind it you don’t find a team of paid developers being told what bits of new code to add, you find a group of people who enjoy what they do, more than likely have a huge stake in the software (probably because it grew out of a need for something they were passionate about) and if you are not afraid of getting your hands a little dirty, fixes can be made VERY quickly.There are two types of people out there, consumers and Linux users. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104670",
"author": "nave",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:53:27",
"content": "One of the cool things I find about linux is the support for slower systems. Each version of window uses more RAM and CPU then the previous version requireing the user to buy a better system if they want to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of Windows. But with Ubuntu you have always been able to install the latest version on small systems that you used in the 90’s. Maybe you will not beable to use Compiz, and it will be very watered down, but you will still have an up to date OS running. With Windows you will have both the cost of the new computer and the OS. But you can always plan ahead and build a computer that will support new versions Windows but then again you might not have the money to do that.Cheers",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104672",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:05:48",
"content": "Yeah, that is probably one of the other great attractions that I later found with Linux.Its like mud, throw it any old system and it usually sticks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104673",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:10:30",
"content": "@Bob et. al. I understand you desire not to complicate you life with Another set of stuff. I make my money from cleaning up widows issues. Since moving to linux I have been able to do something that was always a nightmare with windows AUTOMATION. PXE booting,automatic windows installs, offline reading and modification of the windows registry, network ntfscloning, offline virus scan etc. Almost have offline user migration, almost fully scripted. Try doing that with windows, it becomes mess quickly. Doing it from linux, it starts off mess and evolves into a solution. Document what you do and evolve it into a script, after a while you only have to start the appropriate script.Anyone into getting more out of their systems, needs to look at linux.The other cool thing is all the cruft thats put into windows make you buy up the windows food chain, and not their competitors, isnt there.Its such a relief….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104675",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:12:45",
"content": "@pedants. So I didn’t proof read my earlier post. I only just got up, sue me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104677",
"author": "netinfinity",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:22:17",
"content": "I’m a long time Ubuntu user, and I’m glad that hack a day is (are) Ubuntu user(s).Anyway 9.10 has some great changes. Especially Ubuntu One :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104679",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:24:51",
"content": "I tried to use Ubuntu a few years back until an ‘automatic’ software update botched my system completely and rendered my machine useless for several days while the moderators of the forums bumbled around making excuses. I think that the ‘forced development cycle’ is rather pointless if you can’t keep out major bugs like that. I’ll admit that small bugs will make their way in regardless of design rigor, but that was a bit much.Which is why Debian still wins hands down.. ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104680",
"author": "Shadyman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:32:17",
"content": "I’ve been running Kubuntu Karmic since Alpha 6, and it was stable even then. It runs laps around Jaunty due to the newer kernel (which I required due to software RAID problems, patched in 2.6.30). Also, Amarok2 and digiKam 1.0 only run on Karmic, not Jaunty (without some kernel hacking).So hey, Amarok2, digiKam 1.0, and no software raid problems? It’s worth it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104682",
"author": "SexieWASD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:35:23",
"content": "Two things are keeping a windows partition on my drive.First is DirectX. Wine just doesn’t cut it for games. There seams to always be quirks or the game just won’t run. OpenCL isn’t really a good enough substitute for most developers to choose it over Microsoft’s offerings.The second is that with Windows I get to talk to the hot sounding Indian chick every time I have to activate a fresh install, someday she will marry me.I was amazed with Ubuntu the last time I swapped hardware around. I swapped motherboards, turned the power on and went to get coffee to get me through installing two OS’s. When I came back it was at the gnome desktop working as well as ever, windows failed miserably as I was expecting it to.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104686",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:05:38",
"content": "A couple of people have asked me how I know my system isn’t infected, since I don’t run with AV software.1) I do an AV scan about once a year, and it never finds anything. 2) Microsoft now has its Malicious Software tool, which is updated once a month and never finds anything on my system. 3) My firewall (ZoneAlarm) requires I authorize every app that talks on the net, so I assume that would detect if my PC were on a botnet.I’m required to have AV software running at my work, and it’s never detected anything either. I’ve concluded that if you’re savvy enough to know what not to download, and to run Firefox and Thunderbird, viruses just aren’t a big threat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104687",
"author": "gringeteh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:11:22",
"content": "So, Windows grew on me. Like many others I simply refused saying “I don’t want to dick around with permissions dialogs, and trying to find good antivirus software so my computer continues to work”. I’ve since grown up.I realised that as will all things Closed Source it is the community that drives it. You pick any decent closed source piece of software, and behind it you don’t find a team of unpaid developers arbitrarily deciding what bits of new code to add, you find a group of people who are being paid for what they do, more than likely have a huge stake in the software (probably because they have stock in the company that sells it) and if you are not afraid of enabling automatic updates, fixes can be made VERY quickly.There are two types of people out there, neckbeards and Windows users. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104688",
"author": "Paul Tagliamonte",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:12:40",
"content": "Hey guys. Long time reader.I’m an Ubuntu Member / Dev Monkey.How is this a hack? I read this for hard hacks, not software reviews. I _clearly_ care about the release, and I have worked countless hours in the community, and on Karmic.Please bring back the old hackaday. This is getting lame.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104690",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:16:25",
"content": "A few people have mentioned that, whenever they run into a problem with Linux, they can find a solution through Google. The same is usually true of Windows problems.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104692",
"author": "Orv",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:22:36",
"content": "Have they fixed Amarok in Ubuntu yet? I decided not to upgrade to 9.04 because they went to Amarok 2, which had no working iPod support.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104693",
"author": "xoring",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:29:23",
"content": "I really don’t understand the animosity between the Linux and Windows worlds. Is it really a competition? If Bob likes Windows, why should we argue with him?And I really think that people who see Linux as a “Windows Alternative” are missing the best parts of both operating systems.I’m a Slackware user and I use Linux because of the Unix Philosophy, not because I think there are problems with Windows. In fact, as a gamer and software developer I also have some Windows machines and, like Bob, have kept them all free of viruses for over a decade. (I know because I run monthly scans with ClamAV.)Use Linux because you want *nix. Otherwise just learn to keep your Windows box clean.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104694",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:35:17",
"content": "lolz @ gringetehNods in acceptance that it can swing both ways. Oh by the way, how many times have you been able to contribute changes to Windows 2000/XP/Vista?meh…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104695",
"author": "casainho",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:41:58",
"content": "Linux Ubuntu is great, much more easy to use than Windows.I have friends that for hacking with Arduino have to install a lot of drivers, like the ones for FTDI IC, for the serialusb. On Linux ubuntu you don’t need to install that drivers and others! it’s just plug the usb devices and they work! — much more quick and easy.Linux Ubuntu it’s a paradise for hackers ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104696",
"author": "morehacklesscrap",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:52:34",
"content": "Ubuntu Linux is an awesome hack. Please submit more hacks like this. I wish hackaday were more like freshmeat and update us on all sorts of software releases. I feel you should a least give it a try.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104698",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:57:34",
"content": "@xoringIt isn’t just about viruses. Windows itself has never been built well. Its bloatware built on top of bloatware. And don’t even get me started on how Microsoft has never had an original idea of their own.Linux isn’t yet the true alternative to windows, only because Microshaft insists on bullying everyone into bowing to their ‘standards’. But its getting very close. With every new user and every upgrade its becoming a more viable alternative.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104699",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:12:32",
"content": "Just thought I’d add my $0.02….I switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) about 5 months ago, not too long after the last release. I didn’t switch because I ‘hated’ windows/Microsoft/Bill Gates/whatever. I no longer had access to a valid (read legal) windows license, and didn’t want to shell out the money for one.My motivation was strictly based on the cost of the OS’s (Windows XP > $100, Ubuntu Free).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104700",
"author": "GSV Ethics Gradient",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:12:39",
"content": "@OrvSeehttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1152094",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104701",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:14:22",
"content": "I’m a software engineer, so I understand the implications of bloatware. But when I sit down to write text, manipulate images, etc., I simply don’t care. Fast hardware is cheap, and performance is satisfactory.What I do care about is that Photoshop is better than GIMP (IMO), the buttons work for Flash, I can give the MS Word documents to other people without worrying about formatting surprises, etc.I won’t dispute the bloatware criticism. But it won’t convince me to switch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104704",
"author": "Zymastorik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:38:56",
"content": "If I didn’t play video games and have to interact with windows systems (yes there’s no capitol because it doesn’t deserve one) during the course of my duties as a pen tester/sec analyst I would never even touch it. I have Linux on 4 of my 5 systems and only the wife and son use windows for games they play that I can’t beat wine over the head enough to make work.God I can’t wait to convert them over as well, I might just buy a new console system for games and tell them to suck it up =P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104705",
"author": "Orv",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:53:23",
"content": "@GSV Ethics Gradient: Thanks for the pointer!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104707",
"author": "muffin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T00:02:50",
"content": "This is why you don’t post non-hack news on a hack blog.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104708",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T00:38:18",
"content": "Nearly 20 years on, and we’re still having this windows -v gnu/linux debate.Once most ordinary joe users get into the mind set that they don’t really need to care about the actual operating system they use, it will be easier to dump windows and use linux. Forget the OS and concentrate on the apps.1. Browsers, another holy war in itself. Even the most ardent windows follower will happily use a non MS alternative (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari)2. Email client: hell, most people have long since abandoned Outlook, and most probably use a web bases email outside of work.3. IM client: hmmmm, did MS even get around creating one of their own yet?4. PDF5. .doc, .xls, .ppt You don’t need to confine yourself to MS product for these, Open Office will handle all of these formate and much much more.6. Apache, THE standard when it comes to web serving. For a brief time, even MS hosted their website on Apache after one too many server crashes/denial of service attacks on them.Companies like google have a customized version of Ubuntu on all their desktops.For most people, this is about as deep into the Operating system as they will ever go, once more people realize this, it will be easier to take that final step, and by the same computer for less by opting for the pre install of Ubuntu instead of the the MS windows options.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104709",
"author": "IceBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T00:39:51",
"content": "Bob:”A few people have mentioned that, whenever they run into a problem with Linux, they can find a solution through Google. The same is usually true of Windows problems.”The other day I found a bug in a library. The solution? Two commands and I had the source code downloaded, one file edit to correct the bug, two commands more to compile and install.How can someone who defines himself as a hacker be comfortable in something so restrictive as Windows?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104711",
"author": "Ode",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T01:00:10",
"content": "I don’t remember seeing any mentions of recent BSD releases.You guys fail so hard, not a hack.. really, please shut this pathetic blog down.You guys have jumped the shark.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104712",
"author": "Devin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T01:22:33",
"content": "@IceBrainDo you hack your multimeter? Your soldering iron? Do you hack your wrenches and screwdrivers? An operating system is a tool, and if it performs its function well enough, then I won’t mess with it. Personally, I’ve never witnessed a library bug using Windows–perhaps that’s a Linux thing?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104713",
"author": "Rizzo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T01:27:30",
"content": "Not only is this not a hack, it’s written like the audience has never heard of Linux before. Less of this crap pls.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104714",
"author": "Enicko",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T01:33:44",
"content": "We just released a fleet of netbooks running Karmic 9.10 NBR. In the corporate word of windows I think that’s still “hack” worthy.What’s even better, the “hack” that the IT dept used to fix the only issue(ish) thing that has came up.Releasing a fleet of anything on windows has been and will always be riddled with little “windows” issues.Open source will have theirs too, but in the past couple years, they’ve cut that down, a lot. Add to that the quicker ability of software workarounds or fixes – not having to wait for another company to write something – and adoption is accelerating.Word out to the BSD comment though – an important part of Open Source is that kernel diversity. The fonzy reference is a bit close to accurate too. Ubuntu probably isn’t a hack for this crowd.I’m sure they’ve all been using Linux for a while now…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104715",
"author": "IceBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T01:42:57",
"content": "@Devin:Hacking tools?Yes,wedo!As for not witnessing a library bug in Windows, I think you should go tell that joke in Wine mailing list – I’m sure they could use a laugh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104716",
"author": "...and i'm a pc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T02:02:23",
"content": "for years i wanted a linux sustem, but because of my restriction to dial-up internet, i could never do anything with the os once installed. once i finally got DSL, i headed straight for ubuntu. after weeks of searching google, posting on forums, and pulling my hair out, i gave up and went back to xp.for me, at least, the learning curve was so great that it was impossible to complete even the most basic computing functions without searching online for a solution. i never figured out how to mount an external hard drive, never got wine to run any programs that accessed the dvd drive, never could get my mouse’s middle button to work, etc. linux might be a great os for developers, software engineers, and IT pros, but for anyone who’s not interested in typing commands into the command prompt that they copied from a google search, i say that windows and mac are the only choice so far.show me a linux distro that can run windows executibles in a VM without fuss, utilize hardware such as modems, media keyboards and mice and external drives without user intervention beyond selection of make/model, and one that only requires user command line intervention when a GUI component is malfunctioning. if there is one out there, so help me god, i would switch tonight. i’m all for open source, but only when the software is useful, and for me i still haven’t found a linux distro that is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104717",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T02:03:56",
"content": "shut up, all of you, we’ve all heard the linux vs. windows arguments before.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104718",
"author": "xoring",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T02:11:57",
"content": "It’s not that I think Windows is fine as it is. Of course it has it’s problems (so does Linux).My point is that by categorizing Linux as a “Windows alternative” you’re missing the grander picture, and coloring the argument in favor of Windows. Simple proof: Ubuntu. It’s one of the most bloated and inconsistent Linux distros because it’s focused on being a “Windows alternative”.On the other end of the spectrum, you have Slackware and Gentoo which clearly care more about leveraging the power of UNIX heritage rather than providing a an alternative to Windows users. As a result their distributions are leaner and more stable.Trying to make Linux into a “better Windows” will just cause Linux to inherit the same problems as Windows because people will have the wrong expectations from the onset.Linux began as an alternative to UNIX and it has succeeded in leveraging the strengths of UNIX and even extending them.Use Linux because you want *nix; not because you want a better Windows.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104719",
"author": "TALR",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T02:30:38",
"content": "I really don’t understand why some people are saying that Ubuntu somehow defies what linux is all about, and that the GUI is useless- First off, the entire idea of linux is not “about” anything, it’s about everything. If Linux was only about the CLI – just one central ideal interface and structure – then it would be no better than the world of windows. Linux is ABOUT variety. What the user wants, what the user IS. So stop complaining that ubuntu is a windows copycat- it isn’t, and if you don’t like it, that’s because it’s not your flavor of linux. Don’t force your ideals upon others as if they were complete noobs for enjoying a GUI- it just so happens you can enjoy and have both, cohabiting on the same system, at the same time.And for the record, your argument is invalid and out of context- look up the meaning of the name “Ubuntu” and why it was applied to the distro in the first place.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.204179
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/linux-iphone-sync-draws-near/
|
Linux IPhone Sync Draws Near
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"iphone hacks",
"Linux Hacks"
] |
[
"iphone",
"ipod touch",
"libgpod",
"linux",
"sync",
"usbmuxd"
] |
[Emuboy] lets us know about some software advances that will
make iPhone and iPod Touch syncing possible under Linux
. Apple made big changes to how the iPhone syncs compared to legacy iPods. Locking out all communications other than through iTunes was surely part of their motivation. This has left Linux users out in the cold with shoddy sync capabilities which should be coming to an end. If successful, syncing will be be possible with phones that have not been
jailbroken
.
One of the biggest hurdles in reverse-engineering the new protocol is the non-standard way in which the devices communicate over USB. The
usbmuxd
developers have been working to implement communications and now have a Release Candidate for the 1.0.0 version. Along with testing of this package,
libgpod
is now being updated to play nicely with the new database format and hash of the iPhone.
This isn’t quite at the plug-and-play level of convenience yet but if you’re comfortable working with Linux packages you should be able to get this working and help report any bugs you might find. But if you’re tired of open source playing cat and mouse with Apple you can always switch over to a device based on
Android
.
| 11
| 10
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104635",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:15:08",
"content": "Apple, once again graying the line between proprietary and anti-competitive practices.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104738",
"author": "Heatgap/Ho0d0o",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T05:49:47",
"content": "Why make it easy for the iPhone to communicate with anything other than OSX? We ARE talking about Apple here. We all know Apple doesn’t “play nice” with others in any sense of the term.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104875",
"author": "Bort",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:27:08",
"content": "Yeah. Imma’ going to get a Zune … It’ll work with OSX, right?",
"parent_id": "104738",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104746",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T08:01:55",
"content": "just avoid Apple, problem solved. Other companies learned lesson",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104772",
"author": "the Madman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T14:15:55",
"content": "People obviously want to keep using iPhones, otherwise they wouldn’t be working so hard on this.I don’t get it, but apparently the iPhone’s just so much better then all the competition… /sarc",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104810",
"author": "Shaun Taylor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:14:45",
"content": "Why are people excited about a ton of wasted effort to implement what Apple should have done? A real solution is to grab something like the DS or a phone running Linux and run a real media player that supports direct file loading and more formats. Can’t sync? No problem, any computer with a card reader and the ability to read FAT32 can play nice with these non-crippled devices.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104877",
"author": "Hector Martin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T22:34:24",
"content": "Some of us *like* reverse engineering proprietary devices. It’s a challenge. By the way, I’m not sure where the heck the DS came in Shaun’s comment. The DS is even worse than the iPhone: it’s a much inferior platform and you need custom *hardware* to use it for homebrew. At least on iPhones you can jailbreak via USB.Sure, open devices are nice and desirable and you should spend your money on them, but Apple’s stuff is hugely popular, generally *good*, and worth supporting if possible.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105160",
"author": "moo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T06:28:45",
"content": "why woudnt a zune work with osx?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105694",
"author": "xDATx",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T22:36:38",
"content": "Apple; I love them and hate them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108646",
"author": "Shocked",
"timestamp": "2009-11-24T05:40:14",
"content": "Keep at it dudes!Can’t wait for the day I can throw out the stinking rotten Apple OS.Apple’s not allowing sync via USB cable really sucks.People are always attacking Microsoft but Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour is something else again.Basically my new iPhone has turned out to be a useless brick.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113890",
"author": "stt",
"timestamp": "2009-12-29T13:02:28",
"content": "The day has arrived (few weeks ago actually)http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ipod-touch-3g-sync-over-usb-without-jailbraking-in-ubuntu-karmic.htmlworks great for me so far, retains covers and ratings etc, writing through usbmuxd could be faster but I bet they’re working on it..You just have to disable syncing from itunes and manage music library manually for it not to remove songs you added from other programs",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.414101
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/read-about-trash-hackers-for-free/
|
Read About Trash-hackers… For Free
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"HackIt"
] |
[
"creative commons",
"Doctorow",
"ebook",
"Makers"
] |
[Cory Doctorow] has
published a novel about the near future and a couple of hackers
who can make anything from the stuff lying around. We like a good sci-fi novel, and have no shortage of recommendations (go read
Snow Crash
) for those who need them. We’re adding ‘Makers’ to our must read list.
Not only is this book about you, but its release most likely agrees with your life philosophy. You can
download this book
, right now, for free, legally. This is because it has been release under the creative commons license. Best of all, if you like the book and
want to make a donation
, you are directed to purchase a book on behalf of a school or other program that has requested a copy but doesn’t have the funds to acquire it themselves.
So,
buy the book
if you want a physical copy, download it if you prefer that method, but either way we think this is better than
stealing the printed word
.
| 21
| 19
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104630",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T17:29:09",
"content": "I’d gladly accept one of those what appears to be IBM Model M clicky keyboards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104631",
"author": "Cabe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T17:32:14",
"content": "Read a lot of Cory’s stuff, havn’t found a bad-un yet. Cheers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104632",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T17:40:14",
"content": "When I was younger I was in a buy/sell shop they had stacks of those old IBM keyboards floor to ceiling. Looking back I wish I had bought a few. They are by far the best keyboard I have ever used. The one I did buy was built before I was born and I continued to use it without fail until I recently switched to a mac.The thing I really like about them is they can take a serious beating and keep on ticking.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104633",
"author": "wifigod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:00:35",
"content": "Just went to Borders (yeah I know, but I work next door to them) and the book was in the back but wouldn’t be “available” for a couple of days. :-(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104634",
"author": "will",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:08:31",
"content": "Fitting, because Snow Crash is a piece of trash.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104636",
"author": "Hiroe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:25:24",
"content": "@willif you don’t make some effort to justify your statement then your a troll.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104638",
"author": "Jeremy C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:32:01",
"content": "@willHaha, wow, never read it, but that’s a pretty bold statement. Apparently you’re a troll :).That’s pretty awesome he’s allowing free downloads though – I’m not sure I’d be so nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104640",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:49:03",
"content": "Snow Crash was great, though it can seem a bit pulpy now that the cyberpunk genre has been so saturated. Diamond Age, the sort of sequel kills off the cyberpunk theme while maintaining the techno future genre. I would highly recommend diamond age.Also, any Phillip K. Dick and William Gibson.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104665",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:38:53",
"content": "@Caleb Kraft: Speaking of William Gibson, I just finished the first book I’ve read by him:Neuromancer… delightful! I’m a big fan of the SciFi that just expects you to pick up on what is being talked about, rather than explaining.",
"parent_id": "104640",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104647",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:29:16",
"content": "I’m going to see if they can’t put a kindle version up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104658",
"author": "wifigod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:26:28",
"content": "@shazznerIt’s in .txt and .mobi format, which are both supported by Kindle. Perhaps you didn’t scroll down far enough?@HiroeJust for giggles, I must point out your incorrect usage of YOUR. Also, if you were trying to be cute with your name, Hiro is spelled w/o an e at the end. Perhaps its just a coincidence.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104668",
"author": "phillips321",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:51:08",
"content": "Meh, i never have time to read books. An audio book would be much appreciated though!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104671",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:58:31",
"content": "@phillips321: He says he will post fan conversions… why don’t you read the book out loud and send it to him?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104681",
"author": "kevin lura",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:33:07",
"content": "Cory Doctorow is great. Cant wait for some time to read this.Makes me want a kindle even more.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104703",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:32:38",
"content": "Hobo type stuff gets troll bombed every time on the new wave hack sites. Either trolled or frivolously criticized. It’s the suburban mentality.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104720",
"author": "required",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T02:34:03",
"content": "more good authors:neal asher,charles stross,ian banks,jeff noon,greg egan,…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104724",
"author": "Spadefinger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T03:48:45",
"content": "I liked Snow Crash to a point, but it lost me somewhere along the way to the end. William Gibson sometimes has the same effect for me, but Neuromancer was one of my all time favorites. I have never heard of this author, but I’m willing to download it and give it a shot. The intro on the download page would have been enough incentive for me. Thanks for the tip.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104757",
"author": "giveaphuk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T12:11:04",
"content": "what about Rudy Rucker – ‘hardware’ ‘software’ ‘wetware’ ‘freeware’ ??.. some of the best sci’fi/cyberpunk lit. i’ve read in ages.. as good as k.dick!, if not better, for being really tweaked.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104760",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:06:28",
"content": "@giveaphuk,oh yeah, those are great. I read those ages ago. Wetware was an interesting experience. I was pretty young and only vaguely aware of fetish.",
"parent_id": "104757",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104805",
"author": "Nick Caiello",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:10:29",
"content": "Just ordered it from Amazon and I gotta say I am pretty excited to read this one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105527",
"author": "Overgrownasian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T03:49:45",
"content": "Forgot the book I was reading when I went out of town this last weekend, and decided that since I could download it for free I wasn’t out anything. Now I am considering either purchasing a copy for myself or for donation. Anyone who reads Hack a Day will understand the message of this book.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.472525
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/halloween-props-techy-jack-o-lanterns/
|
Halloween Props: Techy Jack-o-lanterns
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] |
[
"halloween",
"jack",
"pumpkin"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYS_Tjf7pQ&feature=player_embedded]
Halloween is this weekend. If you still have some time and parts available, you might be looking to spice up your Jack-o-lantern. We’ve found a few projects that we thought might be nice to share. None of them would merit a post on their own, so we thought we would just round them up and share them all at once. They all appear to be powered by the Arduino, which we know will bring some comments. Just to clear up some questions, they don’t pay us to advertise Arduinos. People just do a lot of projects with them.
First, the
silly string shooting Jack-o-lantern
which you can see above. He’s using a single servo hooked to an Arduino and a motion sensor. When it detects motion, it lets out a short squirt of silly string. You can download the code from the project page. We might suggest you arrange this in a manner to avoid spraying directly into some kids eyes.
Check out the next two after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF5Q5mIKb2U]
Second, we have the
flickering LED Jack-o-lantern
that changes based on your movement. Again, powered by an Arduino and a proximity sensor, it doesn’t get much simpler.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3K02Rjbexs]
Lastly, we bring you the
music synchronized LED pumpkin
. This one has a nice carving of a drum set on the front, lit from behind in rhythm with the music. Again, this is controlled by an Arduino. The setup is fairly simple and you can download the source code from the project page.
| 10
| 10
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104623",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T16:07:25",
"content": "cool",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104624",
"author": "Ian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T16:13:53",
"content": "I made a remote control color changing pumpkin with ‘angry’ mode for the various Halloween contests:http://dangerousprototypes.com/2009/10/29/remote-control-color-changing-pumpkin/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104626",
"author": "cyberpunk64bit",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T16:25:23",
"content": "i will say it once, i will say it again! if it has more than 2 wires, it will get hacked.. these are still way cool!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104660",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:32:30",
"content": "Still not sure why an arduino would be required for this; motion sensor triggers a brief pulse on the silly string actuator. Timing could easily be DONE by a 555.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104669",
"author": "trialex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T20:53:09",
"content": "@PocketBrainYes it could be controlled by a 555.BUTI know I could write out the ~20 lines the arduino code would be faster than I could calculated the R1, R2, C1 values needed for the correct servo pulse length.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104684",
"author": "@trialex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:59:23",
"content": "And so bloatware is born… :oP",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104685",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:05:01",
"content": "Just don’t put a candle in that pumpkin! Silly string is (or used to be) quite flammable and parents of the neighborhood kids will frown upon a flame-thrower pumpkin torching the kiddies.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104697",
"author": "shadow",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:55:33",
"content": "@trialexwell yeah, that because standards are slipping, my tutors beat the calculation into my head, so i cld calculate it faster, plus 555 is probably cheaper. Now who will be first to comment they could do it in clockwork? that i would be intrested in!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104702",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:22:34",
"content": "@trialex:Use a spreadsheet! ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104751",
"author": "George Stone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T09:48:11",
"content": "This COULD have been done by purely mechanical means. Doesn’t mean it should be.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.66884
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/keepon-eat-your-heart-out/
|
Keepon, Eat Your Heart Out
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"dance",
"dancing",
"keepon"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJmyf4vg2hg]
[Ruyck] sent us this video of his
mini Keepon robot
. For those who haven’t been initiated,
Keepon
is a very emotive, and extremely expensive, dancing robot. He is deceptively simple looking, but as you can see in [Ruyck]’s version, it is fairly complex. [Ruyck] has used a mini RC collective pitch helicopter assembly for the motion, which makes controlling it fairly intuitive. At first, we were not too impressed with [Ruyck]’s final implementation, which you can see along with a comparison video of Keepon after the break. Then we realized, all he as to do is find a way to attach the bottom of the foam body to the base to achieve much more of the squash and stretch motion of keepon. A little creative programming and this little fellow could be made autonomous and synchronized to music.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRuB2PNAXI4]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-yrjh58ms&NR=1]
| 7
| 7
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104618",
"author": "Sc00ter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T15:37:58",
"content": "Nice, but not quite as cool as a real keepon. The bouncing and squishyness is what makes it.Doesn’t seem far off however :) Can’t wait for version 2",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104621",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T15:57:39",
"content": "At least he used some better music for his video.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104651",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:51:47",
"content": "I was hoping for a Quest for Glory IV reference. :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104710",
"author": "Andar_b",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T00:48:48",
"content": "But it’s not blue and transparent. :)I wonder if it multiplies by being stabbed by hapless adventurers?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104725",
"author": "Ruyck",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T03:53:42",
"content": "Sweet made it on hackaday! Yea I had his body attached to the cover at one point. The squish greatly restricted his movement. As of the second video I have made some slight modifications to increase the motion. I will try to attatch him to the base again and see if I get some better results.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104727",
"author": "Andar_b",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T04:15:53",
"content": "I finally remembered what that darn thing was called.ANTWERP!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104903",
"author": "Ruyck",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T03:42:33",
"content": "Version 2 is done! Now with more squish!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIKsXh0OxOk",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.628857
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/libtisch-1-0-released/
|
LibTISCH 1.0 Released
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"Misc Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] |
[
"libtisch",
"multitouch",
"tangible interface",
"tisch"
] |
[Florian] is proud to announce
libTISCH 1.0
is finally ready for release. We told you about libTISCH just
under a year ago
and how it is a multitouch framework that factors more on the software side of things, instead of hardware for multitouch interfaces. A lot has changed including more widgets, more gestures, more hardware support, and some other nice features. If you’re looking into making your own multitouch surface, or making your own widgets for a multitouch surface – libTISCH would be a great place to start.
| 2
| 2
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104614",
"author": "Sprite_tm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T14:30:32",
"content": "Now I’m tempted to create multitouch-hardware and name it ‘badoom’ and make it use this as the software part. Why? I’d have a ‘badoom-tisch-based system’ :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105588",
"author": "Erwin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T13:56:22",
"content": "Nice project, but unfortunate that you used th LGPL license.Can you please consider changing the license to either BSD, MIT or ZLib, otherwise the project might gather dust.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.510765
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/28/upgraded-atari-1024stf/
|
Upgraded Atari 1024STf
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"computer hacks"
] |
[
"1024 ST",
"atari",
"Case mod",
"EEE keyboard"
] |
[Gerritt] wanted to give his crippled Atari 1024 STf a new purpose in life. He cracked it open and set to work
filling it with some modern components
. The keyboard from the
nearly 25-year-old dinosaur
doesn’t have all the keys we’re used to, nor did they all work, so he replaced the original with a 101 key model. The internal hardware was replaced with a microATX board, a picoPSU, Bluetooth and WiFi transceivers, a hard drive, and a slot-fed DVD drive. He even rebuilt the original mouse to use the circuitry from an optical mouse.
The final product is a 1.6GHz Pentium Mobile with one gig of ram. Now he has no need to pick up an
EEE Keyboard PC
when they hit the market.
| 42
| 42
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104491",
"author": "Josh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:22:17",
"content": "Awesome. I want one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104493",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:27:34",
"content": "that is SWEET!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104495",
"author": "AnarKit",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:31:19",
"content": "An amusing casemod, but I cannot help but weep for the poor old original hardware!It really would have been something to interface the new peripherals with the original processing hardware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104497",
"author": "b",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:36:17",
"content": "cool",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104500",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:46:40",
"content": "@AnarKit: I agree, this is more of a casemod, as opposed to resurrecting the old hardware. Still, very cool stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104501",
"author": "Roger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:48:42",
"content": "That’s a Atari 1040 ST not a 1024 (even though it has 1024 memory).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104502",
"author": "Roger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:50:33",
"content": "Oh, and it is too bad that he did not ressurect the old hard ware. The Atari 1040 is still the Best (rock-solid timing) MIDI sequencer on the planet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104503",
"author": "Marco",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:53:41",
"content": "So in other words it’s a casemod instead of a hack or revived hardware. How disappointing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104506",
"author": "Fortyseven",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:04:01",
"content": "@AnarKit: Thirded with the weeping. I went into this article assuming he’d actually super-upgraded the original Atari hardware itself. Would have had a tenfold increase in hack value, I think. :PGranted, you could probably run an emulator of the original hardware on this now, but… ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104511",
"author": "tnt23",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:30:28",
"content": "While the author definitely deserves credit for the work done, I’d rather be seeing original Atari ST pimped with fancy peripherals of all sorts. Sigh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104513",
"author": "japkin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:37:02",
"content": "@Fortyseven: Agreed. I was anxiously reading through what he had done, only to realize it was just a case mod. I was waiting for all the new changes to interface with the old hardware, but alas, no. Still some nice work, though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104517",
"author": "millBot",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:55:28",
"content": "wow, what a way to destroy classic computing hardware. What a shame!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104518",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:59:17",
"content": "I join the choir of those lamenting the old Atari. Shame.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104531",
"author": "rallen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T21:27:19",
"content": "I see a lot of people lamenting the loss of the original hardware, and slamming this as “just a casemod”, and they do have a point. But even the summary noted that not all the hardware was functioning, and most probably would’ve required a mobo transplant anyways. To do what you’re suggesting, i.e. interface new peripherals into the twenty-something year old hardware, would be a feat of engineering bordering on the miraculous. How many people actually got into the guts of an Atari 1040 ST, anyways? I think it’s pretty neat that he even bothered to save the case, instead of fabbing up something new.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104541",
"author": "ProblemChild",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:34:14",
"content": "Would of much preferred A ST doing something or other. The case Mod is fun but really the hardware is boring. I suppose he has at least done something with the hardware!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104542",
"author": "hrpuffnstuff",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:39:49",
"content": "Nice job and not an Arduino in site. Congrats to an article not even mentioning the Arduino. Wait, I mentioned it, Damn me to hell.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104546",
"author": "pastrychef",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:49:04",
"content": "This is NOT an upgraded Atari 1040ST. It’s just a case mod.I’m with all the others who wish the modder would’ve actually did something with the Atari 1040ST rather than just destroying it and making it in to a PC.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104550",
"author": "eeun",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T23:10:16",
"content": "I’m a long-time Atari ST guy, and that said, I love this mod.Yes, you can interface an aging Atari ST with modern hardware – there’s Ethernec for ethernet; Eiffel for a PS/2 interface to the ST’s serial keyboard, and there’s an IDE interface that bit-bashes the 68000 CPU. Built all three of them, too.But…why bother? It’s far easier to leave your ST in pristine shape and gain all that functionality by using an ST emulator like Steem on the PC without having to make a single solder.As already pointed out, this was a broken ST, so no loss to vintage fans, and it creates something new with an Atari flavor. Bravo!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104553",
"author": "charlie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T00:26:55",
"content": "Amiga for Ever!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104555",
"author": "ronald_55",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T00:59:32",
"content": "Come on. Stop the whining. This is a cool project for a dead system. Congrats.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104558",
"author": "atrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T01:23:48",
"content": "Fine, I accept this machine is dead and he didn’t think it was worth the effort to resurrect it.But if you a vintage case, why would you paint it black!Note to the vintage lovers: I just spared one of these 1040STf’s lives… Found it at the curb, it has a new life now. I was glad to see the community still active.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104559",
"author": "Seth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T01:24:32",
"content": "I say Bravo as well!Now what are we going to do we all these Atari 400s?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104560",
"author": "Alvin Pettit",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T01:39:03",
"content": "This is a case mod, this is NOT an upgrade and honestly I am tired of these. I mean big deal, not if he can put a PC into a Sinclair ZX-81 ok that will impress me. Otherwise bullox!I don’t care that it was broken, I rather see what can be salvaged and re-used into a working ST.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104564",
"author": "Bob Saggett",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T01:57:41",
"content": "I still have my Atari 512 upgraded w/ 2MB of Memory, and 10MB Supra Hard Drive and another Atari 1024 which I found. Works like a charm! Nothing like the good old days…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104567",
"author": "Jimmy Sultan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T02:20:26",
"content": "Misleading title, but a nifty mod since it was already a dead unit.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104569",
"author": "JB",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T02:52:39",
"content": "Nice mod, although I’m also in the bandwagon of weepers :PPerhaps I should upgrade my old (working) ST since the hardware is cheap now. Never got around to put a HDD in it back then.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104571",
"author": "john",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:02:20",
"content": "Excellent casemod – nice nod to the retro. Nice whining too, whiny whiners.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104575",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:33:40",
"content": "stuck mini itx in a box. didn’t even get the old keyboard working with it. casemon, not a hack. Waste of old hardware, at that…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104577",
"author": "romulous",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:38:28",
"content": "I’m afraid the authors definition of ‘begging the question’ is completely erroneous.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104592",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T07:02:33",
"content": "Mike found another case mode…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104598",
"author": "ebidk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T07:43:01",
"content": "Yeah what’s been already said a lot in the above comments, it’s a nice case mod but poor Atari.At least I hope it was broken in some way first, otherwise I could never do something like this even though I was a C=64 and Amiga 500/1200 kid back in the day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104603",
"author": "kryptylomese",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T09:38:28",
"content": "So now you have got a really big keyboard case that just takes up load of desk space – BRILLIANT!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104605",
"author": "cantido",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T10:30:53",
"content": "/me was expecting some 060 or ColdFire expansionwhat a let down.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104608",
"author": "Louis II",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T11:51:24",
"content": "It’s not an Atari any more…?/confused.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104609",
"author": "rachael",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T11:54:50",
"content": "Upgrade?! its a pc in a atari 1024sf case, with another keyboard, so even of the case itself there is little left.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104613",
"author": "Jeremy C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T14:20:25",
"content": "I agree, it doesn’t seem like much is left. I could be wrong, but it seems like even the case has been modified. Still a pretty neat looking result though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104627",
"author": "TC",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T17:18:26",
"content": "FAIL! As nice as this looks I cant help but think thi is throwing away classic components to a classic (and ever rarer) system and in it’s place it’s had half-arsed modern components thrown in. Can’t say I’m impressed at all.What a shame.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104641",
"author": "Spede",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:04:50",
"content": "Seeing a real classic gutted and some generic pc stuff thrown in makes me cry. In a few years this is just another casemodded slow slow worthless pc nobody wants to use but the Atari would only have increased in value.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104678",
"author": "ultragalore",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:23:38",
"content": "Don’t know If I should chime in on this since I’m the guilty one on this casemod (and that is how I presented it to hackaday) but come on… I didn’t cut up a Atari Falcon or something…Believe me I did try my best to get a new home for the Atari but it turned out there wasn’t a lot of animo for the classics.If anyone is in need of those genuine vintage atari parts: I still have the PSU unit and Floppy left and am happy to donate it. I’m not a barbarian!I’m very glad with my XP/Ubuntu space and power saving nostalgic PC – I can stack my CD’s on top of it just like in the old days (but then it were floppies) and it runs Xenon II like a charm!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104747",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T08:06:08",
"content": "don’t people like to relax, lean back in chairs with keyboard on their knees ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107211",
"author": "gunhan",
"timestamp": "2009-11-13T20:56:54",
"content": "good work my friendbut we was make a orginal keyboard and 3,6 ghz cpu ( o-c 4,7 ghz)st transform to pc for detaileshttp://www.atariturkiye.comon retro mod section",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "120161",
"author": "Robert Steed",
"timestamp": "2010-01-27T17:18:23",
"content": "Waste of an Atari ST. What’s the point?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.586143
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/28/xerox-ink-will-print-circuits/
|
Xerox Ink Will Print Circuits
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"News",
"Tool Hacks"
] |
[
"ink",
"printable circuit",
"silver bullet",
"Xerox"
] |
Xerox has announced a breakthrough in printable circuits. They’ve
developed a conductive ink called “silver bullet”
that can be printed on many different types of substrate to create circuits. The key part of the new ink is its lower melting point. Plastic film substrate melts at 150 degrees Celsius but the ink is liquid when ten degrees cooler to avoid damaging the film. This begs the question: how do you then solder components to the circuit?
The benefits of
printable circuitry
are obvious. Aside from cheaper and easier RFID, disposable circuits like greeting cards, and fabric-based electronics, we’re hoping this will facilitate more environmentally friendly PCB fabrication. That really depends on the ink’s production process and the resilience of the resulting circuitry.
[via
Gizmodo
]
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| 40
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104478",
"author": "Dunbar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:10:06",
"content": "I think this one is a bit early to really be useful, but I’ll bet they’re counting on conductive glues (that are available today) to become popular and maybe printable semiconductors to be developed (imagine a cartridge full of “resistor”).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104479",
"author": "Fallen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:11:42",
"content": "You wouldn’t solder it. A conductive epoxy would likely be used. Resistors could be printed too, and possibly low value capacitors. Nifty.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104480",
"author": "wolfy02",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:15:29",
"content": "sweet. any idea when it will be available for purchase?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104481",
"author": "Kiwisaft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:42:03",
"content": "in my apprenticeship i modded my cellular (3510) from green to blue/orange. so i needed an additional resistors for the orange ones, i mounted them direcly to the leds with silver-conductive-glue ^^would work pretty fine for this stuff, too",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104484",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:56:15",
"content": "This goes back to we need affordable open hardware to replicate same.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104485",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T17:44:35",
"content": "You would solder with Silver Bullet ink. Probably not the hot iron we’re used to but a similar process I would imagine.A rod or spool of hardened silver bullet fed to a soldering iron with a lower temp.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104487",
"author": "OldVamp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:03:25",
"content": "Now they just need to add a pick and place surface mount component feature to their printer. Printing out a fully functional circuit would be great.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104488",
"author": "Anton",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:07:28",
"content": "My is broken, I’ll just print another… ohhhh, paperjam…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104489",
"author": "pelaca",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:12:28",
"content": "That’s a big improvement on the RFID manufacturing. Why? because the hi cost of the RFID tags. With this ink you can print the antena directly on your tag and only need to glue the non encapsulated RFID chip.The polyethylene is more durable than paper and less expensive than polyester. Xerox has killed two birds on one shot.This ink is developed for print antenas and not to use with solder parts.http://americanprinter.com/binding-finishing/printing_truth_rfid_printing/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104490",
"author": "toolboy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:20:33",
"content": "I’ve seen this popping up all over – how is this different than silver paint – the colloidal silver suspension used by science weenies for decades (not silver colored paint you nonce). Since they printed “Nano Ag”, sure sounds like it’s just a Ag suspension.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104498",
"author": "pelaca",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:38:05",
"content": "Toolboy,Silver paint has very big particles on suspension. You can deposit silver particles with that, but not print.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104508",
"author": "Audin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:04:13",
"content": "“Aside from cheaper and easier RFID, disposable circuits like greeting cards, and fabric-based electronics, we’re hoping this will facilitate more environmentally friendly PCB fabrication”I love the ‘disposable circuits’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ in the same sentence!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104514",
"author": "BegTheQuestion",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:45:06",
"content": "“This begs the question: how do you then solder components to the circuit?”To “beg the question” is a type of logical fallacy. Assume author means this *raises* the question…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104516",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:50:25",
"content": "this isn’t that exciting until hobbyists can get their hands on it, and semiconducting inks, to do stuff with it that large semiconductor manufacturers aren’t interested in doing, like, say reprap stuff. afaict things like this and semiconducting inks are not available to individuals.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104519",
"author": "CalcProgrammer1",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T20:00:27",
"content": "If this technology could be made affordable on a consumer level it would be a great step forward for hobbyists. We would no longer have to rely on expensive manufacturing techniques keeping us from building custom boards and parts. If this continues, the future of technology may finally shift away from corporate control and into homes, schools, and workshops. However, at this stage it’s just a fancy version of conductive pens that already exist.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104525",
"author": "AnthonyDi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T20:31:02",
"content": "Couldn’t you do this with a pure carbon toner?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104527",
"author": "BigD145",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T20:33:30",
"content": "How much do the traces interfere with each other?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104535",
"author": "Haku",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T21:54:00",
"content": "Does this mean we can finally, after almost 9 years of waiting, get our $10 paper mobile phones?http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/19/10_paper_mobile_phone/2002 archive page of what we were supposed to be getting –http://web.archive.org/web/20021201110254/http://www.dtcproducts.com/dtc/home.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104540",
"author": "J. Peterson",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:29:02",
"content": "Printer ink is already one of the most expensive fluids…silverprinter ink should set a new record.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104544",
"author": "hrpuffnstuff",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:42:15",
"content": "Great, I can see getting a call to fix a printer that jammed while printing out a Cray motherboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104561",
"author": "Beggingthequestion",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T01:49:08",
"content": "Yes, the intransitive construction “begs the question’ does. The transitive constructions “begs the question ” is also in common use, and has a different meaning regarding calling for a resolution of a question. The meaning of the transitive form is essentially a generalization of the intransitive form such that the intransitive form is identical to the transitive form with the assumed object being the question actually at issue in the debate. This is a rather elegant rationalization of the poor translation into English of the dubious translation into Latin of the Greek phrase that ultimately turned into “begging the question”.Arguing that the use of the transitive construction is wrong because of the well-established technical definition of the intransitive construction is, IMO, one of the most inane forms of misguided linguistic prescriptivist pedantry commonly seen, as the two are distinct constructions which are impossible to confuse with each other, and have meanings that are related the way one would expect the meanings of transitive and intransitive phrases to relate to each other (even though the more general, transitive form, is generalized from the more specific, intransitive form in a way which reflects the normal use of the English words in the phrase rather than etymology of the transitive form.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104572",
"author": "Mantech1",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:10:42",
"content": "Interesting, though if its anything like the current printers available its gonna be expensive…or as one of my friends is so fond of saying “The ink’s so expensive your better off getting a new printer since it comes with ink.” .Now as for soldering….I could see several different ways to do that though you wouldn’t be using conventional solder. Like several others have said before there’s conductive glue, another possibility if your not interested in making any repairs is to lightly glue your parts over their assigned contacts and then laminating the whole thing.A far off idea would involve graphite based electronic parts.Although, hmmm, I wonder if we’ll be seeing this technology used in future E-reader type products.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104580",
"author": "Airton da Fonseca Granero",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:53:46",
"content": "It is common now the use of conductive glue. I’ve used it and it seems very good.There was homemade conductive printers made by transforming an inkjet printer to use silver nitrate and citric acid. (You can see something like it inhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/19/hp-inkjet-printer-kicks-out-environmentally-friendly-circuit/(I think the article is wrong, it is not Vitamin C, that is ascorbic acid, but citric acid, that is also present in citric fruits, so the confusion). The same process was used for homemade photography (http://www.alternativephotography.com/process_saltprints.html)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104581",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T04:09:50",
"content": "“Begging the question” does NOT mean “invites the question”, it means answering the question you would *rather* have been asked, the stock in trade of politicians. Every time a talking head on TV is asked a question and says “I’m glad you asked me that”, then goes on to talk about anything but, THAT’S “begging the question”.So how *do* you solder to something with a lower melting point?Sounds great (until I remember that only 1cc of conductive paint cost me $25).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104606",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T10:54:00",
"content": "I’m sure Apple has already patented this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104611",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T12:28:30",
"content": "@Beggingthequestion…what@Droneapple doesn’t do any semiconductor or ink development, so no.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104622",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T15:57:40",
"content": "You could make quite thin layers of circuits like this. Imagine it an incredibly thin circuit board.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104629",
"author": "s",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T17:28:38",
"content": "Complaining about wrongly using “beg the question” is a lost cause. The use of the phrase to mean “invite the question” is now very firmly in the language.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104639",
"author": "canbot",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:36:16",
"content": "Why not use a line plotter fitted with a conductive pen to print circuits. It will take longer to print but the technology is ready to be implemented.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104643",
"author": "bothersaidpooh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:12:27",
"content": "interesting. Perhaps this could be combined with OLEDs and a non conductive waterproof overlay to make a cheaper OLED TV.Who cares if they degrade after 500 hours, thats still more than enough for simple applications such as video magazines etc.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104646",
"author": "ScrewTheQuestion",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:17:53",
"content": "Shut up. Shut Up! SHUT UP!It’s about giving new meaning to “printed circuit”, not begging goddamn questions. A pox upon thee, vile phrase-fascist!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104676",
"author": "Wolvenmoon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:13:32",
"content": "This actually kind of depresses me. Instead of being used to benefit everyone it’s going to mean wal mart is going to RFID tag everything and use it to twist more money out of consumers.Other mass usages will be similar, it’ll be used to rip people off.*Sigh*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104691",
"author": "Kealper",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:19:30",
"content": "@bothersaidpoohThat is a good idea, I’ve seen those magazines that have audio that turns on when you open the page, having a little OLED printed circuit page to show a preview of a game or movie, or anything for that matter would be very cool.@grammar NazisStfoo…You people sound like a bunch of bickering old women…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104706",
"author": "neil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T23:59:20",
"content": "I requested a sample. I’m hoping I can “print” the ink on different materials to contacts directly on silicone. i dont care, just thought i’d share.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104753",
"author": "Einomies",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T10:09:54",
"content": "When a person begs a question, it means they are answering besides the real question.When a subject matter begs a question, it means it needs a further question about the subject matter because the information presented was ambiguous or unclear about some detail.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104755",
"author": "ryan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T11:44:21",
"content": "@nave.notnilcExcept apple is in the semiconductor business now that they own PA Semiconductor. But Drone bringing up apple is a weak attempt at trolling.On the layers topic, how would you do something like a via??",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104777",
"author": "Anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T15:02:15",
"content": "@ BeggingthequestionYou definitely brightened my day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104811",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:14:48",
"content": "Field’s metal solder?And a via probably could be done with a hefty squirt of that ink over a pre-punched hole. Just enough to fill it. Might change the drying time and speed of print.And its use would not be only for flex circuits; a printer capable of doing either flex or stiff media would be quite the flexible tool for prototyping!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105380",
"author": "AnonHg",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T19:29:23",
"content": "Not to blow my load or anything, but im in the running to be one of the first product testers for the silver bullet ink, and to clear some things up, they do have a semiconductor. here is the message I was sent from Xerox.Hello G******,Thank you for your interest in Xerox functional inks. Our inks are designed for mostly thin-film printed electronics applications on flexible substrates, and include a conductive nanosilver ink, an organic semiconductor ink, and a dielectric ink. They are low viscosity and designed for use in inkjet or other low viscosity printing processes. Please let me know if you are still interested and if so, which inks are of interest and I can send the appropriate information.AnonHg FTW",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107461",
"author": "Xtremegamer",
"timestamp": "2009-11-16T01:23:44",
"content": "mhm not longer waiting for pcb’s just e-mail or create in paint xD print and done :p",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.845154
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/28/mr-wake-wakes-up-and-runs/
|
Mr. Wake, Wakes Up And Runs
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"home hacks"
] |
[
"alarm",
"clocky"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdeqd-e0mjI]
[isotope] must really hate himself. He has built a torture device of pure evil.
Mr. Wake
, his alarm clock robot, should be considered a torture device. This cute looking little bot, with its bright and colorful clock and neat plastic tube frame is an alarm clock. As soon as it’s alarm goes off, Mr. Wake starts watching for you. If it detects your presence, it takes off, only to wait for you to stumble, bleary eyed, to its current location. Do you know what it does when you catch up to it? It takes off again. Why would you build a robot that you know you are just going to destroy in a groggy fit of animalistic rage?
We actually like Mr. Wake more than
clocky
, simply for its hackish feel. If you really really have problems getting up, you may want to consider something
a little more drastic
.
[via
Makezine
]
| 12
| 12
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104467",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:44:23",
"content": "needs to go faster… but ya that is cool",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104474",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:56:08",
"content": "Did anyone catch Clocky in last weeks episode of Flash Forward? He was doing donuts in a pool of blood lol.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104509",
"author": "Physic.dude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:04:18",
"content": "@monkeyslayer56Ya, more speed!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104523",
"author": "8-[",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T20:20:37",
"content": "It needs to go faster and the sensors need a higher range… what would be cool is a feature that would make it look for dark hideouts e.g. unter the bed or under closets etc…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104538",
"author": "VonSkippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:16:03",
"content": "Instead of designing work arounds to enable these lazy bums – we should be smothering them with a pillow to take them out of the gene pool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104552",
"author": "colecoman1982",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T23:25:04",
"content": "Ok VonSkippy, time to take your meds…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104554",
"author": "supershwa",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T00:30:37",
"content": "twisted version of clocky? i thought the whole “jump off the nightstand” thing was more than enough…damn things make the dog go crazy too — no need for coffee after one of those mornings…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104557",
"author": "cyanide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T01:03:42",
"content": "you can buy these at thinkgeek",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104578",
"author": "Winphreak",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:50:17",
"content": "This is more ear-friendly (and much more hackerish) than soldering a relay and some horns up to an alarm clock:http://gizmodo.com/5367690/hacked-alarm-clock-with-140+decibel-electric-horns-should-be-murderedAs for clocky, mine has a nice tendency of running through my open door and into the hallway.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104585",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T05:25:38",
"content": "That alarm clock “hack” was covered here and was subsequently revealed to be bogus. Plus, what makes this hack unique is it’s gimmick of running away from you.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104607",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T11:42:59",
"content": "@ xrazirwirex yea I hate kipkay, a lot of the stuff he throws out on youtube is B.S. although not all of it. People just think because of the semi professional way in which he sets up the camera and his voice that whatever goes on in the video must be true.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104642",
"author": "bothersaidpooh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T19:05:46",
"content": "What about an autonomous R/C heli. add some clever circuitry such as a 3-d accelerometer and gyros, edge/ceiling detection using mouse sensor, etc. And object avoidance.While making the most infuriating noise imaginable, nails on a blackboard. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.936018
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/28/hot-off-the-presses-its-android-2-0-sdk/
|
Hot Off The Presses Its Android 2.0 SDK.
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"Android Hacks"
] |
[
"2.0 sdk",
"android",
"developer challange"
] |
Today Google released the Android 2.0 SDK, allowing developers to begin writing for their latest cell phone platform. Unlike programming for Apple’s iPhone or Touch, however, there isn’t as much documentation on the installation and setup process. AndroidandMe
steps in
at this point for all those that have gone a muck by writing a very detailed how-to on the install process. So what are you waiting for, start now and you might just be the next
Android Developer Challenge
winner.
[Thanks Taylor].
| 7
| 7
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104468",
"author": "cromag",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:45:00",
"content": "OK, I don’t want to be “that guy” but:a muck? I think you mean amok.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104473",
"author": "JBot",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:54:39",
"content": "If you guys won’t, I’ll proofread your articles for you, for free. Just don’t post them without actually READING THROUGH THEM FIRST. Pretty please?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104512",
"author": "taylor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:32:00",
"content": "When I clicked to see comments, i got an ad for the nuvifone… haha, that phone makes no sense anymore with the android 2.0 nav… hah. Proof that when a product is a good idea (like it was 2 years ago) companies should NOT drag their feet on it!-Taylor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104530",
"author": "GSV Ethics Gradient",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T21:19:44",
"content": "What does AndroidandMe cover that isn’t covered more thoroughly in the Android SDK docs?http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/hello-world.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104568",
"author": "lithium",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T02:35:47",
"content": "today? this was released yesterday. c’mon guyslet’s get with it. also, keep an eye out over at forums.xda-developers.com, as the members over there are already hard at work to get the 2.0 firmware running on the G1 (HTC Dream) as well as other android based phones that only have up to 1.6 on them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104599",
"author": "GSV Ethics Gradient",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T08:09:46",
"content": "They don’t have the complete 2.0 source tree though",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106207",
"author": "roland",
"timestamp": "2009-11-07T05:33:56",
"content": "Will the android 2.0 run on the ADP1 phone?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,555.890925
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/28/headpiece-jabbing-for-smiles/
|
Headpiece Jabbing For Smiles
|
Devlin Thyne
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"Lifehacks"
] |
[
"biofeedback",
"happy",
"haptic",
"hat"
] |
[
Lauren
] has created a facial conditioning device dubbed the
Happiness Hat
. The hat measures a sensor at the wearer’s cheek to determine if the wearer is smiling. When the hat does detects the wearer is not smiling, it activates a servo that prods the wearer. This project is fairly unique in that it provides haptic bio-feedback of what the body is doing, a similar project to the
Happillow
. While the Happiness Hat seems to work for treating the outward symptoms of unhappiness, this is but an early step towards the
droud
.
| 33
| 32
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104450",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T13:11:43",
"content": "Her expression is priceless. it’s amazing how you can tell when someone has a forced smile.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104451",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T13:22:12",
"content": "so there encouraging people to fake a smile…hmmm i think i may make one for a few people…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104454",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T13:49:39",
"content": "That’s the same smile everyone gives me :(.That spike in the last picture is horrifying.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104456",
"author": "pppd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:03:13",
"content": "If there ever is a new contest for the most useless device I put my money on the “happiness hat”…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104457",
"author": "necromncr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:04:25",
"content": "I like the “I will kill you” touch to the design :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104458",
"author": "Troll",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:13:51",
"content": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5j277hjxA&feature=fvwAll I could think of was Ren & Stimpy when I saw this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104459",
"author": "Greg N",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:22:10",
"content": "Stimpy allready did this back in 1992.Happy Happy Joy JoyHappy Happy Joy JoyHappy Happy Joy JoyHappy Happy Joy Joy Joy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104461",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:34:53",
"content": "Prodding does not make me happy. Well.. a certain kind, but I’m the one doing the prodding.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104463",
"author": "alfmar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:44:27",
"content": "D’oh.I feel more “panic” than “happiness” in her smiles ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104464",
"author": "Sijesh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:24:19",
"content": "Design looks creepy. It kinda make me realize “No pain, no gain” haha. I would design something which tickles your neck.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104469",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:46:01",
"content": "wait i got it. its to make the people around the wearer smile when they see that face lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104471",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:48:32",
"content": "It might make you smile… won’t make you happy. Maybe a tazer happy hat would have a lobotomizing effect that would make you happy… sort of like Stimpy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104472",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:53:07",
"content": "that hat needs to be destroyed right now. lest the design be intercepted and reproduced by retail stores like gamestop and apple that will force their miserable employees to wear them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104476",
"author": "smb1985",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:01:06",
"content": "EVIL! I enjoy being grumpy dammit!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104477",
"author": "Cabe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T16:06:20",
"content": "Never question the hat.http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1203",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104494",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:27:38",
"content": "Why would you need thIS hat when ther….ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AOfbnGkuGc",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104499",
"author": "Seth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:41:41",
"content": "If you smile a lot, your brain will think you are happy. It will release more endorphins. And you will feel happier.So smile! :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104507",
"author": "branno",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:04:04",
"content": "I am getting some serious dystopia vibes here lol. Funny and creepy at the same time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104510",
"author": "DeFex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T19:08:27",
"content": "Walmart has ordered 100000 of them for their greeters.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104528",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T20:38:15",
"content": "Forced smile is worst than natural frown IMHO. I still like the idea though. Lauren’s expression was priceless when she forced a smile. It looks like this thing really hurts.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104536",
"author": "VonSkippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T21:55:10",
"content": "She’ll make a fortune selling them to the Japanese. There ALL workers must be happy ALL the time or ELSE (else like they get sent to happiness training school – not kidding).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104539",
"author": "Louis II",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:26:41",
"content": "The Mind Snatchers, here we come!Also… does this remind you of what the Assimilation Programs conducted by the US over Native People of the US area? Boarding schools…?Anyway… creepy shit, man.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104547",
"author": "cynic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T22:54:21",
"content": "I can’t wait to lug 4 AA batteries, a 9volt cell AND a full arduino around on my head, just to make me put on a fake smile.[Lauren]’s really using her MIT experience to full effect.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104551",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T23:20:19",
"content": "I bet this will be used to train stewardesses, and hostesses for various olympic games and such in those ‘friendly’ countries.They might consider bringing out a reverse version that punishes smiling too, it’ll sell.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104570",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T02:56:54",
"content": "OMFG dude! It has a metal spike on it wtf. Seriously I looked at their web site and it has a metal spike wtf!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104574",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:33:27",
"content": "I found something that will make you laugh (and a bit scared) This really happened.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6pmYfNco0. This will put a real smile on your face =).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104582",
"author": "Formori",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T04:13:37",
"content": "“An enclosed bend sensor attaches to the cheek and measures smile size, a servo motor moves a metal spike into the head inversely proportional to the degree of smile. Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time.A little creepy, and I’m sure there are better ways to “train your brain”, but it is a form of habit conditioning, and what she says is true. If you actually wore this device for say, 7 days straight, you would be smiling almost all the time even after the week was up, since your brain automatically learns that anything but smiling equals pain.I’m sure there are better ways to learn to smile then this though, like watching stupid people walk into things while texting!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104615",
"author": "Arizona bankruptcy lawyer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T14:31:31",
"content": "I am not sure if something that makes you smile, is the same thing as making you happy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104616",
"author": "bhartley",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T15:22:47",
"content": "I think it would be nice if there was more control of the pain level, maybe electric shocks with varying levels of intensity. Several electrodes could be used such that you never know where the pain will cone from. Of course, even nicer would be a positive re-enforcement system that rewards you for smiling.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104620",
"author": "dbear",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T15:46:15",
"content": "Our robotic overlords can use this to make us all happy! All hail the coming Robot Empire!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104637",
"author": "pj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T18:29:06",
"content": "Or as we used to say, “the floggings will continue until morale improves.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "110060",
"author": "Anthony909",
"timestamp": "2009-12-03T00:52:01",
"content": "she is smokin",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "628297",
"author": "elwarpismo",
"timestamp": "2012-04-13T12:29:28",
"content": "i went to school with her and indeed she was a hottie. a pretty media artist is a serious threat to men and art everywhere.",
"parent_id": "110060",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
}
] | 1,760,377,556.018416
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/cnc-used-to-make-3d-video-using-one-camera/
|
CNC Used To Make 3D Video Using One Camera
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"cnc hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] |
[
"3d",
"CamBam",
"gantry",
"sketchup",
"Stereo Movie Maker",
"stereoscopic"
] |
[Gabriel] is
making 3D movies using only one camera
. This should be impossible because true 3D needs to be stereoscopic, with images from different perspectives for each eye. He’s worked this out by mounting the camera on a CNC gantry and programming it to make two passes along slightly different paths. He’s plotting the camera paths using
SketchUp
and a plugin that exports paths as
CamBam files
, automatically adjusting for perspective. The two videos are then merged using
Stereo Movie Maker
.
We’ve embedded both a 3D video as well as behind-the-scenes filming video after the break but you’ll need the red and blue 3D glasses to view the former. It’s not too much of a stretch to tweak his methods and use this for stopped motion video where one button press takes a frame for each eye. Now, who will be the first to bring us a Star Wars remake filmed in stopped-motion 3D using
the original action figures
?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIp5kyBB6JY]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKjOpRsZiHE]
| 23
| 21
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104348",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:10:57",
"content": "Wow this is an amazing way to over complicate something! i love it!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104353",
"author": "EFH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:34:10",
"content": "It’s pretty funny to try to imagine a person with free access to a CNC machine to play with, but only one camera and no way to get another.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104363",
"author": "Joe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:15:49",
"content": "I would rather see someone wrap two cameras together with a duck tape.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104368",
"author": "36chambers",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:49:52",
"content": "this only works if the object is not in motion, also lol @ only having one cam, yet having a CNC??cool way of getting it done I guess….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104370",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T00:08:13",
"content": "I’d rather see the Matrix done with action figures. Bullet time!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104371",
"author": "farthead",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T00:11:47",
"content": "Not accurate. I can see that both passes were not identical the stop points and some of the middle points were not 100% identical.Neat idea, cheaper to simply buy 2 cheap camcorders.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104385",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:46:10",
"content": "Of course they were not identical, if they were it would not be 3d. The 3d effect is generated by giving each eye something slightly different to see.He obviously had two cameras. If not, what was he using to film the ‘making of’ vid? Maybe he was using a still cam and I missed it.I suspect this is as much a ‘can it be done’ type of project. But either way, he did it. He had his own reasons for doing it the way he did. If you are going to judge, judge on the fact that IT WORKS! He set out to do something that was non-trivial, and stuck with it until it did what he wanted. THAT is the point of this site, to celebrate [success | tinkering | learning | what ever you want to call it].I will continue to feed the trolls: I have been a near daily visitor to this site for years. Back when there were few comments, and even fewer posts (less than one a day on average) I felt the site’s comments were almost worthless. Then H.A.D. Experienced a surge of growth. At that point the comments approched the intelectual level of slashdot comments. Sure, there were people who did not fully understand the subject of the post, but their comments were posted in good faith and it helped spur discussion. Now the comments are truly worthless. I am very close to ignoring the comments much the way I ignore Digg comments.If you don’t agree with the project or the way it was done, or even if you think you could do better, I think I speak for many others when I say, I DON’T CARE. It it isn’t meant to continue the conversation (and no, putting a project down for any reason does not help advance the conversation. Now if you were to offer a solution to a precieved problem that would be different) I don’t want to read it.This was typed on my iPhone. Please ignore any spelling errors.",
"parent_id": "104371",
"depth": 2,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "886103",
"author": "satovey",
"timestamp": "2012-11-18T16:53:03",
"content": "“This was typed on my iPhone. Please ignore any spelling errors.”Don’t you mean smelling errors? :-)",
"parent_id": "104385",
"depth": 3,
"replies": []
}
]
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104380",
"author": "W T F",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:23:44",
"content": "I like how you use a CNC but you are using a sub 200$ Sony Cybershot point and shoot camera that wasn’t even intended for high quality filming or anywhere near it…While you are at it, butter your toast in the morning with your face and send that to us, I would like to see that too!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104381",
"author": "Adam Ziegler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:30:23",
"content": "Cool idea, but sitting here with my 3D glasses it does not seem to be accurate.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104382",
"author": "KT",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:33:15",
"content": "this is a pretty cool idea, you can maybe even actively change the distance apart at certain points to give it some kind of focusing effect. I wonder what the results would be like.I’m loving these comments, you trolls are becoming more entertaining than the posts. When it’s too simple, you cry about it, when its overly complicated, you cry about it. There’s no winning with you chumps.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104383",
"author": "3D hackaday",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:36:17",
"content": "Ok, what I want to see is this hack combined with the previous hack of being able to change the page characteristics so that there’s a 2D and a 3D version of hackaday (at least for the pictured hacks).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104384",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:37:57",
"content": "that is one cool way of doing it and if he had used 2 cameras how much of a hack would that be?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104387",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:15:02",
"content": "@Daniel, I could not agree more.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104394",
"author": "maxpowa",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:50:44",
"content": "๏̯͡๏",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104396",
"author": "branno",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T03:18:05",
"content": "Regardless of how well it works or whether or not he had another camera, it is an interesting concept.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104406",
"author": "MakesLoveToArduinos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:31:18",
"content": "No Arduino. Big fail. Sponsors don’t like these types of posts…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104410",
"author": "macona",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:55:26",
"content": "This is similar to how Coraline was filmed. The camera takes one picture moves one side by ~5 inches and take another picture. Animator does his thing and process starts over.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104434",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T08:35:08",
"content": "Not the best 3-d. That would make one hell of a stop-motion video rig though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104436",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T09:40:42",
"content": "wow great hack?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104587",
"author": "Walky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T05:52:07",
"content": "@M4CGYV3RI built a cnc machine (three of them, actually), and I’m planning on using what I’ve learn with it to make a camera control system for stop motion. I suck at programming, so it will probably take more time to make a decent “moving point” tracking system (so I can, for example, rotate the camera around a moving character while he’s moving) than to actually build the rig.The possibilities are endless. Most independent animators can’t afford to buy a complex camera control system like the ones used in “big” movies; it’s good to be a CNC hobbyist :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104689",
"author": "Triffid Hunter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T22:13:23",
"content": "There’s a group already doing this stuff WITHOUT the camera paths and in realtime! The technique is called monoslam (monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping), see youtube.com/activevisionvery very cool stuff!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104834",
"author": "Walky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T19:06:18",
"content": "Cool stuff indeed!Anyway, I’m not planning on building an automatic tracking system (would be too unstable, and my programming isn’t that good anyway); I was thinking on tracking a predefined (by software) moving point, so I can get a smooth approximate of the camera movement (and, more importantly, make fast camera tests before each take, since it would be really, really bad if the camera moved unexpectedly after 2 hours of moving the puppet around). Another idea I have is making a system to record the manual movement of the camera, so it can later reproduce it exactly but step by step (optical encoders FTW!).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.131391
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/football-hero/
|
Football Hero
|
James Munns
|
[
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"football",
"frets on fire",
"guitar hero",
"kasabian",
"soccer"
] |
For
Kasabian’s
new single
Underdog
, they decided to do something original. After dreaming up a Guitar Hero style controller powered by
soccer
football players, they set out to make it happen. Using 5 wall mounted pressure sensors connected to a
microcontroller
, they hooked up the rig to a computer running
Frets on Fire
(an open source Guitar Hero clone) with a custom version of their single. After an afternoon of practice, the team was able to 5 star the song, and while this isnt the
only
or
most complex
Guitar Hero hack, we would love to have this in our house.
Video after the break.
[youtube =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmjijvX50FQ%5D
| 17
| 17
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104339",
"author": "SheeEttin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:17:44",
"content": "Well, that’s one way to get a workout (and practice your kicks (and have fun) at the same time).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104341",
"author": "Drew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:26:32",
"content": "But that’s not football, it’s soccer!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104342",
"author": "bearchild",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:28:25",
"content": "@DrewEnglish band, they get to use the PROPER NAME. :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104344",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:45:02",
"content": "@Drew: We Americas are the ones who’ve perverted the names of sports, not the other way around. I’m still astounded why football (the real kind) and rugby aren’t more popular here..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104352",
"author": "Jamie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:27:07",
"content": "@bearchild @medixSarcasm…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104355",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:44:38",
"content": "@medixcos you’re too wimpy to play contact sports without wrapping yourself in padding first?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104357",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:53:47",
"content": "@Jamie: Sorry.. forgot the /sarcasam tag. ;)@Kyle: WTF are you talking about? I meant exactly the opposite (well, perhaps for the rest of the population, I can see your point).. though I don’t care much for contact sports. I prefer hanging off a cliff some 300′ off the ground ‘on the sharp end’..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104359",
"author": "Zorink",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:05:39",
"content": "and they even used an Arduino!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104365",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:40:48",
"content": "This looks like awesome fun!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104390",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:23:27",
"content": "It’s not football without hooligans, it’s soccer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104427",
"author": "Spork",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T07:30:19",
"content": "@ZorinkHack A Day wouldn’t have posted it otherwise.This was interesting to watch/read about, but they should have made a music video with it or something, not just a short documentary type thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104433",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T08:31:26",
"content": "Even Kasabian uses arduinos!This has to be one of the most fun promo videos I’ve ever seen.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104520",
"author": "Hitek146",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T20:01:19",
"content": "^^Yea, with riots = football, sans riots = soccer…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104612",
"author": "bizarreon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T12:47:47",
"content": "I personally hate football as a sport!To call it soccer would just be crazy – Football- let’s split this up – Foot- Ball, that’s what the games about hitting a ball with your foot.Soc-cer? – eh yeah?@medix – Finally an American that’s seen the light and realised that the Americans have a tenancy of butchering things.What ticks me of is when I’m on xbox live and a little American child tells me to go learn to speak English – Mate I’m from England you go brush up on your skills.On another no *rant over* – Not a fan of Kasabian but that’s very very clever of them, especially with the new DJ Hero.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104765",
"author": "atanok",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T13:34:05",
"content": "“Video after the break” is after the break.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104919",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T07:35:04",
"content": "although I strongly disapprove of arduino in all of it’s forms, I have to admit not only is this a really well made game interface/system but also imagine the fut bol skills this is building, it would be better if each lane had a way to guide the balls back to the starting position to allow for faster reload and ability to play a longer, continued game, also it would make play by a single person a lot more feasable instead of hoping they will bounce exactly back to the player who kicked it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "147259",
"author": "Henry",
"timestamp": "2010-06-04T22:37:32",
"content": "Hey, good stuff! Keep bringing it. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.189352
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/these-midi-controllers-stink/
|
These Midi Controllers Stink!
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"digital audio hacks"
] |
[
"BeatSneaks",
"miki controller",
"shoes"
] |
Well, maybe saying it stinks is too harsh. But if you
build a midi controller out of an old pair of skate shoes
you can be certain that they smell. [Thobson] put odor issues aside and added four force sensitive resistors to his shoes (one in each heel and one under the ball of each foot) for a creation he calls BeatSneaks. As force is applied to the resistors, they become less resistive. This change in resistance is measured by the ADC inputs on an Arduino and used to trigger midi events via USB. There’s video after the break, and [Thobson’s] has provided the
schematic
and
code
that he used for his addition to a growing family of
unusual musical interfaces
.
Does this make tap dancing cool again?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnGXprvS04]
| 10
| 10
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104329",
"author": "JD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:33:24",
"content": "What do you mean, “again”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104333",
"author": "nate",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:52:47",
"content": "Reminds me of That One Guy’s boot. I doubt he used a lame Arduino, though. =P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104345",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:04:40",
"content": "When did tap dancing become not-cool?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104386",
"author": "cyanide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:51:33",
"content": "what’s tap dancing and why is it not cool?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104395",
"author": "daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T03:03:08",
"content": "blast it! i totally had this idea several weeks ago. there’s always someone else…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104400",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T03:47:34",
"content": "Wow thats a lot of work for some spacey sounds.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104402",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:06:22",
"content": "@daniel – doncha jus HATE that? I was having similar ideas for a wearable drumkit, sensors heel and toe, and maybe two on each knee (or slippers and gloves), basically triggering very conventional damped oscillators and noise gates (yes, I *KNOW* you can do anything with an Arduino but I want audio not MIDI, and was thinking of a small control deck to allow real-time parameter control).This would be better played seated to avoid looking like Austria’s answer to Morris Dancing, slap-dancing in lederhosen.http://www.hofbrauhaus.com.au/images/slap-dancing.gif",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104441",
"author": "Mallie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T11:16:51",
"content": "Isn’t this what the Ting Tings use?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104533",
"author": "Mikey C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T21:50:32",
"content": "This is a 20 year old idea that was done in Tap.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098442/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104683",
"author": "rooftop ridicule",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T21:56:05",
"content": "this could be totally rad with kick snare hihat and crash. people totally underestimate what rad beats you can do with only 2-4 sounds if they fit into those four categories in that order. I’ve had people bust flows to toy keyboard drum pads with total radness as a result.play would be intuitive because I stomp beats like that all the time while bored. with this kinda deal the result would be audible not just in my own mind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.288181
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/piecax-the-poltergeist-reinvents-the-knock-block/
|
Piecax The Poltergeist Reinvents The Knock Block
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Misc Hacks"
] |
[
"Halloween props",
"knock block",
"PICAXE",
"Poltergeist"
] |
[AndyGadget]
built a haunted box
as part of his Halloween preparations. This follows in the footsteps of the
Knock Block we saw earlier
this month but makes several hardware changes. He’s replaced the solenoid with a DC motor that rotates an arm to do the knocking. He’s avoided any CNC work by using a softwood box from a craft store as the enclosure. For control circuitry he’s used an 8-pin PICAXE Microcontroller that ‘listens’ for knocking on the box via a piezo buzzer. It will mimic knocks back to you, and if it hears the right combination
The Addams Family theme song
is played. This
useless machine
will make a great office conversation piece and with this simplified design it’s much easier to build than the Knock Block. See it perform after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSk1qTC_2uQ]
| 13
| 13
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104312",
"author": "Mike D.",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:06:54",
"content": "Nice work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104317",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:20:44",
"content": "The Adam’s family was a nice touch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104318",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:28:01",
"content": "Hilarious.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104320",
"author": "japkin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:42:11",
"content": "That’s awesome.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104323",
"author": "Stefan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:52:23",
"content": "Fantastic work.Wanna have one! :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104324",
"author": "Carl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:59:36",
"content": "Sometimes the smallest things can bring the biggest smiles.Great little project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104327",
"author": "Stu",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:15:48",
"content": "Cool design, made me larff when it did the knocks thru the addams family song.One little thing tho – the wristwatch beep sound kind of ruins the effect doesn’t it? I wonder if an ISD chipcorder would sound less corny.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104335",
"author": "SchrodingersCat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:07:21",
"content": "Fantastic",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104376",
"author": "bill hates",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:03:39",
"content": "truely awesome",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104378",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:12:06",
"content": "Hey! When you do “shave and a haircut” HE oughta do “two bits!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104393",
"author": "maxpowa",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:49:54",
"content": "100% hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104420",
"author": "Farris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T05:46:46",
"content": "Kinda timely, considering the writer of the Addams Family theme song (and the Green Acres theme song) just passed away like a week ago. I heard it on Bob and Tom.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104432",
"author": "sl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T08:06:40",
"content": "I think it would be even better if, rather than playing the whole theme with a beeper like that, it plays the song just as beats with the solenoid. When it gets to the bridge, it wouldn’t continue until you provide it with the two taps. Much more interactive",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.238501
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/bigdogs-bipedal-brother/
|
BigDog’s Bipedal Brother
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"News",
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"bigdog",
"biped",
"boston dynamics"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67CUudkjEG4]
Boston Dynamics is at it again. This time, they’ve created a
creepy biped with a natural gait
. It may look very similar to BigDog, because it really is almost the same system. Named PETMAN, this biped system is being designed to help test chemical protection suits. This bot can stress the suit by walking, running, and even crawling in a room filled with poison gas. Not only can PETMAN walk, run, and crawl, but it can also sweat and change its temperature. That’s pretty cool. Like BigDog, the most impressive part is when they give it a
shove and it recovers
with a motion that seems almost organic.
| 28
| 27
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104297",
"author": "irlolcopter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:11:57",
"content": "How about adding a pair of Jazz hands?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104303",
"author": "Noah Buddy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:35:32",
"content": "eerily familiar….http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/All_Terrain_Scout_Transport",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104306",
"author": "rmd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:41:46",
"content": "this reminds me of the herbie hancock ‘rockit’ video",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104309",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:54:32",
"content": "Niceis it just me or is it more of a pimp strut than a regular stroll?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104310",
"author": "Arthur Grumbine",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:55:43",
"content": "Seriously, that recovery from the push was so natural I was kinda expecting the bot to go over and kick the guy for such undeserved abuse.Mark my words, these videos will be the cause of the righteous flames of indignation that will ignite the coming robotic revolution and human enslavement.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104314",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:09:41",
"content": "turns out pneumatics are the key, many have tried walkers before, but they all struggled with stiff direct motor approach.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104316",
"author": "vec7or",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:13:05",
"content": "Damn, the stuff these guys are doing is getting scarier by the minute.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104321",
"author": "cyanide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:43:17",
"content": "stick an xbox 360 running milo’s world with all of project natal’s crap on this thing and you have the first terminator.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104322",
"author": "wdfowty",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:43:45",
"content": "damn, alex beat me to it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104331",
"author": "Funky Gibbon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:40:20",
"content": "Me Too, are these things really gonna test NBC suits or do you think they will replace them, when robots get smarter and AI gets more advanced these machines wont like being pushed around so much, then again anything autonomous seems to be a good tap for research money these days",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104338",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:11:01",
"content": "I’m surprised they made it walk heel-to-toe.Heel-to-toe is a very inefficient way to walk, and it does more damage to the foot than mid-foot walking.Try running barefoot on concrete for a while, you’ll notice that putting all that downwards force directly from to your heel up your leg is doing more impact than natural walking (landing mid-foot) is.The only reason humans walk heel-to-toe is because typical shoes have a lot of padding in the heel to protect your leg and foot from damage by the landing impact.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104358",
"author": "sl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:58:36",
"content": "Human feet aren’t replaceable, or made of metal, either.",
"parent_id": "104338",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104340",
"author": "AnthonyDi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:19:15",
"content": "It doesn’t look natural because human walking uses gravity like a pendulum.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104354",
"author": "Phil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:38:44",
"content": "Thank you Boston Dynamics for giving me more nightmares just in time for Halloween.Excellent work. Very Impressive. Fairly creepy too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104360",
"author": "AlmostThere",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:06:40",
"content": "No where’s near as loud as BigDog!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104362",
"author": "Liam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:14:40",
"content": "@AlmostThereActually its probably just as loud as bigdog when its not hooked up the big gantry providing the pressure for the hydraulics. There is a video of big dog hooked up to a similar rig and its virtually silent as well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104366",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:46:05",
"content": "A room of these running on treadmills would make a sweet art piece",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104377",
"author": "peptidefarmer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:06:52",
"content": "mars wrote:“The only reason humans walk heel-to-toe is because typical shoes have a lot of padding in the heel to protect your leg and foot from damage by the landing impact.”***Or, you know, that whole evolution business.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104379",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T01:16:35",
"content": "Mechwarrior 0.1",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104408",
"author": "Pilotgeek",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:50:03",
"content": "Why don’t they just have Gordon Freeman test the hazard suits?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104446",
"author": "Flint",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T12:14:10",
"content": "Reminds me of the Geckos from MGS4.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104449",
"author": "md",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T12:47:10",
"content": "YET ANOTHER AT-ST ON HACK A DAY !!! YEAAAAAAAHH",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104486",
"author": "lee",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T17:50:04",
"content": "SWEAT to change Temp? How’re you gonna add a line like that and not show it…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104573",
"author": "JB",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:13:26",
"content": "Agree with Flint and PocketBrain. I was imagining this thing with a couple of side mounted weapons while I was watching the video :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104576",
"author": "Beavis Christ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T03:37:42",
"content": "Proof that humans are just around the corner from being destroyed by our own creations. That future is one that seems inevitable.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104594",
"author": "random",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T07:12:15",
"content": "haha PocketBrain, JB.. so true. give it machine guns and lasers and welcome to the battletech universe. i’ve never been so excited about the possible demise of man..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104604",
"author": "le'chef",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T10:07:01",
"content": "re: peptidefarmer, subj: evolutionSpot on!I suspect some sort of evlutionary algorithm is at work behind the scenes here as well.Can’t hardcode such beauty…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105051",
"author": "blackman",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T11:15:35",
"content": "That all good and well, but can it moon walk, lol. That I would like to see.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.367923
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/digital-tuner-reverse-engineering/
|
Digital Tuner Reverse Engineering
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] |
[
"encoder",
"Hauppauge",
"HVR-1600",
"i2c",
"linux",
"logic analyzer",
"tuner"
] |
Hackaday alum [
Ian Lesnet
] tipped us off about some
reverse engineering of the HVR-1600
, an analog and digital television encoder/tuner. The project was spawned when [Devin] noticed his Hauppauge HVR-1600 didn’t tune channels in Linux quite as well as it did in Windows. He had a hunch this was due to improper initialization settings for either the tuner chip or the demodulator.
To fix this he used two test points on the board to tap into the
I2C bus
. Using
a logic analyzer
he captured the command traffic from the bus while running Linux, then while running Windows. By filtering the results with a bit of Perl, and comparing them by using
diff
, he tracks down and finds the variation in the commands being sent by the two drivers. After a bit of poking around in the Linux source and making the necessary changes, he improved the tuning ability of the Linux package.
[Devin’s] work looks simple enough, and it is. The difficult part of this process is being smart enough to know what you’re looking for, and what you’ve got once you’ve found it.
| 32
| 32
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104280",
"author": "polossatik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:15:41",
"content": "what, no buspirate killed during this experiment?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104281",
"author": "evaproto",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:17:41",
"content": "Ya I have a similar problem with my pvr-150. I ended up making a list of the channels in mhz and the offsets so it would tune right. However it wasn’t the same offset and its different for each channel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104286",
"author": "Josh Malone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:40:53",
"content": "I had to do something very similar when working on a Linux driver for a video capture chip on a single-board computer… only I didn’t have a logic analyzer. It turns out the I2C communication was so slow that I captured it with my sound card and decoded the traffic visually in audacity. I suspect the driver was actually bit-banging the I2C rather than using a real transciever.Anyway – it worked and I figured out how to initialize the chip and got great results. But I sure wish I’d had a logic analyzer back then.-Josh",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104287",
"author": "tene",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:51:24",
"content": "“Perl” is a name, not an acronym.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104288",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:53:04",
"content": "This has been going on for years with Linux and BSD kernel devs. It usually happens based on demand or personal necessity. You can see a lot of reversed stuff in driver packages.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104290",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:56:10",
"content": "> “Perl” is a name, not an acronym.This.Yay, finally some real hacking!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104292",
"author": "Lucas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:01:00",
"content": "i am envious of this guys 1337 skills. Thats pretty awesome. This encourages me to learn more about hardware and such",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104293",
"author": "Max",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:03:52",
"content": "Great post, would like to see more projects like this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104294",
"author": "dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:04:38",
"content": "“The difficult part of this process is being smart enough to know what you’re looking for”I prefer: The difficult part is having enough experience to know what you’re looking for.Chalking it up to smarts just discourages folks who don’t yet know what they’re doing. I suspect this guy knows how to do a lot because he’s *done* a lot.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104295",
"author": "Lucas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:09:08",
"content": "“I prefer: The difficult part is having enough experience to know what you’re looking for.Chalking it up to smarts just discourages folks who don’t yet know what they’re doing. I suspect this guy knows how to do a lot because he’s *done* a lot.” ~ danI completely agree with dan. Its funny how things seem so overwhelming when you dont know how it works but in reality its not all that hard",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104298",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:12:34",
"content": "@tene: You’re right, fixed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104304",
"author": "SheeEttin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:40:05",
"content": "tene: according to Wikipedia, the name Perl was chosen in part to be expanded to many different things (practical extraction and report language, pathologically eclectic rubbish lister).Also, I’m still waiting for analog support on my HVR-1250. We were told it was “very soon” two years ago…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104305",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:41:20",
"content": "Maybe I’m confused, but doesn’t PERL stand for Practical Extraction and Report Language? Or am I missing a joke somewhere?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104308",
"author": "Mein Senf",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:48:11",
"content": "This is just GREAT work!@Jack. The abbreviation from you for perl is right. Devin used I2C to extract data from the I2C-bus and “extracted and reported” the captured data with perl.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104311",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:06:47",
"content": "I did this as well with an HDMI encoder. the BIOS would initialize it, Windows would re-init it but the BIOS mfg wouldn’t release info to make it work in Linux. I built an I2C bus interface and used a second computer to dump the chip contents once it was set up correctly at boot or during a video mode change in Windows, then correlated that with the tables provided by the HDMI tx manufacturer. We got HDMI output working in Linux shortly thereafter. :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104315",
"author": "saimhe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:12:12",
"content": "Still for me the most difficult part is to have a logic analyzer, or someone to borrow it from. Why buy one if it won’t be used as often as, say, a welding station or multimeter? :) Here we have completely different levels of _opportunity_: catching those raw bits with appropriate hardware that just happened to be available, vs. deducing Windows driver behavior from BPIOs in SoftICE (very unrewarding in this case, though a proper way sometimes). The software approach is far more available to anyone, legal things aside or not.@Josh: that’s just magnificent!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104346",
"author": "Daniel Reetz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:07:03",
"content": "Could Hack A Day please do some kind of Idiot’s Guide To i2c using the Bus Pirate? It would be awesome if you’d just grab a few electronics items off the shelf and show how to use the Bus Pirate to hack/analyze them, all the while illustrating i2c principles.I have a bunch of projects that could potentially employ my Bus Pirate, but could really use a walkthrough to getting things done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104356",
"author": "juancubillo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:52:05",
"content": "now we’re hacking! :D@saimhe, you probably don’t use a logic analyzer much simply because you don’t have it. I used to say exactly what you are saying… until I got mayself a cheap logic analizer and a cheap scope from a garage sale… noww I use them everytime I can and they also helped me get into some new projects. go ahead and buy one from say… ebay… one of the cheap usb ones. you’ll notice how much more you can do once you have proper tools.PS. I still love my $4 multimeter ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104364",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:32:20",
"content": "I agree with Daniel Reetz!As dan said, I’m pretty sure I’m smart enough to do lots of things, but since I haven’t done them yet I don’t know where to start :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104367",
"author": "natrix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:46:32",
"content": "Awesome. A real hack, without using a silly Arduino! Great work!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104401",
"author": "Clutchdude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:05:26",
"content": "Awesome!I bought a hvr-1600 recently for mythtv and have been a little put off by it’s tuning.Thanks again Kernel labs for all you’ve contributed!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104404",
"author": "The Cheap Vegetable Gardener",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:21:06",
"content": "Hmm, maye this is why I use a PC, I don’t have to use a logic analyzer to get your tuner card to work :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104409",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:53:51",
"content": "@The Cheap Vegetable Gardener: I’m not ‘trying’ to be a jerk here, but I use a PC as well. I just choose to use a superior operating system like Ubuntu because there about are about fifty times as many things about those other operating systems that drive me crazy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104412",
"author": "The Cheap Vegetable Gardener",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T05:01:14",
"content": "@Mike Szczys, I understand you need to use the right tool for the job. I do like the option of modifying source and fixing problems instead of waiting for the next service pack, just no desire to do it. :)Less of an issue with Linux/Windows/Mac but more of the lack of testing or support on the periphial side.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104415",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T05:18:32",
"content": "So “real hacking” is anything involving reverse engineering?I like a lot of the non-reversing stuff here. This isn’t a reversing site, and hacking isn’t exclusively reverse engineering.This is cool and all but the ‘finally’ comments are kind of annoying. Are we going to hack banks across state lines next to appeal to this demographic? ^^",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104419",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T05:34:33",
"content": "STOP REFERRING TO WINDOWS AS “PC”it plain stupid and annoying, and to here this on hack a day make it 10 time worse. If you want to refer to operation system call it by its name not hardware. By the way macs pars made by same manufacturer on the same factory as other Chinese junk hardware parts",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104422",
"author": "realcomix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T06:16:55",
"content": "i envy you skills!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104425",
"author": "Ian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T06:43:13",
"content": "@ Danial Reetz & Eric – There’s a bunch of I2C demos in the ‘parts’ category:http://hackaday.com/category/parts/There should be one for an I2C EEPROM just like this one. You can also check the manual on the Google Code page.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104428",
"author": "XD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T07:30:38",
"content": "@therian True.@Natrix You made my dayLike this project, maybe I start reverseengineer that isa 3d Card without driver cd. and I need alogic analyzer… Thx hackaday “friends”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104452",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T13:28:49",
"content": "@Ian, thanks! I’m still waiting for mine, I’ll make sure to check it out as soon as I receive it :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104470",
"author": "nyder",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T15:47:46",
"content": "Craigslist is your friend.I’ve picked up free working eletronic items (oscilloscope, etc) from there.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "185053",
"author": "Manxtu",
"timestamp": "2010-09-24T12:37:53",
"content": "Does anyone nknow of any code I could use to turn a digital tuner into a spectrum analyser – Ive pestered Hauppauge and a few other companies but none are willing to let controlcodes for these tuners out – For the I2C part thats well know but id love to control it by direct commands/code in Linux/windows etc to provide the capability – ie put mixer in front of vcard and sweep frequencies and monitor level out.Mike",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.470292
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/parts-chronodot-rtc-module-ds3231/
|
Parts: ChronoDot RTC Module (DS3231)
|
James Munns
|
[
"Parts"
] |
[
"chrono",
"clock",
"doh",
"dot",
"DS3231",
"i2c",
"macetech",
"review",
"TCXO"
] |
Macetech’s ChronoDot
is a Real Time Clock module for projects requiring highly accurate time keeping and measurement. The ChronoDot uses the
DS3231
chip, which features
a TCXO
to compensate for variations in temperature which affect normal oscillators, like the ones in most microcontrollers. The DS3231 uses simple I2C commands and registers for storing and retrieving time, but also features a variable output that goes all the way down to 1.000 hz for low power, interrupt style timekeeping applications. With the provided watch battery, the ChronoDot can keep time in idle mode for up to 8 years.
Normally the
ChronoDot
comes mostly assembled, requiring you to only solder on the watch battery. However, due to a manufacturing mistake, Macetech is selling a version with the header pins on the wrong side they call the
ChronoDoh
. This module is currently nearly half off the regular price of $14.99, which makes it a great low cost addition to a project. Macetech has sent us a couple of these modules to demonstrate how functional they still are.
Because of this mistake, using these parts as a breadboard tool is made a little bit harder, as the silkscreen pin names are only on the “top” side. However, if a project is designed around this part, or if alternate tools such as a wire ribbon or probes were used, this problem would disappear. It would also be possible to desolder the header pins and remount them, but there is always the possibility of lifting the pads, or otherwise causing damage to the parts whenever desoldering is involved.
We set up one of the ChronoDoh modules as demonstrated, and pinned out the I2C connection using a “right side up” ChronoDoh as reference. The Dot must have an external VCC signal to respond to I2C commands, and will only silently keep time when powered by the watch battery. For the ChronoDo(h/t), sample Arduino code and schematics are provided on Macetech’s website, making initial set up and testing a breeze. We used a
Teensy++ running the Teensyduino loader
to simplify the process. The sample code simply displayed the time reported over I2C by the Dot, which seemed to be the time since the Dot first received 5V power (when it was most likely initialized). The chip reported that the time was 00:01:55, which meant that it was time to update the registers. Unfortunately, this is where the sample code leaves off, though the provided documentation does provide a list of all of the relevant registers (page 11 of the datasheet).
After
setting the I2C registers
, the ChronoDoh was correctly keeping time, so we decided to test the accuracy. We set up the other module, put it in our freezer for a week, then tested the two against each other. Wonderfully, they both reported identical times. Though unscientific, this is backed up by the
ongoing accuracy test
by the makers of the DS3231, which claims an accuracy of “± 2ppm at 0C to +40C (~1 minute per year)”.
These breakout boards are a great way to test out this chip,
which
has
tons
of
applications
, on an easy to use breakout board, which is what Macetech does best.
Hack a Day review disclosure
: Macetech gave us a couple free ChronoDohs to review for this post.
| 18
| 18
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104267",
"author": "nemo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:08:55",
"content": "round pcbs make me cringe.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104270",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:20:33",
"content": "after ive got a clock moduel… o well",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104271",
"author": "Shadyman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:24:19",
"content": "But at least it looks like a clock?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104272",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:36:58",
"content": "They’re round so you guys won’t put your eye out. No sharp edges for the Arduino crowd. Seriously though, cool test with the freezer…I hadn’t thought to try that. I dare anyone to do that with a DS1307 module. It just physically could not keep time in there unless you tweaked the capacitor for your specific freezer temperature. Maxim annoys a lot of people with tantalizing chips that are hard to get, but the DS3231 is a winner.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104273",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:40:37",
"content": "Chrono Doh sounds like a slam dunk for experimenters on the cheap.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104278",
"author": "CalcProgrammer1",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:10:40",
"content": "I got some DS3232 chips last time I ordered samples but they are surface mount and I don’t have any way to etch a board. I would’ve liked to add time to some of my projects and it sounds like a nice chip too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104282",
"author": "salsa",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:23:52",
"content": "Looks like an easy fix to flip the headers– a minute with an iron and a solder sucker… or, am I missing something? It looks like the header’s black plastic bits will hit the battery though, if they’re reversed. Round PCB in this case doesn’t bother me since it looks like an efficient use of space given the size of the battery. A polarized 2×4 header would be easier to work with for the non-breadboard crowd though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104285",
"author": "xyz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:39:00",
"content": "@CalcProgrammer1Since a DS3232 does not require many external components it is easy to use with a SMD to DIP adapter board.http://www.futurlec.com/SMD_Adapters.shtml",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104302",
"author": "Akoi Meexx",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:34:54",
"content": "I wonder how feasible it’d be to implement this TCXO into a project similar to Paul’shttp://hackaday.com/2009/10/14/led-pocket-watch/.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104347",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:10:35",
"content": "Hi Akoi,That’s exactly the part I’m planning on using for v2.0. It’s got a great low-current stand-by current and has built-in alarms to wake up the microprocessor. Shhh, don’t tell anyone. ;)-Paul",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104369",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:59:22",
"content": "Looking forward to it Paul, I liked your v1 :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104397",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T03:28:22",
"content": "If this is indeed a mistake (and not just more cunning marketing) then I commend the manufacturer for having the wit to turn a dead loss into a winner. A very useful little sub-system.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104418",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T05:27:42",
"content": "the chip cost $8.40 all it need 4 resistors and 2 capacitors. What the point, cmon people don’t get use to modules so much !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104435",
"author": "andy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T09:17:06",
"content": "therian,I think the modules are great for many different reasons. One, we have all these great small company’s around. Two, these board are as much art as convenience. Sure you could replicate it for less than half the cost, but I know my circuits don’t look that good.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104445",
"author": "cantido",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T12:03:44",
"content": "Is there any reason the PCB had to be that big even though the components appear to only require about 50% of the board.. oh its a RTC module, so it has to look like a clock, ok that’s a valid design choice I suppose.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107289",
"author": "Audin",
"timestamp": "2009-11-14T09:15:52",
"content": "If you look at the size of the battery and its terminals, you’ll see the pcb can’t really be appreciably smaller. The battery is round. And the pins, which are the only through-hole component, require a small amount of extra space. Thus the size being slightly larger than the battery. Seems reasonable to me!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "120993",
"author": "CRJEEA",
"timestamp": "2010-01-31T11:47:17",
"content": "Think I remove the bettery and solder two single header pins then i can flip the headers to the battery side without the battery getting in the way and just plug it into my board as a modual and power it from a regulated power supply and backup battery on the board insted",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "2630507",
"author": "mr.jb.swe",
"timestamp": "2015-07-01T16:34:45",
"content": "10MHz default with ~0.01ppbhttp://navspark.mybigcommerce.com/ns-t-precision-timing-mode-gps-receiver/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.553193
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/head-mounted-computer-with-spit-bailing-wire/
|
Head-mounted Computer With Spit, Bailing Wire
|
Phil Burgess
|
[
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"Phone Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] |
[
"android",
"ghetto",
"hmd",
"htc",
"wearable"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyrjBMAa6xE]
Oh, for crying out loud! While we were all giddy reporting on yesterday’s
wonderfully done head-mounted computer
, [Andrew Lim] of
recombu.com
comes along and essentially does the same thing with an
HTC
Magic handset and three dollars worth of Harbor Freight crap. Linux kernel, WiFi, accelerometer, the whole nine yards. Consider our collective ass handed to us.
Funny thing is,
either
of these could be considered The Consummate Hack. One flaunting the creator’s know-how with its custom-designed parts and delicate engineering, the other exhibiting a more
punk
flair with random scraps and off-the-shelf technology achieving much the same effect — a solution so obvious we were blind to it. Whatever your outlook, this is a great day to be a hacker!
[via
slashdot
]
| 26
| 26
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104258",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:08:22",
"content": "hacking a hack :) i like it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104261",
"author": "Andrew Moyer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:29:51",
"content": "Might I suggest either painting the inside of the box black or lining it with something like flat-black felt?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104262",
"author": "Ben Ryves",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:42:33",
"content": "I’d have thought that the immersive aspect of the ViewMaster came from the fact that it was stereoscopic, not that you had the thing crammed up right close to your face. Cool project, though!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104265",
"author": "David Holsclaw",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:59:57",
"content": "ya, it is a good hack, but i think Ben Ryves is right.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104268",
"author": "compukidmike",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:13:40",
"content": "@Ben RyvesYou could write a custom application to show stereoscopic views side by side and put a divider in the middle of the box to achieve a similar effect. Granted, that’s a lot of work, but I guess it depends on just how immersive you want it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104275",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:52:14",
"content": "wtf?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104277",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:03:07",
"content": "“the goggles… they do nothing”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104283",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:29:28",
"content": "“the goggles… they do nothing”the goggles do the job of “impedance matching” between the hard box and the soft face. certain type of people wouldn’t need them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104284",
"author": "colecago",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:31:08",
"content": "needs forward and reverse controls",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104313",
"author": "jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:08:49",
"content": "App 1: “augmented finding the toilet after eighteen beers.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104332",
"author": "r_d",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:50:42",
"content": "I don’t see how having a 2″ screen right up against your face is “immersive”. In fact, I don’t see how this is any different than using the same device in a dark room.If it had head tracking or stereoscopy he might be able to argue that it was “virtual reality” (which is an ill-defined and meaningless term, anyhow), and if he wrote some code that made use of the phones camera he could have said it was augmented reality. But he didn’t. It’s a phone taped to the end of a cardboard box. It doesn’t seem to have any purpose beyond making the wearer look silly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104337",
"author": "XD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:10:21",
"content": "Just this: Because we can. XD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104349",
"author": "Another XD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:12:59",
"content": "Yes, we can!For me, that’s totally a hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104351",
"author": "YAWN!",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T22:21:38",
"content": "I just checked…. Did you know Hackamonth.com is available? Im just saying….a bit of quality over quantity would be appreciated and maybe the name change would take some of the pressure off you guys.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104361",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T23:10:11",
"content": "I quoted it wrong…“My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”http://megamansgogglesdonothing.ytmnd.com/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104372",
"author": "Phil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T00:32:19",
"content": "Hmmm… I might just have to try this with my iPhone. This coupled with some red/blue glasses and a magnetometer equipped iPhone running AirCoaster could be quite fun!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104374",
"author": "Phil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T00:55:18",
"content": "Back and I just tried exactly what I mentioned above. A bit of cardboard, my safety goggles, 3D red/cyan glasses and an iPhone 3G S with AirCoaster. Probably the best “VR” experience I’ve ever had!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104407",
"author": "AnthonyDi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T04:42:44",
"content": "I would like to see this use the camera to give you HUD like terminator view.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104416",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T05:21:36",
"content": "It just plain stupid, having screen near you eyes does not make it into virtual reality glasses",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104424",
"author": "derwin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T06:38:42",
"content": "I’m going to track down a cheap camera phone, buy two of them, tape them together, and create a really disorienting, low-res 3D VR helmet with this same exact formula.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104438",
"author": "Tragos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T10:13:15",
"content": "Nice. If I find a spare cardboard box here at the office, I’m going to build a similar thing right away using HTC Hero. I must see how augmented reality software (Layar, Wikitude) work with this setup.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104447",
"author": "teck monkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T12:30:06",
"content": "this is cool for a starter VR/AR atempt..h3!! with a hacked psp and a few other componets could be a really good VR experince…need a usb hubcamand a usb compass",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104739",
"author": "Wonginism",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T06:05:37",
"content": "That would not work as well if the phone used did not have the functions.Improvements:1) create an easy release phone holder2) get a better camera for macro cause it ’twas blurry.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139839",
"author": "landon.powell78@yahoo.com",
"timestamp": "2010-05-03T20:43:15",
"content": "i did it with my psp and it was awsome!!!!!i hacked my psp once to get it to run windows and when it was running windows i put a usb camera and usb lazer sensor into the psp and made an program that sensed specific radio waves and gave me a heads up display (hud) and made a bunch of fake weapons that looked like the ones from halo 3 and then started shooting at my friends and had a huge halo war wearing lazer sensors and putting my (12) VR goggles under our halo helmets.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "155903",
"author": "ENKI-][",
"timestamp": "2010-07-06T22:20:24",
"content": "This is lovely and straightforward. I have built similar things. Unfortunately, they are always front-heavy. I always end up using counter-weights (which make it slightly less unpleasant for short uses but far more unpleasant for long uses). Perhaps he just has better fitted goggles — I always ended up using sunglasses instead and homebrewing the head-band to hold it on.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4788362",
"author": "Jc",
"timestamp": "2018-07-28T15:10:52",
"content": "That’s a good party trick. 5 minute virtual reality. My suggestion would be to get a bigger box now that you could put your entire head in. Have it rest on your shoulders, or at least the top of your head. Just because it’s summer, on mine, after I dig out my old “fanny pack” I’m going to strap it to the back of my ” virtual headspace” so my car keys and cigs can act as a counterbalance. I might just remove the front completely so I can see what’s really happening. Where were we again? Oh ya, that’s virtual reality all right. Way to go, give him the prize, let’s go find some boxes…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.629766
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/27/remote-controlled-claw-of-doom/
|
Remote Controlled Claw Of Doom
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"Toy Hacks"
] |
[
"claw",
"internet",
"Parallax Propeller",
"remote control",
"robot"
] |
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-9_dMJKh9E&feature=player_embedded%5D
Robotic claws are awesome, period. [Jeremy’s]
Remotely controlled robotic claw
, thats just a whole new level of cool – even if the intention is to just pick up blocks. The setup is simple enough, a
Parallax Propeller
controls the whole system by first polling a web server for changes in variables that the user has invoked. Those changes are then passed to relays that control the claw. To keep from fumbling in the dark, he’s even included a webcam. We hate to see that he’s used such expensive equipment to just control a toy, but maybe one day he’ll move to
bigger and better things
.
| 13
| 13
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104249",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T13:50:00",
"content": "1+ for making do what it wasn’t intended-1 for not making the claw :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104250",
"author": "Reggie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T13:53:10",
"content": "Another cool lashup of ‘to-hand’ technologies :) I like it, I wonder how much he could charge nasa for fixing the hubble with it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104252",
"author": "Jeff Ledger",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T14:21:51",
"content": "Great project! Can’t wait to see how hot those motors get when 2000+ people are fighting over the controls at once. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104253",
"author": "jimsmithkka",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T14:40:56",
"content": "He should really mount a camera on the tip of the claw as well, would make it easier to line up over the tubes",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104255",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T14:52:31",
"content": "I saw the same product and thought about doing something similar but I assumed it used servos. I guess they’re just geared motors, otherwise he wouldn’t need relays.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104259",
"author": "AnthonyDi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:24:18",
"content": "I don’t like how the screen blinks everytime he clicks a link.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104260",
"author": "Azghul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:26:27",
"content": "I’d say it’s time for some inverse kinematics. Would make controlling this beast a lot easier.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104264",
"author": "cynic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:57:24",
"content": "Damn you…I bought and assembled this very same robotic arm, and (poorly) designed my own half-bridge circuit to control it from the printer port. Even made my own ASP page to control the printer port. I was just resting my eyes for a bit and you had to come roaring through in your blaze of glory.I do take my hat off to you, of course. Very nice circuit. The controller page looks magnificent (Mine was a form with buttons) And my webcam is was very, very cheap.Well done!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104269",
"author": "macpod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T16:20:15",
"content": "The interface looks very clean, but it looks like you only used one frame for the video/buttons (hence the flashing?). Two frames or an iframe should fix that.. or a flash interface. :)This brings up a question of my own too.. say I have something with a camera that can be controlled over the internet like this. I want to allow multiple people to watch the video stream, and have a queue system to allow people to say have 30 seconds of control time each. Is there an open source project that sets up this infrastructure already? …. Or is this another winter project? :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104276",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:01:49",
"content": "this guys voice made me think of that old switch linux flash…http://dagobah.biz/flash/switchlinux3.swf",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104299",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:13:22",
"content": "Very nice. He should add a joystick controls. Yah for windows 7",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104300",
"author": "Nathan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:21:34",
"content": "I’ve got exactly the same robotic arm, and it’s publicly controllable over athttp://control.kennedytechnology.com– have fun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104375",
"author": "Thach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T00:59:13",
"content": "Very nice. Hook it up near your door and you can pimp slap robber from anywhere in the world. LOL.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.728701
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/25/double-sided-surface-mount-pcb-population/
|
Double Sided Surface Mount PCB Population
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Tool Hacks"
] |
[
"epoxy",
"pcb",
"reflow",
"surface mount"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M3MeADb1dE]
Above is a video detailing one method for
populating a two sided surface mount PCB
. We covered
using a stencil
to apply solder paste for a PCB a few weeks ago. In the comments there was a debate about the virtue of using stencils as well as a
question
about how two sided boards are populated. This was a good question because reflowing a board twice can cause components on the underside to fall off.
[Wim L’s]
comment
mentions that there are a couple of methods for two sided population. In the video you will see that a stencil is not being used, but instead, paste is applied by a pedal actuated syringe. The paste is applied to the underside of the board first, then a teeny dot of epoxy is added to hold the component in place. Each part is then positioned normally and baked in a reflow oven. This process both reflows the solder, and cures the epoxy. When the board is reflowed a second time, the epoxy holds the bottom components in place as the top solder reaches its melting point.
This method of applying solder paste is slower than using a stencil. But if done correctly, every component can get the amount of solder needed.
| 20
| 18
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103935",
"author": "Mike M",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:27:26",
"content": "I used to make double sided boards all the time using the syringe method. I did it manually but also used a low cost manual pick and place from Bomir that has a built in electronic programmable dispenser.Unless the parts are big, there is no need for glue..especially on little resistors and caps. If you make a frame for the board (the Bomir had an integrated PCB holder) you can put pasted down and the parts, flip it over and place the other parts. Then of course you need a frame in the oven as well, but I never reflowed double sided boards twice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103940",
"author": "tyco",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:44:27",
"content": "My firm does a lot of our own prototype boards, and that team just reflows the boards twice. They do the side with the light components first, and then run that side on the bottom when they reflow the side with all the chips and inductors and heavy stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103952",
"author": "zhaiko",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:51:57",
"content": "anybody know what function the board made has?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103956",
"author": "jamieriddles",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:13:15",
"content": "I could be wrong but that biggest connector looked like a phone jack. maybe its some kind of usb modem???",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103957",
"author": "Dave-0",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:16:36",
"content": "couldnt you use a stencil for the solder paste and then do the epoxy by hand? seems like that would save alot of time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103961",
"author": "vic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:29:17",
"content": "@zhaiko : it’s an USB to I2C bridge.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103969",
"author": "rallen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:03:49",
"content": "I used to do a LOT of SMT work (avionics, semi-custom actuator controllers) and we did all our repair and short run work by hand. No stencils, no reflow oven, no solder fountain. Magnifier lens, Weller soldering station, Kester solder spool and a steady hand was all we used. I didn’t even know about stencils until I was getting out of the industry. We would double-check our solder joints at X30 on the microscope to make sure the joints were flawless. It did take a couple days of training to get to where your joints were perfect… That didn’t come out right. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104002",
"author": "vonskippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:05:49",
"content": "With that freaky music they should have had a Carl Sagan impersonator do a voice over saying “Billions and Billions of solder joints….”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104015",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T00:56:22",
"content": "This is a good refined method if you can’t afford manufacturing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104071",
"author": "robomonkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T10:54:26",
"content": "On larger boards, wouldn’t the epoxy on the bottom make removal of defective or toasted components impossible? It’s tough enough to remove a SMT fuse on a heavily populated board without causing any collateral damage. I’d be afraid that the pads would be ripped up on this design.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104083",
"author": "Kylebostian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T13:26:07",
"content": "I would recommend using the epoxy for the underside as directed, but before reflow, applying paste to the top side and placing those components. Then reflow the board. The fewer thermal cycles, the better.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104097",
"author": "jeff-o",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:55:04",
"content": "I work in the electronics industry. On double-sided boards, another stencil is used to apply a small blob of epoxy before the solder paste. The board is then run through the reflow oven, where the epoxy cures and the solder reflows.The other side of the board can then be stenciled, populated and reflowed without the epoxy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104102",
"author": "mike",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:45:19",
"content": "Nice, but the most important piece of information hasen’t been discussed…which epoxy yields good results… If anyone has experience/suggestionsplease comment….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104105",
"author": "Mike M",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:58:21",
"content": "There is glue specifically for this purpose. Loctite 348 is one such product.Unless the part is really large, I don’t recommend the dual heat cycle. The glue should start curing before the solder reflows and hold the part on.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104220",
"author": "esker",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T08:51:00",
"content": "I used to work in the electronics manufacturing industry myself. The most common method is the one jeff-o mentioned, with the epoxy and solder paste being done with two stencils. Another method that also gets used is to stencil the epoxy, place the components, cure it in the oven, then stencil-place-flow the other side. Then the epoxied side gets soldered in a wave flow solder machine.It’s ugly, and tends to result in a lot of minor rework to remove shorts, but it works and does get used.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104235",
"author": "Antoine",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T10:42:46",
"content": "What a surprise to see my little movie featured in Hack A Day, and a great pleasure too… Thanks!The background: this movie was intended to explain our readers (/begin commercial/ Elektor is a monthly magazine for electronic designers and entousiasts, available worldwide in more that ten languages /end of commercial/) how-to-do low cost double sided soldering with a reflow oven.The movie comes with an article, that was published in september and describe a bit more in detail the whole process/idea.Using a pasta dispenser does not aimed at being faster but more versatile, we have here a lot of different project – what I like to call electro-diversity – but only produce a few protypes mostly used for test (destroying) purpose :).So far I’ve tested two different epoxy glues:– ref. SMA10SL from Electrolube– ref. CB8006-V91 from LoctiteEverything went well in both cases; the Loctite is maybe a bit more fluid, is it a feature or a drawback, you have to decide. Both are 10 ml syringe, the Electrolube came with a plastic needle and a plunger, we got a Bundle Loctite so no idea if you can have it packaged with this two accessories too, anyway the plunger can be replace by a screwdriver, any kind of “Luer Lock” compatible needle will fit, be careful with medical one they stitch in.I believe that with these two brands we have world coverage and you won’t have difficulties to find then anywhere.But I guess any kind of “SMD Chip Bonder” (key word for your favorite search engine) will do the trick.The board is indeed a USB to 1-Wire/I2C bridge.P.-S. Don’t blame for the music please, did not choose for it ;-).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "311631",
"author": "ColdStart",
"timestamp": "2011-01-22T07:21:57",
"content": "Ok.. now, does this method has more probability of failure than soldering each chip by hand with Hot air gun?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "401781",
"author": "Retched",
"timestamp": "2011-06-04T22:07:54",
"content": "This has LESS of a probability of failure than the hot air gun.The hot air gun can blow other parts off the board, and you are heating the board more than twice.You are heating it for EVERY component, thus not good.Hot air is best done for REWORK.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3301883",
"author": "ImpossiblyPossible",
"timestamp": "2016-12-06T11:00:57",
"content": "I respectfully disagree in the case of Soldering Iron vs. Hot Air; the hot air gives a much smoother, more even temperature gradient. A sharp gradient is oodles more damaging than a smooth one. It’s quite the stark difference under a FLIR camera.",
"parent_id": "401781",
"depth": 2,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6147697",
"author": "Owen",
"timestamp": "2019-05-07T20:18:01",
"content": "That’s not a disagreement… He said hot air is best reserved for rework (vs. baking in an oven). He said that the oven is less probability for failure than hot air for manufacturing.I believe all of those statements to be correct.",
"parent_id": "3301883",
"depth": 3,
"replies": []
}
]
}
]
}
] | 1,760,377,557.147616
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/25/halloween-props-pie-of-sauron/
|
Halloween Props: Pie Of Sauron
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"home hacks"
] |
[
"cylon",
"dekatron",
"Halloween props",
"jack-o-latern"
] |
[Richard] combined creative carving with vacuum tube electronics
for a unique pumpkin offering
. He used the stencil-and-cut method of carving, making use of an inexpensive carving kit for great results. He salvaged an LED module from a flashlight to provide the internal illumination, but it’s the center feature that we like the best. [Richard’s] used a glow-transfer counting tube, or
dekatron
, which provides something like a circular
cylon eye
to the project. There’s a video of this after the break.
You might not have access to a wicked-looking dekatron but we’re guessing you’ve got a microcontroller and some LEDs lying around that can serve as a stand-in for one night. We’d love to do a reader jack-o-lantern roundup, so if you build something, send us a picture!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pWf4ftmik]
| 12
| 12
|
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{
"comment_id": "103903",
"author": "EMiL",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T13:09:21",
"content": "k3wl! =)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103905",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T13:21:03",
"content": "I see…you…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103910",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T13:43:13",
"content": "Hmmm, it looks kindof dumb. The carving looks cool, but the tube in the center doesn’t really add much to it. It would have been cooler to have led’s embedded throughout the carving and have them glow in a sequence going out from the center or something…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103916",
"author": "Alan Parekh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T14:31:32",
"content": "Open the top and you have a shocking prop also. Those tubes are real cool, that is a great use for one. It needs a servo to make it blinking eyelid though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103917",
"author": "lexi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T14:55:36",
"content": "Another Halloween prop?!?!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103922",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T16:27:25",
"content": "-to occupy my time.This one goes out to the one I love.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103924",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T16:27:56",
"content": "(bitch hack)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103927",
"author": "RoboGuy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T16:58:52",
"content": "Alternatively, if someone says it isn’t cool enought, you could light it on fire.And then throw it at the geek who said it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103939",
"author": "tMH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:39:34",
"content": "@lexi,Sorry you don’t enjoy this stuff as much as the rest of us, but this is really some of the best stuff I’ve seen on hack-a-day yet! There are a few I’m definitely going to build one day.Not this one though, I kinda think this one sucks. :-/ That effect could be used alot of better ways than the Eye of Sauron.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103981",
"author": "Shabadage",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:54:12",
"content": "I thought it was the morph ball at first. I’ve looked at too many gaming pumpkins I guess.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104077",
"author": "hunnter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T12:12:10",
"content": "Needs a speaker connected to a doorbell.Oh, and the pumpkin on a rotating platform.Once doorbell is pressed, pumpkin is rotated around and “I SEEE YOUUUU” is played.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105018",
"author": "niky",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T01:30:52",
"content": "the video is odd",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.684457
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/24/use-iphone-to-run-yourself-over/
|
Use IPhone To Run Yourself Over
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"iphone hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] |
[
"autonomous vehicle",
"darpa",
"iphone",
"mariokart",
"remote control",
"urban challenge"
] |
The Spirit of Berlin team has developed an
iPhone app to remotely control a minivan
. They didn’t have to do much to the vehicle to get this working because the platform was developed for the
2007 Darpa Urban Challenge
. The iPhone connects with the driving circuitry via WiFi and offers a gas button, a brake button, and a steering button to enable the accelerometer for turning. The front camera video is transmitted to the iPhone in real-time.
In the picture above you can see the operator in the center of the van’s camera view. It looks like the van’s top speed is limited, but remembering our own ineptitude in
piloting RC vehicles
, we hope this doesn’t result in a
Darwin Award
. We’ve embedded a video after the break. Everyone loves to see some Mario Kart reeneactment. You can catch some around 2:28 into the video. Enjoy.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHDwKT564Kk]
[Thanks Miketron]
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| 39
|
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{
"comment_id": "103809",
"author": "wdfowty",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T21:08:08",
"content": "I smell demolition derby gone geek",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103819",
"author": "Shadyman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T21:54:14",
"content": "“a break button,”Well… It IS a Dodge.Wait, nevermind, it’s still cool nonetheless. (Here’s hoping the iphone app had a BRAKE button instead :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103821",
"author": "jc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T22:09:43",
"content": "@Shadyman — Beat me to it!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103823",
"author": "TheKhakinator",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T22:28:34",
"content": "http://www.thesoftwire.com/horrible_remote.htmlDr. Horrible’s Horrible Van Remote.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103825",
"author": "pedersencato",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T22:34:47",
"content": "Vehicular Manslaughter? There’s an app for that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103826",
"author": "Jimmy Sultan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T22:41:26",
"content": "BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE! Why can’t half the population spell this one right?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103830",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:26:41",
"content": "@Shadyman: That’s a funny typo. Thank for pointing it out. Fixed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103831",
"author": "vash",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:28:36",
"content": "i actually like Dr.horribles controls better. did you notice how even though the iphone was straight the stearing was still off?now.. to het this on my pre… hmm….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103832",
"author": "vash",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:29:57",
"content": "my appologies that was get this on the palm pre…also gotta make it a go cart…. and find a place to store red turtle shells….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103841",
"author": "Clinefx1",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T00:18:04",
"content": "Why would he every stand in front of it? That is just asking for trouble.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103844",
"author": "hn",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T00:45:59",
"content": "robot car equals endless fun. they could post a “race simulator” in the airport which people can play with only to realize they’re actually steering a real car outside. we’ll need to call this “art” of course.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103850",
"author": "Bond_James_Bond",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T01:01:42",
"content": "Surprised no one has mentioned myR/C BMW 750i in “Tomorrow Never Dies”.And my mastery of how to control it ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103851",
"author": "Edd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T01:04:23",
"content": "iPrefix-everything",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103866",
"author": "axllaruse",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T03:37:45",
"content": "Is your mother in law a B#&$H?Forget the hitman! Give her the key of your car and drive her to hell.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103868",
"author": "axllaruse",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T03:54:29",
"content": "Sometimes, I found routers that disconnect the client or you have to reset them.I hope that doesn’t happen in their case.I would have some secondary way to communicate with the ban such as bluetooth or something of the kind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103877",
"author": "smilr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T06:02:53",
"content": "I would definitely want some safeguards on this thing. Perhaps using bluetooth signal strength a pc in the car could determine that the controlling iPhone is too close and immediately hit the brakes / shutdown the engine.Sure, it would suck to have it pass by too close to you and stop mid pass. The problem is, if you end up sending it straight at yourself you are NOT going to think to hit the brake button. You will most likely drop the phone and RUN.That is another thing they could do – watch the iPhone accelerometer and disable the car in the event of a fumbled or dropped iPhone.It also bugs me that the tilt > wheel isn’t a one to one relationship. The farther over the iphone is tilted, the farther I would expect the wheel to be. As implemented tilting one way or the other just says “spin wheel that way”, rather than “spin wheel 15% to the right to match my 15% tilting of my input device” See how hard the guy has to work to get the wheel to stop at the center mark? He has to keep nudging the phone until the wheel is set. With a matched system just recenter the phone and you’re done.And why are the gas and brake buttons digital? All or nothing? He’d have to tap or pulse the buttons to achieve an intermediate throttle position or brake pressure. Make them freaking sliders so you can set intermediate values between full throttle and idle!Nifty concept – but a B- for execution at best!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103880",
"author": "Nick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T06:30:32",
"content": "I’m pretty sure that the iPhone has more than a 1-axis accelerometer in it. why not use the second axis to control the gas and brake? tilt away from you to speed up, tip it toward you to break.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103892",
"author": "Louis II",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T09:45:17",
"content": "I always liked this one myself:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZ0iSrSuWY&hl=en&fs=1&]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103894",
"author": "Spanky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T10:03:23",
"content": "Pretty cool. James Bond technology from 1997 becomes reality in 2009.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103900",
"author": "Bond_James_Bond",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T12:31:14",
"content": "posers !!!here, this how it’s done !!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bopuTFt9fA",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103907",
"author": "max montana",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T13:26:38",
"content": "No , to make it fail safe they should that the brake is always on , so to use the car you would have to push the “release brake” button the whole time , otherwise it wont move.So if then the connection fails / iphone drops , the car will stop immediatly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103919",
"author": "morden",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T15:44:45",
"content": "They really need to implement some sort of dead zone for perfectly straight, where you have the tilt the phone past that degree before the wheel starts turning. That guy had a lot of trouble keeping the wheel at any sort of a stable position.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103928",
"author": "DarkFader",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T17:10:26",
"content": "@Bond_James_Bond: well… it came to my mind as well as I used a search to find your comment.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103933",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:22:55",
"content": "I’m really glad I wasn’t the only one to remember the bond movie. I wonder how long it will be before the mythbusters pick up this method for all their RC stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103934",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:24:24",
"content": "If I ever find an iphone I’m breaking it into bits immediately.These things embody what’s annoying me.Well I might take out the battery first and use that for projects, after I etched off markings.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103942",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:52:39",
"content": "@Wwhat: I don’t know… can’t you think of a few other uses for the touch screen as well?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103948",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:14:59",
"content": "If they dont have a kill switch then they dont deserve to live",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104007",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:20:07",
"content": "Props for including soundtrack by Yello.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104018",
"author": "iPhone Prices",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:35:53",
"content": "This is sointeresting…But..Why can people just drive their cars the old fashioned way?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104053",
"author": "aw",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T07:33:50",
"content": "Mythbusters would have wired the remote to hit the break when its out of range.I don’t see why they cant put in a few range finders to determine distances and so in the event all control is lost, it can be automated and it won’t hit the break in the middle of the freeway.Maybe its already there and in reality I was just too lazy to read the article/watch the video.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104067",
"author": "jimmynorth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T10:06:16",
"content": "i do not like iphones. do not know why. it is uncomfortable for me to use them. though they are many-functional of course.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104081",
"author": "dnm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T13:21:05",
"content": "The world will be a better place when people stop chucking an ‘i’ in front of a noun and thinking it’s a clever program name.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104127",
"author": "zjd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:51:22",
"content": "so what about a button to honk the horn?What if someone hacks whatever wifi signal they are sending?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104128",
"author": "walt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:51:37",
"content": "why does everyone always add mechanics to control the steering wheel and pedals? hasn’t anyone hacked the car computer itself yet?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104163",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:05:18",
"content": "@Walt, most cars aren’t drive by wire, the computer has nothing to do with steering, or the pedals. Though if you had a drive by wire car then yes it could be done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104239",
"author": "Phil Fitzgerald",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T11:10:54",
"content": "Looks good, but I’ll really be impressed if they implement this on a manual car ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104330",
"author": "Mohammed",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:39:51",
"content": "I know other project can be controlling of the car via XBOX[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOIJbLE4sI&hl=en&fs=1&]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104336",
"author": "Mohammed",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T21:07:48",
"content": "part 2 :[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjXvic_J2d0&hl=en&fs=1&]part 3 :[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyG_DhdMVVY&hl=en&fs=1&]part 4 :[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2XFhOVhic0&hl=en&fs=1&]part 5 :[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIKLDCo3ACs&hl=en&fs=1&]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105838",
"author": "Rob, ATT Uverse coupons",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T08:16:59",
"content": "iPhone never cease to amaze, I just wonder when can there be a money making App or an App giving out winning numbers for Lottery hahaha LOL.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,556.889772
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/24/desktop-decepticon-repurposes-cell-phone/
|
Desktop Decepticon Repurposes Cell Phone
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Cellphone Hacks"
] |
[
"decepticon",
"figurine",
"model",
"repurpose"
] |
We’ve got a few old cell phones sitting around and apart from salvaging the LCD screen we’re not quite sure what to do with them. [Gingerpete50]
turned his into a desktop Decepticon figurine
. This masterpiece is a delightful conversation piece and when he’s tired of it decorating his cubicle, we’re sure there will be plenty of people he can hand it down to. The figure doesn’t transform back into a cell phone and it uses a few extra parts he had on hand, but neither of these things bother us. What it does have is some articulated joints and a few LEDs that you can see above. We haven’t tried our hand at custom model building, but after seeing this you can be assured it’s on our list.
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| 20
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103798",
"author": "MakesLoveToArduinos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T19:49:15",
"content": "GINGERPETE!!! Everyone knows gingers have no soul. And no soul = no hax.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103803",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T20:09:10",
"content": "Mike just run, run, run as fast as you can into the brick wall, stop this torture to yourself and others",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103811",
"author": "john",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T21:22:56",
"content": "that’s really awesome, i just wish it was on a site that wasn’t so hostile to its users.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103829",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:16:19",
"content": "But can it turn BACK!?!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103857",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:14:10",
"content": "cute :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103912",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T13:55:07",
"content": "Really nice!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103968",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:03:07",
"content": "But what can it do ? paper weight ? or play with it when get high and take it apart ?No practical purpose so it classify as Art not Hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103973",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:17:08",
"content": "Why can’t a hack be art?Must something serve some useful purpose before it can be called a “hack”?I always thought a “hack” was a creative way to re-use(or mis-use, or ab-use) existing things. This certainly qualifies.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103976",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:39:44",
"content": "@Skyler “Why can’t a hack be art?”because when I want to find art I want to use word art, and when I want to find hack I want to use word hack. Lets keep definitions of words so we can use those words when we want and for what we want. We already shave Goggle picture search which will show you porn for any entered word",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103978",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:47:07",
"content": "word ART already lose it definition and become meaningless, you can argue that shit on white plate is ART, and make good point that it is ART, but most people when hearing word ART dont think about poo on plate. I dont want such faith to happen with word HACK. and no bull shit, yes you can call hack anything if you try hard enough lets be serious",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103979",
"author": "Captain Obvious",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:51:58",
"content": "@therian,I am so happy I don’t have to deal with you in real life. You are so very very unpleasant. Not to mention the fact that your argument of mixing definitions is complete b.s.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103999",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:58:32",
"content": "Therian, I see where you’re coming from. I agree with you completely as regards the re-definition of “art” in our culture.But my point is, if we define “hack” as “creative repurposing of existing technology”, this seems to fit in that category.Do you define “hack” differently? Maybe that would help clear this up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104011",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T00:12:25",
"content": "I believe that hack should apply to technology, why not to call craft a craft when it is art and craft, why you need to borrow word hack for it ?And no Im not mad or something I just hate BS when I see itBy the way art and technology newer mix together for example when artist try to add some engineering usually end result is bad art and bad engineering (usually it impractical overkill), when engineer try to add art, the end result always less practical than if there was only engineering. It was proven counsels number of times, end result always worse than if it was in separate category, there might be exceptions but they so rare to change anything",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104041",
"author": "c70ud9in3",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T04:35:38",
"content": "@therianAre you tripping on cat urine? Your logic airs a certain ubsurdity to it that disturbs my otherwise silent browsing of HaD. Do you talk the same way you think? Even more appropriate, do you physically converse with the same erratic repore you so arrogantly display for all to see? Your words are somewhat of a pestilence to my eyes. Logic demands thorough thought, and I’m afraid you haven’t the necessary tools.Just my two cents.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104042",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T04:53:44",
"content": "@c70ud9in3dont try to smart, your not, and you comment have no sense",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104043",
"author": "c70ud9in3",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T04:56:25",
"content": "Okay. I try not smart. Better sound you? Asshat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104044",
"author": "c70ud9in3",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T04:59:59",
"content": "If only HaD would divulge IP’s. I would have more fun. AND POST IT. I promise.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104047",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T05:58:03",
"content": "@c70ud9in3 try this one 127.0.0.1",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104085",
"author": "Ronald",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T13:34:46",
"content": "Hey can we just admit that this is a cool —PROJECT— and stop bashing each other because of personal definitions and lack of maturity? If you can make anything that took this much thought, planning and skill, POST IT. Otherwise, see it as a cool project that lots of us thank HaD for posting.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104130",
"author": "walt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:53:20",
"content": "cool. but why in the world do people post stuff on instructables :( that site keeps getting worse.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,557.096141
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/24/vodaphone-ringtone-music-commercial/
|
Vodaphone Ringtone Music Commercial
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Cellphone Hacks"
] |
[
"cell phone",
"vodaphone",
"william tell"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3nSoEhY8SM]
When we first saw
Vodaphone’s ringtone commercial
where 1000 cell phones perform a section of the William Tell overture, we just assumed it was some slick video editing, not to be taken seriously. Apparently, we were wrong. They actually did this. They actually sent text messages to all the phones in correct timing to play the music. In the video after the break, you can see some details on how they pulled it off. They had to perform this during non peak usage hours to ensure that all their texts went through. We think this project is pretty impressive. Actually, we still don’t know how they pulled it off, we can’t seem to predict how long a text message will take to reach its destination with any kind of reproducible accuracy.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RttlDzRPw9A]
[via
Makezine
]
| 22
| 22
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103783",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T17:19:10",
"content": "Isn’t it 1812 from tchaikoswki?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103784",
"author": "bearchild",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T17:25:28",
"content": "This must have used up a lot of credit.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103785",
"author": "Someone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T17:35:26",
"content": "Inspired by this old project?http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103786",
"author": "Dan Fruzzetti",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T17:40:30",
"content": "I would have imagined they’d set up their own private network somewhere in the next room. you’d need absolute network priority so think smaller. or even wired. And i heard tchaikovsky also.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103788",
"author": "Daley",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T17:44:12",
"content": "yeah, pretty much what he said. if you’re the company providing the service to hundreds of thousands, one would think you’d have a lab set up. let’s face it – if I were going to try to accomplish this same thing, that’s how I’d do it to, wouldn’t you?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103790",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T18:02:27",
"content": "It’s an arrangement of a few different pieces, I think. I heard some Tchaikovsky in there as well.That is a pretty cool project, though. I’ve had dreams of doing the same thing with one of the computer labs at school(each computer playing a part for a different instrument).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103796",
"author": "darkore",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T19:45:15",
"content": "I seriously doubt this could work with regular messages. It’s definitely a lab setup. A good one though :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103797",
"author": "Rogan Dawes",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T19:48:14",
"content": "I guess they could have used their own microBTS to manage all the phones, and eliminate any conflict between non-participating handsets.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103802",
"author": "John C. Reid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T20:07:21",
"content": "The making of video specifically states they had to do this between 1 and 6 am and the intro text specifically states they did it during off-peek hours. I would have to think then that this was done on the public network rather than a private lab. That is what make this truly impressive.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103807",
"author": "yea g",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T20:56:22",
"content": "Its vodafone not vodaphone",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103812",
"author": "Kyle McDonald",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T21:22:57",
"content": "I spoke with the director of this ad on Wednesday. I kept asking how they possibly could have synchronized that many cell phones… and he gave me a bunch of reasons already mentioned here (using a public network at off hours, etc). He finally admitted “it really only worked about 30-40% of the time, so we had to do a fair bit of post production”. He also had never heard of Golan’s project (the flong link above).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103814",
"author": "LogicBloke",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T21:26:20",
"content": "What about a bluetooth network interconnection to manage all this, It could have been better I guess …",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103824",
"author": "harc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T22:33:15",
"content": "doesn’t any of you know how a story/narrative is developed?“the making of” is also an advert, it tells you a storry while, quite literrary, flashing the product in your face. apparently they decided that this storry worked better.surly it got you talking about the product, it also got you feeling good, how your smarter then the companies scientists, you feel familiar with it.videoculture friendly extensive explanation:http://www.archive.org/details/the.century.of.the.self",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103828",
"author": "sl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:11:49",
"content": "It’s mostly the 1812 Overture, but they’ve taken bits and pieces out of it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103860",
"author": "Wonginism",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:24:54",
"content": "Go NEW Zealand",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104012",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T00:14:47",
"content": "@DAVE, yeah, it’s 1812 Overture, not sure if that was Tchaikovsky or not.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104032",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T02:52:12",
"content": "The making of Vodafone Symphoniahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyeko65vL7Q&feature=player_embedded",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104063",
"author": "Gert",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T09:29:26",
"content": "Wauw worlds biggest collection of shitty phones.Why do we expect that our phone will break after 2 years?Why do we accept that?I have a Nokia 1100 from 2003 and it still works, still has longer battery life than most modern phones. It has fallen into a pool and still works. I’ve dropped countless times, even flung it across a room once or twice.And it has Space Impact+ :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104066",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T09:56:45",
"content": "These are clearly parts of Overture 1812 by Tsjaikovksi, at least thats how you write it in Dutch. The Germans write Tschai–. In Englisch its Tchai–, and a y at the end. French and Italians write it completely different; Apperently only the Russians know how to write it correctly :)BTW the overture has nothing to do with Willem Tell. The piece was written to commemorate Russia’s defense of Moscow against Napoleon’s advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino in 1812.The overture is best known for its climactic volley of real cannon fire and ringing chimes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104156",
"author": "defyboy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:25:23",
"content": "Its Vodafone not Vodaphone guys…P.S. Go Kiwi!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104423",
"author": "John Thomas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T06:17:08",
"content": "It’s a ripoff ofhttp://www.vimeo.com/1109226",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106405",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2009-11-09T05:15:34",
"content": "If you’re going to do something clever with music, at least make sure it’s in time!Poor effort.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,557.200953
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/24/halloween-prop-glowing-spooky-eyes/
|
Halloween Prop: Glowing Spooky Eyes
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"News"
] |
[
"halloween"
] |
Would you like some spooky glowing eyes that light up and play a sound when someone gets near?
This circuit
makes it pretty simple. It uses a single phototransistor to detect someones presence. Instead of having a preset threshold that needs to be met, it simply triggers any time there is a sufficient change in the amount of light it detects. If you put one of these in a nice dark spot, your halloweeners will only see the LEDs and perceive them as eyes. It might also be cool to somehow add motion to this.
We’re running out of time to
prepare for Halloween
, don’t forget to send in your projects.
[via
HackedGadgets
]
| 6
| 6
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103843",
"author": "j s",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T00:31:12",
"content": "I’ve never seen a PIC in that kind of package before.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103873",
"author": "PidGin128",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T05:07:23",
"content": "OffTopic: When did HAD implement a mobile page? Was reading today to kill some time, and noticed the site looked different, at first I figured my phone was mishandling CSS, but after a few moments I noticed it was a different page being served. Works quite nicely! Although I imagine the layout and color-scheme will likely be tweaked shortly, the only actual ‘problem’ I noticed was that only 30 comments are delivered, and no option to fetch more.The mobile page might warrant a site-notice/article? Also, please keep the mobile/full site links, it’s nice to be able to retrieve the full page occasionally, maybe make mobile be a different page than the home?Browsed with a samsung R800 [rx800? rxh800 maybe… horrible little phone, and even with the same browser as the PSP [netfront], it’s very crippled.]Also browsed with a RIM BB8130 ‘s default browser, worked quite well.OnTopic! : It’s a UV erasable chip. from article: “A PIC12C672 was used as it was appropriate for the design. I had a number of the older UVEPROM version on-hand from older projects to use for development. While I have no in-circuit debug capability for these eight pin devices, the code is simple enough that this was not a major handicap.”–PidGin128",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103929",
"author": "Taylor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T17:29:04",
"content": "@pidgin128:I noticed the mobile page a few days ago myself. it works flawlessly on the iphone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104038",
"author": "John R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T03:49:40",
"content": "That is an OLD pic :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104132",
"author": "walt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T21:03:32",
"content": "I like it! nice DIY.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104279",
"author": "leo89",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T17:12:09",
"content": "Here’s a great APP I found for Halloween — Freak out pics of you and your friends with the iFREAK APP for the new movie The Vampire’s Assistant. You can find it here for free itunes.com/apps/ifreak",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,558.763103
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/24/the-best-robotics-competition/
|
(the) Best Robotics Competition
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"HackIt",
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"best",
"competition",
"enhs",
"robotics"
] |
If you give a mouse a cookie, he will ask for a glass of milk. If you give a team of geeks a box full of parts ranging from aluminum to plywood to motors to RF interfaces, they will build a robot. Introducing
Best Robotics
, a volunteer group that gives schools a box of hardware and 6 weeks to build a robot that will compete against other schools for the title of champion.
This past Saturday the17th, the OKBest regional competition was held and I, HaD writer [Jakob], was lucky enough to be invited personally to not only watch – but compete. Check out our full breakdown after the jump.
First an explanation of the competition. Each year the ‘goal’ changes but always includes several of the same concepts. Remote controlled robots must pick up different items for points, assemble something for multipliers, and signal a tie breaker. This year the robot’s task was to scavenge and collect tennis balls, racket balls, soup cans, beach balls, and 6inch PVC pipe sections – easy right?
Well not when those tennis balls are catalysts, racket balls are water, soup cans are energy, beach balls are CO2, and the PVC represents benzene. See where we’re going, if not think chemistry. It gets harder when you learn almost none of those game pieces are in play unless you send an IR signal to the game field. We haven’t even gotten to the 2 foot size restriction in all 3 dimensions and the finite parts list. Those who want to read more about the game and rules this year can find it
here
.
So how did
I
get the chance to compete? Well, being team captain really helps. Meet team ENHS. The past two years we’ve come nearly in last place and this this was our third, and potentially final time to partake within Best; it was time to stop being the underdogs.
Our robot design included an undercarriage ‘stomach’ and frontal ‘mouth’ that could be raised and lowered to capture the tennis balls, racket balls, and soup cans. We decided against attaining CO2 and benzene after finding we could achieve a max score of about 21 million points without them. The control system, programming, and IR commands were all handled by yours truly – while the rest of the team did most of the construction – and painting.
The great thing about Best is that if you don’t have an engineering degree, or even know what a motor does. There are awards that can actually get you to first place by best documentation, most enthusiasm, best T-shirt design, most interesting interview, and several others. But it still exposes people to robots and their construction, hopefully to influence them towards a career in technology.
So how did we actually do? 5th place overall out of 12. Not to bad considering last year we got 18th out of 17 teams (we don’t know how we managed that either). Win or lose, the experience, knowledge, and fun we gained from the competition will last a lifetime. The competition however will not, as funding for Best has declined over the years and our region next year will not play host. Hats off to the best year of Best.
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|
[
{
"comment_id": "103759",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T13:43:00",
"content": "it’s a tragedy when money can’t be found for things like this :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103761",
"author": "S133p",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T13:58:37",
"content": "Is this just a copy of FIRST robotics? Because it seems like the same things with less teams competing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103762",
"author": "Devin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T14:02:50",
"content": "Oh great, another feel-good sanitized non-violent non-competitive FIRST clone; I was hoping for something actually interesting, like battlebots.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103767",
"author": "Cole",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T14:49:33",
"content": "Back in high school, we had a FIRST team, but it turned out to be pretty damn expensive after a couple of years, so we thought we would give BEST a shot. All I have to say is dear god it was an awful competition. Most of the robots were held together with hope and duct tape, and the “competition” we went to was held in a gym in some st. louis school, with maybe 10 teams. We showed up with a robot that we felt looked like crap, and then soon came to realize that we were the only team there that had done any sort of machining, or knew what the hell “tolerance” was. Some of the other team’s bots repeatedly fell apart due to duct tape failure, had bearings that did absolutely nothing, etc. The following years, we merged a couple FIRST teams together so we could keep building challenging robots.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103769",
"author": "Michael",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T15:16:34",
"content": "I would like to defend the BEST competition. It’s not really just a FIRST clone, as Devin says, but it was actually founded in 1993, one year after FIRST was founded. The two programs have completely different ideologies.The BEST competition is completely free for schools to participate in, and every team is forced to use the exact same kit of parts. This forces the teams to be creative in their solution vs FIRST where teams with bigger budgets can often do better (not always).Also, the BEST competition brings in elements of engineering that I believe FIRST leaves out. Every team is required to turn in a design notebook, complete with the engineering process and drafts. Also, each team has to present their design in a 20-minute oral presentation. Finally, they have to build a table display (much like a trade show). These are additional elements that FIRST neglects.I have competed in both, and I thoroughly enjoy both, but I feel like the BEST competition is a more significant competition than it gets credit for.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103770",
"author": "MIke",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T15:18:50",
"content": "Given the overall pathetic state of technology knowledge in the US, this type of event should be encouraged and improved upon instead of whining that it isn’t another battlebot post.An awful lot of students (and graduates) in the US can barely read a ruler and figuring out the decimal equivalents for the common fractions is rocket science.Its a real shame what this country has become – we no longer lead in much of anything (except whining and debt) and I’m not talking about Cole who put together some constructive comments.It amazes me how many posts are from a bunch of whining losers. Put some effort into some constructive critisim or shut up.The above photos show some bots that are WAY ahead of most science projects and if you’ve got kids hooking up motors, learning about circuits and using their brains its alot better than sitting on the couch playing grand theft auto.This competition sounds like it could be a good first step before the FIRST competition which takes alot of time, money and effort.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103772",
"author": "Tyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T15:28:02",
"content": "I was in the OK Best competitions for 4 years and i have to say it was the funnest time i ever had in high school…. that’s the thing though.. its a high school competition and i have to say even though they are held up by duct tape alot of the time the fact that they move and somewhat function is astonishing. the parts list is very limited at that. you get pvc pipes, a few sheets of wood a couple pieces of half inch thick metal, 2 rolls of duct tape and that’s about it aside from the electronics. you can include parts not given but its supposed to be parts that every team can acquire easily i.e. aluminum cans.But to put this back into perspective again, it is alot of high school kids, most of which have never even held a rc plane remote control, let alone played with servos or had to cut something with a cnc before. the first 2 years the girls on our team actually melted our batteries because they charged them to long lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103776",
"author": "M0535",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T16:00:23",
"content": "I have to agree with Mike ant Tyler. From the three years i participated in South’s BEST in high school and reffed it in college, I can say that it is a wonderful experience to go through. Yes, the robots are not perfectly machined, or all metal, but the point of the competition is to get the students involved with all aspects of engineering.In addition to what Michael mentioned, there is also a CAD modeling of the robot that has to be turned in. When I got to college, many people had never even heard of computer aided design, much less, know how to model a part.Besides, there are not just high school teams competing. The last preliminary round that I reffed, around eight of the twenty-one schools competing were middle schools! Since when has anyone heard of middle schools participating in a robotics competition? I certainly would have loved to have the experience as a middle schooler.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103791",
"author": "Bob Jones",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T18:15:47",
"content": "I think that this has been filed incorrectly. From what I understand, BEST and FIRST robotics tournaments are more like RC car events. The “robots” are driven by human control, i.e a person with a control like used on an RC vehicle. I believe that this has become a huge issue. More and more people are believing that robots are just robot looking devices that are driven by humans.For some real robot action, check out the Botball program, where all of the robots are autonomous, meaning that they operate entirely with out human intervention, just based on pre programmed code.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103794",
"author": "Jake Strack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T18:47:07",
"content": "@Bob JonesI agree with your point, and do believe that simply calling a remotely operated device as a robot incorrect, however, claiming these program mislabeled wouldn’t be entirely true. I have no experience in the BEST program, however, 4 years of competition in FIRST leads me to argue this. In the FRC competition (big teams) teams are encouraged to have their robot participate in a period of autonomous (or hybrid operation much like those used in space vehicles) that begins each competition match. This traditionally lasts from 10-20 seconds. Teams are then rewarded with large point bonuses of they can score in said period autonomously.On another note FIRST also holds a Lego league, for students from grade school to middle school. In this competition, the robots are made from lego’s mindstorms kits, and all of their operation is done autonomously.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103822",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T22:21:05",
"content": "I’ve also participated in BEST. For a high schooler, yeah, it’s a unique experience, but I can’t say it was too impressive. As cole said, most the the “robots” were quite raggedy… except for the 1-3 teams which no doubt had at least a class period per day to work on it (never mind team = 20+ people = one class), and their “robots” were thusly well-built, complex machines that did what needed to be done well. Something of a shitshoot for the other teams, who used duct-tape.I, however, made sure ours had at least one LED. All 3 times I ended up doing the electronics, because there is only one way to do it (make a dual motor controller out of two servos) for a grand total of two reversible PWM outputs [motor controllers], and two reversible digital outputs.I suppose the abominations we created could be called “robots”, but I was honestly hoping for something more like FIRST… programming, and more time for proper design.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103836",
"author": "e_everett",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:45:43",
"content": "@zigzagjoeI’m currently a participating member on my school’s BEST team, and as of last year they’ve given us much more control. The kit now includes a “BRAIN,” so now there is much more output, and plenty of programming opportunities.As far as BEST versus FIRST, my team usually views BEST as FIRST lite. On the other hand, I think it’s a competition where the emphasis isn’t based on funding or building the most complex machine. Instead, it’s about managing very limited resources (only 4 motors and 4 control axes) to play a complex game. I find it especially interesting to see how other teams solved the same problems we worked on the last 6 weeks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103837",
"author": "MIke",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:46:39",
"content": "zigzagjoe:… make a dual motor controller out of two servos) for a grand total of two reversible PWM outputs [motor controllers], and two reversible digital outputs.Can you or someone elaborate on this? I’m not sure what you are creating. Are you hacking servos or using their output to control switches or something.Thanks,",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103864",
"author": "zigzagjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:56:31",
"content": "using two servos with 4 microswitches to create two reversible outputs suitable for motor control – they only give you two motor controllers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103876",
"author": "Chart",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T05:48:16",
"content": "Well I remember doing this for the 2005 competition, some of the robots were quite interesting, Our small team only managed to get the robot done the night before the competition and almost all the work was done that night, it didn’t look pretty but it got us 3rd place. The competition was to make a mechanical arm and ours was just enough to do the competition a pcv arm that moved a “hook” out and a second motor that moved the hook up and down. It was fun to make, but not very challenging.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103930",
"author": "MIke",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T17:33:02",
"content": "Thanks zigzagjoe,We did the same about 15 years ago when we built a large radio control ‘boat’ to spray herbicides on lakes and ponds. It fit in the back of a pickup truck and was custom made. I should go back and take some photos for this site. We bought a cheap RC car to get us going initially. We put micro switches into the drive train and stearing on the RC car to control the boat’s stearing and pumps. Worked well for a while until we got a DTMF decoder board to fire relays.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103931",
"author": "Thomas Fleming",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T17:36:50",
"content": "I’m from bryant arkansas and team this sarturday competed in the little rock hub’s competition and won 1st. maybe its not the most glorious or exciting robotics competition out there, but it”s still was fun and an awesome learning experience for those who have had no prior experience with robotics.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103958",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:21:28",
"content": "I am from watertown SD and I also just competed yesterday in the hub in north dakota with about 22 teams, my team taking first. My sister was in the FIRST robotics, but my school stopped doing it after two years because of how much money it costs. I don’t see how so many people can cut down the BEST program, it gives any school a chance to be able to compete. Sure there are a few robots held together by duct tape, but most were well engineered in my hub. Maybe I will see you at the Frontier Trails regional competiton Thomas Fleming.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103977",
"author": "Thomas Fleming",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:44:56",
"content": "Hope to. any competition is a good competition.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103980",
"author": "Hitek146",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:52:59",
"content": "Currently needing lulz… Please post link to duct tape robots… :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103982",
"author": "Thomas Fleming",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:01:07",
"content": "does anyone know how to get the IR to work?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103987",
"author": "Jakob Griffith",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:24:23",
"content": "Hello Thomas Fleming,The IR is surprisingly well documented and is easy to utilize. I however don’t have access to the actual code I used at the moment – so bare with me. But it is in the documentation Best provided.You treat it exactly as a servo. First by initializing the servo (I think its setservorange) to 180.Then whenever you wish the IR to send a command, you use setservo with a value of 0 to 1024. Once again you’ll have to look up exacts. But a value of 200 is release catalysts, 600 is energy, etc.I hope this helps, and hopefully someone else can instruct you further.Jakob",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103988",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:31:11",
"content": "Did you find any way of testing your ir? We could never get ours working during competition, we tried reprogramming many times with no success.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104000",
"author": "Thomas Fleming",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:59:02",
"content": "thanks Jakob. i will attempt this on monday when i get to work on the robot again.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104004",
"author": "Jakob Griffith",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:14:23",
"content": "Sam,Yes, there is two ways we got to test. The first is simple unplug the IR transmitter, and plug in a servo. If the servo moves to the correct position, then your IR is programmed correctly.The second way was on mall day. One of the volunteers had her laptop wired to a receiver similar to the one on the gamefield. We were able to test with that (and actually found out one of the IR transmitters was broken!).You might try and use an IR modified camera or other technique. Best of luck.Also remember, you can only plug the IR transmitter in one way, if you plug it in backwords, it will fry itself!Jakob",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104005",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:17:07",
"content": "Thank you Jakob, we did try testing on mall day and competition, but they weren’t getting any of the signals we tried to send. We will have to experiment further.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104031",
"author": "Jesus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T02:39:29",
"content": "Here in America we have poor schooling because we have BEHAVIOR SPECIALISTS running them, not educational advocates, or even a concerned mother, but no a BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST. We dont need any more ‘battle bots’ Thats the kind of shit that gets thrown at us so we just sit and watch television and think.If we were to think and realize the sad state of .. well our state is in, and perhaps maybe just ponder as to how the monetary system is built on, we would all go revolt and revolutionize, educate, etc…Its cool row row battlebots i r ‘tupid american.P.S. Wheres the girl in a bikini and flashy lights? I dont take interest to anything if those arent included!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104036",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T03:24:26",
"content": "@Oct 25th, 2009 by MIke notes the progression upwards (from ducktape and fried batteries). And “compared to what?”; anything that gets kids DOING stuff, anything, rather than just becoming mindless, consuming, corpulent couch potatoes has to be good.I don’t expect people with no experience of building anything much, nor of the world generally, to produce BattleBots with AI from a standing start. Going to the stars starts with a kite.As an old engineer my protip is learn to *improvise*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105122",
"author": "Tim",
"timestamp": "2009-11-01T23:07:37",
"content": "As an engineer with a Master’s Degree and having a son who participated in both competitions I have to state that BEST and FIRST are entirely different. BEST encorages the team to use a limited supply of parts and supplies and to let the students compete with their plans and knowledge. FIRST encourages the team to get the most engineering help, the most money, and the best facilities together and those are the teams that typically win. FIRST often becomes an adult project. Both programs are great and give good experiences but give me an student who has built a winning robot with the parts from BEST over a student who might have participated in a FIRST team and won with lots of $$ and adult engineers. I need engineers that think creatively, with cost constraints and can get the job done even with limited resources. That is the true engineer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105143",
"author": "Rion",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T01:45:22",
"content": "As a student participant of OKC Homeschool and the 4-H Ninja Munkees robots teams. I have one thing to say. BEST and FIRST are nothing alike. They both teach you separate things yet both focus on Engineering fields. There are times during both seasons that I sit there wishing for the other. But in the end I have learned a great deal of information from both. I personally prefer these robotics competition over something like battle bots simply because I can reuse my robot after each round. Even if I loose..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105233",
"author": "Ian",
"timestamp": "2009-11-02T20:27:26",
"content": "Oh man, BEST was so fun! I did that back in high school and our robot was so haggard. Haha.My friend and I were a little dumb… We had a “prototype” for a while and then about a day before the competition we decided to take it all apart and re build it a little more solid… Ended up just breaking it.Finally got it working the morning before the competition. Haha.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106094",
"author": "GarrettF",
"timestamp": "2009-11-06T19:02:26",
"content": "I competed in BEST for 6 years and was team captain for all 4 years of High school, having the 2nd highest score in the nation my last year (when compared to the other regionals). I also competed in FIRST for 2 years, both of which I was captain.But enough bragging ;)As already stated in previous post, FIRST and BEST have a lot of differences. Yes FIRST is more prestigious and normally more impressive to watch (120 pound robots speeding around a huge game field at 10fps are amazing) But the winning teams I have seen rely heavily on professional engineers to help them build their robot. I’m not saying that’s always a bad thing, it does teach students a lot about how engineering works.But at times, the robot becomes just as much the coaches project as it is the students.BEST is much more student oriented. Both our teams are 90% student ran. This works great in BEST, however it poses more difficulties in FIRST because we are competing against teams with both students and professional engineers. We enjoy the challenge, but it would be difficult for a new FIRST team to be run this way. Which in my mind, is a definite shortcoming.As for the complaint about the robots in BEST being mostly ductape and scraps, and I have only one thing to say… Have you been to a FIRST competition? There are always a handful of robots that are just scrap bits of aluminum welded together with some motors thrown in. Which in my mind is a lot worse than a ductape BEST robot. At least the BEST team didn’t spend $6,000+ on their piece of junk robot.Now in FIRSTs defense, it gives students hands on with technologies used in the engineering field that they would have otherwise, which is a huge advantage for their future.So I guess to sum this all up, they both have their pro’s and con’s, and in a lot of ways compliment each other… So don’t hate. :D",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.309851
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/23/halloween-props-skeleton-springs-from-coffin/
|
Halloween Props: Skeleton Springs From Coffin
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"home hacks"
] |
[
"Halloween props",
"pneuma",
"pneumatic",
"skeleton"
] |
[Tony’s] trying to scare the kids again this Halloween. This year’s creation is
a skeleton that springs up from a coffin
. His creepy coffin is built from plywood and in the classic style it gets narrower at each end. Inside, there’s a full-sized rubber skeleton affixed to a 2×4. Pneumatic rams are used to lift the lid and spring forth the skeleton from the dead.
He’s planned his performance well. The finished system uses a
fog machine
and looped audio for ambiance. A motion sensor detects innocent victims approaching, kills the music, opens the coffin lid, and adjusts the lighting. The coffin is right next to the door so when the doorbell is pushed and the skeleton springs upright this should scare the bejesus out of you. See how effective this in the video after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEzcX-fJcdk]
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| 7
|
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{
"comment_id": "103603",
"author": "chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:21:36",
"content": "Don’t forget to use a puff of compressed air aimed at the victims to assault all their senses.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103617",
"author": "clinton",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:47:33",
"content": "i like the lighting change, it adds to the atmosphere. nicely done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103660",
"author": "ChalkBored",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T00:55:37",
"content": "It needs to scream when it pops out of the coffin.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103674",
"author": "Kalvster",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T02:00:22",
"content": "Man this is going to scare kids so bad!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103682",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T02:27:31",
"content": "Might want to put down some newspaper on the sidewalk in front of this thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103700",
"author": "Tech Buzz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T04:05:43",
"content": "Waiting for the day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103781",
"author": "derwin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T16:46:54",
"content": "I love the music it plays when you get close to it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.076699
|
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/23/sparkfun-gets-a-cease-and-desist/
|
SparkFun Gets A Cease And Desist
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"News"
] |
[
"law",
"lawyer",
"sparc",
"sparkfun"
] |
[Nate] over at SparkFun Electronics has
posted a cease and desist letter he received from SPARC industries
. Apparently their legal department feels that his name is close enough to theirs to ignite a legal battle. They are demanding that he transfer his domain to them immediately to extinguish the flames. This all seems a bit silly, his name isn’t really at all like theirs and his product isn’t similar either. To add to the peculiarity of this, going to
their site
throws up a big red malware warning for us (in chrome).
[thanks IraqiGeek]
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{
"comment_id": "103558",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:36:24",
"content": "What idiots…On firefox I get:Reported Attack Site!This web site athttp://www.sparc.orghas been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.Yeah, go sparkfun, they got nothing on you…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103559",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:36:58",
"content": "Phonetically Identical! What the F**K are these attorneys smoking. What else now? We are not going to use “SPARK” in any business name because of this lame ass company? How about “The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition” = SPARC.They choose SPARC because they couldn’t have gotten a trade mark if they selected SPARK as a company name. Now they are trying to reverse it? Go take a hike. God, I hate attorneys…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103560",
"author": "bryan ribas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:39:12",
"content": "google blocked it for me on safari. Stupid people",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103562",
"author": "yon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:44:57",
"content": "I wouldn’t worry too much about these SPARC people, probably just trying to get more victims to their site.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103563",
"author": "Chris F.",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:47:48",
"content": "I hope they spend lots of money and do not get anywhere. Talk about an excellent example of one of the things messed up about the USA, needless legal forays. Gee Spark == SPARC? Well anyways… preaching to the choir. My 2 cents.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103564",
"author": "el tejon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:49:27",
"content": "The attorneys are doing what they have to do, and are only doing their job. The real asshats are the SPARC folks who ultimately have chosen to allow their legal representatives to go after Spark in an open and obvious grab for money and attention.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103566",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:51:30",
"content": "Nate at SparkFun (SPARC FUN!):“I have the utmost respect for Sun Microsystems (owner of SPARC Industries)”Yeah but nobody else does now…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103569",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:07:36",
"content": "SUN prove to make bad decisions for the last decade anyways. They were a market leader but refuse to adapt to the new world with LINUX system running on cheap INTEL Processors. Perhaps they thought, it wasn’t a thread. We’ve replaced most of our SUN SPARC servers with other brands running LINUX and we have now 32 times more processing power, and whole a lot of cash in our pockets. Considering a SW company actually bought SUN (ORACLE), I am guessing their intention is not to keep the HW division. So, the SPARC name might not have much more time left anyways.Live long and prosper SPARKFUN!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103570",
"author": "Josh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:07:53",
"content": "What a load, i say fight it. That could never hold up in court. Sparkfun Electronics = SPARC Industries? Um no, one is an acronym, the other is an entirely different word.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103572",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:10:33",
"content": "what nonsense, I hope if something in court comes of it SPARC gets their asses handed to them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103574",
"author": "Colin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:14:50",
"content": "The issue is that this is going to cost sparkfun time and money if the asshats at SPARC decide to push this forward.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103576",
"author": "yesys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:15:55",
"content": "SparkFun is fun.SPARC, Inc. is not fun.see how they differ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103578",
"author": "WTF?",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:17:45",
"content": "I smell a SCAM. SPARC Can go… well you get the idea. I hope SparkFun does not give in to them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103580",
"author": "Seth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:20:30",
"content": "There is nothing to fight. This is a standard letter law firms send out hoping you will shit in your pants and comply with whatever they say.In general, if you ignore the letters they will give up. You have nothing to gain by responding. In the rarest of cases, they will file suit. In which case, then you can give up or fight.Unless you’ve started a company called MickDoneld’s, it’s usually nothing to worry about.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103584",
"author": "Smokey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:32:22",
"content": "I would notify Sun Microsystems though, since they most likely hold the copyright over UltraSPARC, OpenSPARC, and SPARC64 since they are their processor architectures!See:http://www.sun.com/processors/opensparc/I wonder what Sun’s legal department has to say for that huh! I would love them to ask THEM for a cease and desist and ask them for their domain. Suckers!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103585",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:34:21",
"content": "yesys: That was the best example of the difference between these two companies I’ve seen so far :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103586",
"author": "Boudico",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:36:40",
"content": "So, apparently they can use the SI initials without worrying about infrigement on Sports Illustrated? Typical legal-ese BS. Ignore them SparkFun!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103587",
"author": "kamanashi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:38:31",
"content": "Malware thing happens in Firefox with AVG for me too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103588",
"author": "me a drink",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:40:06",
"content": "Why do they not make bullying an offense.I suppose they will be going afterhttp://www.sparkunlimited.comnext, most people know you have to be careful with sparks!What little misguided respect I use to have for Sun, Sparc and Oracle just jumped of a cliff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103589",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:40:06",
"content": "If you google SPARC you get a completely different site tied to a completely different non-profit.Also, I’ll bet SparkFun occasionally produces literal sparks when working on their projects, whereas SPARC probably hasn’t in ages if they’re doing it right.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103590",
"author": "Juan Cubillo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:40:08",
"content": "I manage thousands of sun’s servers at work… I just hate them all now.sparkfun has nothing to worry about. they sell leds, pcboards, and kits to turn pumpkins into halloween prop. SPARC design and manufactures fridge-like servers that cost tens of thousands of dollars and don’t do much.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103591",
"author": "beermotor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:43:39",
"content": "I send out a lot of these letters at my job (in-house counsel), mostly to web scammers of various types. This letter from K&L is pretty amusing. I think the guy correctly demolishes it on the sparkfun site. It’s a nonstarter. Tell them to file a UDRP if they’re so upset. They will lose hard, obviously.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103593",
"author": "cirictech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:45:40",
"content": "I hope this does not effect sparkfun, Sun and sparc may have chosen the wrong group of very loyal customers to mess with. Long live sparkfun! More business coming your way sparkfun to show my support.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103594",
"author": "FateOne",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:45:44",
"content": "I wonder if this is trying to tie up anything that could possibly be considered a loose end by any stretch of the imagination before Oracle acquires Sun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103596",
"author": "Dieggo Bouvier",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:02:58",
"content": "Wooow, I just can’t believe this. It’s so stupid that seems to be a joke … I hope the guys at sparkfun (If I write sparkfun I will receive a letter too? LOL) can solve this in an easy and cheap way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103597",
"author": "Daddy Su",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:03:14",
"content": "Boo! Bad form Sparc/Oracle/Sun. Have you ever noticed that non-microsoft companies tend to act like the big bad windows bully eventually. This seems something Microsoft of the mid 90’s would be up too. Not the happy go lucky Sun guys. What next, Apple going to be super proprietary and not play well with other companies…oh wait…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103598",
"author": "vec7or",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:04:33",
"content": "Reminds me of Psion-Teklogix whines over ‘netbook’Damn lawyers…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103599",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:07:52",
"content": "what a crap, the word “spark” have a meaning already it not acronym, what if someone name company a “brick” do we have to call bricks a rectangular box shape construction martial made from clay&cement. Sadly this crap might cost sparktime money and time",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103605",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:26:23",
"content": "finally, a post that qualifies as a hack.the legal system was intended for one use, and now its being twisted and used for something else.Still though, this smells fishy. Or should I say phishy",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103607",
"author": "Gerrit Coetzee",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:28:06",
"content": "Looks like they just want the domain. I bet they came up with some marketing campaign “sparcfun” and had their plans dashed by one lone hobby electronics store.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103608",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:29:31",
"content": "Spark, electrical discharge causing ionization of surrounding athmosphere, usually accompanied by emission of characteristic sound and light.I don’t know if that is a good idea, but if it were me, I’d pretty much like to write them an answer letter, with the follwing content:FUCK YOU!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103610",
"author": "djrussell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:30:11",
"content": "anyone interested in a new car?how about a nissan? lets head on over to their homepage….http://nissan.com/^^ these guys have held out for years.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103612",
"author": "Dash_Merc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:43:30",
"content": "Too fucking late. Seriously, if they had maybe tried this five years ago, I could see it being okay. Now it’s not okay. there is absolutely no grounds for this. The hacker community and all former and current customers and supporters of SparkFun had better pull together to fight this. If SparkFun loses over something this inane and idiotic…well I don’t know what, but I’ll be REALLY pissed off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103615",
"author": "DarkFader",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:45:56",
"content": "If they succeed, they’ll take on MS$http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/community/spark/default.mspx",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103616",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:46:17",
"content": "To: Law firm representing Sparc IndustriesFrom: The Law Firm of Pookey, Pookie, and PookeeRe: Cease-and-desist orderSirs-It has come to our attention that you have, do, and plan to continue to use the word “lawyer” in representing your business.For at least a century, our clients have used the word “douchebag” to describe parasites who manipulate the law in order to feed from the marrow of the bones of others.Whereas our clients have referred to those of your ilk as “douchebags” far longer than you have actually been “lawyers,” whereas our clients used alphabetic letters to construct the word “douchebag,” and then you subsequently also used letters to spell “lawyer,” and whereas, in most people’s minds, the two words have materially the same meaning, your use of the word “lawyer” materially infringes on our clients’ preferred useage of the word “douchebag.”This notice should be construed as a cease and desist order. While we acknowledge your right to call yourselves what you really are, i.e., “douchebags,” we must insist that, effective immediately, you refrain from referencing yourselves as “lawyers.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103618",
"author": "Dash_Merc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:47:52",
"content": "They’re probably just upset that sparkfun and arl.org come up before them now when I google “sparc”.Trolls.I have lost all respect for Sun, what little I had.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103619",
"author": "Dash_Merc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:50:18",
"content": "…and my third comment: I do declare, their demands for Sparkfun to “immediately take steps to transfer the sparkfun.com domain name to [SPARC International]” sounds an awful lot like piracy on the high seas (or in space).“Avast! Lay to and prepare to be boarded!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103623",
"author": "Mr. Sandman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:58:56",
"content": "lol @ pookey",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103625",
"author": "Brianmanden",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:05:53",
"content": "#sparkfail",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103626",
"author": "t0ny",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:07:14",
"content": "Wow.http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.sparc.org/“Malicious software includes 12 trojan(s), 8 exploit(s), 6 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103627",
"author": "Dennis Booth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:12:31",
"content": "I am now rethinking my policy on computer acquisition. I need no Borg.I need no Sparc Station.Sparc shows up as an error in spell check.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103629",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:19:09",
"content": "Signed:Cr RedfieldZombies are now involved. its on.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103631",
"author": "catzburg",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:27:48",
"content": "@Boudico I was going to go more like the SI system of measurement, more commonly known as the Metric System. But it’s just the french and they don’t count (jk)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103633",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:29:12",
"content": "Clue:In trademark law you must defend your trademark lest its name become common use. i.e. Xerox, Kleenax, Google…That is why Google sued a publication for using google as a verb.IANAL",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103635",
"author": "Dcept",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:40:04",
"content": "I’ve emailedsparcinfo@sparc.org(for those who don’t want to visit the malware-infested piece of shit website). Everyone on here should write them a (profanity-free) Email expressing their views. Also, going after a company that supplies hackers of all types world-wide is pretty ballsy LOL.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103636",
"author": "rob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:41:33",
"content": "you know, I tried to think up something witty and clever to say. but, this pisses me off to the point all I can really say is, what a bunch of scum sucking douchebags.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103637",
"author": "dikbut",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:42:31",
"content": "Enter the Streisand Effect.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103638",
"author": "Mat Patel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:45:24",
"content": "“Malicious software includes 12 trojan(s), 8 exploit(s), 6 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.”Here is a hint for SPARC International. Rethink your hiring policy. Your lawyers are crap, your IT guys are crap. See a pattern?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103642",
"author": "Q",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:58:43",
"content": "I can’t believe that Larry Ellison is sooo stupid… Now I understand why so many people dislike him so bad!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103643",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T23:12:57",
"content": "??? Looks like a grab for attention by some hackers who compromised sparc dot org. Under no circumstance does anybody purchasing from Sparkfun think they are buying a Sun/SPARC product. I wonder if SPARC international knows yet that they were taken over?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,558.942424
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/23/poddwatt-tube-amp-with-mp3-in-mind/
|
Poddwatt: Tube Amp With Mp3 In Mind
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] |
[
"high gain",
"ipod",
"mp3",
"tube amp"
] |
[Bruce] has
designed a push-pull tube amp
that has enough gain to connect to a portable audio player. The design is closely related to
his OddWatt offering
from a few years ago. The new amp has many redesigned circuits and the new hardware choices drop the price tag of the parts by about $50.
This little wonder pumps out 5-7 watts and [Bruce] is please with the end result. It doesn’t put out quite as much low-end as the
KT88 amp we saw last year
, but compared to
some other iPod speaker solutions
this provides stellar audio.
| 41
| 39
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103554",
"author": "samurai",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:30:08",
"content": "Can someone explain to me why audiophiles that build these amps are totally cool with 0.5% distortions, when they could get more power, efficiency, and less distortion out of a single, cheaper IC?I just dont understand this tube culture.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103567",
"author": "rd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:56:52",
"content": "Audiophile equivalent of “hack value”?I don’t really see how it’s so difficult to understand. We do pretty much the same thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103571",
"author": "ax0n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:09:02",
"content": "Yes. Let’s take a natural, analog amplifier and run ersatz, digitally represented audio through it. Hi-Fi Fail.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103573",
"author": "nanomonkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:12:57",
"content": "This is just a guess, but I believe that the distortion is of the agreeable type. Every tube amp owner I’ve know spoke highly of the “warm” sound that was produced. They aren’t “flat” response.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103575",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:15:08",
"content": "Tube amps are the best cause there is nothing digital about music so therefore less digital the better. Im sorry that audio noobs dont get it. I have everything from the asus stx, creative fatal1ty and whatever else. Nothing comes close to a tube amp and pre. Sorry.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103579",
"author": "ax0n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:17:53",
"content": "I’m just saying this would make more sense if it was for a purely analog system, like a phonograph or audio tape. Pumping digitally-represented tunage through an analog amp seems like tubes for tubes’ sake at best, an exercise in futility at worst.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103581",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:22:27",
"content": "I hear ya there. I just get happy when i see tubes. More the better.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103600",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:14:05",
"content": "Mike please no audiophile crap, go for ufo and paranormal if you chose lunatic direction just not audiophiles please",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103604",
"author": "(t)ony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:24:02",
"content": "I completely agree with a previous comment that feeding a lossy audio file through a DAC then into a tube amp is ridiculous. The only place tube amps make sense is with analog recordings. Tube amps do sound great with string instruments though, especially miked acoustic ones.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103609",
"author": "DR Gleason",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:29:53",
"content": "I sit here with my HifiMan EF2 ($200) and Audio-Technica ATH700 ($140) connected to my PC and I’m enjoying great audio while I work. I switched from a Creative X-Fi and I have to say, unless you listened to the difference, you would not get it.The EF2 (available at head-direct dot com) is connected to my PC via USB and has no audio driver at all on my system so the MP3, WMA or better yet, FLAC files play on media monkey and out my USB as digital and are decoded on a Digital to Analg converter (DAC) inside the little amp. The DAC alone adds great value as it is much better quality than Creative uses in their process and it does not pick up system noise from being inside the PC. Then the sound goes through two vaccuum tubes and it amplified a bit and naturally picks up that warmth of sound that everyone who listens to tubes, enhjoys. Then it is boosted by an output section whhich gets it to the level and impedence of my headphones. So for under $400 I have sound which is in a lot of ways as easy on the ears and as rich and full in depth and soundstage as an expensive home system with regular speakers.If you get a chance, go visit head-fi DOT org and see all the different equipment the members have and talk about. It is an enjoyable site to learn about headphones and amps.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103630",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:24:00",
"content": "let me tall you about experiment that many dome including myself, get the cheapest Chinese OPamp and connect it by data sheet schematics, HIDE IT, take a tube and connect only filament so it looks like working. Then ask audiofile what he think about sound quality, record all about warmth soul and etc on dictaphone than tell and show him truth by removing tube. I had busted audiophile in my university like this, and many have done same to theirs annoying buddies.And let me tell you about warmth, it nothing more than high frequencies you loses, the low frequency sound warmer and heavier/deeper than hi frequency so if you lose high frequency that what you get",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103634",
"author": "rd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:35:59",
"content": "@therian:Who cares?Just be glad that it’s a decent electrical project and not a wallet made out of broken Arduino boards or something.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103639",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:48:07",
"content": "@by rdI agree about projet, it good one. My comments was about people not project",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103665",
"author": "bigbob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T01:17:05",
"content": "Being an audiophile is different to everybody. It’s all about getting exactly the sound you want. If you want precisely the sound that the producer and creator intended, then that’s what you should pursue. Same for if you are looking for something that does not have perfectly flat frequency response, but just that little something that works for you.If it is not your deal, then do your own thing.Great project anyhow, new technology is great, but the old stuff can be just as fun!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103669",
"author": "cyanide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T01:32:30",
"content": "use it for your gee tar",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103670",
"author": "Serge747",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T01:34:46",
"content": "Tube have distortion in the even harmonics while op-amp have it in the odd harmonics. Odd harmonics are those making a square wave, so they are ‘unpleasant’ to the ear. Even harmonics, on the other end, make for a softer sound. Tube also require less feedback, which is good.On the other end, using a tube amp to listen to digitally butchered music (aka MP3) doesn’t make much sense to me…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103695",
"author": "Mr. Frykas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T03:37:35",
"content": "I like the fact that I will be able to use my tube equipment even after a nuclear weapon explodes nearby…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103701",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T04:09:49",
"content": "I’m going to build a “tube” amp like this but put a cheap IC amp inside with a LPF to cut out the highs. It’ll sound the same to these tube-stricken “Audiophiles”, nice and “warm” – at least as long as it glows.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103705",
"author": "RandomPrecision",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T04:49:59",
"content": "I wasn’t assuming this is an audiophile thing. I figure it’s just a funny hack. Nobody will seriously use this, just like nobody will seriously use the toilet twitterer.If it were for music production, like an amp for a guitar, it’s well-known that tube distortion is generally better-liked than transistor distortion. There’s a reason why a lot of effort has gone into making transistor amps that model tube properties, with varying degrees of success.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103730",
"author": "riazap",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T09:08:00",
"content": "Serge747 has no idea what he’s talking about. He especially doesn’t know what harmonics actually are.",
"parent_id": null,
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"comment_id": "6326711",
"author": "kenneth",
"timestamp": "2021-02-27T22:01:15",
"content": "Actually he nailed it pretty well .Even harmonics aka – 2 , 4 , 6 ect is the same type of harmonics produced byacoustic instruments example acoustic guitar .If acoustic guitar ( or other instruments likevise ) had Uneven distortion as highest thenthey will sound harch and NOT good .The even harmonics distrotion is the dominating distortion source in tubes , thatmake tubes sound much more plesent and warm even with higher distortion thanthe solid state do .Solid state amplifiers on the other hand have most Un even harmonics distortion dueto the charecteristics of the transistors , that mean they also have to be driven with aslittle distortion as possible to not sound harch ( that typically unplesant distortion typicallyin higher frequencies )If you drive the solid state with same amount of distortion as a tube amp then itWILL sound hard and harch and you easy get hearing fatigue after too long time listen .( some type of mosfet transistors produce more even than uneven harmonics distortionand that bring them closer to tube sound )Thats why I ONLY use mosfet in my solid state amps .I prefer tube amps but due to my travels with my studion trough the past years Ionly have tube guitar amps .But when I have a better place to settle down and rebuild my studio then I will again buildtube amplifiers , after all they sound great and you can build them with very low distortion .Another thing is when driven hard then a solidstate have a much more hard clipping andboth sound really bad when it happen and most likely will blow speaker parts ( typically tweeters )The tube amp on the other hand will sound ‘ softer ‘ when clippind due to the fully magnetic field in thetransformers and speakers better survive it because it by nature work a little like compression .But I disagree with him about mpg3 … all digital sources can benefit from tubes just like analogue.When thats said … true analogue sound better and more ‘ natural ‘ than digital .You can’t chop up a signal into steps and then take those steps and truely recreate the pure analoguecurve . Thats why thy try to solve this by using different types of filters after the d/a converter .there will always be something ‘ missing ‘but its close enough that the average person can not hear the difference …I CAN HEAR THE DIFFERENCE – but my hearing is NOT average .",
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"comment_id": "6326713",
"author": "kenneth",
"timestamp": "2021-02-27T22:05:41",
"content": "ps Sorry my typos , I wrote this under influence of morning coffe at unplesant time : )",
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"comment_id": "103740",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T11:10:58",
"content": "What’s this about a tube-shaped harmonica?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "103861",
"author": "pookeye",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:38:16",
"content": "@ riazap–You are not being fair to @Serge747. He is essentially correct. The “warmth” attributed to vacuum tube amplifiers and audio gear stems from the type of distortion they tend to introduce. If you know anything about music theory, you know that doubling the frequency of a tone brings you up one musical octave. So, for example, if your fundamental is 440 Hz (an “A”), and distorion causes even harmonic content at 880 Hz, it still sounds good, because the harmonic is pleasantly and musically-related to the fundamental. This is true for all of the even harmonics.Tubes are not the only pieces of audio equipment that exhibit this tendency. For years, studio engineers ran their tape decks “hot,” purposefully recording above the recommended 0db level so as to introduce even harmonics that “fattened” the sound.Solid state gear tends to produce odd harmonics. These harmonics are *not* musically related to the fundamental, but are instead dissonant. Distortion with odd harmonic content tends to sound harsh.An exception to this is FET circuitry. FETs are voltage-controlled devices, as are tubes, and if they’re set up right, and driven into distortion the right way, they can have remarkably tube-like audio qualities.Another thing that @Serge747 touched on is the idea of feedback. Modern amp design usually involves building an amplifier with huge amounts of gain, then taming that gain with negative feedback. The benefit, among other things, is improved bandwidth. Vintage tube audio tended not to have a great deal of negative feedback. If you feed both types of amplifiers with percussive, narrow-pulse audio (as might be found in a snare crack, or the ting of a ride cymbal) audible differences appear due to the time constants associated with the feedback network in the solid state amp.The bottom line is this: It seems to me that a lot of what passes for “audiophile quality” equipment and accessories really boils down to an “I-have-a-bigger-d*ck-than-you” type argument. In other words, it’s BS. I’m not convinced that a $10,000 amplifier is 100 times better than a $100 amplifier, and the way most people use them, you would never hear the difference.However, that doesn’t change the fact that there *is* a difference between the way tubes and solid state devices process sound, and there are legit reasons why one would purposefully choose tubes.One final comment. There is no such thing as “reproducing” music. Why? Because no snare drum in the real world sounds like the snare drums you hear in pop music. Those drums are gated, filtered, and usually processed with one or more types of reverb. A real electric guitar doesn’t “sound” like much of anything at all. In fact, an electric guitar is really a kind of analog synth, because it uses the vibration of steel wires in a magnetic field to produce disturbances in a coil of wire. The signal that comes out of that is amplified, compressed, gated, clipped, and processed with chorus, delays, reverb, and who knows what else. Even the singing you hear in a recording is *not* how a real-life singer sounds, unless you are used to having people sing full-blast within 4 inches of your ear.My point is that music, from the moment of creation, is really a *subjective* expression. When that recording is later played on your ipod, a car stereo, a boom box, or whatever, it is further altered and modified, intentionally or not, by your space, your equipment, and your settings.The ambiance of the space between your ear-buds and your ear drum, or in the passenger compartment of your Nissan, is not the same as the ambiance in Carnegie Hall. Even if it was, *nobody* can seem to keep their hands off the bass and treble controls. Then there are those numb-nuts who drive down the street with the volume so high that their own eardrums are being driven into distortion. Accurate “reproduction” my *ss!Music, from creation to delivery is entirely subjective in nature.",
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"comment_id": "103870",
"author": "riazap",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T03:54:57",
"content": "@pookeyePlease. I have an EE major and a minor in music. I think I know what I say when I say that Serge747 has no idea what the fuck he’s talking about.",
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"comment_id": "103874",
"author": "mahoney",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T05:25:43",
"content": "Pfft, so you did a bit of study and have no real world experience? If you think you know better, how about explaining why you disagree.Nicely put pookeye.",
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"comment_id": "103882",
"author": "riazap",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T06:50:42",
"content": "@mahoneyActually, after getting my degrees at MSOE and UWM years ago, I now work at Genelec. I think I a have a smidgen of real world experience.",
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"comment_id": "103897",
"author": "space",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T11:10:08",
"content": "@samuraiPower and efficiency are irrelevant at experiencing music. Some people pay insane amounts of money to listen 1kW+ power amplifiers on 80dB/W or less efficient loudspeakers. Other people make 3-5W power amplifiers and use them on 90dB/W or more efficient loudspeakers. Truth is the human ears can’t listen music louder more than 85dB for long periods of time without suffering permanent damage.Distortion level (THD) is number that describes level (amount) of distortion, nothing more. It does not describe how brain perceives distortion, so it is more a number for the magazines than guidance for the pleasure.Hearing is believing, and goes double blind-folded for audio.",
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"comment_id": "103947",
"author": "samurai1200",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:10:31",
"content": "i, too, hope to one day have enough money at my expense to waste it on such useless engineering pursuits.TRANSISTOR SOUND 4 LIFE",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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{
"comment_id": "103963",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:42:28",
"content": "It induces noises and glows lights. It’s also a space heater!This monkey is satisfied!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "103998",
"author": "DontBuyFromLogitech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:53:48",
"content": "If they had an 5th gen video iPod with Rockbox installed they could be using FLAC files instead of lossy, crap sounding MP3s…",
"parent_id": null,
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},
{
"comment_id": "104003",
"author": "samurai1200",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:12:01",
"content": "@DontBuyFromLogitechor one of the Creative PMPs that natively play FLAC?iFanboi…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "104008",
"author": "ax0n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:26:25",
"content": "FLAC still goes through a DAC. I still say if you want the full sonic spectrum, you need a completely analog system. FLAC is good, but it’s not analog. Anyone who tells you the amplifier (transitor or tubes) is the most important aspect of maintaining sound quality is full of crap.",
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{
"comment_id": "104009",
"author": "samurai1200",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:32:04",
"content": "I dare you to find a single person that can tell the difference between a FLAC rip done from a mint vinyl record, and the vinyl record itself, given the exact same full-analog setup (after the point of phono-preamping or flac->dac).I guarantee any properly-sized trial will yield no better than random (.50/.50) at picking out the source of audio.",
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"comment_id": "104055",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T07:46:05",
"content": "I’m going to have to come back later on to us fresh eyes to understand this design, for some reason it’s confusing the hell out of me. Certainly the constructing a duplicate should be straight forward for anyone experianced with constructing electronic project by using a schematic. The final result of this construction looks fine.I can understand those who use hollow state before solid state came into being put off by the sound of solid state that doesn’t contain the distortion that the tube equipment has. I do suspect a learned snobbish element on the young bucks cut their teeth on solid state, then again HiFi has has a tinge of snobbery from the beginning. Can’t for get some do find the distortion added by electric guitars agreeable. I too wonder to what degree of the desired sound of tube amplifiers is lost when playing mp3 files. At the very beginning of the digital recording process digital is only an approximation of what any human ears at the scene may be hearing. Will the person listen to the playback of the recording on their own equipment know that something might be missing? Probably not, most may not be able to note any difference when given an opportunity to listen to pure analog recording of the same event. May not worth the time noting the differences, much less arguing about them. Last one at the pub buys the beer.",
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"comment_id": "104058",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T08:25:49",
"content": "@ RandomPrecision I believe person named Carver was acknowledge with duplicating the sound of tube audio amplifiers with transistor amplifiers. He’s know dummy, where there are few who want to buy transistor amps that sound like tube amps he manufactures high end expensive tube amps as well. Used to anyway it’s been a long time since I pay close attention to the audio entertainment world. My 30 year old Radio Shack system still works well.",
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"comment_id": "104099",
"author": "pookeye",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:04:44",
"content": "@riazapI’m an EE too. So what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "104748",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T08:24:22",
"content": "I came up with a rather simple rule, many years ago, after working in a high-end stereo shop for a while and having people come in who basically wanted to buy equipment that distorted music in some particular way that they claimed to ‘like.’Whether it was JBL speakers with the once-popular ‘west coast sound’ (basically pumped-up midrange) or Empire phono cartridges with certain definite frequency limitations, or even people who wanted to use equalizers to minimize trumpets or whatever, my rule came to be “get equipment that reproduces as accurately as you can afford, and if you don’t like what you hear, then you need to listen to different music.”",
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"comment_id": "104905",
"author": "Whoever",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T03:54:17",
"content": "I agree with kedavis. (And I’m also late to the audiophile blaming)The storage format has absolutely nothing to do with the distortion of the amplifier, so yes, it’s perfectly valid to use a tube amp with crappy mp3s, there’s still a difference.A polished turd rolled in glitter is still better than a polished turd without glitter.Lossless storage of AF waveforms is lossless storage of AF waveforms, it has been scientifically demonstrated that your ears can’t tell the difference between lossless codecs at 24/48 and perfect analog signals, and the few differences there are, actually make analog worse.I’m an audio engineer (with actual engineering and audiology knowledge, not “corner bar sound dude”), and here on the production side of things, the sound of music _is_ treated objectively. We calibrate the monitors (SPL-linearized speakers with room correction on an already neutral room) to the operator’s ears and then apply the standard weighting curve, so as to replace the error in the operator’s ears with an averaged error, which makes the sound of music (when reproduced through perfectly linear equipment), for every person, as close as realistically possible to what he hears. The artist is trying to communicate a message, after all, and we want listeners to get the same message the artist composed, wether it’s good or bad.So trust me, if music was really better with some particular sound or coloration or whatever, the artist would have already applied it in production. In fact, most mastering engineers run the music through tube amps. Some things can give the illusion of sounding better, such as compression, or happy-face EQ, but it’s just an illusion that will end up getting tiresome, and at the end, if you don’t like how it sounds on the equipment that only tells the truth, then you don’t really like the artist – just as kedavis said, you need to listen to different music.The truth is the truth, regardless of if you’re happy with it or not. Distorting your music to be happy with it is like using drugs to fly, instead of building an airplane.Hope nobody minds the long rant, this is an outdated thread after all :-)",
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"comment_id": "104906",
"author": "samurai1200",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T04:09:40",
"content": "@ WhoeverTHIS.(Very nice post, man.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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{
"comment_id": "104915",
"author": "kedavis",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T05:50:54",
"content": "Thanks for the backup, Whoever.It was also said at the time I worked at the audio shop that many recordings were being mixed using 6×9 car speakers since that’s how they wound up being heard by many people. I don’t know if that was really true or not, but either way it helps to illustrate the point I was making before. Especially back then when personalized distortion seemed to be the rage.If you really don’t like trumpets, don’t buy Herb Alpert albums plus an expensive equalizer.Another guy at that shop used to record tapes for his car, and he would boost the recording level on the right side and slightly lower it on the left, to make the ‘stereo’ effect sound more ‘balanced’ from his position in the driver’s seat while keeping the balance control on his car stereo at the middle, rather than record them ‘straight’ and then make whatever adjustments he wanted in the car. Same kind of thing. And it also made his tapes ‘wrong’ for him to play at home, or even in other people’s car for that matter. Plus that it would sound ‘wrong’ to anyone/everyone else in the car with him.There was also another place – not the one I worked at – that sold Magnepan speakers among other brands. I think they sold the same set of Magnepan speakers over and over, because someone would hear them in the store and think ‘wow, that’s really something!’ but after living with them and listening to them for extended periods of time they traded them for something else after they realized that ‘really something!’ wasn’t the same as GOOD.And when I went to OSU, the Bookstore had a perpetual “truckload sale” on Pioneer going, each year a few kids would blow a bunch of their own money or financial aid money on some big setup that would rattle their windows for a few days but then they didn’t seem to want to hear it any more. And it wasn’t because they were busy studying.",
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/23/make-your-own-snes-games-with-developer-cartridge/
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Make Your Own SNES Games With Developer Cartridge
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Nintendo Hacks"
] |
[
"atmega644",
"AVR",
"debug",
"develop's cartridge",
"snes",
"super nintendo"
] |
Have you always wished that you could develop games for the Super Nintendo but couldn’t because you were only 4 years old when it was released in 1990? Here’s a second chance. [Max] and his team have created a
SNES developer’s cartridge
that allows you to load your own code, run it on the SNES, and debug as needed. At its core is an Atmel AVR ATmega644 that is running a boot loader, allowing for firmware updates via USB. Once the system is powered on, ROM code is sent over USB to the 16 megabits of onboard SRAM. A debug terminal can be connected with an RS232 converter, providing status information and allowing some register manipulation.
We can believe there are a few hardcore SNES fans out there who will take the time to write custom code. We could also see this being used for the purposes of SNES sythesized music. But is there a wide demand for this type of hardware? If you’ve ever looked into developing for the SNES, let us know in the comments.
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"comment_id": "103491",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:38:00",
"content": "I was 5 thank you very much",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103495",
"author": "salzar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:53:15",
"content": "I was for do I win!?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103496",
"author": "sardaukar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:53:24",
"content": "I was 11, what the hell? :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103499",
"author": "nobody",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:57:56",
"content": "I had done some development for the NES and not the SNES. But it gets a bit boring at the end and the rewards (fame, money etc) are almost non-existent.I’d rather direct my hacking talents elsewhere…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103500",
"author": "cantido",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:58:14",
"content": "Looks good. You can get flash based carts already but SRAM should make testing cycles a lot quicker.Would have been nice to have an SD slot and a small bootrom to load code from the SD card to ram.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103502",
"author": "sardaukar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:59:34",
"content": "Fame? Money? We’re in it for the weirdness and geek awesomeness! how else do you explain USB tachometers? :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103503",
"author": "Anodyne",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:00:26",
"content": "Programming my own SNES game sounded like a fun project, until I realized that they were all written in assembly. No thanks! :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103509",
"author": "nobody",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:12:28",
"content": "@sardaukar:When you are around 30 years old, awesomeness is less of a motive anymore (at least for me). Money, though is another thing :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103512",
"author": "sardaukar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:18:28",
"content": "@nobody: but i AM 30 :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103514",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:22:05",
"content": "Didn’t the NES require a nintendo logo to be present in a specific place on the cart before it would run a game? IIRC this was a way for Nintendo to enforce licensing, if your game was not licensed you could not put the nintendo logo in your code or you would violate copyright.",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1019311",
"author": "Simon",
"timestamp": "2013-06-24T21:12:46",
"content": "I have written 3 NES games 2 for Nintendo and 1 for Atari and this copyright thing you mention is not true.",
"parent_id": "103514",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "6415347",
"author": "Kaz",
"timestamp": "2022-01-18T18:36:26",
"content": "That sounds like the Game Boy. The Nintendo logo that scrolled down was read off the cart. If the image didn’t checksum correctly (e.g. dirty contacts, or missing image) then the cart wouldn’t be booted.",
"parent_id": "103514",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
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{
"comment_id": "103515",
"author": "shibathedog",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:26:02",
"content": "The only problem is you can’t use all those fancy GFX chips the SNES had with this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103516",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:26:14",
"content": "To continue the above comment…Does the SNES do the same? If I am correct, how does this cart get around this?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "103517",
"author": "Hackineer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:28:04",
"content": "This would have been extremely cool 15 years ago. It seems like a waste of time considering much better toys available now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103518",
"author": "Kevin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:28:49",
"content": "I am 29 and i still get excited over snes!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "103524",
"author": "Maniacy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:45:52",
"content": "You shouldn’t underestimate the SNES. Sure it doesn’t feature W-LAN and HD resolution but when it comes to the pure gaming experience, you can probably still use the SNES as well as almost every other platform.While I don’t know how difficult it is to write games for the SNES it seems to me like a perfect experimenting box for the aspiring game developer to show off…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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},
{
"comment_id": "103525",
"author": "Schell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:50:20",
"content": ">>shibathedogIf you can load arbitrary code into SRAM to be executed, why couldn’t some of those instructions get at the GFX chip? Unless you’re talking about add on chips like SuperFX, C4 etc.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "103528",
"author": "mukmuk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:59:51",
"content": "shit… I do more stuff for awesomeness and geek cred than money since I’ve gotten to around 30.@shibathedog… It’s really amazing how nintendo enabled developers to create software and extra hardware to run on their system.I’m not sure if it was just cheaper that way or what, but I do know that an SNES cart has way more hardware in it than a PSX CD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103531",
"author": "farthead",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:11:27",
"content": "I’m waiting for my Atari 2600 dev cartridge… That’s is where the Fame and Street Cred is at!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103536",
"author": "Gikero",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:44:22",
"content": "I was less than a year old! Born in 90. Lol. But I grew up thinking about how much fun it would be to make games for the SNES, and I just happened to come across a SNES that was only used once! It still had all the original packaging.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103539",
"author": "reaper0995",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:57:26",
"content": "can ROMS be loaded onto it?? this would help for games that are crazy rare!!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103540",
"author": "grey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:58:57",
"content": "Considering that even tototek is no larger making their flash carts, probably good to have new options. Ideally open schematics for people to diy though. There have been game copiers predating these things for ages and homebrew development was done while these consoles were current (typically with floppy or parallel loading ram based game copiers). I would suggest a direction to go these days is to have the carts accept uSD cards like contemporary gameboy DS flash cart systems. That way design can focus on memory access and be expandable.Still handy for some, though it’s certainly not impossible to buy old SNES copier systems for dev work (some like an swcdx2 64 might be a bit rare/in demand though).But an open schematic project would make for a good group effort that could continue to thrive long after initial development interest wore off.",
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},
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"comment_id": "103541",
"author": "MarkyB86",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T18:13:39",
"content": "Crap, I WAS four in 1990. I don’t know how you do it hackaday.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3483216",
"author": "MarkB86",
"timestamp": "2017-03-31T05:54:43",
"content": "shit… I was not only four in 1990 but I’m also called Mark B… What the hell is this place!?",
"parent_id": "103541",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103543",
"author": "Smokey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T18:27:56",
"content": "I am also doing a little research into a SNES flash cart. I am very much at the initial design stage, but I am aiming not to have a whole load of SRAM chips, and completely map the whole I/O bus to a uC, and load the ROMs directly from SD.I looked through the site to see if I could get some info and the best you get is a Schematic that looks like it was drawn on a napkin.However, their site says they are looking at a SD card addon, which is ok.The harder thing is the peripheral chips (SFX, etc) which need to be emulated for a fair number of games, and from what I can see, this setup doesn’t allow for such a thing.Looks promising.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103550",
"author": "Craig",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:15:10",
"content": "I don’t like it when people who are smarter than me write articles revealing they are also younger than me.-10 points… for me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103551",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:17:46",
"content": "I’ve programmed for a few game consoles – I toyed with SNES briefly but since I wouldn’t be seeing my code on the real hardware I wasn’t very interested. Seems the console homebrew’ing community is fairly small these days. Wii homebrew is doing okay right now(lib’s are sketchy), and XNA I’ve never tried($ to make 360 games).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103582",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:24:46",
"content": "It’d be interesting to see this used as a game collection on a cartridge. That would let you use the original SNES hardware… I could see programming a “game” that acted like a GUI rom loader and then have a catalog of SNES games on a flash card.most of the benefits of an emulator with the ideal reproduction of the original hardware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103601",
"author": "VV",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:16:14",
"content": "CAN IT LOAD GAMES OTHER PEOPLE MADE?!Like for instance the ones i got in the giant bundle of thepiratebay?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103654",
"author": "Max123",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T00:23:31",
"content": "@VV, yes, that’s possible, but mind the law.. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103667",
"author": "Wobble",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T01:31:11",
"content": "@Grey Tototek wasn’t making their SNES flash carts for a while due to a problem getting the snes cart connector. they have them in stock again now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103676",
"author": "james",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T02:07:35",
"content": "I think this is sweet! I would love to see some snes sequencer programs for use with other input devices… perhaps full blown 16 bit sampling and reproducing goodness. or an snes live effects processor or sampler with a gui that uses standard av outs from the snes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103720",
"author": "User",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T07:43:45",
"content": "Great! Now we just need one for the N64 and all those SGI Indy N64 dev machines will become useful again…somewhat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103721",
"author": "Dan Fruzzetti",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T07:54:31",
"content": "Of course it runs netBSD!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103726",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T08:48:33",
"content": "i have a windows rom for sega genisis architecture, keeps blue screening on meand ouch, $120 for pre-madewhy isnt hong kong selling carts for all classic systems that have a usb plug integrated and hold 8 gigs? memory chips are dirt cheap nowoh crap…just read a comment, hackaday is predicting our ages accurately now…i bet they are using google provided stats on every user and dynamically inserting how old we were in 1990hehe, i still got my snes with the same cart thats been in it for the past uh…10? years, super bomberman 1!i never actually did finish earthbound on the real cart…beat it on my phone though",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103743",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T11:30:04",
"content": "4 years old in 1990?My wife and I were dating! We beat Super Mario World together!Man, I have to find kids my own age to play with.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103745",
"author": "Pilotgeek",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T11:36:36",
"content": "@VVIt would be cheaper to just buy the old cartridges. You can get snes carts for less than $3-4 if you look in the right places.@FrogzCool story, bro.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103846",
"author": "MDude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T00:48:34",
"content": "I actually only had an NES and a Sega Genesis until the N64 came out.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103847",
"author": "jsngrimm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T00:52:51",
"content": "looks nice but i agree with cantido, an sd slot would be nice. @Anodyne I agree, i thought about writing snes games but im not very fond of assembly myself",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103848",
"author": "jsngrimm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T00:55:52",
"content": "@Gikero lol, born in 96 :|",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103951",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:23:27",
"content": "young wipper snappers!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103989",
"author": "dedomil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:31:49",
"content": "I was ten. Got a snes for xmas when I was 13 and I still play it to this day. My best mario kart lap time on mario circuit1 is 59’49”. This dev-cart is something i’m very excited about. I’m one of the hardcore snes fans that was mentioned.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104049",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T06:53:29",
"content": "Wow he called my age….should I feel old???",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104095",
"author": "Bakamoichigei",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:54:14",
"content": "That’s pretty damn cool, I’ll grant you… But tell me when they make a NEO-GEO dev cart. :O At least they were still making NEO-GEO games this millennium, despite it being a contemporary of the Super Famicom.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104136",
"author": "walt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T21:16:43",
"content": "I was 14. therefore, I am your grandfather! show some respect!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104225",
"author": "cantido",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T09:44:17",
"content": "@BakamoichigeiThere were guys selling blank PCBs that you could populate with your roms, I don’t think it had any banking stuff so you would be limited to the 330meg or whatever the neogeo can address itself.You can also get a cheap cart, like I got two tecmo soccer carts for $4 shipped, and depopulate it. It’s all through hole for the ROMs. You could also easily do this with an FPGA but you’re going to need a ton of level translators.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104238",
"author": "Bakamoichigei",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T10:59:24",
"content": "@cantidoYeah, I have some spare carts (Including three copies of PUZZLE BOBBLE that turned out to be boots) that I can convert like that. (And I have an EPROM burner on the way from HK so I can burn new BIOS ROMs) But a USB-based easily-loaded board would be nice, too :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "116362",
"author": "Team NES 1",
"timestamp": "2010-01-09T20:26:17",
"content": "How did they figure out that I was four years old in 1990? The internet is getting more and more freaky as we speak. Or maybe they assume that the younger audience who had a Super NES was born in 1986, and you know what happens when you assume, right? If not, I’ll explain later.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "123384",
"author": "Videogamer555",
"timestamp": "2010-02-12T02:14:56",
"content": "Where do I buy it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "139587",
"author": "Calvan",
"timestamp": "2010-05-02T14:41:48",
"content": "I was 2 and still getting the hang of super mario bros and ninja gaiden.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "140099",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2010-05-04T19:03:08",
"content": "What programming languages does it support? How do we get our programming onto the catridge itself?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "338705",
"author": "abed alrazzaq skafi",
"timestamp": "2011-02-21T14:44:01",
"content": "i want to be agames maker",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/23/hot-air-pencil-for-under-20/
|
Hot Air Pencil For Under $20
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Tool Hacks"
] |
[
"heat pencil",
"smd",
"solder"
] |
Here’s a project from back in 2001 that might be of interest to some of you. It is a guide on how to
build your own hot air pencil for SMD soldering
. He is using a super cheap 45W soldering iron from
“the shack”
combined with a pump type desoldering tool and an aquarium pump. He says it works pretty well, and we don’t see why it shouldn’t. This is a pretty elegant solution. There are also some
more recent versions
of this mod, but the idea is basically the same.
[thanks Stuart]
| 36
| 33
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103472",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:21:47",
"content": "Hmm. Could you reverse the airflow and make a powered de-soldering iron like they have on those nice soldering stations?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103473",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:23:37",
"content": "@Dan,you would probably have to build some kind of trap so your tube doesn’t get clogged, but I don’t see why not.",
"parent_id": "103472",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103474",
"author": "budhaboy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:25:49",
"content": "Ummm, if you actually read the hack at the ‘more recent version’ link, you’d note his implimentation doesn’t work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103479",
"author": "Pouncer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:40:51",
"content": "Ohh, I like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103480",
"author": "Daft Tech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:42:48",
"content": "These units work awesome all by themselves. No need to hack them. I have a vintage model (1980s) and it STILL WORKS. They take a bit of time to startup but are absolutely indespensible.Not so good for removing surface mount items but the through hole stuff comes off super easy.-=/ Daft Tech /=-",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103482",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:49:08",
"content": "How do you know the RadioShack iron wouldn’t work better?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103483",
"author": "vec7or",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:55:33",
"content": "Nice solution, but it worthless for anything larger than desoldering SO-8 from the board.Hot air station based on that needs a bit more oomph to work, air blowing through a small tube will not heat enough with big air flow, I’d opt for some kind of heat exchanger.On desoldering side I think it will do much better, provided the air after the iron is cooled and there will be trap for the solder. Soldering iron for the job should powerful so it wont cool.Solder trap could be done with a coffee filter or something like that (Weller & Ersa have similas solutions).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103485",
"author": "budhaboy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:57:26",
"content": "@matt: probrably would. In fact, the ‘more recent version’ suggests as much by noting it’s got a lower wattage than the older one using the RS iron. I also think the RS hack is more elegant as the steel wool both captures heat AND restricts airflow. The ‘more recent’ dude’s implimentation attacked both issues independently.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103486",
"author": "Q",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:59:13",
"content": "I like it. pretty elegant solution",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103488",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:03:16",
"content": "I actually bought a 12V compressor and a desoldering iron to do this hack a while ago… then I used the desoldering iron for it’s intended purpose and I ended up throwing a plug kit plus the compressor in the back of my truck in place of the spare tire… those cheap RS desoldering irons are actually pretty damn useful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103493",
"author": "rd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:50:48",
"content": "Older than the internet.I tried this about a year ago. It’s a neat idea, but it doesn’t work well enough to be practical. It takes a very long time to warm up (the pump must be off during this period or else it never heats up at all) and when it finally does, its a really clumsy and difficult tool to use.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103497",
"author": "rd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:55:38",
"content": "Also, note that connecting the tube directly to the iron is a bad idea. It’s better to poke a hole in the back of the silicone bulb and insert the tube into that so that it is insulated from the heat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103506",
"author": "A2E",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:07:23",
"content": "I tried this about a year ago. After several days of failing I gave up. The iron just does not get hot enough to do any good.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103523",
"author": "Stendall",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:39:02",
"content": "I have come to comment and I saw all people saying almost the same I come to say.There’s no way that works.it’s like trying to make some water heather, using one feet of cooper pipe and a Bunsen lighter.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103527",
"author": "CH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:56:39",
"content": "I live in the UK, and cannot find anywhere that sells these type of irons cheaply. That said, there is an instructable on turning a hot-air gun into a hot-air solder station which seem preferable to me. Now, if I can just find a large copper pipe corner…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103532",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:14:15",
"content": "doesn’t work!i tried it as well, with increased air flow, with reduced air flow, smaller tip, better heat exchanger, a modification, where the air gets blown through the iron -still uselessat least i now know more than i used to:if you want to heat up air to the temperature of a soldering iron and don’t have an infinite amount of time, what you need is not a soldering iron, but something that is hotter than a soldering iron- basic physics, duh! every heat exchanger is built that way.so what i learned is to trust my own knowledge, even if some bright bulb tells me about his great awesome hack, and forgets to mention the tiny detail, that it doesn’t work.my radio-shack version got disassembled, my new version at least works for welding soft-PE ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103535",
"author": "CalcProgrammer1",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:19:08",
"content": "I tried this over the summer. I don’t know if it’s the greatest thing for actual soldering but it is a pretty useful tool. I was able to desolder some SMD resistors and capacitors with it and solder them back on but it took a ridiculously long time to get anything hot enough to melt solder. However, it works really well with heat-shrink tubing, almost the perfect heat. It isn’t so hot as to burn the tubing quickly but it shrinks it very well. It can also be used to melt plastic and wire insulation. I added a ton of steel wool in the tip of the thing, jammed it in until I couldn’t fit any more and it still has good airflow. Steel wool seems to be a good heat exchanging material for this iron.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103544",
"author": "reza",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T18:31:00",
"content": "I built this a few years back and it’s really just junk. Spend a bit over $100 and get a PID controlled hot air gun clone. you will not regret it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103553",
"author": "Bill",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:23:31",
"content": "The people who comment on this site are the biggest bunch of crybabies on the internet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103568",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:04:32",
"content": "oh bill, if something is posted as a great hack and five people who built it already think it’s junk, what should they do?a) voice their opinionorb) stay quiet and let others find out for themselvesi admit, option b) reduces the crybabyness-factor of this site. but info-tainment-amusement over learning? that’s only preferable for theoretical hackers. you know, the kind who read this and think “wow, cool all the stuff that’s out there. some day i might build something like that.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103577",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:17:22",
"content": "@tantris,Wouldn’t it also be possible for them to state that they’ve done it and explain that it didn’t work out in a positive manner? I know I appreciate knowing the pitfalls before I get started. But yeah, no need to bash the project.",
"parent_id": "103568",
"depth": 2,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "862782",
"author": "Saul_Goode",
"timestamp": "2012-11-08T00:48:17",
"content": "What do you expect when the 2nd example is itself a link to yet another non-working attempt?",
"parent_id": "103577",
"depth": 3,
"replies": []
}
]
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103595",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T20:48:58",
"content": "@Calebagreed. the tone isn’t always the nicest here.but sometimes rude and irritated is hard to distinguish. and i admit, i got irritated: the original writeup goes through the steps, without mentioning that it kind of doesn’t work that well. Paddy’s blog ( mentioned as “more recent version” above) is much better: go through the steps and report whether that works or not.unfortunately, hackaday just linked to it as “more recent version” and forgot to mention, that’ it doesn’t work.i wouldn’t bash the project as a whole. (i am looking for curling irons and broken toasters right now..) but there are write ups that are bad and misleading, and good ones that are open to (constructive) criticism.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103602",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:18:53",
"content": "This toll work great as desoldering tool but as hot air desoldering it just newer work, you will overheat and burn all components before you desolder them with this, trust me I tried to do this many times before buying hot air station",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103614",
"author": "vikki",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:45:38",
"content": "boys, heat guns are $20. easier to set up, not as precision true, but still simpler than this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103640",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:52:46",
"content": "Yep, made one a couple years ago according to the earlier Hackaday post, didn’t work terribly well. Some tricks to make it work:– Get a high-watt desolderer.– Include a footswitch to control the pump.– Severely restrict air flow.– That steel wool trick looks reasonable.I don’t use it for that purpose anymore; it still desolders, and I got a real SMD rework station for real work; it’s worth it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103641",
"author": "capissen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:54:47",
"content": "I tried this exact same setup. It was okay, but painfully slow, and ineffective on anything larger than small SMD components. Needs more airflow and heat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103658",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T00:52:04",
"content": "Damn good find.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103711",
"author": "coo no L blades",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T05:33:29",
"content": "Tried it back in 07 and it didn’t work, I didn’t try too hard honestly. A hot air paint stripper or a hot plate works with less effort.I would like to see more DIY hot air irons, perhaps with temp control. You can buy a spool of nichrome wire from ebay or from Omega.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103713",
"author": "Kevin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T06:11:37",
"content": "I also tried this one out, over the summer, but it didnt work all that well. I tried changing it a bit, after the initial not working, by adding a thin brass pipe down the center of the soldering iron, to hold more steel wool, and adding a finer tip taken from a steel mechanical pencil, it still didnt work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103742",
"author": "epicelite",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T11:20:47",
"content": "I saw a instructable where a guy put some desoldering braid inside the head of the thing so that it would help transfer heat to the air as it passes through.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103858",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:15:54",
"content": "what the fuck is the point of posting stuff like this when it doesnt even work???? hell,even the author of the “more recent version” states that point blank.and now,back to your regularly scheduled aurdino commercials.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103859",
"author": "cooblades",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:23:26",
"content": "To BobobUp top! *high five gesture*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104059",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T08:37:35",
"content": "LOL; from the blog spot link “It didn’t work! At least not on the solder on the circuit board.” I hope you work from home Stuart, in my part of the world you get a large ration of shit when you get to the shop.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "865524",
"author": "deadlyfoez",
"timestamp": "2012-11-09T04:08:08",
"content": "When I first saw this hack I thought it was a good idea, and it will work in a pinch, but in the end I decided to buy a real rework station instead because this is just not good enough for anything that you’re trying to take serious.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "1308502",
"author": "jeff",
"timestamp": "2014-03-28T05:18:41",
"content": "i was wondering if any knows if the pinout on the 968A+ if it is the same as the 474a+and if the pump is the same? i no the specs say that both 231air just wonder if youcould hook up the replacment gun for 474a+ to 968a+and make your station desolder 2i welcome your input thanks",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.456953
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/23/psystar-taunts-apple-a-second-time/
|
Psystar Taunts Apple A Second Time
|
Phil Burgess
|
[
"downloads hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] |
[
"apple",
"hacintosh",
"osx86",
"psystar"
] |
As if bankruptcy shenanigans and an unresolved exchange of lawsuits with Apple weren’t enough, Mac clone maker Psystar is
really
swatting the beehive now
with the release of Rebel EFI
, a $50 software package that promises a straightforward installation of Mac OS X on a variety of commodity x86 systems.
Setting up one’s own “
Hackintosh
” system has traditionally been a painstaking process of duplicating the OS install disc and fiddling around with various kernel extensions. Rebel EFI claims to do away with all this, bringing click-and-drool simplicity to the Hackintosh experience. The package can be downloaded free of charge in order to test compatibility with one’s hardware before committing to buy; in this trial mode, the system is limited to two hours run time. Minimum requirements include an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core i7, or Xeon Nehalem CPU.
Normally we’re all for
voiding warranties
,
challenging EULAs
, and
sticking it to The Man
, but some have been calling Psystar’s underdog image a charade, claiming the commercial Rebel EFI software is simply an uncredited derivative of open source efforts such as the
Chameleon bootloader
. Whether or not this proves true, it will be interesting to see how this whole surreal skit plays out between Apple, Psystar and the open source Hackintosh community.
| 35
| 33
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103462",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T13:24:04",
"content": "The legal brief from Psystar actually says, and I quote, “Go and boil your bottom, you empty-headed animal food trough water!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103463",
"author": "Rocket",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T13:31:38",
"content": "Seriously Psystar should just give up. The “Hackintosh” install is super easy these days. You can even just use the Retail DVD, no duplication required, and most hardware can use Vanilla kexts via DSDT.aml.I don’t understand why Psystar is continuing this charade, they need to just give up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103466",
"author": "Rocket",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T13:33:45",
"content": "Also, this program is totally a rip-off of open source software such as chameleon/pc_efi/boot-132.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103476",
"author": "Karmatose",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:29:59",
"content": "I have a completely working setup with boot132 and chameleon, but I want to give this a shot. If it’s cleaner than my boot132 cd (not that it can get much easier) it’ll have a place in my install. I’m just curious how to get around this two hour time limit or if I can use the cd to boot my vanilla install then install chameleon and be done with it.Who knows.. I’ll find out tonight.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103477",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:31:37",
"content": "@karmatose,let us know!",
"parent_id": "103476",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103484",
"author": "hogiewan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:56:43",
"content": "@karmatoseyes, please keep us informed.I have been having trouble getting OS X installed on my machine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103487",
"author": "ReKlipz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:01:33",
"content": "why would anyone want to use the piece of crap that is OS X on anything but which it was forced anyway?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103489",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:14:52",
"content": "I’m just going to assume you’re all mature enough not to start an OS flame war.",
"parent_id": "103487",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103494",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:52:29",
"content": "I stopped using Mac when they dropped PPC. I personally think this is funny because it pisses a lot of pretentious cliche geeks off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103501",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T15:59:16",
"content": "@ReKlipzreason number 1: so people who already use mac OS and have been all their lives don’t need to drop yet ANOTHER $2k to stay up to date this time around.reason number 2: so private system builders like myself can sell hackintosh computers to put themselves through college.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103504",
"author": "nobody",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:00:32",
"content": "I think they are doing all these just to spit in Apples face… As simple as that!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103505",
"author": "Blackbeard",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:04:52",
"content": "I’d love to see people pirate this on principle. Licence terms? What are those?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103529",
"author": "pbnj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:03:17",
"content": "its already been pirated…http://sharedwarez.com/mac-other-oses/19980-psystar-rebel-efi-app.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103530",
"author": "Yvan Lamontagne",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:05:20",
"content": "I tried to install on my new portable is a Gateway NV58 (Intel Core 2, T6500 clocked at 2.1 GHz, 4 Gig of RAM and 320 Gig hard disk).After inserting the Snow Leopard DVD into the drive the Apple logo appeared and that was the end of it. No more disc activities, total sudden death. I tried a second time to install following their procedure and same result.Apple does not have to worry because Rebel EFI simply does not work. I would not buy a computer from these clowns.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103534",
"author": "CH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T17:17:43",
"content": "@Caleb Kraft> I’m just going to assume you’re all mature enough not to start an OS flame war.That’s what mummy used to say to my brothers when we where little :>",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103552",
"author": "Lucky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:17:52",
"content": "When I try to install Snow Leopard appear “no smoking” sign.I have got motherboard Asus P6T deluxe v2 but in the bios I can’t find the settings of psystar guide.Can you tell me the exact position of that settings in BIOS setting of this motherboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103621",
"author": "mindbleach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:51:48",
"content": "Even if Psystar is a corporate-funded GPL violation to its very core, they belong on Hackaday for their efforts to allow people to install an OS they own on any hardware remotely capable of running it. Whatever their reasons and methods, they’re putting good money into the legal and PR battles for software rights and we should know about them even if we don’t commend them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103622",
"author": "Captain Howdy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T21:51:57",
"content": "Since 2006 when I bought my first Mac I never got back to the PC world, I have a boot camp partition on my Mac Pro to basically play games.In my opinion OS X is a sweet system and I find myself very much comfortable by working under it… But I ain’t no mac fanboy, I recognize the good side and the bad side of both systems without getting into this childish OS wars that makes both MS and Apple Marketing Managers laugh their asses off.But one thing is for sure… Apple has being doing some really annoying and questionable market choices lately, and all I can I say is… GO HACKINTOSH, GO!!! Maybe if people stop buying Macs just because of the OS promises Apple can start doing wise stuff once again.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103624",
"author": "rootentity",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:03:28",
"content": "Honestly I wish that apple would take the hint already and get out of pc hardware, they fail at it plain and simple. They don’t have the resources to be unique hardware wise. Apple’s fetish for being proprietary is not equal to being user friendly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103628",
"author": "Karmatose",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:12:50",
"content": "So an update.I installed my retail 10.6 (Snow Leopard) using the RebelEFI disk boot it. I then installed PCEFI and did everything manually. You don’t have to use their “app” to get everything worked out. I prefer this to Boot132 because it’s graphical and easier (not that Boot132 was difficult) to use.Quite a nice disk. I’ll keep it in my arsenal. And nice to know that if you know what you’re doing, you don’t have to pay the $50.My system specs are as follows:Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3PC2D E6600 (@3.2GHz)8GB DDR2 RAMGeForce 8800GTS 640MBSeveral HDDs.Everything works flawlessly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103632",
"author": "nick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T22:28:28",
"content": "I really wish they would stop messing with apple. It is rather easy to setup a hackintosh without their little utility as is; and i’d rather that they not irritate apple to the point where measures are taken to make the OS difficult to install on 3rd party hardware.I still see all this attention they are bringing to the hackintosh community as negative attention. . . . . . . .",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103645",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T23:23:02",
"content": "Installing OS X by free will ?! wow, and I thought I have seen all crazy kookos already",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103753",
"author": "Rat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T12:29:45",
"content": "“Since 2006 when I bought my first Mac I never got back to the PC world, I have a boot camp partition on my Mac Pro to basically play games.Posted at 2:51 pm on Oct 23rd, 2009 by Captain Howdy”Protip: Since the Intel switchover, there is no difference between a “Mac” and a “PC” except for the OS that was installed on it. Consequentially, this also means there is no difference between HP and Apple branded products as they all have come from the same OEM/Builder at one time or another.I really wish people would stop saying PC as if it referred to anything distinct from Macs. Macs ARE PCs, to the traces that connect each and every component. The only thing that makes a Mac a Mac is the order in which the bits are stored on the hard drive.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103758",
"author": "Snide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T13:39:52",
"content": "@Rat:Provenance, and design.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103768",
"author": "Al",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T15:14:33",
"content": "Ah yes, go ahead and give the thieves and liars at Psystar your name address and credit card #. When Apple wins completely, all of those business records will be theirs and you will all be hunted like animals.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103810",
"author": "Louis Wheeler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T21:13:43",
"content": "This action of Psystar’s is a direct provocation — that they acting out of spite; Psystar wants to inflict a pyrrhic victory on Apple. That is, Psystar knows they will lose in court, so they intent to inflict devastating losses on Apple so that it won’t feel like a victory. But, will Psystar succeed? Only if many people create hackintoshes using their CD and Apple does nothing about that.I suspect that Apple is restrained from doing much until it can boot all Macs into the 64 bit kernel, by default. That will not until the majority of applications are converted through out the next year. When Mac’s are on the 64 bit kernel, then a new security paradigm takes over which is much more secure. Will it lock out any computer which is running Snow Leopard on PC hardware?No doubt, the hackers will say that they will always be able to spoof Apple’s security, but we’ll see.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103833",
"author": "Rat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T23:34:13",
"content": "“@Rat:Provenance, and design.Posted at 6:39 am on Oct 24th, 2009 by Snide”Doesn’t change the contents of the pretty case it was stuck into. It’s still the same thing as a PC.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103849",
"author": "jsngrimm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T01:01:08",
"content": "1. unless forced at gunpoint, i will probably never use osx im my life2. why pay for this instead of using the free opensource methods for installing osx on x86?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103875",
"author": "PidGin128",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T05:45:38",
"content": "The only issues I have suffered were re: right-clicking, and the separation of the menus from the applications. Last time I tried to install OSX was with PearPC, before apple switched to x86, ran pretty well, even on my anemic machine [with the aid of my low standards. driver support was poor though].I am more interested to hear about OSX’s booting procedure, as I am quite unfamiliar.@nick : I agree, negative repercussions are quite possible in a more restrictive release.@rat : “I’m a MAC and I am a PC”. This does have a nice sound to it, should help to diffuse trolling attempts. Although, like game systems, it can be beneficial to have the vertical integration between the soft+hard wares.@Louis Wheeler : I had honestly never thought of OSX as either 32b or 64b, that was a bit of culture shock. Is the 32b kernel less restrictively secured?@Caleb Kraft / HAD : I know in some articles you link to previous related posts [sometimes overdoing it…]. How feasible would a related posts sections be? Similar to the ‘Recent Posts’ available between the content and comments, mostly just parsing some random content from matching tags.–PidGin128",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104001",
"author": "DontBuyFromLogitech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:00:12",
"content": "Why the hell would anyone want to ruin a perfectly good PC with OS X or Windows?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104025",
"author": "Louis Wheeler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:52:36",
"content": "Yes, Pidgin128. Just take a look at the security page for Snow leopard. Most of the advanced protections are from the 64 bit Kernel. 64 bit provides a much wider address space to hide essential files in. This makes is more difficult for hacker to guess where they are.Also from Apple:‘Mac OS X offers a multilayered system of defenses against viruses and other malicious applications, or malware. For example, it prevents hackers from harming your programs through a technique called “sandboxing” — restricting what actions programs can perform on your Mac, what files they can access, and what other programs they can launch. Other automatic security features include Library Randomization, which prevents malicious commands from finding their targets, and Execute Disable, which protects the memory in your Mac from attacks.”The Mac’s 32 bit kernel is relatively secure, but the Mac will become more so in the future when it boots into 64 bit.Lets say that Mr Miller of Intego finds a un-patched file in Apple’s BSD foundations and tries to exploit it, as he has done so often before at ConSecWest. In the 64 bit kernel, that vulnerability will be placed in its own sand box. It will have very limited permissions. It won’t be able to over-write your files or open up a port to infect some other machine. If it demands too many cycles, you will be notified, so you can delete that process and get rid of it.No computer is invulnerable, but you can moderate the harmful effects.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104060",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T09:02:45",
"content": "LOL I guess Rat hasn’t yet hasn’t seen those Apple computer commercials. Where the apple dude calls the other dude PC. Even apple understands most everyone understand that PC generally is use to refer to IBM PC computers and clones.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "125725",
"author": "sam",
"timestamp": "2010-02-23T08:19:00",
"content": "thanx",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "168623",
"author": "cbwealthformula",
"timestamp": "2010-08-14T19:40:27",
"content": "Seriously Psystar should just give up. This is ridiculous.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "802877",
"author": "xai",
"timestamp": "2012-10-02T04:04:01",
"content": "lol is this works? XD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.527072
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/22/unreasonably-bright-bike-light-apparently-hunts-deer/
|
Unreasonably Bright Bike Light Apparently Hunts Deer
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"LED Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] |
[
"bike",
"light",
"lumens",
"nickel metal hydride"
] |
[Jukka] wanted a bike light that wasn’t afraid to go into the woods during the dark winter.
He put together a lamp
that uses eight 3 Watt LEDs to pump out 1680 lumens (
english translation
). The high power LEDs were mounted on a large aluminum heat sink and use lenses to optimize the beam of light. The system uses a 2 amp driver board that he assembled himself. Power is provided by sixteen AA Nickel Metal Hydride batteries that are housed along with the driver circuit in a water bottle.
This more than doubles the output of the
last bike light we thought was too bright
. Where will this lumen-arms-race stop?
[Thanks Sami]
| 79
| 50
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103297",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:05:11",
"content": "Bright is good but how long does it run?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103298",
"author": "silvs",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:07:44",
"content": "Wow that is bright. Well done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103299",
"author": "djrussell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:08:54",
"content": "do want!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103300",
"author": "djrussell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:10:52",
"content": "granted they would need to be focused, but what’s the hold-up on replacing car headlights with these? they would be more reliable than a standard or xenon bulb and use less power.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103301",
"author": "cok666n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:11:17",
"content": "Agreed…. bright … but unless you take 20sec bycicle rides … useless",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103303",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:14:54",
"content": "I almost hit a deer on a trail ride at night goin 25 mph because my light wasn’t bright enough! This is sick!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103307",
"author": "jproach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:25:56",
"content": "@Dan: he says 1.5hrs on his page. But he mentions 0.9A right after, so I’m not sure if that is at full power.If you do basic calculations it should be under 2hrs at 24W draw. 1.2V * 16 cells * 2600mAH * 90% = ~45W/hr@djrussell: they are just too expensive. If you googled you would find them on high end cars, or as an option.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103310",
"author": "taylor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:33:17",
"content": "Yeah… I wanna make a flashlight like this with a lithium polymer battery!With the 6 AH cell from sparkfun, 8 Luxeon Rebel LEDs would last for half an hour. Not bad if I build a car charger into it and keep it in my car. It would be crazy bright too! about $90 in LEDS though!-taylor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103311",
"author": "Insipid Melon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:34:31",
"content": "Plenty of cars have LED lights now. I am surprised if you haven’t noticed them because they are pretty annoying. (focused beam == ahh! my retinas!)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103314",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:37:21",
"content": "hmmm “its to dark i can’t see a thing” *turns light on* “AHHH too bright can’t see a thing”btw nice",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103316",
"author": "djrussell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:42:50",
"content": "jproach: they don’t look prohibitively expensive. especially not with auto industry bulk rates.insipid melon: as head lights? cite models please. the only ones i’ve seen are the audis with the accent strip underneath the actual head light.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103318",
"author": "rob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:48:46",
"content": "Totally cool, but somehow I don’t think my hub dynamo will power this…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103321",
"author": "DaddyStop",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:51:49",
"content": "I’ve seen some of the higher end porsches with them as well.Why not make a generator that is run off of the pedaling motion or the wheel to charge a battery. That’d at least make the light output constant for the life of the rechargeable battery.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103326",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:11:20",
"content": "if that thing gets any brighter he’ll be able to peel paint with the damn thing. wouldn’t mind have a few mounted on my bumpers, some in back for tailgaters who leave their brights on and some in front for… well seeing stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103329",
"author": "Nick Scott",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:22:11",
"content": "Another alternative is using the SSC P7 leds that are 10w and 900 lumens each. Which might also be bright enough to be used as supplementary lights on a motorcycle, where you are still relatively limited in power.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103330",
"author": "Anthony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:22:35",
"content": "Too bright? I say mount a 1kw metal halide on the thing. Good luck powering it though! 70,000+ lumens do not come easily…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103331",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:24:44",
"content": "Mount it on a shotgun and you’re all set.IF the game warden doesn’t see you coming from three miles off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103337",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:50:42",
"content": "@daddystop…i was thinking the same thing, like some kind of alternator",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103340",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T22:12:06",
"content": "The tittle says hunts deers. Using bright lights not just on cars to stun a deer is illegal where I am from. Damn good fine at that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103348",
"author": "more power",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T22:40:41",
"content": "If you think this is a high power light, then have a look at this thing (not mine):http://fotos.mtb-news.de/photosets/view/13254",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103353",
"author": "Haku",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T23:12:49",
"content": "8 x 3watt LEDs? pah, mere matchstick light, how about a 100watt LED :Dhttp://tesladownunder.com/LEDs.htm#100%20W%20LEDOn the subject of bike lights, my 300 3mm LED array bike light is coming along nicely (10.2 watts with all 300 lit).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103354",
"author": "Insipid Melon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T23:28:02",
"content": "“insipid melon: as head lights? cite models please. the only ones i’ve seen are the audis with the accent strip underneath the actual head light.”I am not a car person and if I were I still don’t know why you’d expect me to be able to identify cars which I am complaining blind me at night when I look at them. :pBut there are enough of them in Abq. that I usually run into at least a few on night outings, and the cop cars are switching over to LED headlights as well. (they also have LED siren strips).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103355",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T23:29:05",
"content": "this is freaking awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103358",
"author": "dylnwit",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T23:50:10",
"content": "I think with a little work you could make a nice pair of rally-style lights, and if you design it right you could have an adjustable throw pattern. Never hurts to be able to see further driving on country roads this time of year.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103362",
"author": "Will G",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:01:14",
"content": "“”Why not make a generator that is run off of the pedaling motion or the wheel to charge a battery. That’d at least make the light output constant for the life of the rechargeable battery.””Hmm this would increase resistance which i think every bike ride tries to avoid.. how ever if there was a break system which returns energy to the rechargeable battery then you are onto a winner.. That way every time you use your brakes it would add charge to your battery. this way you will get back something from that hard earned energy you put in to get the bike moving in the first place.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103365",
"author": "Abbott",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:25:14",
"content": "@Insipid MelonI’m pretty sure what you’re thinking of are HID lamps. very bright and (usually) focused.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103373",
"author": "paige row",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:56:29",
"content": "I work at a bike store and I know all the bike lights. Current LED Units are pumping 1200lumins out of their highend systems with a reasonable runtime. Previously they were chucking out around 900-1000 with HIDs however the new LED stuff they are working with brings the cost down and the efficiency up drastically. Most brands have discontinued use of halogen and HIDs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103374",
"author": "Heatgap/Ho0d0o",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:57:05",
"content": "What an awesome project! This is so well done not to mention simple! This is the kind of project where necessity meets fun. You know you’ve got to feel like a bad ass when your driving down the street and your blinding oncoming cars with your bike light! GJ on this project!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103377",
"author": "Haku",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T01:07:09",
"content": "@DaddyStop: You’re thinking of a dynamo hub which have been around for a while now – for examplehttp://www.peterwhitecycles.com/schmidt.aspand from what I’ve read the resistance of dynamo hubs aren’t that noticable.My bike has a 234 watt-hour battery onboard already for it’s hub motor, ideal for powering bright lights :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "132025",
"author": "Scott",
"timestamp": "2010-03-26T10:41:49",
"content": "Any advice on how to use hubs & battery in conjunction with each other to power a light? Would that be using the hub to recharge the battery or how is yours set up?",
"parent_id": "103377",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103382",
"author": "Tekburn",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T01:33:50",
"content": "I have an older projector with lamp gone,wold love to try and replace lamp with thisled..Anyone know how i can fool projector to startwithout lamp?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103383",
"author": "Gabriel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T01:36:43",
"content": "via this thread saw a link for a 900lux $85 bike lighthttp://www.geomangear.com/On a side note just found out my surefire L2 lumamax has been upgraded to put out twice the power, twice the runtime, in a smaller package, for the same $! L2’s aren’t even in surefire’s vocabulary anymore! Only dif is mine goes 33ft, the lx2 does 3ft. L2 = 6W, 100lux, 1hr, or 15L/18hr ~.I was thinking of running one from the bike motor (1000W ecospeed) battery (15A 38V), but will wait & see as I want a 12V jack regardless.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103391",
"author": "The Steven",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T02:31:46",
"content": "I’d like to put a pair of these on my 1200N.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103392",
"author": "MinorHavoc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T02:57:18",
"content": "@AbbottI agree Inspid Melon is probably thinking of HID headlights, but the Audi R8 and Cadillac Escalade Platinum already have full LED headlights (both high and low beams.) Manufacturer Hella says standard cars will get LED headlights in about 18 months:http://http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/05/20/46132/led-headlights-within-the-year.htm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103393",
"author": "MinorHavoc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T03:00:01",
"content": "Er, let’s try that link again:http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2009/05/20/46132/led-headlights-within-the-year.htm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103399",
"author": "Winston",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T03:43:19",
"content": "OK, so when can we start signaling the shuttle astronauts and the space station with this thing?Laser pointers are illegal at airports now, what would this sucker do?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103405",
"author": "jdog",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T05:10:20",
"content": "dude, homemade photon cannon ftw!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103407",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T05:40:42",
"content": "nice for a ride though the woods or as brights, but not so much as lights on roads with oncoming traffic.round reflectors throw light in a circular pattern in all directions, not just down, also up –not a problem with a couple leds: if a car gets a surprise, fine with me.but at this brightness, and if you really want to use it as headlight, one should have a look at headlight patterns: if you shine your car lights on a wall you notice two things:1. the beam isn’t round but forms a bar2. there is a clear cutoff line just above this bar.this cutoff line is basically required everywhere, and the bar-shaped beam directs the light to where you need it. it’s not total lumen that makes the light, it’s lux on the road. and with a good design you can save about 1/3 and get the same brightness.here a couple links:how to measure it (german bicycling club, go half way down the page):http://www.fa-technik.adfc.de/Komponenten/Scheinwerfer/index.htmla commercial reflector that can do that:http://www.4sevens.com/product_info.php?products_id=486a homemade attempt:http://www.enhydralutris.de/Fahrrad/LEDWerfer0402/p1130815_s.jpg(the led is actually not mounted in the reflector but on the aluminum sheet)– done by this guy:http://www.enhydralutris.de/Fahrrad/LEDWerfer0402/index.htmlmore here:http://wandinger.pfaffenwinkel.de/led_fahrrad/prototypen/LED_Scheinwerfer_Touchdown.htmlone of course could also add an anti blinding shield and point some of the reflectors downward.personally, i like elliptical lenses on a couple leds combined with a led in a modified spot (led with aluminum shield on one side)the whole problem got extensively discussed in germany (more bikes there), but to some degree also at candlepowerforums",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103414",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T06:04:43",
"content": "@robsome guy did tests with dynamos and got surprisingly good results:http://www.led-treiber.de/html/dynamo-treiber.html#LED-Standlichtgo down to #5 to get the circuitby removing the zener-diodes (over-voltage protection) in his wheel dynamo, he could power 4 white and 1 red led at 280ma while going 11mph.the text in red on top is a warning: if you do this with a hub dynamo and your leds get disconnected while your supercaps are still charging, you have to discharge them before reconnecting the leds or they will be toast.what surprised me: dynamos are apparently very good current sources and can drive leds directly, he got this graphhttp://www.led-treiber.de/assets/images/Dynamo-LED.gifon his page",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103416",
"author": "nachowarrior",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T06:25:36",
"content": "wow, that’s effing bright…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103418",
"author": "Michiel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T06:32:28",
"content": "Running no light on your bike is a offence here in the Netherlands. I’m afraid that having this much lumen will also attract the attention of the police. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103420",
"author": "DAltaica",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T06:47:49",
"content": "Where will this lumen-arms-race stop?At Third-degree burns.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103432",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T09:51:40",
"content": "I’m not convinced the (only) way forward is a lumen-arms-race – if you’re not looking for real-colour vision at night, would it not make more sense to run lower power red lighting to maintain night vision AND illuminate the trail effectively? The one thing I hate with super bright lighting on bikes (and I currently have it) is the fact that you need to carry stupid amounts of battery power and several lights to create a fake-sun system, yet you still can’t look to your sides, and more importantly if something is slightly out of the side of your beam pattern it’s basically invisible because teh white light is trashing your night vision. With red (or to some extent blue, which I’ve tested) you can still see where you’re going just fine but you can also see everything around you like you’ve been in a dark room with the lights off, it means you can have much longer runtimes and if your pack does go flat you can still see where you’re going without waiting 10 mins to adapt!Not for everyone though, I’m aware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103439",
"author": "George Stone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T10:40:40",
"content": "Why aren’t projectors powered by LED’s now? Oh yeah. £300 bulbs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103441",
"author": "Courtney",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T11:24:36",
"content": "What about a version that was powered by the act of biking? Might need a little rechargeable battery so you can get started, but then…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103447",
"author": "Alex Dodge",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T12:44:22",
"content": "@JamesThat’s fine until a car runs by and trashes your night vision anyway.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103454",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T12:56:41",
"content": "@alex – you don’t use this sort of bike light in a place where there are cars – a) you’d dazzle the car driver b) you’d be risking being pulled by the cops and c) its totally overkill – this kind of light is off-road only! I get flashed by annoyed cars with my 50W halogens, let alone mental LEDs!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103455",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T12:57:43",
"content": "however if you rode in a group and others had white lights you’re buggered. I tend to night-ride alone, but like I said, depends on peoples uses.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103460",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T13:15:33",
"content": "Don’t you guys know that you’re supposed to wear an eye patch to preserve your night vision while you ride? duh.",
"parent_id": "103455",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103456",
"author": "Sharky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T13:02:16",
"content": "Mommy says: “Don’t look directly to the sun or your bike light.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103470",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:12:20",
"content": "Plenty of people used to use yellow/orange glasses to preserve night vision, and subs use red lighting when surfacing at night to maintain night vision for ships/ice/etc :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103471",
"author": "AH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:21:26",
"content": "Actually, there is a very high power bike generator you can get – rollergen. You can engage it when convenient (going downhill) and disengage it otherwise. Puts out 30W.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.239588
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/war-monument-hacking/
|
War Monument Hacking
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Cellphone Hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] |
[
"cell tower",
"eternal flame",
"natural gas",
"war monument",
"world war II"
] |
[Timo] tipped us off about a
War Monument that has been… upgraded
. The story starts when a monument was erected in
Cherkassy, Ukraine
to commemorate the ultimate sacrifice that was made by Russian soldiers during World War II. The huge statue and expansive plaza were capped off by an eternal flame. Unfortunately, when the Soviet Block broke up, the natural gas that had been provided by the government became a luxury so the flame was extinguished.
The eternal flame sat unlit, a sad commentary to the remembrance of the dead. But how to fix this issue? As cell phone companies came into the area, a need for cell phone towers arose. At some point a solution was reached; a cell phone tower was built in the bowl of the eternal flame and then wrapped with an
LED marquee
. The marquee now displays the image of a flame in perpetuity.
We’re not quite sure what to think about this. After some adjustment, the
substitution of LEDs for flames
will probably become accepted. The monument is now providing a useful purpose for the living, and once again shows a flame. We think that having something there showing that the memory is still alive is much better than the message an unkempt derelict sends.
| 42
| 42
|
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{
"comment_id": "103025",
"author": "Oxin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:17:02",
"content": "I like the use of LEDs instead of natural gas. It’s definitely the greener solution but I’m not sure I’d be able to look at the statue again and not instantly think “cell phone tower”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103027",
"author": "Rick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:33:22",
"content": "The LEDs look like crap. They should completely cover the cell tower hardware, and they should try to blend the off cells with the color of the sky so that it doesn’t just look like a black cylinder. Probably looks better at night.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103029",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:49:24",
"content": "@Oxin“definitely a greener solution” Huh?Where do you think the electricity comes from that lights those LEDs? What do you suppose they burn to generate the juice?They probably burn coal or possibly diesel fuel. Even if they use gas, the process of burning it, generating steam, turning a generator, delivering the power, and lighting LEDs is guaranteed to be *less* efficient than simply burning a little bit of gas by itself. Let’s not forget the “carbon footprint” associated with refining semiconductors, producing epoxy, and manufacturing the LEDs themselves.Please, sweet Jesus! Please made humans stop using that stupid “g” word.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103030",
"author": "Jancans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:50:35",
"content": "I personaly can’t imagine, how leds can replace real flame, I’m not a city freak.And, knowing litle bit about history, I don’t blame Ukraine, thet they dont burn money for СССР legacy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103033",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:00:41",
"content": "In a rousing speech during the dedication ceremonies, a retired and aged Colonel said:Я говорю Вам, товарищам, что Вы не должны умирать напрасно, нет, Вы дали вашу жизнь, что другие могут иметь все четыре бруска на их Ежевике!Or,I say to you, comrades, that you shall not have died in vain, nay, you have given your life that others may have all four bars on their Blackberries!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103036",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:11:36",
"content": "this is gross, at least as simply a statue it still looked okay.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103037",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:12:06",
"content": "It think it looks tacky they should have replaced it with a flame structure, such as on the Statue of Liberty. You could place the cell equipment inside the lighted flame and no one would know and it would look good. The LEDs only look good at night.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103040",
"author": "bhdn",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:21:50",
"content": "wtf ‘russian’ soldiers",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103041",
"author": "Jancans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:28:14",
"content": "bhdn, I supose it is corect. Ukraine is post Soviet Union country. Worlds history…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103045",
"author": "DarkFader",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:37:16",
"content": "it will be upgraded to transparent OLED panels someday.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103047",
"author": "Oxin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:49:23",
"content": "@pookeySorry, I thought this LED solution used less energy than the natural gas did.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103053",
"author": "mark",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:16:17",
"content": "I’m sure the energy usage of the LEDs is insignificant compared to the energy used by the cell tower they enclose.I think they should put green flickering LEDs in the statue’s eyes as well.from the article, haha:“And veterans are glad that something is burning again. Well when one has not to sharp eyesightit’s not looking so much different.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103057",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:26:27",
"content": "@OxinNo, don’t be sorry. I was mostly just rattling your cage. It’s a peave of mine that every darn thing has to be “green” now-a-days. The whole mindset is becoming some kind of cult religion.The annoying thing is that most “green” things are not green at all. The very concept has been so abused so as to become meaningless, in much the same was as the phrase “organic food.”On the upside, if your are pro big government, the green religion is a great way to manipulate people, get them to give up more tax money, and more of their freedoms. If you are big business, “green” is a great way to sucker you into buying things you don’t need, in order to replace other things that work fine just the way they are.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103064",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:41:12",
"content": "Good deal. Someone needed to take the bill on this. If it means that a crappy modern cell tower is behind the leds, so be it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103071",
"author": "Travis",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:55:25",
"content": "This is just tacky. They might as well generate some extra revenue by changing the flame to a Coke can. It looks like one anyway.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103086",
"author": "jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:55:08",
"content": "It’s joke. English Russia is a satire site.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103087",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:55:44",
"content": "@Travis: I was just about to say that! I couldn’t agree more, it looks soo tacky.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103090",
"author": "TheBlunderbuss",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:01:11",
"content": "It looks like an oil barrel covered with blood – a different political argument altogether.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103095",
"author": "Dan K",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:21:32",
"content": "@pookey, You’re way off base. Burning natural gas to generate power to run LEDs is much more effecient than burning the gas directly. In fact I’d bet that burning the gas for 5 minutes could power the LEDs all day. No, natural gas is about the least efficient form of lighting there is… which is why it was replaced by electricity for lighting in the 1900s.Dan K",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103098",
"author": "risu",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:32:02",
"content": "Oh wow. I thought that picture was photoshopped when i first looked at it, then I read article. Just, wow.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103114",
"author": "Jeremy C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:40:29",
"content": "Wow, that’s kind of tacky. How much could a little natural gas cost?But hey, why not some glowing green eyes too like the other guy said.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103117",
"author": "janous khan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:50:17",
"content": "my first thought was wow look how fake that looks.@Dan K, yes LED’s are low energy usage, but the flame is not intended to light any measurable area, nor is it to serve any other purpose other then be a symbol of the sacrifice given.as for LED’s vs gas to “look” like flame, Joule’s laws.just remember money is “green”, that’s all the greenie’s really want~I like Fire",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103119",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T01:27:12",
"content": "they could have made the LEDS positioning more flame like…. the circular scrolling is blah…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103120",
"author": "bhdn",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T01:49:54",
"content": "Jancans, then it should be Soviet soldiers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103136",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:07:49",
"content": "I think that the power in the ukraine comes from nuclear sources, it’s the damn glow they put over half the globe when one of their (or should I say russia’s) reactors went bust that gives it away…Now you decide if that’s green or not.http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Chernobyl,+Ivankivs%27kyi,+Ukraine&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FXFjDgMdU27NAQ&split=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=23.875,57.630033&hq=&hnear=Chernobyl,+Ukraine&z=10",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103147",
"author": "TheKhakinator",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T04:58:32",
"content": "Fairly sure this is a troll – where the hell is the cell tower getting its power?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103151",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T05:50:52",
"content": "@Dan KWith all due respect, I think you are also suffering from the LED=green prejudice.It appears from the photo that the builders created a cylinder, covered with LEDs that is on the order of 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide… maybe larger. (Judging by the guy standing at the base of the statue.)Now let’s crunch some numbers. Assuming T13/4 LEDs, and assuming they are mounted side-by-side, that’s about 315 LEDs in the vertical direction, 660 LEDs in circumference, or 200 thousand LEDs to cover the cylinder’s surface.At 1.9 volts (high brightness LEDs) and 15 ma current each, times 200k LEDs, you’re looking at 5700 watts to light that puppy up. I’d be very interested to know what the consumption rate was for the original gas burner that the LEDs replaced.OK, fine, they aren’t using T1-3/4’s. They’re probably using far fewer, but much larger and much more powerful high-brightness LEDs. In any event, I’ll bet you’re still looking at a crapload of electricty to light that thing up–anything but “green”– and ultimately, for what?The point of the gas fire is the “eternal flame.” This is not an illumination application. It is more of a “mood lighting” application, which the LED’s suck at. Yeah, they light up. They do not recreate the fluid, primal, mesmerizing effect of a dancing gas flame. They never will.This is where the “green” religious bias leaks in. LED=green, right? Wrong. Granted, LEDs on this cylinder will draw far less juice than an equivalent cylinder covered with, say, light bulbs, but this isn’t about an existing light-bulb application being retrofitted with LEDs.If you don’t want to burn gas, and you insist on being “green,” forget the LEDs entirely.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103154",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T06:32:11",
"content": "Onion style satire, no wonder the “LEDS” really don’t look convincing. In that money does drive things, one could actually see something of this sort being put in place. Oxin; such a solution could use less energy than gas despite the boilerplate rant by pooky. Dank; except for the cities in the US near natural gas production, “towngas” was the fuel burned in vities having gas lighting AKA coalgas.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103171",
"author": "c.cam108",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T09:28:34",
"content": "This must be fake. The LED screen would act as a Faraday cage around the transmitters surely.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103173",
"author": "Jancans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T09:55:24",
"content": "bhdn, one goal for they ideology was to make one nation – “homo sovieticus” from countries in USSR. So imho it dosnt make big difirence, how it was called.By the way, when in Estonia they try to move one monument with graves from center of city to a beter place, Estonia got, I supose first, cyber-war or cyber-terorism if war sounds to loud, all they internet has been stuck for few days.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103186",
"author": "Santa Monica Computer Services",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T11:24:56",
"content": "Wow. I, too, thought it was photoshopped. I guess mixing the old with the new is inevitable. Not always pretty, but inevitable.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103187",
"author": "Anonymoose",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T11:27:33",
"content": "I don’t know why everyone’s bitching about the leds being green or not green… they’re clearly red ;).Rather fitting since they’re in a portion of the former Soviet Republics.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103191",
"author": "edeion",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T11:34:43",
"content": "Mixing the old and the new can lead to interesting results. But I guess the cell phone companies were more focused on minimizing the overall cost. They could have thought about using multicolor LEDs to mimic sky’s color, otherwise.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103198",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:11:15",
"content": "“this war monument sponsored by Verizon… it’s the network”I seriously think that’s tacky as hell and while it’s not my countrymen that the monument is honoring I would feel better if the flame was out as opposed to the statue being used to support some commercialized piece of hardware.and LEDs seriously? if anything NIXIE tube flames would be far my appropriate.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103202",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:28:16",
"content": "They should have made the transmitter into a ‘top hat’ and stuck it on the statues head, paint it the same colour as the statue. No need for the LEDs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103205",
"author": "Oxin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:39:32",
"content": "@pookeyI understand your dislike for the term “green”. I have a similar rant regarding “Web 2.0”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103239",
"author": "Tachikoma",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:42:24",
"content": "Fairly shit solution. Ever thought of decorating the War Memorial Wall with cheap shit multi-coloured blinking Christmas lights? It’s kinda like that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103444",
"author": "Larry Seltzer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T11:29:48",
"content": "How about building it from Macbook batteries? They’re always bursting into flame unprovoked.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103936",
"author": "Engineer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:27:49",
"content": "@pookeyI’m glad you went through all that trouble to do a pseudo-scientific analysis.In reality, if you had read the article, the entire display consumes 400 watts.Wanna know how much propane that gets you? With a LHV of 45.8 MJ/kg, 400 watts gets you about 0.009 grams of propane a second. Now, we have no idea how much the original torch burned, but I doubt it was under 0.009 grams/s.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103937",
"author": "Engineer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:29:33",
"content": "article herehttp://englishrussia.com/?p=5489",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103945",
"author": "didier",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:08:59",
"content": "have some information on your service",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "132441",
"author": "Maks",
"timestamp": "2010-03-28T18:55:13",
"content": "I’m from this city?And at nigh it looks quit good.But I hasn’t known that there is an Mob Operator Cell))",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.033323
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/mind-control-via-serial-port/
|
Mind Control Via Serial Port
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Toy Hacks"
] |
[
"brain waves",
"db9",
"header",
"pcb",
"rs232",
"uncle milton's force trainer"
] |
[Zibri] found a very simple method for
using brain waves as a controller via a DB9 serial port
. He’s using Uncle Milton’s Force Trainer which we saw yesterday in the
brain controlled Arduino
. In that project the Arduino tapped into the LEDs and interfaced those signals with a computer via USB. This time the connection was made using an RS-232 transceiver to pass data from the programming header inside of the toy’s base unit to a computer over the serial port. Tapping into the programming header has a lot more potential and should be more reliable than sniffing logic out of LED connections. [Zibri] has written an application to display the received data but it doesn’t look like he’s made the code available for download.
Apparently he tipped us off
about a week ago. We recall seeing this submission but as you can tell it’s a little bit light on the detail. So if you want your tips to be at the front of the line, make sure you
do what you can to fill us in on all the details
of your project. At our request [Zibri] provided a picture of the PCB from the Force Trainer’s base unit. See it after the break.
| 23
| 15
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103009",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:24:56",
"content": "I have no problem releasing the code of that very lame app.. but as soon as you connect to the serial port you will see it’s not needed..It’s plain ASCII..It outputs values in this way:0 0 040 40 040 40 040 40 050 40 050 29 050 29 030 29 030 43 030 43 040 43 040 47 040 47 041 47 041 56 041 56 041 56 029 69 029 69 029 69 029 61 029 61 0first digit is the Attention value.second digit is the meditation value.third digit is the connection quality.. 0 is OK any other value means the alectrodes are not properly set or you are moving too much.That’s all.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103012",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:37:39",
"content": "electrodes",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103046",
"author": "uC",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:40:35",
"content": "Cool,What frequency does it transmit on? I see a little antenna trace there…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4281565",
"author": "zibri",
"timestamp": "2017-12-31T19:58:36",
"content": "2.4 ghz",
"parent_id": "103046",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103051",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:11:32",
"content": "@uC: You don’t need to see his identification. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…Very neat – I was pretty intrigued by the earlier post mentioning the force trainer, but this is excellent! Looks like the developers were anticipating us hackers. I was considering picking one up to hack at, now I almost have to. I’ve read some reviews, but I’d be curious to hear from the ever so critical HaD commenters. I’m pondering potential uses but…seems hard to think of anything practical. Sleep pattern analyzer? Though I can’t imagine actually sleeping with that thing on my head.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103059",
"author": "Max",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:29:44",
"content": "Amazon.com comment suggests this doesnt actually read brainwave…“It does not truly measure your brain waves to control the air flow as the game indicates. The headset merely uses your skin surface to complete a circuit and then it controls the fan. Not sure if the headset has the preprogramed routine, or if the base does. I confirmed this function by completing the circuit with my hand (i.e. – Using one hand, I made contact with all three sensors to complete the circuit). Now unless brain waves travel through your hand as well, which they don’t, the fan in the base began to turn on and off as if though I had it on my head. Thus confirming that the forehead sensor and other two sensors are merely positive and negative connections, and once connected, they complete the circuit and the headset then transmits to the base. ”http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Science-Force-Trainer/dp/B001UZHASY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1256160384&sr=8-2",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4281569",
"author": "zibri",
"timestamp": "2017-12-31T20:00:12",
"content": "wrong. muscle movements are electric impulses and they are way stronger than received brinwaves. that’s why it works with your hand and that’s why for the game to work correctly you should keep your facial muscles as still as possible.",
"parent_id": "103059",
"depth": 2,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4281573",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2017-12-31T20:03:16",
"content": "Even for HAD commenters this might be a new one, coming back with the correction after nearly 9 years.",
"parent_id": "4281569",
"depth": 3,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4281575",
"author": "zibri",
"timestamp": "2017-12-31T20:08:38",
"content": "and finding out I already commented the same thing nine years ago…priceless! Happy new year! :D",
"parent_id": "4281573",
"depth": 4,
"replies": []
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103106",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:58:43",
"content": "@ Max: I hope not, already had a big technology let down with dyson’s little white lie.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103218",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:57:03",
"content": "Max:that’s not quite correct.The force trainer has internal gains so to get always a signal.brain signals and muscle signals interfere with each other so one can be misunderstood for the other.Remember this is just a kids game.It does a simple FFT transfor to get alpha and beta waves, but if you study the eeg basics you will find that muscle impulses (facial, eyes, your hand, whatever) can be interpreted in the same way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103219",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T15:00:42",
"content": "Oh.. the frequencies are: 2408 and 2478 ghz",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103233",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:16:38",
"content": "Someone tell me when I can offload SIMD onto my brain.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107214",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-11-13T21:13:43",
"content": "Not enought space in there tj :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107216",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-11-13T21:14:03",
"content": "Not enough space in there tj :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107520",
"author": "div",
"timestamp": "2009-11-16T16:48:09",
"content": "do you think it would interfere if there were two headsets and two receivers or the frequencies would differ between units?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "116530",
"author": "DigitalHorizons",
"timestamp": "2010-01-10T13:09:59",
"content": "This uses neurosky’s technology, there should also be raw EEG values being outputted from that chip unless it’s intentionally be disabled by the manufacturer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "459967",
"author": "Quadrant",
"timestamp": "2011-09-20T06:55:04",
"content": "Thats correct there is raw EEG data available its in the headset available at a point marked T in the headset.Hook T to serial Rx and gnd to gndThe force trainer headset gives you 11 values in this order:Connection quality, Attention, Meditation, Delta, Theta, Low Alpha, High Alpha, Low Beta, High Beta, Low Gamma and High Gamma.",
"parent_id": "116530",
"depth": 2,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "569094",
"author": "Louis Nadeau",
"timestamp": "2012-01-28T15:38:41",
"content": "Quadrant: nope, I just tried this using the brain library of arduino (https://github.com/kitschpatrol/Arduino-Brain-Library) and there is only three values : signal, attention, meditation. I`m kind of disapointed because I bought my force trainer with the intention of getting all the FFTs but now I got only those not very obvious proprietary signal",
"parent_id": "459967",
"depth": 3,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "569433",
"author": "Quadrant2005",
"timestamp": "2012-01-28T23:59:21",
"content": "Hi there Louis, its been sometime since ive experimented with the headset, but i do have it still on my electronics bench with the intention of picking it up again. Im trying to remember where i picked up the information about the other channels, Could it be a limitation in the Audino Software, Maybe take a look at the data coming out from the board direct in a Serial Terminal app, Please let me know how you go on, The Bluesky chip should allow you to access all the channels directly from the headset chip, But i do know that only the three channels are sent back to the base station as its all the forcetrainer makes use of. I would love to get my hand on Emotiv’s Epoc headset, with full SDK not the restricted SDK.. regards Richard",
"parent_id": "459967",
"depth": 3,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "569437",
"author": "Quadrant2005",
"timestamp": "2012-01-29T00:16:24",
"content": "correction Neurosky chip not Bluesky chip…",
"parent_id": "459967",
"depth": 3,
"replies": []
}
]
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "151566",
"author": "Ben",
"timestamp": "2010-06-20T05:13:36",
"content": "This hack might require tech on the receiver side in order to rexcord anything significant. as is it might not amplify the signal enough to get the signal visualized in a program. But the thing is an electrode so the sky’s the limit. The question is, I’f there is a signnal to an led light, how much amplification does the signal get from the toy to light that thing? After that it,s like shoot…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "448786",
"author": "miguelvmonroy",
"timestamp": "2011-09-06T10:08:42",
"content": "I have a force trainer star warthat when I connect the headset TX and RX I put the arduino and the land of the crown to the other land arduino not read any data in the serial monitor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.588335
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/skii-bot/
|
Ski Bot
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"carve",
"robot",
"skii"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luzs63dGHQs]
[Bojan Nemec] has come up with
a robot that can ski better than us
. Not that skiing better than us is a hugely lofty goal. The bot is capable of skiing using standard, off the shelf skis. It has a dual computing system. One system only does steering and balance while the other does all the vision and control. He’s using the
carving
technique of skiing, stating that normal skiing is just too hard for a robot. That sounds like a challenge to us. You can check out the blooper reel, which is still better than us, after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxqQ_gGlaLo]
[via
Neatorama
]
| 13
| 12
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102985",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:09:18",
"content": "Cool! It looks like an AT-ST with skiis.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103008",
"author": "Alan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:22:42",
"content": "Is it coin operated? When are we sending it to the moon?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103021",
"author": "Physic.dude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:09:48",
"content": "I’d like to see it run the black diamond trails. :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103026",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:30:05",
"content": "It’s cool but can it sit around in a hot tub drinking hot chocolate apres ski?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103031",
"author": "Jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:51:23",
"content": "Try muting the video and playing the wallace and gromit theme tune over the top :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103035",
"author": "vonskippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:10:19",
"content": "What the hell is “skii”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103039",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:13:57",
"content": "@vonskippy,woops. good eye.",
"parent_id": "103035",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103066",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:45:48",
"content": "Kick ass robot is better than me :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103109",
"author": "shadow",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:16:41",
"content": "me: Cured cancer yet?Scientist: nope, but we built a skiing robotme: why?Scientist: Its more fun",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103124",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:22:27",
"content": "@Jim, Seeing the preview picture on the first video made my mind go straight to Wallace and Gromit :)Wensleydale!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103214",
"author": "Philadelphia personal injury attorney/lawyer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:34:14",
"content": "Thats awesome! Not as fun as actually skiing though…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103262",
"author": "mark",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:08:30",
"content": "@philadelphiaI think you are just saying that to get more business by encouraging people to engage in obviously risky behavior.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103445",
"author": "md",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T12:17:46",
"content": "now .. make it bigger. with a cockpit. and blasters. and fuck the skis ! … AT-ST style. we’ll kick those rebels scum out of hoth",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.799156
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/yahoo-hires-strippers-for-hackers/
|
Yahoo Hires Strippers For Hackers
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"News"
] |
[
"hackers",
"strippers",
"yahoo"
] |
Yahoo has
issued a public apology
for an event that occurred at their recent Hack Day in Taiwan. Apparently they hired strippers for the event, two years in a row. The girls did their usual bump and grind all over some poor hackers. Poor guys. While there is a part of us that says, “what about the little girls getting into hacking?” the other part of us says, well, you know what it says. Wow, we’re suddenly feeling the urge to use yahoo for all of our services. How peculiar.
[via
BoingBoing
]
| 62
| 50
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[
{
"comment_id": "102965",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:04:48",
"content": "I hear it’s wild tia-poon season over there about this time of the year.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102966",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:05:16",
"content": "I feel sorry for the guys having scantaly clad young ladies grinding against them! How unfourtunate indeed! (sarcastic alert for the trolls)I think yahoo should have been called yeehaa then i would use it.ohh and i have nothing useful to say!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102967",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:12:19",
"content": "Why was yahoo forced to make an apology? Stripers are legal and it was in Taiwan not puritan land US",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102969",
"author": "babble",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:19:11",
"content": "yahoo rule",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102972",
"author": "lol",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:26:01",
"content": "What?No “see video after the break”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102973",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:26:59",
"content": "Jesus christ, not just any strippers, but CLASSY tai strippers! Probably not appropriate @ a family company level, but I guess you guys know what to get me for Christmas :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102976",
"author": "Mr. Sandman",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:32:24",
"content": "Best hack ever.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102979",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:38:36",
"content": "“Wow, we’re suddenly feeling the urge to use yahoo for all of our services.”or should that be…Wow, we’re suddenly feeling the urge to use yahoo to get serviced.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "102981",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:47:19",
"content": "@sly,nice.",
"parent_id": "102979",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102980",
"author": "Boudico",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:44:17",
"content": "I didn’t know Yahoo owned Craigslist..? ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102982",
"author": "supaduck",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:51:13",
"content": "OH THE POOR GUYS! HOW WILL THEY EVER LIVE",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102983",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:07:55",
"content": "After reading a bunch of geek-feminism blogs I understand this is a pretty sexist.Why the heck are there strippers at this event anyway? It’d be like going to a UN summit and whoops let’s break out the S&M gimps; sure some of ya’ll are into this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "102984",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:09:09",
"content": "@shazzner,I completely agree. They should have also hired male strippers.",
"parent_id": "102983",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102991",
"author": "Steveo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:31:25",
"content": "Being Tai strippers they were probably shemales anyway. not sexest just equal opportunity",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102992",
"author": "captain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:31:29",
"content": "Where is this Yahoo that you speak of? The closest thing to his in the Federation is the Ferengi parlors and holosuites.Perhaps this Yahoo is being run by undercover Ferengi posing as humans in the early twenty-first century.I’ll be sure to “investigate” this matter and report to Starfleet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102993",
"author": "sparx",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:34:39",
"content": "As a faithful female reader, I’m not exactly sure why this belongs on hack-a-day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "102996",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:42:48",
"content": "@sparx,It would have been posted even if it were male strippers.",
"parent_id": "102993",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102995",
"author": "charliex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:38:54",
"content": "as a faithful male reader, i’m exactly sure why this belongs on hack-a-day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102997",
"author": "fooquestionmark",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:43:15",
"content": "as a faithful guy reader, i’m going to the next hack day in taiwan. Remember, what happens in taiwan stays in taiwan, except herpes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103000",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:46:03",
"content": "@shazzner Have you ever been to a big lan party in asia or Europe? Strippers are common at big organised events like that",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103002",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:51:32",
"content": "Is there an echo in here?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103007",
"author": "VV",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:21:20",
"content": "I’m sure all the guys at this event were totally horrified at this action by the guys at Yahoo, I mean how incosiderate..On a serious note, Why does this matter!? “Oh were sorry we got some lapdancers in to spice an event up”What will it be next?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103010",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:36:17",
"content": "@Hackius no, but that doesn’t make it any less inappropriate or ostracizing",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103011",
"author": "totally a hack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:36:34",
"content": "bout time to see a real hack hahahaha",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103013",
"author": "pookie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:40:00",
"content": "I wonder kind of music the strippers dance to. Maybe it’s the Yahoo jingle from the tv commercial:Yah–hoooo—ooooo!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103014",
"author": "branno",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:40:43",
"content": "@ Skitchin and SteveoYou make me sad. People from Taiwan are called Taiwanese, not Thai. Thai people are from Thailand. And it’s spelled Thai, not tai.Seriously , people.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103019",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:49:45",
"content": "@branno people who cannot differentiate between being a rugged edgy non-conformist with lazy manchild sexism would really know obscure details like the difference between Thailand and Taiwan, eh?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103023",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:14:27",
"content": "What the hell!?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103032",
"author": "TJ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:56:00",
"content": "I guess this will teach hackers not to bring their wives / girlfriends to these events and spoil it for everyone…ESPECIALLY the female hackers who would have been laughing hard at some socially retarded nerd getting a lapdance trying not to soil his trousers..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103038",
"author": "tinker monkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:12:44",
"content": "so like next year they will bring some chippendales?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103042",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:30:22",
"content": "Reminds me ofhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PkWQT18HI",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103048",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:53:13",
"content": "@ branno: You must be a pretty sad person if you get all butt hurt over two guys on the internet abbreviating words. I said Tai asshole, not Thai. Correct me in person, see if I don’t knock you off that fucking high horse.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103055",
"author": "CH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:25:06",
"content": "@sparx Is that really alright? It seems like you’re implying your gender means what you say on the issue is more meaningful; Are we discounting the opinion of all males on the issue then?I don’t mean to sound so harsh, but testimony is a poor form of evidence.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103060",
"author": "Kyoorius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:30:18",
"content": "I’m sure there are men in other countries that are offended by the uncovered faces of women. Perhaps Yahoo should bow to the will of those groups also and enforce burqas as a dress code for all women who attend.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103080",
"author": "lov2xlr8",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:43:10",
"content": "what, no arduino’s?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103093",
"author": "sparx",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:18:16",
"content": "@CH – point taken and you’re right, as I can see both male *and* female readers are scratching their head over this. Rather it just should have said: why is this a hack? Oh well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103096",
"author": "sparx",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:24:34",
"content": "IF the strippers had been wearing some programmable LEDs then yeah, I’d consider this much more hack-a-day worthy ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103100",
"author": "DubMuffin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:48:46",
"content": "Wow. Through thick and thin I’ve read this site for years now. And this (Mike) is the straw that broke the camel’s back. Goodbye.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103104",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:56:12",
"content": "The rest of you are just arrogant beyond your mean’s.I think having female entertainer’s is a cool idea. Not just because I’m male either. It’s because there’s no reason to deny the humanistic side of society that is so often shoved into the dark region’s of society status quo. Men are attracted to sexy women. Everyone knows this. It’s not like the women attending the event were forced to dance for the men, or even to partake in the stripper’s.Sound’s like the same people that condemned Bush for his behavior towards morality are taking up the same justification to enforce their own upon other’s….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103107",
"author": "Concino",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:08:41",
"content": "Dummm tiss dummm tissDont cha wish your company event was hot like thisDont cha wish your company event was a freak like thisDont cha, dont chaSorry couldn’t resists :PI’ll be visiting Yahoo’s booth at the next RSA conference, maybe they give away a dance for free. And I thought Google was cool ;o)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103110",
"author": "Edd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:18:53",
"content": "I take it I’m the only one that read that as “Yahoo hi-res strippers for hackers” and then thought wtf.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103133",
"author": "shazzner",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:59:07",
"content": "No, you see, having strippers is actually for the good of women. Help make them a little less uptight, am I right fellas? Whoa, girls, don’t get all hysterical on me. Damn must be that time of the month, eh?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103141",
"author": "ewertz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:39:18",
"content": "Ya… ho?!?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103152",
"author": "A. Noni Mouse",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T05:56:27",
"content": "So everybody cares about exotic dancers but nobody cared about Yahoo turning over bloggers to the Chinese government to kidnap and torture?WTF is wrong with people?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103156",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T06:50:14",
"content": "…yeehaa, haha!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103157",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T06:56:26",
"content": "So everybody cares about exotic dancers but nobody cared about Yahoo turning over bloggers to the Chinese government to kidnap and torture?Just the same old story noni mouse. Do what you will, and they don’t care unless it has something to do with sex. The self described, morally ambiguous moral majorty are the scourge of the Earth.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103160",
"author": "Stick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T07:03:59",
"content": "Right on shazzner!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103161",
"author": "Frogz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T07:16:09",
"content": "holy….crap…..no “not a hack” posts… and I agree, no vid after break??? if yahoo is doing this….think of the crazy stuff google must do to 1 up them",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103167",
"author": "tech123",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T08:42:13",
"content": "they better have strippers next year……….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103200",
"author": "foober",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:21:55",
"content": "Man! The most *I* ever got at a conference was a t-shirt. I’ve been going to the _wrong_ conferences!Where do I sign up?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103201",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:27:18",
"content": "Am I the only one who thinks it’s incredibly ironic that BoingBoing is up in arms about it, when they run ads for porn websites, and their articles and homepage are frequently NSFW?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103204",
"author": "Kyoorius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:34:38",
"content": "Those ARE the dissident bloggers on stage being publicly tortured and ridiculed by female interrogators. When reminds me.. I better get around to starting that blog..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103208",
"author": "Philippe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T13:43:47",
"content": "Wow!Has any of you though about the anguish of a gay hacker forced to laugh with the audience and pretend he is into girls?Another example of the heterocentrist society we live in. It’s straight pride 364 days a year, and this in another sorry example. Yuck!Oh, I forgot, gay guys are not real guys… of course, there can’t be a gay hacker.Don’t assume I’m straight, I won’t assume you’re an a**hole…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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|
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/industrial-robots-producing-art/
|
Industrial Robots Producing Art
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"art",
"mosaic"
] |
[blip.tv ?posts_id=2728039&dest=-1]
Here is an interesting project that should spark some good discussion.
Artaic is a company that is using industrial robots to produce mosaics
. They are then selling these mosaics as fine art. As you can see, some of the examples are quite nice looking. However, we have to wonder what the draw is to own one that is made by a robot. Is it really that much different from just printing an image? We really do think it is a cool project and an efficient way of producing these mosaics. We would really love to see one of those
super fast delta robots
doing the work.
We’re trying to reduce the negativity here at Hackaday. We are passionate geeks and hackers, and as such, we tend to jump straight to the negative points. We hope you guys will follow along with us and try to be constructive in the comments. That being said, the video did seem a bit pretentious, didn’t it?
[via
BotJunkie
]
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| 24
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102948",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:21:23",
"content": "It didn’t seem that bad to me. I did, however, notice at 2:04 you can see the robot misplaced a few tiles. Hopefully they can iron out that problem.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102949",
"author": "angrydroid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:27:00",
"content": "It seemed almost more like a publicity vehicle for Boston mayor ‘Mumbles’ Menino. He likes to put his name on everything. An interesting enough premise.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102950",
"author": "Sheldon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:29:48",
"content": "The video pretentious? just a smidge ;-)Looking positively at this, I see nothing wrong with what they are doing and if anything it seems a good idea (putting aside the price they may charge for such artwork).Does it remove of the need for an ‘artistic-eye’ in picking and optimising a picture suitable for a mosaic? No (beyond what was already possible through photo-shop plugins to automate it)So why is it better than a human doing the mosaic? Size and speed. If a human was to do a mosaic of 1″ squares on a whole wall it would take a damn-sight longer than simply tasking a robot to do it.Probably better to view this sort of thing in the same light as CNC machining vs manual machining: both still require a human to have been creative in the first place, the former simply lets the guy (or gal) put their feet up & not fret the little stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "102951",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:32:23",
"content": "Yeah, I guess it did take a person to lay it all out. In my mind, I envision them feeding an image through a program that basically filters it, then spits it out to the robot. Nothing wrong with it, just not really the most amazingly stunning way of producing art possible.from a technical standpoint, I wonder what they are doing to increase the speed of production.",
"parent_id": "102950",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102952",
"author": "Ikkaan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:35:54",
"content": "It´s something that would happen inevitably…technology imitating artistic works. It´s really like a printer using different materials.I disagree on the efficiency, though. Wouldn´t it be more efficient to stamp the tiles down onto a moving plate prepared with glue? That way the arm wouldn´t need toe realign if it is just filling a matrix of dots. The system demonstrated would be comparable to a printer where a robotic arm sucks up a small amount of color and them moves onto the paper to make single dot…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102954",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:41:08",
"content": "Being the typical cynical and jaded hacker, I am not impressed by this. I don’t see any value in this sort of thing, but then again, I’m all about function.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102955",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:41:40",
"content": "Where I come from, we call these images low-res. I don’t guess anyone noticed, this guy doesn’t just look like the guy from History Channel’s UFO Hunters, it really is him.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102960",
"author": "EbiDK",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:50:16",
"content": "This reminded me of the boxmaker in Count Zero.., Well until I clicked the links.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "102962",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:56:24",
"content": "Have you seen the movie “9” yet. I swear it is a direct reference to the box maker.",
"parent_id": "102960",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102964",
"author": "Ned Scott",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:01:56",
"content": "Trying to figure out what part of this is hacking, modding, or do-it-yourself….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102971",
"author": "yesys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:24:30",
"content": "ill say it: not a hack.but the artist is a hack i guess…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102998",
"author": "David Sutherland",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:44:47",
"content": "This is a great implementation of technology!Who cares if they look pretentious? Maybe the business men running this company are, maybe they are not. It’s not my culture to wear a suit and tie everyday so it’s hard for me to guess if they are smug, and frankly I don’t care.What I care about it taking this great idea and improving on it so that I can make my own device.It’s a great post because it stimulates thinking about how robotics are used.If someone here creates an Arduino-based cheap version of the same device I won’t whine about hearing about that either!Seems like there are some manufacturing processes on that machine which could be wildly simplified to bring the device into a cheaper mode.How about instead of a pick-and-drop robot hand, using a kicker and a slide chute and gravity? Mount vertically with rails and the speed could be at least 10x faster -? no?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103004",
"author": "Decepticon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:57:28",
"content": "@yesysLMAO!To sell this as fine art is sad. It’s basically a very low res printer using tiles instead of ink.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103015",
"author": "pookie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:41:35",
"content": "I have a “robot” at my house that renders photo-realistic art. It’s called an HP Deskjet 6122.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103016",
"author": "tMH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:43:10",
"content": "Inefficient as hell, yeah?I could think of about 20 different ways off the top of my head that would be cheaper and faster than the system they are using.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103050",
"author": "Chris Grayson - Art Director",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:11:32",
"content": "It is a practical means of productions. Seems a stretch to sell it as “Art.” Someone is telling it what to produce so it is really the tool of and artist. The person who chose/designed the images is the designer/artist, and the robotic arm is the paintbrush, if you will.But that doesn’t get the kind of attention that screaming headlines of “Robot Makes Art!” does, so what can you do — It’s called “Marketing”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103067",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:48:22",
"content": "Soo…It’s a relatively slow pick and place making plastic mosaics. Hmm…abit snooty are we?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103105",
"author": "Palli",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:56:53",
"content": "Artaic… Artaic?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103108",
"author": "PhilKll",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:12:44",
"content": "I think its just as much fine art, as other forms of printed art, or digital art, its the same thing, just a new type of printer. Would be like using a 3d printer to make sculptures, same human artist, different paint brush. Now that would be interesting, a robot that uses a paint brush and paint, even more interesting a robot programmed to find interesting stuff to paint with that brush, making the programmer the artist, with a very complex brush. As far as it being a hack or not, wouldn’t it be a hack, because its using a technology usually purposed for something other than art, to do art? Hacking art tho would be redundant, its all about doing new things in different ways.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103131",
"author": "Glenn",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:56:02",
"content": "So, all the talk about art aside…Wouldn’t it have been more efficient to just have it, rather than pick up one piece, drop it, go back, get another piece… instead, pick up several pieces of the same color, fill in all the spaces this color is needed, return, load up another color, repeat…?Granted, its not as showy as a robot arm moving between a mosaic form and a big table/conveyor belt continuously feeding tiles in a very complex verging rube goldberg complexity manner, placing tiles one at a time and returning to grab another.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103149",
"author": "KT",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T05:31:10",
"content": "@Glennyea, it seems the robot is all for show, an even better way to do it would be just creating a dispensing mechanism for each color and rapidly fill up line by line. Remember the “ping pong ball display”?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJeA_QnJ22M",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103189",
"author": "Charlie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T11:29:14",
"content": "I have a BFA in Fine Arts. Would you say a sculpture that was made using modern day technology such as power tools and things less valuable as a sculpture done with a chisel? How about the chisel vs doing it with just bare hands and other harder rocks? The technology used to make art is not in question so much as the execution of the work itself. If the visual art communicates the idea the artist intended to the viewer successfully we can view it as good art.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103192",
"author": "Creative Custom Woodwork",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T11:35:32",
"content": "The original artist is the person who came up with this idea and figured out how to do it. The machine is more creative than the products, hence the art of adaptability.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103209",
"author": "yesys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T13:54:54",
"content": "@charlie“The technology used to make art is not in question so much as the execution of the work itself. If the visual art communicates the idea the artist intended to the viewer successfully we can view it as good art.”I’ll call BS on the above statement. How can one discern “the idea the artist intended”? this is a logical slippery slope that leads nowhere. What idea was Michelangelo trying to get across? Duchamp? Picasso? Basquiat? Rubens? Nobody knows any of their exact thoughts/ideas.The above logic would suggest that Norman Rockwell was indeed a much better artist say, Rauschenberg (or anyone else, hell he was probably the best of all).…and what if the viewer is a moron and is incapable of receiving the artist’s communications? Based on your comment above it would then be “bad” art, since the idea was not communicated.The thing with visual art that remains constant across all genres and times is the “scene” is the most important aspect of art. without a scene you are obscure even if you have ‘talent’. (think Vincent van Gogh) Art is merely a product of a “scene” (think Warhol).The above attempt is to make a great “scene”, not great art.Keep studying.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103210",
"author": "yesys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:06:33",
"content": "Still @charlie:by your logic, this guy is a pretty lousy violinist:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.htmlthis article was referenced on HAD previously, and i think it proves my above points pretty well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103227",
"author": "Baja",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T15:53:43",
"content": "The scale is astounding for some of those mosaics. I think the scale of the art justifies the use of robots in it’s production.There are many forms of art, and producing large scale images utilizing technology seems like an efficient way to do it. I like efficiency, and optimization. I admire Artaic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.976137
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/iphone-bounce-controlled-dance-lights/
|
Bouncy IPhone Controlled Dance Lights
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"home entertainment hacks",
"home hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"ipod hacks"
] |
[
"dance",
"iphone",
"ipod",
"itouch",
"lights"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GmYcn8vb1U]
[John Boiles] introduces us to dimlet, his
portable network controlled light dimmer
. Inside the box is a fonera 2100 router that is running openWRT connected to an unnamed AVR microcontroller. Right now, he’s controlling the unit with his iPhone. It has three modes of control; a manual “slider” mode, an accelerometer controlled “dance” mode, and a programmable “tap” mode. You can download all the source code and schematics on his site.
[via
Makezine
]
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| 18
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102942",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T14:23:55",
"content": "may i guess what they “unnamed AVR microcontroller” is?…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102943",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T14:26:02",
"content": "Guess all you want. I just didn’t see the name on his site. It is most likely on the schematic, but I didn’t download it to see.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102944",
"author": "Name?",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T14:31:25",
"content": "À propos iPhone, since when is there a mobile version of this website? :o(Yay, my first comment. *feels like a hacker now*)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102947",
"author": "Jeremy C",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:17:54",
"content": "Pretty awesome hack. Three questions though:A. lights cycle to dim 120 times per second. Obviously 2 * 60 hz, but is there some advantage to this rate?B. it’s shown with an IPhone, would an Ipod touch work the same?C. “Law themed party”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102956",
"author": "rd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:42:56",
"content": "@Jeremy CThe answer to “A” is on the website of the dimmer circuit he used (http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/blog/?page_id=445). The current is controlled through a triac. It is reset every time the voltage drops to 0V (twice per full wavelength, or 120Hz).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102974",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:27:54",
"content": "Excellent Hack! This has really elegant execution through the iPhone interface, I especially like the lack of noticeable lag. Considering doing this to a networked set of dimmers in the house. Great Job!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102988",
"author": "John Boiles",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:28:13",
"content": "@Jeremy CB) Actually it’s shown with an iPod TouchC) It was a going-away-to-lawschool party :)@monkeyslayer56It’s an Atmega88",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103005",
"author": "ASD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:06:03",
"content": "…and this is my..ZAP!!!electrocuted by the lamps!XD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103018",
"author": "tMH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:48:14",
"content": "@ 2:50Wtf is wrong with that guy? Is he trying to look like that, or does it just do it naturally? Straight from the movie Revenge of the Nerds ffs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103020",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:53:23",
"content": "@tmh,it was a law themed party. I’m guessing that was a lawyer costume.",
"parent_id": "103018",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103143",
"author": "Karl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:53:19",
"content": "Very nice execution! Accelerometer demo @~1:45 is especially effective.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103150",
"author": "AVR Micro",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T05:43:35",
"content": "Very funny!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103176",
"author": "tom",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T10:13:35",
"content": "Wow. Thanks for sharing!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103248",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:17:22",
"content": "Friendly note to the designer: That beard is not working for you, rethink that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103778",
"author": "guiness",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T16:29:43",
"content": "I do not like this guys voice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113688",
"author": "jared",
"timestamp": "2009-12-28T06:19:23",
"content": "lol very cool never would have thought that",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "115954",
"author": "Hollis Taylor",
"timestamp": "2010-01-07T20:51:17",
"content": "Lots of great information on this site. I stumbled across your site on Google, and I’m glad that I did… I’ve bookmarked your site and will check back regularly. Keep the good content coming!Hollis",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "135904",
"author": "telanjang",
"timestamp": "2010-04-13T16:59:31",
"content": "Great thread. Enjoyed the posts…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "146985",
"author": "AVR Freak",
"timestamp": "2010-06-03T16:33:26",
"content": "Interesting project“a fonera 2100 router that is running openWRT connected to an unnamed AVR microcontroller”Which processor is router using?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.916735
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/ps3-laptop-courtesy-of-ben-heck/
|
Ps3 Laptop Courtesy Of Ben Heck
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"home entertainment hacks",
"Playstation Hacks"
] |
[
"adam savage",
"ben heck",
"laptop",
"ps3"
] |
[Ben Heck] may be the coolest person ever (take that [Adam Savage]). You would think that after producing so many laptop versions of gaming consoles he would grow tired or we would be bored of them. But no! We love each and every new production – including his latest
laptop-ified Ps3
. Not too much in the terms of ‘new’ comes from his latest article, but it does reaffirm some things including: why make what you can buy, cheap foam sheet should be purchased by the ton, and use the screws from an overheated Xbox 360 when you lose the Ps3 originals. Oh, and [Adam] we were just kidding, you know we will always love you. Check out a video after the break.
[Via
Ps3Mods
]
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXZ5bI_yZTk&feature=player_embedded%5D
| 16
| 16
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102932",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:20:32",
"content": "i may get a PS3 just so i can do this :) btw nicely done looks good like it was from a manufacture like that :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102933",
"author": "derp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:27:01",
"content": "I think it would look more distinctly PD3 with a gloss black paintjob instead of white, but it’s amazing regardless",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102934",
"author": "barura",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:28:39",
"content": "Running short on articles? :/Cool non the less, just a little late IMO.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102937",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:44:32",
"content": "What a heck, Ben? Cool… :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102939",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:56:26",
"content": "Barura this wasnt his first ps3 laptop. <.<You need to pay respects to the heck.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102963",
"author": "wdfowty",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:59:32",
"content": "I’ve gotta agree with derp, this is very clean but the white finish doesn’t scream ps3.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102975",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:29:35",
"content": "This guys work is unreal. Awesome. @ markii yea maybe things this badass should be called Hecks instead of hacks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102977",
"author": "Michichael",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:33:35",
"content": "You’d think Sony would gobble this idea. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102987",
"author": "Christian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:24:03",
"content": "If I wanted to know of everything Ben Heck does (and its usually just laptopifcation of consoles) I’d follow his website.Seriously, these laptops aren’t really interesting anymore…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103089",
"author": "barura",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:00:21",
"content": "@ blizzarddemonHe made this at the start of the month, is all.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103165",
"author": "daveatfernie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T08:11:35",
"content": "Is anyone else seeing the joypad not moving at the same time as the game?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103194",
"author": "Hollywood Alarm Systems",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T11:39:45",
"content": "I stumble here, so I think it’s original and cool. I’m just wondering which PS number is Sony going to do a laptop version on? PS8?!?!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104492",
"author": "james",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T18:24:06",
"content": "I wan’t a ps3 in a notebook. Battery life would probably suck though.http://bit.ly/1jwwSm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108673",
"author": "Anti falten behandlung",
"timestamp": "2009-11-24T09:32:16",
"content": "Merci, ich danke dir.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "110877",
"author": "Sikiş",
"timestamp": "2009-12-08T20:14:57",
"content": "original and cool. I’m just wondering which PS number is Sony going to do a laptop version on? PS8?!?!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113872",
"author": "Rodica",
"timestamp": "2009-12-29T08:41:35",
"content": "Yeah that’s cool!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.030535
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/inpulse-watch-gets-blackberry-data-via-bluetooth/
|
InPulse Watch Gets BlackBerry Data Via Bluetooth
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] |
[
"blackberry",
"bluetooth",
"inPulse",
"watch"
] |
[Eric] just told us about the
watch he developed that displays info from a BlackBerry
via Bluetooth. The watch displays updates, message alerts, incoming call information, and… tells time. Setup and control is handled with the BlackBerry keypad. The device is charged with a micro-USB connection and will last for about four days without a recharge. We’d chalk up the rather long battery life to the use of an OLED display, which will use less energy when a portion of the display is left black.
So why is it here? Well, he’s got a couple of blog posts that detail
two
of the
final
prototypes that you might find interesting. What else? Oh yeah, his original prototype used an Arduino with a Nokia 3310 LCD display. For those of you who continually call the
Arduino a worthless toy
, looks like it’s good enough to use when taking a product to market.
| 32
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|
[
{
"comment_id": "104158",
"author": "alexsfox",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:43:31",
"content": "The Arduino may not be a toy (it’s just a development kit with an Atmel MCU)… however most of the “innovative” crap posted that involves an Arduino is just that–crap.Since the Arduino is one of the easier and popular MCU dev kits, many beginners’ projects use it, and usually those projects are very simplistic (naturally). This leads to a self-inflicted stigma associated with the Arduino (e.g. “Arduinos are toys”).Engineers get annoyed at the Arduino “fad” because beginners’ projects tend to trivialize actual engineering, which involves _far_ more than simple proof-of-concept hacks. Beginners should be aware of this difference, but of course the only way to learn is to start as a beginner!Nonetheless, it sounds like you’re a bit overly defensive of the Arduino…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104159",
"author": "alexsfox",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:46:45",
"content": "The Arduino may not be a toy (it’s just a development kit with an Atmel MCU)… however most of the “innovative” crap posted that involves an Arduino is just that–crap.Since the Arduino is one of the easier and popular MCU dev kits, many beginners’ projects use it, and usually those projects are very simplistic (naturally). This leads to a self-inflicted stigma associated with the Arduino (e.g. “Arduinos are toys”).Engineers get annoyed at the Arduino “fad” because beginners’ projects tend to trivialize actual engineering, which involves _far_ more than simple proof-of-concept hacks. Beginners should be aware of this difference, but of course the only way to learn is to start as a beginner!Nonetheless, it sounds like you’re a bit overly defensive of the Arduino…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104161",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:53:20",
"content": "“Engineers get annoyed at the Arduino “fad” because beginners’ projects tend to trivialize actual engineering, which involves _far_ more than simple proof-of-concept hacks.”And other engineers like it because it removes the tedious (and generally pointless for a prototype) process of setting up flags, etc, when bashing out a quick prototype requiring a microcontroller.Doing things the hard way doesn’t automatically make it the better way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104164",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:13:37",
"content": "wow,one decent,innovative use for an arduino doesn’t explain why every other post has one.little sensitive about protecting the sponsors products,aren’t we?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104167",
"author": "MrEng",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:19:20",
"content": "He needs a hand modal, that’s one hairy arm lol.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104175",
"author": "Reggie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:38:57",
"content": "why is there always more discussion about the platform than the actual hack?I don’t own a blackberry but it looks like a nice complement to a mobile phone, something the phone companies should’ve been selling us years ago, instead this guy has beaten them to it.I’d like to see something like this that can pair with your PC and gives whatever information you need, like an untethered hi-res LCD-smartie, maybe a couple of buttons or touchscreen to extend its capabilities a little.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104179",
"author": "damox",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T01:13:14",
"content": "@ ReggieThe windows mobile platform has allowed you to do this for years.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104185",
"author": "bill hates",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T02:07:26",
"content": "nice.. something other than crappy halloween shit",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104187",
"author": "samurai1200",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T02:33:23",
"content": "@alexsfoxThat was a beautifully elegant way to describe your feelings on the Arduino. I agree with 95% of what you said. I wish everyone on here would argue this way… a lot more constructive than this over-excessive cursing and EE bigotry (yes, I’m an EE).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104188",
"author": "samurai1200",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T02:45:59",
"content": "also, this thing is pretty impressive power-consumption-wise.the battery is 150mAh lion-poly running an oled screen, motor, and bluetooth (as well as a couple other controllers im sure) for 4 days under moderate usage? thats pretty awesome.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104192",
"author": "realcomix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:09:27",
"content": "im impressed that there was a way to get that bluetooth profile to work .. they can be finicky them blackberrys ..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104197",
"author": "trialex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:33:13",
"content": "I’m an arduino user, but I think that everyone should be looking at it’s increased popularity as a good thing.[1] There are a lot more posts here now. No you don’t have to like every single one, but often you can find at least an ASPECT of the project that you find useful, or inspiring.[2] Arduino is a stepping stone to bigger/better/more compilicated projects – and for most it’s the FIRST STEP. The price, and ease of use, means more people are into “hacking” than ever before.Anyways that was off topic.This project is pretty damn awesome – would love to see even more details of the development process.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104198",
"author": "Dating for Geeks",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:34:47",
"content": "Arduino debate aside, I think it’s really cool that Allerta posted details of their development process. I wish more companies would do that. Their CEO must be a pretty cool geek :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104200",
"author": "jimmys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T04:01:42",
"content": "bobob-I see only “arduino hacks” in the category listing. You’re not suggesting that there are other microcontrollers out there, are you?Anyway, I really like this project because it’s like the wireless lcd I used for debugging some time ago and I would have killed for this instead of my 1×16 lcd. Clouds happy mr. Sun and stuff!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104209",
"author": "PeterM",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T06:24:14",
"content": "Where does it talk about the Arduino on the InPulse blog? I looked and looked, even did a search on the blog page and came up empty.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104211",
"author": "lexi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T06:44:10",
"content": "@bill hatesHear, hear",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104212",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T06:44:27",
"content": "@EdZ i like the way you think.“Doing things the hard way doesn’t automatically make it the better way.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104216",
"author": "Neckbeard",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T07:46:10",
"content": "@alexsfox I agree with what you said in full. It’s especially annoying to see idiots getting all bug eyed about “hacking” when all they’re doing is making a high powered LED flash.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104229",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T10:06:25",
"content": "This is an impressive feat though. This device started as nothing, now actually is a useful purpose. Well done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104230",
"author": "shamuss",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T10:08:02",
"content": "Don’t know what will be in the Future, but i think it’s good idea!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104237",
"author": "shadow",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T10:53:50",
"content": "The arduino is a powerfull development tool, I think people on here only bitch about it when they are been used in situations where it is not needed or use of such is over the top.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104244",
"author": "babble",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T12:22:10",
"content": "if it hasn’t already, an alarm to detect disconnection from the blackberry may be a good idea. My friend keeps leaving his phone on trainS and at restaurants, luckily I have been there most of the time but one time he did end up losing his iphone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104245",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T12:34:37",
"content": "The arduino isn’t a ‘worthless’ toy. It’s just an annoyingly overpopular and simple one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104246",
"author": "Reggie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T12:54:47",
"content": "@ damox, Yup, you have been able to do it on winCE for years, more expensively with more power consumption and more weight hanging off my wrist than a mere watch sized unit :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104254",
"author": "Mike77",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T14:51:05",
"content": "The hardware is really interesting but what impresses the hell out of me is the work on getting the blackberry to cooperate. Those damn things are ORNERY. Every time I’ve tried to develop for mine I end up jumping through endless hoops to get a partial kludge to work.I love me some arduino, but that daemon on the blackberry is the real story IMHO.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104256",
"author": "maryland mortgage modification",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:01:03",
"content": "I think it is awesome! What hardware was used is not that important to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104301",
"author": "Jancans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:34:38",
"content": "[flame on]Flame war about arduino, at this time looks like provocation from hackaday. As someone mentioned, at all 3 links and all blog entries are not such phrase arduino.Are hack a day get paid or what?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "104307",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T18:45:51",
"content": "@Jancans,We don’t advertise Arduino on Hackaday. We have banner advertisements, you can see who buys advertising from us.He submitted his story to us. This is an excerpt from his email“I hacked together the first prototype by interfacing a stock arduino with one of those cheap Nokia 3310 displays. It’s only evolved since then…”",
"parent_id": "104301",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104319",
"author": "gabe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T19:37:36",
"content": "Well, for $150 & no winmo support. FAILloljust kidding i’d get one in a heartbeat if I had a bb",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104460",
"author": "atombomb1945",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:32:23",
"content": "Want one for the iPhone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "106636",
"author": "acnemobo",
"timestamp": "2009-11-10T12:05:28",
"content": "i really love this Blackberry because of its functionality and design. this is a very cool electronic gadget for staying in touch with your friends and family members —",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "2650721",
"author": "Joseph Chrzempiec",
"timestamp": "2015-07-19T08:41:18",
"content": "I took a look at this project. Also i looked at all the comments and i honestly can’t believe all the bad comments about it’s a arduino and hacking. Wow so what it’s a arduino micro processor what if it was a Pic controller or a Pi controller would you be making the same comments because it’s a micro processor? Maybe not. The point is that the guy made a watch he spends countless hours Coding designing and building to make this watch And i give him props for that not everyone can do that. Yes of course there are hundreds of thousands of watches out there that people design and build with micro processors of all kinds. Even they took a watch that is all ready out there and Improved on it big time to make it better or battery that last longer even a better screen for the watch. Which brings me back to what i was saying countless hours in coding designing and building also not giving up. I my self are in a process of building my own watch i been working on for 7 months now i looked at thousands of digital watches online from design point and see what batteries last the longest or blue tooth parts that take low power and I’m still in the processor of looking for something to add to this watch of mine. The point is you can make all the fun you like at this guy project all you like but remember one thing he put this up in here what do you have to show for it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,559.868049
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/head-mounted-computer/
|
Head-mounted Computer With Linux, WiFi
|
Phil Burgess
|
[
"classic hacks",
"Linux Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] |
[
"gumstix",
"hmd",
"linux",
"omap",
"wearable"
] |
Most wearable computers we’ve seen feature a head-mounted display tethered to a small PC system in a backpack or worn on a belt.
Here’s a slick little system that does away with the cord, fitting the entire system in the glasses
.
[Pascal Brisset’s]
WXHMD
is based on the tiny
Gumstix
Overo Fire computer-on-module which features a beefy, 3D-capable
OMAP
processor that runs Linux. The Gumstix is interfaced with a Vuzix VR920
head-mounted display
that includes a three-axis
accelerometer
and
compass
. Tying these together is a custom video digital-to-analog converter board of [Pascal’s] own design, created using
direct-to-PCB
inkjet printing techniques. For less than $1,000 total in parts, the result is a spatially aware six ounce computer, with display and battery and all, that fits neatly over the bridge of one’s nose.
It’s a fantastic hack and a nicely documented project, though even the device’s creator himself questions whether having a pair of microwave transceivers and a LiPo battery strapped directly over one’s eyes and brain is such a good idea.
[thanks w3pt]
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|
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{
"comment_id": "104142",
"author": "Quvmoh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T22:34:18",
"content": "Just one step closer to designer wet ware so i can surf while in meetings…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104149",
"author": "cath0de",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:05:23",
"content": "great project. great post. thanks h a d.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104150",
"author": "risu",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:05:54",
"content": "could use a little polishing up, but i like the idea. a lot shoved into a tiny space.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104152",
"author": "Steve",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:14:31",
"content": "wow; awesome post and project – thanks phil!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104153",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:18:22",
"content": "Do systems that put imaginary display surface in hyperfocal surface exist? And semi-transparent, too? Is this even optically possible? It would be awesome if you could wear this stuff as goggles that add tags to things you normally see, not as something that completely replaces your view with a computer-generated picture. Add GPS and I’d like a bike computer like that then.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104154",
"author": "VV",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:22:11",
"content": "Yes it is possible, you see it on car windscreens alot. Not sure how it works but hey im sure it could be done.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104160",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:48:18",
"content": "@svofskivuzix already makes a camera attachment for these things so augmented reality like your talking about is definitely within reach. Though I would rather have it projected on car windows and windshield than on a head set while driving.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104170",
"author": "Zymastorik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:30:01",
"content": "Now that’s a nice post. Keep bringing us stuff like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104172",
"author": "Max",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:35:11",
"content": "I would personally just try to make the glasses wireless (wireless VGA or something) that way i have can have a powerful off board computer process complex scene and calculations, this solution definitely keeps it small and mobile.Pretty awesome project",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104173",
"author": "Physic.dude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:36:58",
"content": "Speaking of LINUX",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104174",
"author": "Physic.dude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:37:51",
"content": "ubuntu is almost here!!3 days",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104176",
"author": "deathventure",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:39:14",
"content": "IT would be similar to the HUD in a fighter jet. We’ll see it soon enough.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104181",
"author": "rob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T01:33:57",
"content": "One of the coolest posts in a long while.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104183",
"author": "zoidberg",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T01:52:28",
"content": "“the result is a spatially aware 170 gram computer”There, fixed it for ya.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104184",
"author": "w3pt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T02:03:28",
"content": "glad you guys liked this. i found it randomly while looking up an embedded display setup for my office. if you guys find any cool hacks be sure to submit them!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104190",
"author": "JG",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:00:10",
"content": "This is a great idea, but everyone already has a cell phone in their pocket, many of which have a 600mhz or faster processor in them. So why not use this as a wireless display/controller for a phone with internet and 3d capabilities. It would be much more comfortable to have a 180g cell phone with those capabilities running linux and these glasses with the compass and accelerometer built in.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104191",
"author": "tapius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:01:57",
"content": "Sounds like lots of noise about TOLEDs Transparent Organic LEDs and Augmented Reality yeah get android on this thing and a camera to see where your going and its perfect, and while we’re not caring about brain cancer, throw 3G connectivity too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104193",
"author": "HaDAk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:10:45",
"content": ">>Do systems that put imaginary display surface in hyperfocal surface exist? And semi-transparent, too? Is this even optically possible? It would be awesome if you could wear this stuff as goggles that add tags to things you normally see, not as something that completely replaces your view with a computer-generated picture. Add GPS and I’d like a bike computer like that then.This is augmented reality, and I want it so bad X_x",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104195",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:23:44",
"content": "wow now THIS is a hack! awesome :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104201",
"author": "jimmys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T04:29:56",
"content": "Wow. Nice catch, w3pt.“even the device’s creator himself questions whether having a pair of microwave transceivers and a LiPo battery strapped directly over one’s eyes and brain is such a good idea.”Radiation, yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked, goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest x-rays a year. They should have them too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104202",
"author": "warhound",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T04:41:30",
"content": "A pair of goggles like this with augmented reality would be awesome for cyclocross, showing upcoming turns and map of the course could make for some extremely awesome geekery.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104203",
"author": "Younata",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T04:48:22",
"content": "“It’s a fantastic hack and a nicely documented project, though even the device’s creator himself questions whether having a pair of microwave transceivers and a LiPo battery strapped directly over one’s eyes and brain is such a good idea.”Not sure about the battery part. However, aluminum foil should help with the trasceivers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104206",
"author": "Daley",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T05:03:38",
"content": "@warhound:I was thinking along similar lines, but for the street. I’ve long dreamt of putting a HUD in my full-face helmet, but I just wasn’t willing to have a huge cable running down my back. This would make a full-featured helmet completely wireless.Thanks h-a-d and w3pt!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104217",
"author": "bothersaidpooh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T07:50:06",
"content": "add phased backlights and you would have 3-D too (at half the frame rate)i did run into a method of displaying colour field sequential 3-D, by displaying opposing colour fields on each screen. So you end up with L (G) R (R,B), then on the next frame L (R,B) and R (G)requires only a MC1377 and some logic to implement, and two RGB LEDs mounted in place of the existing backlights.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104224",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T09:24:40",
"content": "@VV, polymath and other augumented reality posts: car windshield projection simply uses the fact that glass passes only part of the light, it’s a projection on glass as a screen. In a car it’s normal to refocus the eyes to look at the windshield so it’s not a problem.In goggles this is harder, you have to make the imaginary screen appear at certain distance to the eye, while in reality it’s too close to focus. This is an optical problem already, but I believe it’s been solved, or HMD’s like this wouldn’t exist. Now if we want to have realworld image together with projected image, we need the projected image to appear in hyperfocal plane and magically superimposed. Now that doesn’t sound impossible at all, but I had never seen anything like this for some reason and I wonder why. No commercial applications yet, or is the optics for this too complex and heavy for practical use maybe?Don’t get “designer concepts” you see in blogs for real, you would never be able to see cool images projected on your regular pair of shades. And re:VGA cam.. That’s a hack ;) I would never trust my entire field of view to a laggy low res vga cam.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104231",
"author": "bigstream",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T10:12:16",
"content": "It’s looks ugly…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104240",
"author": "McNoob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T11:19:23",
"content": "they do have those camcorder displays that project an imaginary field, add a half silvered mirror to the mix and youre home.i saw some online with in color hd and vga.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104247",
"author": "0x808080",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T13:25:25",
"content": "Imagine about 20 of those in a beowulf cluster",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104251",
"author": "EvilEngineer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T14:07:28",
"content": "Good to see someone else is hacking their VR920.The main pain I have with these HMD’s are they require you to have perfect vision in order to use them. If you do not have perfect vision, you still need to wear glasses in order to use the vr920, which brings up another problem. Trying to fit glasses in between the HMD and your face is painful and doesn’t work. A simple telescoping option for each optic would fix this.To wear the VR920 comfortably I had to destroy the case and remount the device in a pair of sports goggles. The sports strap and added room in the goggles leaves room for my glasses and fits my larger head.I’m very curious how Vuzix new line of Wrap HMDs will work by comparison.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104257",
"author": "Tux",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T15:01:24",
"content": "One step closer to Dennou Coil.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104326",
"author": "turn.self.off",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:15:34",
"content": "i could have sworn that vuzix sell optical inserts for glasses users…btw, how about remodeling the antenna as anime cyberpunk bunny-ears?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "119971",
"author": "wifi security",
"timestamp": "2010-01-27T01:28:55",
"content": "just seen this on twitter cheers for the info.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "124943",
"author": "AcerAspire Revo",
"timestamp": "2010-02-19T19:34:56",
"content": "Great project – I agree, though, a device over the eye and brain might be a little too out there…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "163913",
"author": "Rick",
"timestamp": "2010-07-30T20:28:26",
"content": "@jimmysYour body can withstand some radiation fine, but can your eye withstand an exploding battery right next to it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.130228
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/how-to-overlay-images-by-using-greasemonkey/
|
How To Overlay Images By Using Greasemonkey
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"HackIt"
] |
[
"firefox",
"greasemonkey",
"hackaday nostalgia",
"image overlay",
"javascript"
] |
Today we’re going to take a look at writing scripts for the
Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox
. This add-on allows us to use JavaScript to make changes to the way webpages are displayed on our browser. These changes can only be seen by a copy of Firefox that is running a particular script. As an example, we’re going to write a script that adds a border to the banner image of each article on Hack a Day by overlaying the image you see above. Find out how it’s done after the break.
Our Goal:
We want to make the top image for each article look like it has been printed with a white border and then taped on each corner to the page. This is an effect that
we used to use on our posts
and a Greasemonkey script is a good way to re-implement the effect if you miss that image style.
What You Need:
Install
Firefox
Install the
Greasemonkey add-on
.
Download and install our script:
hackaday_nostalgia.user.js
How It Works:
Greasemonkey runs JavaScript on top of the pages that have been loaded by Firefox. The first part of the file is a set of comments that tell Greasemonkey what it’s dealing with:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Hackaday Nostalgia
// @namespace
http://hackaday.com
// @description Overlay photograph border and taped corners for article images at Hack a Day.
// @include
http://hackaday.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
The name, namespace, and include lines are all required for the script to work. Name is what you want to call your script. Namespace is a URL that identifies the script uniquely in case there are two scripts with the same name. Include tells Greasemonkey what pages this script should be applied to. In our case we only want to monkey with the images on hackaday.com so we’ve included all addresses from that domain.
Now that we’ve identified what pages we want to alter, we can parse the document and pull out the elements we want ot change. The first thing to do is examine the page source of our target:
<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-17747" title="plotter-with-300w-laser" src="http://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/plotter-with-300w-laser.jpg?w=470&h=313" alt="plotter-with-300w-laser" width="470" height="313" /></p>
With a little digging we can find the line you see above that includes the IMG element for the title of a post. We’re in luck, the page builds each post wrapped in a DIV of the Class ‘snap-preview’. We can use Greasemonkey to parse the page looking for these DIVs and then alter the first IMG element in each one:
//get all DIVs of the snap_preview class
var allDivs, thisDiv;
allDivs = document.evaluate(
"//div[@class='snap_preview']",
document,
null,
XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
null);
In the code above we are using the evaluate function to pick out DIVs that are in the ‘snap-preview’ class. We load them into an array called allDivs which we can then step through:
//step through each DIV
for (var i=0; i<allDivs.snapshotLength; i++) {
thisDiv = allDivs.snapshotItem(i);
//Alter the first img of each DIV
var image = thisDiv.getElementsByTagName('img');
//Make sure we've got an IMG in this DIV
if (image[0]) {
//Save original source URL
var orig_src = image[0].src;
//Concatenate for CSS use
orig_src = 'url(' + orig_src + ')';
//Set original as background
image[0].style.background = orig_src;
//Set Hack a Day overlay as image
image[0].src = 'http://hackaday.com/files/2009/10/had_frame.png';
}
}
This block of code is where the magic happens. A loop is used to step through each DIV we grabbed in the previous code snippet. We grab the IMG element by using the getElementsByTagName function. All IMG elements are put into an array called ‘image’, but we only want to alter the first image in each post so we’ll always reference image[0].
For the image border and tape effect, we used
the GIMP
to create a PNG file that has transparency where we want the original picture to show through. We need the original picture to be behind the overlay so we’re making it a background image using the CSS property ‘background’. The PNG overlay is then set as the new SRC for the IMG element.
That’s all it takes, now images will be overlayed with the border image you see at the top of this post.
Benefits and Drawbacks:
There are some drawbacks to using this system; the overlay covers up the borders of the original image, older posts that already have this image effect will have it applied again, the overlay will be stretched to match each original image which can look weird depending on image height, and the overlay image we’ve provide is of rather low quality (you can probably do better yourself).
Our method uses a very small amount of code and doesn’t require the original image size to be recalculated.
The Next Step:
Now that we’ve showed you how to do this much, you may want to take it one step further. The original picture style also made the images black and white. Can you make the script do this as well? To get started in the right direction, you might want to look at the
Pixastic JavaScript image manipulation library
(site dead, try
Internet Archive version
and
the GitHub repo
) and its desaturate function.
Overwhelmed?
If you need some help deciphering what we did here just use your online resources:
Dive into Greasemonkey
: An online book to help you learn greasemonkey scripting
HTML Dog
: A best practices guide to HTML and CSS
http://www.htmldog.com/
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[
{
"comment_id": "104110",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T17:51:41",
"content": "Anyone know a plugin or extension that blocks cross domain content and CSS z-order? I can’t stand the new ad systems that replaced popups.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104111",
"author": "chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T18:25:04",
"content": "Opera allows you to click and block images from web pages. Opera also has the functionality to change how the website is displayed locally. For example, I chose black and white, and now all the pages I view in Opera have a black background with white text. Makes surfing the web much easier on the eyes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104112",
"author": "MarkyB86",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T18:27:21",
"content": "chris, internet explorer and all older web browsers do this since the dawn of the internet LOL",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104113",
"author": "MarkyB86",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T18:27:43",
"content": "the color part I meant",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104114",
"author": "J H",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T18:47:51",
"content": "If you’ve got Firefox, get the Ghostery add-on. It removes everything, so to speak. It even cuts out the ad at the top of the hackaday site. It also usually makes some ads blank, ie the section is still there, but the content is gone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104115",
"author": "red9987",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T18:49:47",
"content": "tj,the “Remove it Permanently” addon for firefox works great for what you are trying to do.. you just have to set it up the first time you encounter something you don’t want to see, and its gone for good… a little learning curve, but spend a few minutes playing with it, and you’ll understand.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/521",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104116",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T19:01:48",
"content": "@tjGet noscript for the XSS & Javascript/DHTML ads (it can also replace active content such as flash with placeholder which you click to trigger the content)As for ads, just get Adblock Plus. The subscription (at least the US one) has filter rules for most CSS-based ads.Like red9987, I also recommend Remove It Permanently.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104117",
"author": "hex4def6",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T19:02:58",
"content": "Why’d Hackaday remove that effect? I kinda liked it; it made the page more distinctive..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104118",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T19:30:29",
"content": "I might see this if I didn’t have AdBlocker+ killing them off…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104119",
"author": "TJ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T19:30:39",
"content": "Run a 64-bit browser, nothing works in those d8)Well, that’s not true, but, there’s no flash support for non-linux on 64-bit right now, and to be honest I don’t really miss the flash since 99% of the time it’s for ads.For the rest AdBlockPro as previously recommended and NoScript to have javascript off by default.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104120",
"author": "pod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T19:31:43",
"content": "I liked the b/w images too..any way to apply a filter to have this back too?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104123",
"author": "Znegl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:16:32",
"content": "This is the most extreeme overkill i’ve ever seen!!It could be done with arround 10 lines of CSS and work on all browsers :S",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104125",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:33:11",
"content": "@Zneglcool story bro, but you can’t do image manipulation like this in CSS unless you pre-render the effects and use something like mouseover image replacement/overlaythese effects are being applied dynamically",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104131",
"author": "ReKlipz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T21:02:20",
"content": "Why are you looping?Unless I’m misunderstanding how greasemonkey works, doesn’t it just run your script against the current page?In that case, nix the loop, make sure the image exists, and do the mods. You may not even need to check for an existing image, depends on greasemonkey functionality. Also might be able to nix the array, but not a huge issue.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104138",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T21:46:58",
"content": "@ReKlipz: Some stories don’t have an IMG element because they use embedded video at the top. That’s the reason to check to make sure we’ve captured the right element.I looped because that’s how I wrote it. Optimization suggestions are always welcomed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104182",
"author": "kwah",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T01:46:21",
"content": "You can get rid of the need to loop at all by changing the xPath criteria to “//div[@class=’snap_preview’] //img” .I’ve stated this in the comment too, but it looks for IMG tags that have a DIV parent of the ‘snap_preview’ class — this removes the need to grab them via a loop because the javascript.evaluate() is doing the hard work for you..// grab all <img>s that have a parent <div class='snap_preview'>\r\nvar imageSearch = document.evaluate(\r\n \"//div[@class='snap_preview'] //img\",\r\n document,\r\n null,\r\n XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,\r\n null);\r\n\r\n//Check to see if any images have been found\r\nif(imageSearch.snapshotLength > 0)\r\n{\r\n var image = image.snapshotItem(0);\r\n\r\n //Save original source URL\r\n var orig_src = image.src;\r\n //Concatenate for CSS use\r\n orig_src = 'url(' + orig_src + ')';\r\n //Set original as background\r\n image.style.background = orig_src;\r\n\r\n //Set Hack a Day overlay as image\r\n image.src = 'http://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/had_frame.png';\r\n\r\n}(note: consider this code as untested / provided ‘as-is’.. it might work / it might not — i’m too lazy to properly test it =P )",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104221",
"author": "Znegl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T08:58:16",
"content": "@octel But you don’t have to do image manipulation.. Just lay a transparent png with a border on top of the original image – no-one will ever notis.. (unless they try to download the picture). After all it seems wrong to make something that only works in FF with a special plugin installed..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104222",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T09:03:20",
"content": "I have an IPB based forum, and we removed the admin console link and changed the adcon directory. We use greasemonkey to reinsert the admin console link so to the admins, it looks as if nothing has changed, so to anybody else, it’s a real bitch to try and type in the directory name of random characters, if you don’t know what you’re looking for.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104242",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T12:02:46",
"content": "@ZneglYou’re conflating Greasemonkey with the Pixastic JS library.Yes, there might be a way to create a border with CSS only, but that method only works for images of a known size. This border tutorial is just an example of how to use Javascript and traversing the DOM tree. Check out userscripts.org for some really amazing and advanced scripts",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104325",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:03:44",
"content": "Clearly this article is meant to push greasemonkey into your eye, and I approve since I like greasemonkey and it comes in very handy lots of times.He should have linked to userscripts.org too though as octel mentioned, because that’s where people submit their own creations for greasemonkey and you can peruse what’s available.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104391",
"author": "moo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:25:34",
"content": "HackADay has ads?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104453",
"author": "Brad",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T13:33:17",
"content": "I would be inline with moo, HackADay has adds? All I use is NoScript, improves page load times as well. I personally block most scripting, of course NoScript does not block GreaseMonkey scripts as they are implemented via post processing. You may have to disallow a few defaults (i.e. googlesyndication, etc) to remove all unwanted content. GreaseMonkey then can be used to clean up the final result.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104814",
"author": "whiskey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T17:33:36",
"content": "Well this is kinda lame… I mean, aren’t you hackers and stuff?Is it so difficult to:1. set up a php script that copies the image and transforms it using GD (you know, like imgred but just for you)2. set up a rewrite rule so that said image can be easily called with or without the border.3. set your template to automatically transform the image call for the front page but not for the full article.However there’s a simpler way to achieve this… It’s called CSS.And if you (out of all people) don’t know how to achieve this without resorting to client side, then everything is lost!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113673",
"author": "mutant",
"timestamp": "2009-12-28T04:11:52",
"content": "To those who commented on the looping. The loop simply applies the effect to each image. This could’ve been done much easier by using document.getElementsByTagName(‘img’).length to calculate the number of images on the page to know when to end the loop. I’ve used a method like this before with good results. In fact, I’ll leave this here. It’s inline JS that when run via the address bar will replace all images on the page with a mudkip.. becuase… ya know.. I herd u liek mudkipz.javascript:var num=document.getElementsByTagName(‘img’).length;for(i=0;i<num;i++){void(document.getElementsByTagName('img')[i].src=\"http://mudkipz.net/Emerald-Mudkip.png")}Enjoy",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113675",
"author": "mutant",
"timestamp": "2009-12-28T04:15:31",
"content": "wtf.. how come when copied from here.. my previous inline js doesnt work.. some sort of formatting error.. but i can’t see a difference in it from the original..o.O",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113676",
"author": "mutant",
"timestamp": "2009-12-28T04:17:39",
"content": "sorry for the triple post. I’ll just archive the js here. This should work when ran inline.http://pastebin.com/f6c4a461c",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.193124
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/halloween-props-servo-eyes/
|
Halloween Props: Servo Eyes
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"eyeball",
"halloween"
] |
[flickr video =http://www.flickr.com/photos/todbot/3991211183/]
If you’re wanting to spice up a Jack-o-lantern, why not give it some spooky eyes that will look around? [todbot]
shows us how to set this up
using an Arduino and 3 servos. His rig uses a hobby servo to control the entire head’s orientation and a smaller servo for each eye’s movement. Their motion is random, but quite convincing. He has them all stuck together with popsicle sticks, but you would probably move the location of the large servo to rotate the entire pumpkin, or whatever other prop you put it all in. You can download the Arduino sketch and give it a try your self. We might suggest building a simple rack and pinion rig to rotate both eyeballs with a single servo.
[via
HackedGadgets
]
| 13
| 13
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104090",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:14:26",
"content": "Nice :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104100",
"author": "googfan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:25:39",
"content": "iT’S THE MONEY YOU COULD BE SAVING WITH GEICO",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104101",
"author": "Bodeddie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:44:01",
"content": "Nice effect, but why 3 servos? It would be trivially easy to but both eyes on a linkage moved by 1 servo. Of course that wouldn’t work if you wanted the eyes to move independantly, but the video looks like they are moving in sync. Still a creepy effect. Put a trigger of some kind on them so they look toward you when you trigger them and they become REALLY creepy! Seen this done as simply as a pressure mat or as sophisticated as Polaroid Sonar sensors to actully track the victim. The simple way is to trigger them with an IR door trigger or a pressure mat and to look at the area of the trigger, then have them just slowly turn to give the Illusion of tracking. It really does work and when designing Halloween props, if you can keep them simple but still effective, then your budget stretches a lot farther! Still a nice job.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104103",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:49:09",
"content": "Could we get some sort of forum where we can talk?It seems we all want to discuss how to improve hacks but all we have to work with is the comment system. It’s a strong knowledgeable community here at hackaday. A simple forum would do wonders and increase visits.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104104",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T16:49:36",
"content": "As far as I know there’s no forum dedicated to hacking like we’re used to around here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104133",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T21:11:17",
"content": "These eyes should be mounted in a creepy portrait.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104135",
"author": "googfan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T21:14:52",
"content": "seriously. im gonna build that and put they eyes on a stack of money (that i saved with gieco)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104144",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T22:40:42",
"content": "that’s a bit obvious goog, it was a little funny the first time, but i think that jokes been done to death.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104148",
"author": "Tod E. Kurt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T22:57:56",
"content": "Thanks for posting this!Regarding using a rack-and-pinion system for the eyeballs: it turns out creating a reliable rack-and-pinion system from scratch is kind of hard. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this, please let me know.Since I had a bunch of these little $3 servos, doing the “direct drive” thing, one-per-eyeball, was pretty cheap and gave me the capability of having the eyes go walleyed or crosseyed. Not that I show off that feature, as I wanted to demonstrate that having two servos move in synchrony was possible.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104194",
"author": "gyro_john",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T03:14:13",
"content": "@todbot:The soundtrack in your video mentions that the eyeball lamps are Blinkems.What are Blinkems? I Googled it and couldn’t find them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104204",
"author": "googfan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T05:00:09",
"content": "@gyro_johnBLINK-M’s are multicolor leds that can be programmed via a serial link.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104207",
"author": "Tod E. Kurt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T05:35:59",
"content": "gryo-john, the full blog post contains all the information.http://todbot.com/blog/2009/10/07/scary-shifty-servo-eyeballs/And more directly, BlinkMs are “smart LEDs” that my company ThingM makes. You can learn about BlinkMs by going tohttp://blinkm.thingm.com/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104462",
"author": "tim link",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T14:35:02",
"content": "happy halloween , address and e mail and cell phone and phone from you ? , and from them ? , and what your e mail is from you ? , and from them ? ,",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.294101
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/26/halloween-props-alien-costume/
|
Halloween Props: Alien Costume
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"home hacks"
] |
[
"alien",
"costume",
"Halloween props"
] |
[creatrope] sent in this slick
Alien costume that he made for his son
. The costume does look decent, but not professional. For something tossed together from parts around the house, it looks fantastic. The real kicker, is the fact that it has the
retractable inner mouth
. The retractable mechanism is constructed from Legos and extends when his son opens the mouth. We think he did a fantastic job with this costume, but if you’re looking for something a little more polished, check out
this Alien
made by [Asy0uw1sh ] you can see a little more detail on
how it works here
.
| 13
| 13
|
[
{
"comment_id": "104088",
"author": "chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:04:31",
"content": "Hey, I think that guy fixed my cable TV the other night!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104089",
"author": "cyanide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:10:11",
"content": "i don’t…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104091",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:15:16",
"content": "meh",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104126",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:43:19",
"content": "wtf,why even bother if it’s going to look so fake?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104129",
"author": "juan cubillo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:51:55",
"content": "i remember when hackaday was a cool site",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104141",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T22:33:16",
"content": "yes it looks fake, but who cares? I’m sure the kid doesn’t. he probably thinks it’s cool because his dad made it. that’s what really counts. I say good job. can’t wait to see next years model.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104145",
"author": "Frank McSteez",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T22:53:01",
"content": "It’s realy not that bad. Were your costumes any better? It’s for a kid, and on top of that, for one night of the year. I know I won’t be spending huge ammounts of money and time on my costume. There’s no point in doing that.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104162",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T23:55:14",
"content": "For a kid’s costume, this is pretty bad ass. Reminds me the detailed Donatello costume my mother made me when I was 8, complete with a huge stuffed and painted shell. Things like these are way better than the store bought crap everyone else wears.At least he didn’t dress the kid up as an Arduino.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104166",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:15:34",
"content": "@anonbut if he’d dressed the kid up as an arduino,then hackaday would have probably given him a sponsorship!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104186",
"author": "bill hates",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T02:10:07",
"content": "does tail attach into the rectal cavity?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104189",
"author": "predator",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T02:53:51",
"content": "The plural of Lego is Lego.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "165346",
"author": "sid",
"timestamp": "2010-08-04T01:06:38",
"content": "Funny how some people are hating on this costume. It’s not movie grade, but pretty good for a home made job.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "2568925",
"author": "Asy0uw1sh",
"timestamp": "2015-05-15T23:03:40",
"content": "Hey this is Asy0uw1sh, I didn’t make the mask, Pete Mander did. I currently own it though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.245489
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/25/extended-ir-input/
|
Extended IR Input
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"home hacks"
] |
[
"cable box",
"input",
"ir",
"tv"
] |
We’re not sure why [Roteno] prefers to have his TV and cable boxes not face him when he’s sitting on the couch,
but to each their own
. You may already see many problems with this setup: discoloration from LCD viewing angle, difficulty playing Wii, oh and most importantly – not being able to change the channel with his IR remote. [Roteno] was lucky enough, however, to have an IR remote input on the back of his cable box. All it took was a 3.5mm jack and a spare IR receiver and he was back in business. Sure it’s not as technical as
some
of our cable or
IR hacks
and we would like to see someone try this who doesn’t have as easily accessible IR input on the back of their cable box. But either way, here’s one more step to never having to
leave that couch
.
| 18
| 18
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103959",
"author": "gary",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:23:52",
"content": "i found this helpful, even if it doesn’t fit other people’s definition of a ‘hack’, i’ve always seen those ports and wondered what i would need to make use of it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103964",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:44:34",
"content": "I didn’t notice a TV in those pictures, projector setup maybe?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103965",
"author": "Ryan Leach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:51:47",
"content": "I cant see anything where it says the tv doesnt face him…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103970",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:04:53",
"content": "I have a bunch of these IR inputs with 1/8″ stereo jack connectors on them lying around… they came with my media center computer for its remote / usb receiver setup. Making his own probably cost more than finding one and ordering it, but I agree that it’s taboo to tell someone they should have just bought something when they could make it, so kudos.And his tv obviously faces him, it’s the devices that are oriented in such a manner that he can’t aim at the receiver the way it is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103974",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:24:03",
"content": "He sure loves! his exclamation! marks! Just reading the text made me all excited! Wonderful!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103975",
"author": "jero32",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:26:45",
"content": "Not sure if it would work very well…..but wouldnt a mirror also work?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103997",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:48:17",
"content": "nitpick alert:it’s “to each HIS own”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104013",
"author": "Sammy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T00:29:31",
"content": "Simple and Effective !He’s right when he said “Poor Soldering Job”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104022",
"author": "jeffreeey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:48:41",
"content": "im with jero, a mirror would have worked depending on what kind of angle(s) and where the box was. I mounted a STB on the back of a plasma and just used a mirror at a ~45% angle. Worked fantastic",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104034",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T03:13:40",
"content": "@andrewnitpick alert:females exist",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104040",
"author": "craigjb",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T04:28:27",
"content": "@octel“their” is grammatically incorrect since the antecedent is a singular noun. Therefore you pick one gender of the pronoun and stick with it. Or you can do the ugly “his/her”. But that’s just nitpicking.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104052",
"author": "jero32",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T07:29:38",
"content": "Btw this is stil pretty cool. And maybe he didn’t want any mirrors hanging in his room or some other good reason. Just thought i’d put it out there.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104061",
"author": "mrasmus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T09:12:26",
"content": "It’s a nice quick project, useful to some people who may never have known what those ports were for.And as far as the nitpicking: Settle down children, “their” is also acceptably used as a third person singular pronoun (replacement for his/her) in this situation, because “own” itself is an indefinite pronoun (it’s singular /or/ plural, to fit the requirements of construction). While “his” is the more common form of the idiom, it’s certainly not a sin, grammatically speaking, to substitute “their”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104065",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T09:55:59",
"content": "New to hack a day, how do I see more than just the introduction?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104074",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T11:46:15",
"content": "Click things… Always clicking, clickety click click(green links)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104094",
"author": "Rosey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:53:00",
"content": "I have the same issue Roteno has. I found his project to be very helpful and was able to complete the process even though I am not technical. My project was not as clean as Roteno’s but it still works. Verizon should take notice!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104109",
"author": "farthead",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T17:29:00",
"content": "Far from a hack. Those can be built from a 555 timer and a IR receiver. as to why… Most people don’t think a rack of gear is “pretty” so closed doors are desirable. and most people that make real money have all that gear in the basement in the Video/Audio distribution system rack. But then they dont use IR extenders but real automation gear.He is simply using a poor dudes IR distribution.. Xantech has created this stuff and sold it for decades…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104121",
"author": "Greg",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T19:37:14",
"content": "Thank you farthead. My A/V gear is in its own room at the back of the “TV room”. I have some purchased and some homebrew solutions to allow me to control the gear. Funny I do still find myself pointing the remote at the screen though ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.446045
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/25/diy-plotter-with-laser/
|
DIY Plotter With Laser
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"classic hacks",
"cnc hacks",
"Laser Hacks"
] |
[
"pcb",
"plotter",
"resist",
"wood burning"
] |
[Viacheslav]
built a plotter
that is fast and accurate. He wanted to take it one step further and added a laser in place of the pen. The 300 mW unit does a nice job of wood-burning any pattern sent to it, but isn’t strong enough to serve as a laser cutter for anything other than thin-film. We wonder if it can be used to cut solder paste stencils for
surface mount PCB production
.
In the video after the break you can see some plotting that uses a pen. In addition to writing on paper, [Viacheslav] has tested this as a method of applying etch resist to a copper clad board for PCB production. He’s able to achieve 0.8 mm pitch but the production process is limited by the resist pen’s tendency to wear out quickly and to only prevent etching for a short period of time (compared to toner transfer resist).
Just like with his
touch sensitive keypad project
, he’s taken the time to thoroughly
document his work
. Build notes, pictures, CAD files, and source code are all available for your perusal and hackage.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei1yX3iUT80]
| 39
| 37
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103943",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T18:58:08",
"content": "Slight (but important) error. Its a 300mW laser, not a 300W laser. A 300 Watt could easily cut through almost anything if it is in the right frequency range for the material.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103944",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:06:07",
"content": "Not to mention, you’d be hard-pressed to find a 300W diode cheaply OR at/near the red wavelengths.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103950",
"author": "f.r0ze.n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T19:19:11",
"content": "5W costs like 5 hundred bucks on ebay, it’s from Australia, I think and being shipped everywhere…Btw, this machine shares same conception and idea of that one with hot wire we saw recently in here…I’m building my own laser plotter out of 2 broken dvd-roms and 300mW laser I took from the ‘RW’ one :)Arduino and H-Bridge + decent driver for my laser diode is my status atm.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103960",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:27:20",
"content": "300 watt laser hahaha WOW.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103962",
"author": "MakesLoveToArduinos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:41:04",
"content": "@f.r0ze.n2 more and you could have :THE QUAD LASER!!!THE BULLET IS ENORMOUSTHERE IS NO ESCAPINGJUMPING IS USELESS",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103967",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T20:54:59",
"content": "Strong lasers are crazy expensive. You’re better off buying a whole new plotter that comes with a laser included.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103971",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:15:30",
"content": "For about 350 – 400 us you can get a 45W (yes, watts) C02 tube. The drive circuitry is relatively simple..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103972",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T21:17:03",
"content": "I should have my 3-axis ‘plotter’ done in a few weeks as well. The design is based off the gantry platform for a Rhino robotics teaching platform with some slight (heavy) modifications. Should be pretty sweet when it’s done..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103983",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:03:38",
"content": "300 watts… danger! Fixed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103984",
"author": "leftsquarebracket",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:09:53",
"content": "That’s some nice plotting there. Even just the pen. Sounds pretty cool too.Though I wonder if he couldn’t dust a copper clad board with toner and get the laser to melt it to form a resist layer (and not damage the board!). The only limit then is the .8 mm pitch, since that’s a little over 30 mil. It might solve the ink running and short pen life issues.Could also do it printer-style, just sweeping back and forth.But where’s the fun in that?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103985",
"author": "Haloppa",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:11:43",
"content": "“fast and accurate”It might be fast, but it sure isn’t accurate. That being said, it is still a nice project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103986",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:23:37",
"content": "Definitely showing my laser ignorance here but I was wondering if you could use a beam combiner do up the oomph of the laser. There was a RGB laser hack not too long ago where some one made a “white” laser using parts from a broken PSP. Would it be possible to replace the other two colored laser with ones of the same color to get more bang for your buck?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103992",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T22:36:08",
"content": "Now make one that will etch Crysis-quality graphics on a moving strip of wood…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104006",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T23:19:35",
"content": "It’s a 300mW laser module found on eBay. Comes as a kit with a simple LM317-based driver, without modulation input. I didn’t bother modding it: the laser is relatively weak so I just move the head much much slower where I want it to leave the trace and move it with normal warp speed between the vectors. It’s fun to engrave wood and crispy breads and you can cut shapes out of black foam. For PCB making though, no, not really.. It could be a lot of fun, but traditional photoresist method is just so much more precise, easier and perhaps faster.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104017",
"author": "Andy1988",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:35:02",
"content": "What about the other way round?Not applying an etch resist to a PCB but removing it?You could paint the PCB black an remove the black paint where you want to let the etchtant to do its work on.After etching just take some acetone or turpentine to remove the black paint.Would have a 300mW laser enough power to do this?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104023",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:50:06",
"content": "@polymath: You can buy power combiners, but they’re fiber based, so you’ll have to have fiber-coupled laser diodes as well as a way to cleave/align/fuze the fibers. Despite the equipment costs, it’s much easier to accomplish with fiber than in free-space.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104024",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:52:00",
"content": "@Andy1988: I’ve seen this done somewhere, but I can’t remember what the laser power was. It’s possible, even at 300mW but you’d have to focus the beam down to a smaller spot (a few microns).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104026",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T01:52:41",
"content": "Hey, has anyone here been fool-hardy enough to pick up a ebayed laser bar, or fibre diode and hook it up to a yag crystal… Project probably around $1200 mark power output probably 80-300Watts before the Crystal. I’ve heard if you do it, too much, you’ll go blind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104027",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T02:02:54",
"content": "@Paul: Nd:YAG emission at 1.06 micron is particularly dangerous, since it is impossible to see without an IR viewer and is often high power (in the case of a YAG laser).You’d do much better with a flashlamp pumped Nd:YAG, but you’ll be limited to maybe 10Hz repetition rate, so your average power will be quite low (maybe a watt at best). The power in each pulse will be pretty high though..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104033",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T03:01:37",
"content": "Why not just use a DVD burner laser and use it to expose positive resist, and then use normal photoplotting… 0.8mm is a plenty fine trace, and with a cleanish room you could get some VERY nice boards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104035",
"author": "tantris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T03:22:06",
"content": "maybe you could cover pcbs with a paint made out of toner powder (you’d make it with starch or gelatine, isoprop, and water- like for photo paper or inkjet overheads)then the laser could be used on the black copper surface: melt the plastic traces, wash of the rest, etchjust an idea",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104039",
"author": "googfan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T04:19:56",
"content": "that was the image on the pioneer plaque.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104062",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T09:24:53",
"content": "@Andrew; 0.8 mm is not a very fine trace. The Motori itself has a PCB with traces ranging from 0.3 (narrow places near fine-pitch IC’s) to 0.4 (general signals) up to over 1mm (power busses) wide.Re: precision in general: the motors can position very finely, stepping at some 0.2mm I guess (they are different on two axes so I have different calibration in the firmware). But the end precision you get on paper is a sum of belt play, drive play, bridge play and oscillations, pen holder play etc.. The results are consistent though.If anyone really would want to make something practical out of a project like this, it would be a foam or stencil cutter for RC models, or small signs, something like that. With a 300mW laser the orders are not going to be very quickly served, too ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1018269",
"author": "Ludo",
"timestamp": "2013-06-21T15:44:01",
"content": "Hi,I would be interested in your laser version of the plotter you designed. Could you tell me more about the laser you used (wich model), and how you supply and controlled it ?Thanks",
"parent_id": "104062",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104082",
"author": "Johnboy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T13:25:35",
"content": "WTF is this guy wearing a floppy disk platter as an eye patch for? Crazy.Also, are (what look like) sunglasses really enough to prevent burning a hole in your eye with a 300mW laser?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104084",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T13:34:14",
"content": "No, they’re not enough. But they, as well as a floppy, act as a very dense filter that helps to relieve eye stress from watching the extremely bright spot where the light is focused.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "1018555",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2013-06-22T10:32:52",
"content": "Just a 300mW laser module with constant current power supply from eBay.",
"parent_id": "104084",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "104124",
"author": "Funky Gibbon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T20:30:06",
"content": "ive been trying to do the same with my Roland A3 plotter, i have 300mw red laser, it will etch 30 thou black styrene card though 10 thou would be better, the idea was to make stencils as mentioned b4, two things i need to do, slow down the plotting speed it moves too fast, and a fan to blow away the smoke, the beam is defused by the smoke and optical power is reduced, also i think a laser higher up into the IR spectrum would work better",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104241",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T11:40:05",
"content": "@Gibbon: did you see the HP-GL reference? There are commands that define speed and acceleration. I never had a real plotter so I can’t be sure if you can make it slow enough for a 300mW laser, though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104388",
"author": "McNoob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:20:09",
"content": "having seen the hacked up thin film plastic he burned, I don’t think making solder stencils is going to work.perhaps making them with some of the above ideas for burning off resist, and etching a stencil.or a higher power laser to burn through faster before the adjacent plastic can warp and bubble due to heat transfer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104389",
"author": "McNoob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-28T02:23:10",
"content": "oh and maybe remove the pics of the flower tattoo might be wise.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104628",
"author": "barbiegirl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-29T17:19:45",
"content": "I love it! Thank you, svofski, you inspire me! Yes, your plotter is THAT good! :)I have already collected parts for over two years so I have a lot of belts and motors, but I don’t have any tool to make it GOOD, so I had to begin at the other end: Proxxon MF70. :)This is a great framework to drill PCB, and I’ll make a similar one but in metal to get higher accurancy.A CNC machine have 4 important aspect:accurancyresolutionrepetabilityspeedHigh accurance is useless with leadscrews who backlash a lot. The cheap one usually do that. Belts are much better than cheap leadscrews, but the torque/force will be lower. Get a bigger motor, The resolution increases if one use gearing to get more power but it’ll be slower.(use belts to avoid backlash)Don’t underestimate the powers of belts, they’re really great! :)Improve accurancy:Are the workplace REALLY flat? 1mm? 0.1mm? 0.05mm?Is the gantry stiff enought?stiff = heavy. heavy = bigger motors.How’s the repetability?Improve resolution:Higher step/degree at the motors.gearing. use belts.leadscrews. preferably with zero backlash.(or cheap treaded with bolts/nuts, but the accurancy will go down compared to belts)Or belts with microstepping/1.8 degrees motorslower frictions at the bearings (?)Smaller and slower is a cheap way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111658",
"author": "jcox1968",
"timestamp": "2009-12-14T13:32:02",
"content": "Probably a really stupid thought but I must admit ignorance here. As for the wood burning, would it be possible to have say~~~ two laser diodes(such as from a dvd writer) both aimed in the same spot on the wood and be able to move a bit faster? (obviously this is assumed that the entire surface to be burned would be flat and level)?????I have a cnc machine and would really really like to be able to burn designs in wood like this but I don’t know much about lasers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111660",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-12-14T13:42:27",
"content": "@jcox1968: of course, why not. Provided that the surface is flat, you can do this with several beams. But aligning the optics may become tricky, methinks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111661",
"author": "jcox1968",
"timestamp": "2009-12-14T13:46:37",
"content": "I am really curious as to how fast the machine in the video on this page was able to move(like, how many inches per minute…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111662",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-12-14T13:53:52",
"content": "It’s going at 1cm/minute on slightly darkish wood, I guess. I never measured and I have it packed away for now, to provide space for other stuff. Those lasers can be found on ebay for whereabouts of $40 with shipping, you can buy one just to experiment: for the geeky type it’s one of the best ways to spend $40 imho :) Practical side of this is dubious, unless you do some decor/handcrafts stuff, like adding ornaments to kitchen boards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111663",
"author": "jcox1968",
"timestamp": "2009-12-14T14:08:02",
"content": "Any idea how high above the surface the laser can be to do this?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "111666",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-12-14T14:27:24",
"content": "3-5cm should be fine, you can adjust focus back and forth.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3805802",
"author": "kiran",
"timestamp": "2017-07-27T15:15:45",
"content": "hiii sir,i won’t to make a leaser plotterso u can say me the equipment names",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.525544
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/22/drone-lab-brings-the-excitement-of-hypnotoad-home/
|
Drone Lab Brings The Excitement Of Hypnotoad Home
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"digital audio hacks"
] |
[
"Drone Lab",
"Hypnotoad",
"kit",
"synthesizer"
] |
[Peter] tipped us off about
his new synthesizer kit, Drone Lab
. It has the things we look for a synthesizer: knobs, inputs, switches, wacky sounds. You can get your soldering on with the kit version, or buy these pre-built. Peter bills this as an open source kit but we didn’t see board artwork, just a schematic.
What we didn’t expect is its ability to mimic the
Hypnotoad
. As seen in the video after the break, the glorious sounds of your favorite television show can now be created in your own home. If you’ve never seen an episode of the Hypnotoad (gasp!) we’ve got that covered after the break as well.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Update:
PCB artwork
has now been posted
just below the schematic.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNJYZxuOmwM]
Drone Lab doing what it does best.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4t_DjeF_k]
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad
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| 32
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103279",
"author": "jfrench",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:07:00",
"content": "props to Pete and Chris, of Casperelectronics and Electromagics, respectively. i swung by Casperland the other day and got to play with the new Dronelab – it is extremely awesome. i’m gonna get mine soon!p.s. the schematic is on the page linked – just scroll down.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103283",
"author": "jfrench",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:27:15",
"content": "by which i mean – the PCB layout files will be up soon.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103285",
"author": "jfrench",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:28:56",
"content": "…i think.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103289",
"author": "Cabe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:37:02",
"content": "GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103294",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:50:26",
"content": "PCB artwork up now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103295",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:57:10",
"content": "LOL there’s a subliminal hot dog or something snuck into the top right of the video @ 0:44.I have to admit, watching the signal on the oscilloscope is much more pleasing than the actual sound produced.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103296",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:58:12",
"content": "Subliminal in the hypnotoad video, not the Drone Lab demo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103302",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:13:32",
"content": "I was hoping to see them feed audio into the device. I got the impression that would be possible as well, but none of the demo’s showed that",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103308",
"author": "vonskippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:30:59",
"content": "Perfect for the stuff they attempt to pawn off as music these days.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103309",
"author": "googfan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:32:24",
"content": "lol like i can afford that",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103320",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:51:31",
"content": "2 fat chicks at 1:03",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103325",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:04:09",
"content": "too rhythmical",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103335",
"author": "The Moogle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:47:37",
"content": "would make a awesome effects pedal for a guitar… other then that… not much musical use other then driving your neighbors insane",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103344",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T22:24:04",
"content": "I SHOULD BE WEEPING, I’M NOT WEEPING!! (Hey if your a Futurama fan you know what I’m talking about.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103346",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T22:29:29",
"content": "New video with guitar input coming soon.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103347",
"author": "fenwick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T22:32:05",
"content": "oddly soothing",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103370",
"author": "lost",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:44:05",
"content": "sounds a lot like a Nine Inch Nails song",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103384",
"author": "PocketBrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T01:42:35",
"content": "glory be to hypnotoad.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103387",
"author": "FW",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T01:49:04",
"content": "Should couple that with some of the DoD sound projection devices that they’re starting to use for crowd control.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103395",
"author": "Beck's Head",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T03:20:01",
"content": "That was the best forty-minute electronica solo I’ve ever heard. The parts of it where I was awake blew my mind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103396",
"author": "_matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T03:27:09",
"content": "I’d have that playing as “calm music” whileALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103400",
"author": "LargeMatt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T03:49:07",
"content": "pff…if it ain’t an arduino, it ain’t a hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103411",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T05:56:03",
"content": "You must be joking. $200 for a full kit?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103421",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T07:04:44",
"content": "@Droneprobably the parts come from RatShack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103424",
"author": "casper",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T07:46:59",
"content": "Therian&DroneAll of the parts in the kit are from Mouser electronics. We offer a kit for those who want it, but encourage people to source parts on their own if they want to save money. The parts list is posted on the site.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103428",
"author": "tom",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T08:31:19",
"content": "This is the worst hack I’ve ev-ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103478",
"author": "NoOne",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T14:34:17",
"content": "You stupid, pathetically week minded IDIOALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103714",
"author": "Erik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T06:23:25",
"content": "I hate this kind of thNO PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME KILL MYSELF HYPNOTOAAaaaggh…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103763",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T14:27:42",
"content": "Fuck Hypnotoad, I prefer Candleja-",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103863",
"author": "Tachikoma",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T02:46:38",
"content": "Fantastic project… also two thumbs up for using commonly available components.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104146",
"author": "trent",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T22:53:59",
"content": "r33b.net",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "152976",
"author": "Xan...",
"timestamp": "2010-06-25T05:50:27",
"content": "Is the picture of the settings beside the Hypnotoad the actual settings for that sequence? If not, please post one of the absolute proper settings for the hypnotoad…ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!!Thanks in advance!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.641936
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/22/driving-usb-peripherals-with-arduino/
|
Driving USB Peripherals With Arduino
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Arduino Hacks"
] |
[
"character lcd",
"usb host",
"usb keyboard"
] |
Circuits@Home have managed to
host a USB keyboard with an Arduino
and display the keyboard inputs on a character LCD. This uses the
USB host shield we covered in August
. That host shield includes a MAX3421 which is used here to drive the character LCD.
The control code for the keyboard ends up being fairly simple. The keyboard is polled for entries. The HID input is then examined and converted to ASCII codes for use with the LCD screen. This could make for an excellent controller or debugger for embedded systems. The Arduino, shield, and LCD could be integrated into the keyboard itself with an I/O port for connecting to your project. Commands can be typed out and sent through the I/O port when enter is pressed, with feedback displayed on the screen.
The example code provided with this project lays out the framework for hosting peripherals. We’re looking forward to more projects, and code libraries that take advantage of this new functionality.
| 11
| 11
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103292",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:45:03",
"content": "Yeah that is brilliant. I have been watching that but had not noticed that the keyboard code had appeared.A board is on my list. I have 40×4 LCD that I am hopefully going to implement into a keyboard to mimic those extortionately priced gaming ones you can get.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103315",
"author": "moople",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:39:29",
"content": "Very nice.Oh.. and it’s “the lazy fox” otherwise the sentence won’t fulfil its purpose",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103327",
"author": "mowcius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:11:41",
"content": "I normally have it as The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103332",
"author": "Oleg Mazurov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:40:00",
"content": "You need more than 32 screen positions to fit the whole “quick brown fox…” phrase :-). 40×4 LCD would be more suitable for it but I decided to go with 2 lines for this project to keep code simple.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103345",
"author": "DivePeak",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T22:28:28",
"content": "@moople is correct – The word “the” provides the only examples of “t” and “h” in the sentence, so at least one of the animals needs to be a definite article for the sentence to fulfill its purpose.Oh, and the hack has me thinking… Nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103419",
"author": "Michiel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T06:44:42",
"content": "Guys, what is so great about the Arduino? :?Why does a self respecting tweaker\\hacker use a “My first Microcontroller” board like the Arduino?I really don’t get it… -.-",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103425",
"author": "mansaxel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T07:52:11",
"content": "Extra bonus points for lacing the cable loom between USB board and LCD board.Cable ties are so cheap.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103452",
"author": "Ben",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T12:54:04",
"content": "@Michiel. Because people need to… learn stuff… before they… know it..? Is this a serious question?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103646",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T23:28:29",
"content": "@Ben exactly, people need to learn, and arduino it far not best road to take, actually it dead end",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "717171",
"author": "mazurov1965",
"timestamp": "2012-07-29T04:01:12",
"content": "Noticed in my GA log this post still generates hits. The Arduino USB host project is now in rev.2.0, multiple devices are supported via USB hub and supported device list is getting longer every day. Digital cameras, PS3, Xbox and generic game controllers, cell phones, Bluetooth, and more ->http://www.circuitsathome.com/arduino_usb_host_shield_projects",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3531461",
"author": "Dalwinder Sidhu",
"timestamp": "2017-04-18T15:14:53",
"content": "what library I need and where to find .Thanks",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.573138
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/22/score-online-with-robot-soccer/
|
Score Online With Robot Soccer
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"bioloid",
"robocup",
"soccer",
"zig-bee"
] |
[Erik] and [Heni] have been using soccer as a way to improve code development techniques in robotics.
Their soccer playing robots
won first prize in the development competition at the 2007
RoboCup
competition. They are using a teaching method they call Kinesthetic Bootstrapping to program the motions of the
Bioloid robotic platform
. The robots are moved by hand and those motions are recorded twenty times per second. The recorded data is then optimized in software and ready for playback in the robot.
After the break you’ll see a video of the robots playing soccer against each other. They receive commands from a computer via zig-bee with Nintendo Wii remotes as the user interface. That’s all fine and dandy, but perhaps you should try your own hand at a game. [Erik] and [Heni] developed a
web interface that allows you to control the bots
over the internet. We tried it out yesterday and had quite a bit of fun. We set the video stream to “Spectator” and “Jpeg Server Push” to get an image. You’ll have to wait until next week to play because the bots need someone to pick then up when they fall over. Live play is scheduled for Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-6pm GMT+2. That should give you plenty of time to
program your Arduino to say
“Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllll!!!” when you score.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJeGn8PB8hA]
[Thanks Richard]
| 4
| 4
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103267",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:44:45",
"content": "is their streaming going to be able to hold up under hackaday? :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103273",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:51:35",
"content": "@nave.notnilc: I asked them about that before posting and they said it would. Also, since you have to wait until Monday to play live there shouldn’t be too much fallout.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103333",
"author": "vikki",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T21:44:09",
"content": "forget the soccer bit, make em into sumo wrestlers or incorporate the wimotes into a Foosball table. this was a little sad to watch",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104051",
"author": "Tobe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T07:23:48",
"content": "If you are into robocup, check this out:http://www.jrl.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/robocup/videos/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.741273
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/22/magic-mouse-and-macbook-teardowns/
|
Magic Mouse And MacBook Teardowns
|
Phil Burgess
|
[
"laptops hacks",
"Mac Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Teardown"
] |
[
"apple",
"mac",
"macbook",
"magic mouse",
"mouse",
"teardown"
] |
The folks at iFixit must hold some kind of record for fastest-voided warranty. It’s been less than 48 hours since Apple unleashed a torrent of new computers and peripherals, and they’ve already set upon the new wares like a pack of ravenous, spudger-wielding
Velociraptors,
photoblogging the splayed entrails for our edutainment.
The refreshed MacBook holds few surprises
, resembling a
Star Trek
teleportation mix-up between the prior 13″ white MacBook and the current 13″
MacBook Pro
. It retains a white polycarbonate case much like its predecessor while adopting a subset of the Pro’s components — CPU and GPU, glass trackpad, Mini DisplayPort, and the long-lived but sealed battery. Internally the system is still a maze of different-sized Torx, Phillips and tri-wing screws, but they do report this latest revision to be easier to dismantle for repair.
More novel inside and out is the new Magic Mouse
, which early reports suggest may finally redeem Apple’s eleven year
train wreck of mice
. There’s not much to see on the bottom half — it’s a typical wireless mouse consisting of batteries, laser tracker and a Bluetooth chip. The top is something to behold though, with nearly the entire surface encrusted in
capacitive sensors
capable of gestural input. It resembles a miniature version of
this electrostatic interface we saw in April
.
No teardowns of the new iMacs, Mac mini or Time Capsule have taken place yet, but it’s surely just a matter of time. Even
Velociraptors
need to eat and sleep.
Update:
27″ iMac teardown added
. Rawr!
| 17
| 15
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103231",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:12:24",
"content": "Nice refined design.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103235",
"author": "TN",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:31:02",
"content": "27″ imac Teardown here:http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-Intel-27-Inch/1236/1",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103238",
"author": "RoboGuy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:40:40",
"content": "That mouse sounds pretty neat…although I could never buy it with a name like that. It sounds like what you get when you watch The Mickey Mouse Club while on an IV of morphine. And it also looks like a bar of soap. Well, that’s Apple for you.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103244",
"author": "Phil Burgess",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:10:05",
"content": "",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103247",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:12:51",
"content": "@phil,Its the same designer isn’t it? I know one of the apple designers worked with pixar on Eve.",
"parent_id": "103244",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103256",
"author": "Phil Burgess",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:39:24",
"content": "@Caleb: Johnathan Ive, yep.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103264",
"author": "poot",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:23:14",
"content": "Well at least it has replaceable batteries! LOL",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103274",
"author": "Louis II",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:04:51",
"content": "Jeeze… I’m edging toward no longer buying Apple stuff. It’s a good thing I sold all my firewire stuff earlier this year. I suppose I won’t be getting a new macbook until they realize that part of the point of the device is to have less limitations in power tethering over distances; why did they make the battery extremely difficult to change out?Good links, good tear-downs, thanks!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103277",
"author": "Louis II",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:05:53",
"content": "It also looks like I would need a new “mini” port adapter for the display out feature.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103313",
"author": "LifeSizeActionFigure",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:34:52",
"content": "@RoboGuyThe Magic mouse is awesome. I don’t care if Apple called it the “dildo mouse for anal lovers.” I’d still buy it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103366",
"author": "Barrington",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:30:11",
"content": "i’m with Roboguy, i order mine the day it came out!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103388",
"author": "DontBuyFromLogitech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T02:06:42",
"content": "Who cares?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103437",
"author": "Ryan Leach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T10:24:10",
"content": "@DontBuyFromLogitech are you a spam robot by chance? your post is irrelevant and there is a rather strange link on your name.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103457",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T13:03:52",
"content": "@Ryan Leach,I think so. I’ve been deleting most of his posts. They mainly just contain some anti logitec sentiment. If it were on topic, I’d leave it.",
"parent_id": "103437",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103689",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T03:05:55",
"content": "It’s weird how the sensors seem to cover a lot of room which will be always under your palm and possibly never ever used even when the hand is moved down to do the circle thing shown on the video.I wonder if there is some plan to use it in a as of yet unmentioned manner, perhaps in some OSX update, but that too seems farfetched.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "135646",
"author": "Rochester New Hampshire",
"timestamp": "2010-04-11T23:49:35",
"content": "I think this mouse is awesome. a great thing for a computer repair technician to show off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "214830",
"author": "robert",
"timestamp": "2010-11-19T04:05:57",
"content": "wow operation technology….the mouse..mighty..mouse…miauuuu….arghhh",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.699723
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/22/gear-clock/
|
Gear Clock
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"home hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] |
[
"analog",
"digital",
"gear clock",
"motor",
"pic",
"stepper"
] |
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLIKfdYW3I&feature=player_embedded%5D
Analog clocks now a days get no respect. Everyone is
digital this
, or
binary that
, and we admit it is nice to look over and see the time promptly displayed. But there’s something about the quiet ticking and ominous feeling you get when around a large intricate clock that you know some serious time has been invested.
Nostalgia feelings aside, [Alan] from
Hacked Gadgets
introduced us to his
Gear Clock
. While it’s not a new idea, and in fact we have
a few
around the office, his concept really inspired us. His clock is driven via stepper motor and a PIC, allowing for the time to be fairly accurate. The only small problem he mentions is the poor paint job, but we think it looks amazing regardless.
| 21
| 20
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103211",
"author": "pod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:20:20",
"content": "it’s beautiful!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103212",
"author": "Alex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:22:11",
"content": "Looks cool. I wouldn’t want to jam my finger in it randomly though…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103213",
"author": "David S",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:31:23",
"content": "“So I’m manually able to control time.” YES!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103217",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T14:56:10",
"content": "Masterfully executed system for setting the time. Love it!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103226",
"author": "Spork",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T15:43:08",
"content": "That is an awesome project, but come on… was the pun really necessary?On that note, bookmarked for when I get back from vacation.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103228",
"author": "djrussell",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T15:59:23",
"content": "sweet. i have a cuckoo clock that is great.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103229",
"author": "jason",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:08:00",
"content": "really? really? An /entire/ PIC system to give you a 4PPS square wave?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103236",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:33:42",
"content": "it’s still a digital clock. a true analog would have continuous motion with a simple DC motor. any “ticking” would indicate a digital nature (even a purely mechanical clock that ticks is digital). The readout is the only thing that can be considered analog.[/technicalities]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103261",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:58:05",
"content": "@slyInteresting point… Can you think of *any* clock that is not inherently digital?For example, an hourglass appears to be analog, but the grains of sand are discrete. Since the passage of time is represented by the number of discrete grains that have fallen, an hourglass is a digital clock.Even a gravity clock using water drops is digital, and for the same reason. Measure time with a stream of water? Still digital, because water is composed of discrete molecules.The only clock I can think of that is truly analog is a sun-dial.Can anyone think of other examples?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103263",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:10:48",
"content": "@jasonI think a PIC chip is entirely appropriate for this application. With it, you get a crystal-controlled time base and a state-machine that will properly sequence stepper windings, as well as respond to user input for purpose of setting the clock. You get all that functionality for the cost of four parts… the PIC, two caps, and a crystal.Whatever you use to sequence the stepper, you’re still going to need driver transistors and current-limiting resistors, so I don’t count those parts against this design. Even if you do, this is still a nice, lean implementation.I’ll bet the guy who programmed it learned something about PICs, assembler, and IDEs, to boot.BTW, What approach did you use for the gear clock *you* built?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103265",
"author": "Vaevictus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:32:22",
"content": "@pookey: A sundial :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103266",
"author": "Vaevictus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T18:34:38",
"content": "Oops, you said that. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103278",
"author": "stunmonkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:06:44",
"content": "Nice new censorship system. WTF?Do you have to fellate every project now to get to post?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "103280",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:08:48",
"content": "@stunmonkey,Who is being censored? I’ve got a horrible case of the spams right now. I’ve deleted nearly 50 posts lately that are nosensical and off topic and all seem to fit an identical formula. Watch for them, they don’t make any sense and all end with a period, space, comma. like this. ,I might have accidentally deleted something else, but I didn’t intend to.",
"parent_id": "103278",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103288",
"author": "stunmonkey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T19:36:35",
"content": "Alright, My post was pretty long. It may have just been an accident then.I just spent a lot of time on it and I wanted to see some other thoughts on the idea. I thought it ran afoul of the moderators for some unknown reason.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103317",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T20:45:27",
"content": "MDF!!! Eeeeeew.But aside from that awesome project, but I wanted METAL…..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103371",
"author": "Abbott",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:50:20",
"content": "Agreed, i was thinking that it was aluminum plate at first… would have been badass… still an awesome clock though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103372",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:54:46",
"content": "Definitely more gear than fab, but groovy nonetheless!;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103381",
"author": "Alan Parekh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T01:28:09",
"content": "Hey guys thanks for the feedback!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "145226",
"author": "Friendly Neighborhood Psycopath",
"timestamp": "2010-05-26T20:07:09",
"content": "I ended up cutting one of these out of acrylic on a laser. It looked really cool, and I didn’t actually know what that second slot was for until I read the schematic for the controller. HOLY CRAP IT LOOKS AWESOME! Red LEDs behind clear acrylic makes this clock. It cost nearly $100 for the materials (acrylic is expensive) but it turned out really well. Thanks for posting this, Alan, it was a really cool project. I’ll see if I can post pictures somewhere to link to.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "145271",
"author": "Alan Parekh",
"timestamp": "2010-05-26T22:04:50",
"content": "That sounds very cool Friendly Neighborhood Psycopath! I would love to see what it looks like.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.854647
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/hackable-geiger-counter/
|
Hackable Geiger Counter
|
Devlin Thyne
|
[
"hardware"
] |
[
"geiger",
"geiger counter",
"radiation",
"usb"
] |
[Aaron] A.K.A. [
A1ronzo
] at SparkFun has put together a hackable
USB Geiger Counter
. In his
tutorial
, he gets the Geiger counter to work as a random number generator. Later, he analyzes and discusses how well it works as a random number generator. In the past, we have seen a number of radiation detectors hacks such as the
Mr. Fission
digital Geiger counter, a
count accumulator
, and a
Polonium detecting pen
, Besides our inital thoughts of speeding up the number generation, and using it as a special character device, what else can you come up with to do with this device?
| 41
| 41
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103074",
"author": "SchrodingersCat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:15:53",
"content": "Detect radiation.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103075",
"author": "gen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:22:23",
"content": "Make soothing clicking sounds to help you get to sleep on the same pace as the ambient natural radiation.Could also be used for some kind of random music event generator.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103078",
"author": "strages",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:40:30",
"content": "All inclusive “radiation” detector where is just a component of a larger handheld device for detecting various kinds of radiation….wifi, uhf, cell signals, etc",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103081",
"author": "georgewuzheer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:43:49",
"content": "Translate English into Swahili",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103082",
"author": "nave.notnilc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:46:47",
"content": "for $150, I don’t think it’ll be doing anything for me :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103092",
"author": "nrrdzilla",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:12:16",
"content": "There’s no isolation between the HV and computer subcircuits. How about an optical isolator (and sundry bits), since their isolation is well above what’s needed here?Not exactly good design practice, imho =/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103094",
"author": "RazorConcepts",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:18:53",
"content": "@nrrdzillaits sparkfun =/ some of their products arent exactly the most well thought out, but usually they are good enough.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103099",
"author": "emilio",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:46:18",
"content": "neat! it’s still not as pretty as LavaRand, nor as fast as high-gain CCD rand generators… but it’s got FREAKIN’ IONIZING RADIATION involved.you will make pretty much any project cool with the addition of ionizing radiation, lasers, open flame, or spark gaps.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103101",
"author": "emilio",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:49:11",
"content": "(note: i’m referring to the old SGI lavarand, which was a web cam pointed at 6 or more lava lamps, not the current LavaRnd which uses high-gain CCDs.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103111",
"author": "Kabelmaulwurf",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:25:39",
"content": "Make a program which let’s the geiger counter send midi signals",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103116",
"author": "epicness",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T00:49:25",
"content": "Building your nuclear reactor.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103121",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:15:10",
"content": "“What else can you come up with to do with this device?”With two or more, measure cosmic radiation.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103122",
"author": "McNoob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:19:40",
"content": "What are you talking about? Clearly there is a white dashed line isolating the high voltage from the pc side of the board.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103123",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:20:19",
"content": "If you want random numbers, just use a resistor, an op-amp, and an ADC. Resistor noise is thermal noise and is just as random as radiation. You may have to do a bit of trickery to avoid any bias generated by the ADC, but at the rate the data will be coming in you can afford to combine several samples together to get each bit.The best use for this radiation detector is probably as a data logger, perhaps used alongside a GPS to record hot spots. Too bad it doesn’t have a built in clock.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103132",
"author": "error404",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:58:32",
"content": "Just add one of these, featured a while ago:http://www.circuitsathome.com/mcu/usb/usb-isolator",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103134",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:01:54",
"content": "Tape it to my arm and play fallout 3",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103138",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:18:54",
"content": "Looks like a good (if not terribly expensive) replacement for the old-school ‘dosimeter’ badges typically worn by workers at nuke plants, etc..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103139",
"author": "saites",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:19:24",
"content": "@McSquid: Half-Life has one built-in :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103146",
"author": "Sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T04:47:05",
"content": "This is a nice design, even with the high voltages! I’ve built solid state particle detectors that work under 18 volts, but in my experience they are rather picky about noise and need Faraday cages… they are a fair bit faster though.My first thoughts were: Wow, they didn’t use a wrong algorithm to produce numbers from sampled entropy. It would be pretty hard to maliciously inject nonrandomness into this system.I may have used a Schmitt trigger to clean up the signal instead of (or in addition to) a filter, but I can’t argue with their results!If they make a single photon detector next, I’ll take five please.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103148",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T05:06:12",
"content": "Most gas discharge tubes will function as radiation detectors with a bit of hacking to keep light out. I’ve used the humble NE-2, expect that VR tubes would work, and have seen racks of standard long fluro’s detecting cosmic rays.A way of generating low speed noise is to make up a cotton-wool & damp salt cell.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103155",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T06:44:53",
"content": "What can I do with this?Connect it to twelve arduinos and blink a LED.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103158",
"author": "cedeliing",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T06:56:39",
"content": "you couldn’t replace a dosimeter with this for a number of reasons, number one the film badges have to be permanently readable, and even if you added a datalogger to this you couldn’t power it forever, second with only one of those lnd712 tubes, you couldn’t read anything dangerous, even with the recommended 6 to 10 tubes in parallel you couldn’t read over a tenth of a rad…about the only geiger related thing this is good for is finding random radioactive painted dishes and antiques, which there are a surprisingly lot of.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103159",
"author": "wolfy02",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T07:01:39",
"content": "could use it as a random key generator for file encryption.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103162",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T07:28:21",
"content": "@nave.notnilcWell if it really costs 150 it isn’t worth the effort. I can get a REAL one for that much. Yayy!!!! UnitedNuclear.com moved very close to me recently. Its my favorite site and its like a tiny candy store with bunches of variety. Everyone should check it out. If that doesn’t get you to this is their slogan:Got Uranium?Fanfuckingtastic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103166",
"author": "jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T08:16:18",
"content": "Wouldn’t it be easier to get that book of random numbers and have the cat fetch one every so often?http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0029257905",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103170",
"author": "hans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T09:26:38",
"content": "datalogger in combination with GPS. Then put it in your car, bicycle, backpack, weather balloon, …",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103172",
"author": "asdf",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T09:51:47",
"content": "Make a hand held one that is sensitive enough, add a GPS locator with GSM automatic alert signaling, then give one to every boy scout group, sell or rent it to excursionists, etc. Voila: you get instant radioactive-mapping which will help a lot to bust illegal nuclear waste disposal.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103178",
"author": "Chaz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T10:26:05",
"content": "Use it to trigger the drop of a cyanide tablet into acid, and make a Heisenberg Cat box. :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103180",
"author": "hans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T10:29:15",
"content": "that’s a Shrödinger’s cat box, not Heisenberg.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103182",
"author": "calvinn1",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T10:34:40",
"content": "Nice stuff. Anyone used?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103240",
"author": "Tachikoma",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:45:44",
"content": "Pretend I’m a S.T.A.L.K.E.R and search for artefacts.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103246",
"author": "Joel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:11:11",
"content": "Use it as a stop-smoking aid for your loved one: it will set off an alarm whenever the radiation from a pack of cigarettes is detected.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103253",
"author": "larrysanchez",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:30:09",
"content": "Radioactive cigarettes?? Now I have heard everything!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103440",
"author": "Someguynamedjoe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T10:53:13",
"content": "I’ve always thought that if you had ten geiger counter elements you could create a truly random number generator. (Granted, I’m not the most skilled mathematician, so bear with me.)Seems to me that all you would need is ten elements and some supporting circuitry.On power up, the machine would initialize such that the first sensor to catch a particle would represent zero, the seconds would be one and so on.As soon as all of the sensors had been initialized, the machine would start spitting out digits with each sensor spitting out its own value whenever it got hit.Am I missing something? Would this still be pseudo-random?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103453",
"author": "Sharky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T12:56:04",
"content": "It’s just too bad there isn’t a good alternative to the gas-filled tube.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103510",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T16:13:40",
"content": "@sharky:How about a 1N4148 ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108888",
"author": "dogy",
"timestamp": "2009-11-25T13:46:25",
"content": "Memory chips make great radiation detectors, lower the refresh rate and hammer them with read write cycles, the error rate is directly proportional to radiation level. This technique was used in the 1960’s and was used aboard skylab as a cosmic ray detector. ..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "138361",
"author": "yq",
"timestamp": "2010-04-27T02:59:19",
"content": "good design!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "213735",
"author": "DavideV",
"timestamp": "2010-11-17T07:19:24",
"content": "@SomeguynamedjoeThere would be inherent biases in that arrangement. By nature, the individual counters (even the individual tubes) would be more or less sensitive, so in your arrangement some digits would be more or less common.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "350920",
"author": "Fritz",
"timestamp": "2011-03-07T18:59:16",
"content": "Did anybody check how to upgrade the firmware via USB connector ? It’s not a good idea to send 0’s and 1’s per event. It should sent cps or cpm (counts per second or minute). Has anybody a idea of an ATMEL programming device to connect to it ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "773368",
"author": "Peter Lissen",
"timestamp": "2012-09-06T02:16:06",
"content": "Gotta like this nixie mod:http://www.instructables.com/id/Nixie-Tube-Geiger-Counter/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.962847
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/21/bluetooth-cartridge-for-nintendo-ds/
|
Bluetooth Cartridge For Nintendo DS
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] |
[
"ATmega168",
"bluetooth",
"Nintendo DS",
"rn-41"
] |
We’ve received tips from a few different people about a new
Bluetooth module that connects as a game cartridge for the Nintendo DS
. This is a homebrew solution and not an official Nintendo add-on. The cartridge houses an ATmega168 microcontroller which provides the interface between the DS and a
Roving Networks RN-41 bluetooth module
.
They’ve
provided a schematic
for the device but we didn’t see any board artwork or pictures of the internals so you’re on your own for board layout. The libraries needed to use the bluetooth connection with homebrew software are up for download. This should provide a nice way to use the DS with a Bluetooth GPS module, or perhaps as a discrete Bluetooth sniffer and spoofer.
| 14
| 14
|
[
{
"comment_id": "103049",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:08:11",
"content": "This is cool, but you need a slot-2 software solution to avoid cart swapping, as the article says.Personally, I would have gone the other way, utilizing the slot-2 side for the bluetooth and used the slot-1 slot for the actual cart.Either way, this is cool. I’m more interested in the interfacing of the ATmega168 than the bluetooth itself.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103054",
"author": "MS3FGX",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:18:01",
"content": "The first sentence should read “Bluetooth module”, not GPS.It is interesting, but I would have to agree with Eric. Relying on a SLOT 2 device in 2009 seems a little archaic, especially considering the DSi doesn’t even have one anymore.Then again, it looks like the devices listed on the site are intended for interfacing the DS with various robotic platforms, so I guess the idea is to use the old-style DS as a cheap central processor. Overall style and quality of the LCDs are not an issue…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103069",
"author": "xchip",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:51:44",
"content": "The main problem is that the nintendoDS works with 3.3volts and most sensors and stuff require 5 volts.. doh!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103070",
"author": "farthead",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:53:50",
"content": "@MS3FGX that makes no sense… I can get a far cheaper, more powerful and easier to interface central processor for robotics than a DS. doing it just to say you did it, ok, but doing it because it’s cheaper is nuts, it’s not cheaper, it’s more expensive and then harder…. It’s like buying a Toaster and modding it to make waffles. grab a router that will run OpenWRT and you have a better and more powerful robot processing platform.Hacking for the sake of the hack? ok. But I can get a high power easy to use robot processing platform for $25-$55 all over the place and I dont have to play tricks to get my code to run. Hell I picked up some pc104 computer boards off ebay for $15.00 each.. Less than he spent making the cart. he is not doing it as a cheap robot platform, he’s doing it for an expensive and unique complicated remote control car platform… Robots move on their own, RC cars require input from the user… Which is why I hate “battlebots” as they are not battlebots but battleRC cars.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103073",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:00:20",
"content": "I really wanna see a sim card reader for the ds. I would love me some 3g for my games. Add that with real skype so my dsi’s camera works and u have an iPhone killer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103077",
"author": "tek",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:36:25",
"content": "@andrewthe ds has no cellular radio, adding the support for a sim card reader would do nothing except maybe allow modification of contacts.@farthead, the router idea is also a fugly hack, it does work and provide some power, but with no screen or built in battery it is still behind the ds.he did this for an overall hack, mostly proving it is possible, and just getting the idea forward. lets see some of you be able to design and build a similar device.i say great hack and design, keep em coming, i could see this working nicely to control a micro robotics platform cleanly",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103079",
"author": "urlax",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T22:42:45",
"content": "I like the hack, but they should’ve posted pics of the internals.@andrew,having a sim card in a DS won’t give you 3G. you need to have a GSM radio transmitter/receiver (tranceiver), so you’ll have to build an entire cell modem into an flashcard, which ain’t gonna fit.this is the smallest unit i could find, and it’s not even 3G..http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9271",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103097",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:25:07",
"content": "@MS3FGX: Thanks, fixed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103125",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T02:22:37",
"content": "wait will this allow the DS to be interfaced as a bluetooth device? Does that mean it could possibly be used as an external device? Touchscreen perhaps?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103137",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:17:13",
"content": "…or perhaps *GASP* it could TWITTER? ZOMG!!!11",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103142",
"author": "werejag",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:48:05",
"content": "http://dsbrut.sukzessiv.net/files/libdsbrut-0.92.zip",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103206",
"author": "Oxin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T12:46:45",
"content": "You can finally hook that Wiimote up!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103398",
"author": "Amos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T03:37:46",
"content": "@dsbrut guys:I’m curious as to why a uC was connected to the DS via SPI, to interface to a bluetooth module/chip with its own SPI port.Was it just to offload communication stack stuff to save cycles on the DS or some other reason?Could the uC be omitted to save cost/board space?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104092",
"author": "dsbrut",
"timestamp": "2009-10-26T15:21:16",
"content": "pics of the internals are here:http://dsbrut.sukzessiv.net/files/schematics/ds_bluetooth_rev_b.pngboard layout is inside the svn (svn checkoutsvn://sukzessiv.net/dsbrut)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,560.798572
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/well-engineered-diy-segway/
|
Well Engineered Diy Segway
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] |
[
"accelerometer",
"balancing",
"diy",
"gyroscope",
"segway"
] |
[Mark] wanted a Segway but why buy something if you can have more fun building it? His end product is an
amazing homemade version of the self-balancing transportation
package. We’ve seen several
projects that include auto-balance
, but this one is large enough to ride on and has a bit of an advantage in the design. The motors, batteries, and other components are mounted below the wheel hubs and are weight balanced. This means that the device wants to find balance naturally, even when the electronics are switched off.
The frame was modeled in CAD and then welded together. For propulsion [Mark] has installed two 750 Watt motors which will use sprockets and chains to turn the wheels. The machine balances based on data from both a gyroscope and an accelerometer, with the entire packaged tied together using an Arduino.
[Mark’s]
build log
is well laid out and details each part of the build with a different post. His two most recent entries include
video of the unit balancing
and of him
riding the 95% completed project
. A big thanks to [Mark] for taking the time to document this so that we can share in the excitement of a well-executed project.
| 36
| 36
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102767",
"author": "Marc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:40:18",
"content": "Hopefully there will be documentation soon…I don’t see any build info, and I want to make one!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102775",
"author": "durp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:05:25",
"content": "would love to see a cost breakdown of this",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102777",
"author": "Erik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:12:54",
"content": "We made one as well. :)2 x 1kw motorshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx7WTK5v5A4",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102789",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:59:23",
"content": "down with manufactures and up with DIY o wait we need manufactures to make the stuff we use on teh DIY stuff… well it saves money sometimes",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102790",
"author": "Jussi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T23:05:12",
"content": "How hard would it be to use brushless hub motors? Will they withstand the torsional forces?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102791",
"author": "fenwick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T23:26:27",
"content": "I really like the bike tires; easily replaceable and durable.It looks like it just needs handlebars and an enclosure for the motors/controllers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102795",
"author": "Adam Ziegler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T23:31:29",
"content": "Oh wow… we got though 6 posts without rag on safety… err … (just kidding)This is very cool the video was a nice addition.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102798",
"author": "Patrick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T23:44:01",
"content": "Can I get one with lasers? I want the most unsafe lasers possible.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102800",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:01:28",
"content": "OK… Based on the last few articles, I know exactly where this comment thread will ultimately end up.We know that “hackaday sucks,” but why waste a bunch of bandwidth and aggravate your carpal tunnel syndrome by typing the same trolls over and over again?In order to streamline the process of whining, I’ve created the following comment form. Simply check as many as apply:( ) i have nothing useful to say( ) that’s not a hack!( ) what the hell, it has an arduino?( ) lame, I built one of those when I was 3( ) why build it when you can buy one?( ) i hate projects with LEDs( ) does it use matchbox cars as a switch?( ) does it twitter?( ) if i built it, i would blah blah blah( ) i like to piss on other people’s work, but never build anything myself.( ) i am a legend in my own mindHope this helps!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102803",
"author": "andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:15:55",
"content": "(X) what the hell, it has an arduino?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102808",
"author": "rob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:44:54",
"content": "(X) i have nothing useful to say",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102811",
"author": "jamieriddles",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:51:28",
"content": "@pookeywell done, this needs to be posted on the main page",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102813",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:53:31",
"content": "(X) I want to make a list of possible comment responses to show I’m quite observant in nature, a trait commonly cheered upon in hacking communities.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102817",
"author": "Gosh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T01:28:17",
"content": "(X) this is actually something useful to post on hackaday, unlike say, computer parts in a cardboard box.@pookey there’s a big difference between trolling/whining for nothing, and having genuine gripes about a site that seems to lose it’s focus no and again. there’s also a big difference between posting a comment that has something to do with the hack, as opposed to a list of observations done in a snide way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102820",
"author": "KT",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T02:01:25",
"content": "@Goshthere is, but as of lately, the whining and trolling all seems to converge. Lets just discuss the hack at hand shall we!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102821",
"author": "mech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T02:02:07",
"content": "What, no helmet? OMG… Great post. I like the counter balance idea.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102822",
"author": "John Berube",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T02:03:26",
"content": "nifty im working on one my self and I have the same “gyro” he has. good old ebay.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102837",
"author": "jake",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T04:00:36",
"content": "http://tlb.org/scooter.htmlIf you’re interested in this hack, this link may be helpful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102857",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T08:08:09",
"content": "Awsome if only i had the time to build one!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102924",
"author": "liebesiech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T12:24:32",
"content": "This is awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102926",
"author": "steaky1212",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T12:48:45",
"content": "just a question tho, what happens if the power fails?presumably the wheels dont just lock up, or do you end up falling flat on your face?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102929",
"author": "Mark B",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:03:08",
"content": ">>Hopefully there will be documentation soon…I don’t see any build info, and I want to make one!!What kind of build information did you want?>>would love to see a cost breakdown of thisRough breakdown:2 Motors, £70 each4 batteries, £10 eachSteel, £302 OSMC, £100 eachArduino and sensors, £50Misc, £50+£50 for tendency to underestimate costsTotal: £560>>How hard would it be to use brushless hub motors? Will they withstand the torsional forces?The trouble with hub motors is the controllers don’t seem to have the level of control needed, i.e. Locked Anti-phase PWM. I may well look into this further, but with a sensored hub motor (if they exist) with my own-build controller (if commercial 3 phase locked-anti-phase controllers don’t exist).>>Can I get one with lasers? I want the most unsafe lasers possible.Sure, send me a check for £5000.>>nifty im working on one my self and I have the same “gyro” he has. good old ebay.Awesome, be sure to keep a blog and send me the link please! I may make my .pde available.>>just a question tho, what happens if the power fails?>>presumably the wheels dont just lock up, or do you end up falling flat on your face?If the power fails, its not so drastic as other segway clones due to the really low COG. You have a few seconds to jump off before it hits the ground. Best thing to do is avoid a power failure, although my test-pilot friend managed it and escaped injury-free.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102935",
"author": "macpod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:34:46",
"content": "That was clever to use the disc brake holes for a cog.Hmm, I wonder what a good way to support the wheels without having the bar go overtop would be.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102978",
"author": "goga",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T16:33:54",
"content": "@pookey, you missed() this is completely useless",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103022",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:10:08",
"content": "@Gosh-Here’s a homework assignment for you.1) Read *all* the comments for the last ten hacks posted on this site.2) Sort the comments into two piles. Pile (a) will contain comments directly relevant to the project– kudos and suggestions for improvement. Pile (b) will contain non-value-added commentary, including “this sucks,” “this is not a hack,” “this is stupid/lame,” and “I would have done it better” type stuff.3) compute the signal-to-noise ratio. Divide the number of a’s by the number of b’s.4) When you get the answer, and realize what it is telling you, you can then come back here and post a message apologizing for being mean to me.Seriously, my recent comments are an attempt to draw attention to, and make light of, the absurd atmosphere that some people have created in the comments section. It has become nasty enough that I have asked myself more than once, why bother coming here?The truth is that I like hackaday, and always have. And, while I don’t personally find all of the hacks useful, I certainly appreciate them *all,* because, in total, they represent a group of people who are out there building, tinkering, fabricating, experimenting, and thinking, as opposed to doing what most Americans seem to do– sit in front of a tv all day long playing video games, watching football, or obsessing over what Oprah thinks.If I had the choice between being stuck on an island with some guy who knows every play the Lakers ever made, and a guy who wires up matchbox cars so that he can photograph them when they crash, I’ll take the matchbox guy.If I have the choice between living on an island with somebody who devotes themselves to knowing all the details of Michael Jackson’s funeral, or what Lady Di was wearing when she died, or how many babies Brad and Angelina have, vs a guy who makes his own beer with the help of an twittering Arduino-based controller, I’ll take the arduino guy. Get it?As to hackaday losing its “focus,” since when was that “focus” defined by you? The focus is what the editors/administrators of hackaday decide it is. If the focus turns out to be something that isn’t your cup of tea, well, adios. If enough people feel that way, hackday will get the message and modify their content.My guess is that overall, most people are happy with things just as they are. I know I am.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103024",
"author": "captain obvious",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:16:45",
"content": "@pookey,BRAVO (claps slowly and stands up).maybe, just maybe, Hackaday has been listening to the fans. Maybe that is why they have been broadening their scope (since about 2005).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103056",
"author": "DownIsTheNewUp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:25:22",
"content": "I like this. It makes the Segway potentially useful, instead of just expensive and ironic. My concern is with the second video. I’m envisioning somebody on there losing their balance (as the motor catches up or something) or just hastily dismounting and stepping forward to catch themselves. You probably see how this would be disaster as they try to stop the machine while it revs to full tilt into them. I suggest a plate up front to avoid that reaction from happening, and maybe a kill switch on the handle. It’s just a thought, and maybe not a problem at all.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103062",
"author": "DownIsTheNewUp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:36:09",
"content": "P.S. I’m sorry if my distraction from your distraction from the story at the top of the page is annoying. It’s an important and enlightening conversation. In fact, it seems to be a conversation about comments and content that are unrelated to the stories posted here, which it is itself. I’m not trying to offend those discussing said topic, i just enjoy a little irony once in a while.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103072",
"author": "Mark B",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:59:07",
"content": "@DownIsTheNewUpI’ve tweaked the gains of the PID loop so it is more responsive so you don’t see the ‘catching up’ effect you see in the video.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103175",
"author": "alex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T10:09:03",
"content": "Congrats Mark, I know you have been working on this for a while and its nice to see a good project come to a stable point!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103565",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T19:49:37",
"content": "The design already looks refined, maybe mag wheels instead. Also the whole practical power less energy consumption dilemma could be researched.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "107209",
"author": "Paul A",
"timestamp": "2009-11-13T20:43:16",
"content": "@MarkCurious to know how long the batteries last?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108206",
"author": "Aldrin Nunes",
"timestamp": "2009-11-20T19:39:34",
"content": "Mark, could you e-mail with the necessary tools, hardware and electronics, I really need build one.thank you in advance",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108240",
"author": "Rupert Ferder",
"timestamp": "2009-11-21T00:11:38",
"content": "Hey markLove the controversial feedback you’re getting!When can i ride this thing?!Rupie x",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "205645",
"author": "Gerald",
"timestamp": "2010-10-31T07:48:08",
"content": "Just so you guys know, the code on the website is missing major bits. Like its missing the loop() which is essential for an arduino. If anyone has that may i have it? My email is vignesh1230 AT gmail DOT com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "910773",
"author": "Adib Alkawasimi",
"timestamp": "2012-12-29T00:19:11",
"content": "i dont think the back bike wheel …(already got sprocket ) will do the job? as the sprocket on it go on one direction….but your wheel can go back..reverse..?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.14378
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/freeboot-gives-the-xbox-360-jtag-hack-new-life/
|
FreeBOOT Gives The Xbox 360 JTAG Hack New Life
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Security Hacks",
"Xbox Hacks"
] |
[
"cygnos360",
"exploit",
"freeBoot",
"jtag",
"microsoft",
"mod chip",
"xbox 360"
] |
There has been another development in the never-ending battle that is Microsoft trying to keep its gaming system closed to unauthorized use.
Xbox-scene reports that a new hack
called freeBOOT v0.01 allows the Xbox 360 to upgrade to the newer kernels, but allows the option of rebooting to an older kernel in order use the JTAG exploit and gain access to the hardware.
In case you missed it, the
JTAG hack
is a way to run
homebrew code on an Xbox 360
. Exploiting this hack makes it possible to boot a Linux kernel in about five seconds. We’ve long been fans of the
homebrew work done with XBMC
on the original Xbox and hope that advances like this will lead to that end. We want this because the older hardware cannot handle high definition content at full resolution but the Xbox 360 certainly can.
This exploit is still far from perfect. It currently requires that the
Cygnos360 mod chip
be installed on the system. A resistor also needs to be removed from the board to prevent accidental kernel updating. That being said, this is still progress. If you’re interested in step-by-step details,
take a look at the text file instructions provided
.
[Thanks wdfowty]
| 39
| 33
|
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{
"comment_id": "102736",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:14:55",
"content": "@kirovya but that update will probably open up 15 more doors then were closed :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102743",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:23:15",
"content": "I still use XBMC at home. Sure I don’t get HD, but the upscaling is not too shocking, and it is so nice just to watch something direct from an ISO.I’ve been a big fan, and eagerly await any developments that will allow this to happen on the 360.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "522147",
"author": "xXC0d ModzzXx",
"timestamp": "2011-11-29T17:49:27",
"content": "can any body tell me were to get a jtag for xbox 360",
"parent_id": "102743",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "522148",
"author": "xXC0d ModzzXx",
"timestamp": "2011-11-29T17:50:46",
"content": "jtag cant find one help",
"parent_id": "102743",
"depth": 2,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "546178",
"author": "david",
"timestamp": "2011-12-29T00:34:21",
"content": "i have 2 ill sell one lol",
"parent_id": "522148",
"depth": 3,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "2617011",
"author": "I need JTAG/RGH",
"timestamp": "2015-06-21T02:11:58",
"content": "for how much? i was hoping around 50$? :/",
"parent_id": "546178",
"depth": 4,
"replies": []
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102747",
"author": "cheztir",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:38:16",
"content": "The description has it backwards, the 360 is kept at an exploitable kernel and is then soft rebooted to a higher kernel stored on a separate flash chip which is fooled into thinking update is fully applied. The best comparison is BootHook for PSP because the device keeps the old firmware but can run the higher level stuff as well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102771",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:57:34",
"content": "Ah yes, let me gut my $400 elite and start chipping off resistors to run a thus-far unsupported kernel. That’s exactly what I’ll do.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102773",
"author": "Steve",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:59:45",
"content": "Mike,Sorry for the previously offensive post. My point was to encourage something like journalistic integrity for writing currently relevant posts. I’m sure you are aware of the Boxee-XBMC transition, it would just help if you didn’t write posts in the style of someone who has only known about this site for 2 and half years.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "102774",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:00:50",
"content": "Some of us still use XBMC since boxee doesn’t work on our original xboxes.. or does it?— I guess that’s not really relevant to an xbox 360 post",
"parent_id": "102773",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102776",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:11:47",
"content": "XBMC has already been ported to several other platforms by now. Just install it on an unrestricted computer and get over it already. The original Xbox was always a shady hack anyway.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102778",
"author": "Steve",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:13:55",
"content": "@Calebhttp://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2088&highlight=damn+small+linux",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102805",
"author": "wdfowty",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:29:27",
"content": "@M4CGYV3Ri payed $299 for my elite, and they should soon be a solid $250…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102832",
"author": "PidGin128",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T03:25:55",
"content": "@cheztir : you sir, have it exactly correct. Too bad DA has left the PSP scene, hopefully FW 6.00+ get opened up soon [unless it has already].also, this doesn’t yet support all the x360 motherboards, especially mine [zephyr==elite]. Almost there.Too bad we don’t have a full XBL emulation scheme >.>; –Unfortunately both XBL & PSN are big value adds.Also, looks like somebody inherited the first post…–PidGin128",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102833",
"author": "PidGin128",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T03:31:55",
"content": "Also, lot’s of tags on this post, wow. is there a way to browse all the tags ever used? wait… “Filed under” and tags are different, odd.And– it’s not filed under xbox hacks? this is confusing. I guess googling is the only solution?–PidGin128",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102844",
"author": "damox",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T04:52:14",
"content": "@cheztirThe kernel itself isn’t exploitable, its the boot loader. XBOX kernel 7371 and lower have an exploitable boot loader. This allows you to run the newer dash/kernel (8498) without updating the bootlader. The method involves having virtual efuses (read: IBM efuses) to fool the 360 into thinking the new boot loader exists.@M4CGYV3RIf you aren’t interesting in hacking, why bother posting. Removal of the resistor is not necessary, its only a safety measure as to not update to the new non-exploitable boot loader. The update process cannot complete with the removal of the resistor.I don’t even know what you mean by unsupported kernel. It’s an ms kernel, what support do you want?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102876",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T09:37:48",
"content": "Cmon people get a good PC , enjoy speed and FREE stuf and forget all this console crap",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102899",
"author": "SZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:13:47",
"content": "As far as i know, the XB360 cannot output a native full-HD signal.And as much as I LOVE my XBMC (most/longest used electronic gadget in my flat) I recommend the WD HD. Costs < € 100 and plays it all. And I guess the external power-adapter of the XB360 wastes more energy alone than the whole WD thing in full action…The XBox360 is the perfect example for how the companys don't want the user to harness the full potential of their products.XB360 plays only some fileformats and those only in ridiculous bitrates. The only high-bitrate-codec is WMV.PS3 plays more, but still it sucks when dealing with surround-sound in files.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102922",
"author": "ReKlipz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T12:03:55",
"content": "@SZ“As far as i know, the XB360 cannot output a native full-HD signal.”“The XBox360 is the perfect example for how the companys don’t want the user to harness the full potential of their products.”“XB360 plays only some fileformats and those only in ridiculous bitrates. The only high-bitrate-codec is WMV.”Umm, I think you’re missing the point of the hack. This will give way to harnessing it’s full potential (read: Linux), allowing virtually any content to be played. Your comment about “native full-HD signal” is also mistaken, or at least misguided and easily misinterpreted.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102923",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T12:09:22",
"content": "now that XBMC has been ported to Linux and HTPC-esque setups are getting cheaper and cheaper you could easily just run XBMC on a cheap, low power linux box. of course then you have to question whether you’d rather run MythTV at that point.Personally I have a custom built DVR running SageTV (it’s not free but IMO it’s much more user friendly than MythTV) the rest of the TVs in my home have Xbox 1s running XBMC that can stream from my SageTV box.I have a 360 and it’s probably the most used device next to the DVR but it’s not hacked, I enjoy the online features far too much to lose them by hacking it. Thats the real problem. with the Xbox 1 the online features were pretty basic, and you could “turn off” the hack with the flip of a switch and use your console as if it was unmodded, not so with the 360… at least not yet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102957",
"author": "hurrrrr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:47:22",
"content": "@twistedsymphonyin regards to your final comments… maybe you didnt read the article? the cygnos + freeboot rebooter code is just that. flip a ‘switch’ (press eject) and you are running XELL, run rebooter code, and you are in the newest retail kernel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103017",
"author": "DarkFader",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T18:46:31",
"content": "I’d like to see a MS$-proof region hack.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103230",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T16:08:31",
"content": "I like how Apple and MS are finally focusing on coding around hardware supported out of context processing, and it shows by how release groups are totally absent of solutions for new chips and firmware despite exhausted reversing efforts.I don’t support vendor lock or DRM, I just like to see systems become complex beyond the understanding of conventional thinking.Most people still try to reverse the PS3 from the Linux LPAR ignorant of TLB and publicized design features.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "119490",
"author": "fredogrimey",
"timestamp": "2010-01-25T17:04:43",
"content": "i live in miami does anybody know where i can buy a JTAG xbox 360…. with everything already installed thank",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "986668",
"author": "8-rag",
"timestamp": "2013-03-30T05:06:31",
"content": "fromm mafia5k btw he lives in miami fl",
"parent_id": "119490",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "119738",
"author": "Vanessa Harris",
"timestamp": "2010-01-26T13:15:12",
"content": "Thanks for the information. XBMC is the best media player..Ever!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "121250",
"author": "Goldy",
"timestamp": "2010-02-01T23:10:03",
"content": "I’ve got jtag’s…Xenon v.1 Xbr 8995joshmason360@yahoo.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "122605",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2010-02-08T14:57:08",
"content": "how much would it cost 4 a jtag oo and ppl on mw2 r dummy’s i take aBOUT 60$ A day on that game i say i got a jtag thay b-leave me haha",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "124316",
"author": "Siick Slayer",
"timestamp": "2010-02-17T01:40:09",
"content": "how about get MS points, find someone with a jtag and get whatever hack you want instead of ripping apart my….. ehrrrrmmm not jtagged xbox XD hahaha hit me up on live and well fuck shit up and emulate things and run some nand here and there",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "129748",
"author": "snidey modz",
"timestamp": "2010-03-14T20:46:30",
"content": "take a look on xbins always somthing on that :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "151491",
"author": "John aubyn",
"timestamp": "2010-06-19T19:32:36",
"content": "I want free boot from you",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "168710",
"author": "Albert J.",
"timestamp": "2010-08-15T01:05:11",
"content": "As a Psychology major I find it interesting how we humans are never happy with anything and are always trying to change things for something they are not. I see people changing the configutarions of vehicles creating souped up cars, only to live in a country with a 55 MPH speed limit. I see it in handgunners, who spend endless money and time handloading bullet, so it will do what commercial rounds do not. Now it’s with the Xbox 360, where people feel superhuman changing the configuration of these game boxes in order to make them do what they’re not suppose to do.I don’t know, I find humans fascinating………",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "203600",
"author": "Immanuel Kant",
"timestamp": "2010-10-27T09:13:12",
"content": "People always want more, this is what made us what we are now. If we didn’t had that urge, we would still be in a tree and not even invented fire.On the other side people are selfdestructive so we need regulation to keep us from destroying ourselves.The limits given by M$ on the xbox360 is not to withhold us from destroying ourselfs, but max-out proffit.***************Back on topic.Nice that people are taking the effort for making this possible for the “public”.For them it is probably more a personal victory of solving the puzzle.Ding an sich",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "203740",
"author": "HACKMONSTER",
"timestamp": "2010-10-27T18:28:32",
"content": "I have A jtag but ms changing the dash board isnt gonna stop hackers from hacking the system further . Now that the new Dash is out for Kinenict all of us hackers will hav to wait a short period but it wont be long before we r back to running lobbys . I spoke with Ms techs and they have no idea what hackers are using but they claim they have decoys out on mw2 trying to get ppl to disclose how the process is done but we are not that stupid considering When the IP address matches ms IP we can assume its a Ms employee looking to get more information on how hackers are continuing to crack the 360 . Hackers are not stupid but ms trying putting their own employees on mw2 as just normal players and asking for the process is stupid on their part . As we all know Ms is investigatiing this potential crac wen hackers can kick ppl offline but its not easy to solve considering Hackers have out witted MS for years and ms is now just taking action . Tha cat and mouse game will continue cause ms doesnt have the tech brains or the know how to stop Hackers . They bricked a 360 so hacker just unbricks the 360 and continues playing banning a 360 isnt gonna help much .",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "206206",
"author": "Danny",
"timestamp": "2010-11-01T14:41:07",
"content": "Hey guys so we have just gota sit on our Jtags untill we get a new Freeboot??",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "207411",
"author": "John Doe",
"timestamp": "2010-11-04T02:49:05",
"content": "NO NEW FREEBOOThttp://www.se7ensins.com/forums/topic/338529-the-future-of-freeboot/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "288379",
"author": "matt902",
"timestamp": "2010-12-22T16:27:10",
"content": "will freeboot v 0.01 work with the nand x connection kit?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "298295",
"author": "Bla Bla Bla",
"timestamp": "2011-01-07T09:24:17",
"content": "Lol @ the stupid post by Immanuel Kant(C#nt)Humans did not invent fire. It was always there.We simply found out how to lit it.Invent a brain for yourself please.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "434623",
"author": "kwame",
"timestamp": "2011-08-14T21:00:18",
"content": "So wat about ps3 can it be hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.066554
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/boombox-warns-construction-ahead/
|
Boombox Warns Construction Ahead
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"digital audio hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] |
[
"boombox",
"cnc",
"gel battery",
"road sign",
"stereo"
] |
[Sam]
built himself a boom box
using salvaged parts and a car stereo. The case was cut using a CNC router he had access to at his school. The front panel is cut from a “Construction Ahead” road sign. The size of the case is based roughly on the rotting enclosures from which he pulled the speakers. He’s included connectors for external speakers as well as a USB charging port. The unit is powered by a gel battery and is recharged using an automotive battery charger.
A boom box lets you take the party anywhere. We like this one because of the
pop art
feel of the finished project.
| 21
| 21
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102719",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:10:01",
"content": "well i guess putting a car stereo in a custom case is good.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102723",
"author": "JD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:21:47",
"content": "So that’s where the sign went…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102733",
"author": "Kyoorius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:58:46",
"content": "Nice, but were do I put in the cassette?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102753",
"author": "johnsora61",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:57:47",
"content": "now where did i stash my 8-tracks?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102762",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:33:04",
"content": "I did one out of iron bracket, added wheels and a fold out handle ’cause it got too heavy. Used it while I was at UPS in Indy. all it had was a ford factory radio, but i gave it to a kid who put in a car cd/radio. wish i had it so i could post picks. my job took me outside so i had to do a little waterproofing. it worked great, had sitting on the back of a tug.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102769",
"author": "M4CGYV3R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:53:10",
"content": "Nifty project. Terrible post title.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102783",
"author": "Zymastorik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:37:44",
"content": "Well…. I built one of these when I was a kid, like 20 years ago and it wasn’t a big deal then, so I’m thinking it’s still not a big deal now.Hell I even mounted one on a motor scooter once after building a converter to step up the voltage so it would run the car stereo and the CB radio I had strapped to the box I made for the luggage rack (not like you can call that a rack but I digress).While this is a great way to learn about electricity and such, and how to wire up a car stereo, there’s nothing ingenious about this project, and this post is another glaring example of the lackluster crap that you’re willing to post here in an effort to fill pages.For god sake’s man, leave this kind of kids tinkering for instructables.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102784",
"author": "VonSkippy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:38:10",
"content": "Everyone should steal road signs – after all everyone (everyone with a job anyways) just loves higher taxes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102802",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:04:37",
"content": "Hope you have a receipt for that road sign.If not, you’ll probably get to see quite a few of them when you’re on that chain gang picking up litter on the roadsides.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102827",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T02:38:21",
"content": "@VonSkippy- The sign wasn’t stolen, it was salvaged from a burn pile. There was a large collection of damaged signs being burnt. I cut the enclosure out of a part of the sign that was still ok.I Don’t think that cost either of us any tax dollars. (It did help out the environment in some small way though.)@pookey- Sorry, no receipt- tie me up!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102830",
"author": "Tof",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T03:21:35",
"content": "Sweet boombox, job well done on this one.And as always, haters all be hate’n because they don’t have any bad ass portable thump devices themselves.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102835",
"author": "mikula",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T03:38:53",
"content": "i used to make really nice ones like that to sell",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102839",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T04:20:18",
"content": "I’ve always thought about doing this. It’s nice to see someone follow through so that I don’t have to throw money at it (lol).I’d definitely like to see more of the true hacks (such as this one), and less full fledged projects, like some of the things I’ve been seeing on here lately.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102855",
"author": "asdf",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T07:34:04",
"content": "The tweeters and bass air intakes positions should be inverted as the human ear can find easily the direction a high frequency comes from, but as the frequency drops this becomes harder (to the point we have single channel subwoofers on stereo systems). That way the stereo image would be widened.Nice build though. Boom boxes are one of the few things I miss from the 80’s.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102872",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T09:33:56",
"content": "I hope they calculate right box volume for speaker, because if not they lost a lot of sound quality and power",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102885",
"author": "jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T09:56:25",
"content": "Using a road sign looks good and gives it an urban feel. I might borrow that idea ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102913",
"author": "George Stone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:39:04",
"content": "For a party last month my friend needed me to set him up a sound system.We had:2 car amps2 normal amps1 surround sound system (Special amp and 5 speakers)2 car subwoofers.DecksI bought an 800w PSU and managed to hook up the car equipment to the normal equipment resulting in 2 subs and about 8 speakers.It was bad ass.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102921",
"author": "vikki",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T11:40:39",
"content": "did you separate the left and right air cavities inside? you know, so the woofers aren’t fighting each other, even with the breath holes they could still interfere with each other, nice build btw.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102930",
"author": "Jay Vaughan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:11:04",
"content": "I’d really like to know about the power-supply side of this project, and how it works with the battery charging and so on ..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102958",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:47:43",
"content": "@asdf- thanks for the tip, I hadn’t thought about that at all.@therian- Yeh, I measured the volume of the speaker enclosures that originally housed the speakers, and made sure to mimic that in the boombox.@vikki- There are two separators inside that divide up speaker/amp+battery/speaker.@Jay- The battery system is really simple, the stereo and battery are hooked up in parallel to two screw/bananna plug terminals on the top, which allow a car battery charger to be connected. It can also be hooked up to solar panels, which I did while working in the summer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103001",
"author": "Maj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:48:26",
"content": "And by “salvaged parts” you mean “stolen road signage.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.201537
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/brain-control-for-the-arduino/
|
Brain Control For The Arduino
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Arduino Hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"brain control",
"mind control",
"uncle milton's force trainer"
] |
When we hear about a brain controlled Arduino project we immediately think about a coding nightmare. As always, the simple hacks are the best hacks. [Joel] and [Akshay]
used hardware from a kid’s game as a brain interface
for an Arduino.
We came across the video (embedded after the break) of their work and asked for more info on what we thought was an incredibly difficult hack. It turns out they purchased
Uncle Milton’s Force Trainer
which uses a headset to measure brain waves and has a base unit that reacts to these measurements. Hacking into this device didn’t require reverse engineering of anything. They took the easy route, and tapped into the five LEDs on the base unit. As the game measures greater levels of concentration, it lights up more LEDs.
So far tapping into the game is just a proof of concept. It’s up to you to implement a brain controlled
beer bot
.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28DnXLtrVqU]
Above is the video of the Force Trainer interfaced with an Arduino and used to control the music based on your concentration.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJbIGJrQK84]
Above is a video review of Uncle Milton’s Force Trainer at a toy trade show.
| 20
| 18
|
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{
"comment_id": "102692",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:08:17",
"content": "ahhh :( i was hoping they were hacking into the headset o well i guess first things first",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "478976",
"author": "Chriz",
"timestamp": "2011-10-13T05:24:26",
"content": "They have hacked into the headset without using the base unit I do belivehttp://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-hack-EEG-toys-with-arduino/:D",
"parent_id": "102692",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102712",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:58:15",
"content": "Obligatory OpenEEG link (because this toy, and the overpriced OCZ thing, are nothing more than an EEG with very few channels):http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102717",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:05:40",
"content": "oh great,another arduino story,can’t get enough of those.*FACEPALM*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102720",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:13:13",
"content": "@kirovwhat does this toilet u mention do…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102721",
"author": "hypatia",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:17:22",
"content": "@kirov and sprite_tm:Hackaday already covered the arduino-twittering-toilet at HackLab.TO:http://hackaday.com/2009/05/05/twittering-toilet/:)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102809",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:46:13",
"content": "Hey!! Are you crazy??I sent you my blog link a few weeks ago!!No need to tap in the LEDs !Go read:http://www.zibri.org/2009/09/success.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102819",
"author": "octel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T01:49:15",
"content": "@ZibriHackaday regularly ignores good submissions in favor of flashy-looking ones. Your writeup is excellent, thanks for posting the link. I wouldn’t have known that this toy even has a TTL serial port if you hadn’t posted.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102823",
"author": "riazap",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T02:11:19",
"content": "@bobob: STFU and GTFO.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102843",
"author": "sl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T04:50:41",
"content": "whine whine about the Arduino all the time. It’s a powerful and easily accessible little platform that’s letting people put microcontrollers in all kinds of things. So what if a few people just use it to blink an LED? There are plenty of other people who are doing cool stuff with them (like running a whole segway) and who can actually do it now that they don’t have to buy an AVRISP and learn to write microcontroller C.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102859",
"author": "jan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T08:59:55",
"content": "@zibriexcellent! thanks for the writeup! compared to your approach including the brain app the posted story is (quite) lame.i mean you should recognize a ttl when you see one…now control something with it…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102868",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T09:29:47",
"content": "@Zibri good !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102905",
"author": "Tux-fan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:22:47",
"content": "@Zibirithanks for your comment you make this post be a real hack ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102917",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:59:44",
"content": "Thanks guys.. not even my hack was so ‘hacky’…If you notice on the youtube video there is a debug port.. and it’s on the same side of the internal ttl connector :)I am also trying to interface directly to the SPI port on the wireless module directly.. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102918",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T11:08:18",
"content": "Oh well.. that port is not in the retail game.. The one in the video was a testing device I suppose. Anyhow the ttl port is easy to spot a big “CONSOLE/ICSP” label is printed on the PCB :)I really do wonder why they connected to the LEDs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103801",
"author": "Akshay",
"timestamp": "2009-10-24T20:04:36",
"content": "Thanks hackaday for posting this!Just to give you some background, I’m a Stanford MS student, and this project was done as an assignment for my first ever Music class (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/).Having recently learned about Arduino and PD, this was more of a Hello World project. But, ever since we put that video on YouTube, we’ve got very solid feedback and ideas.As we do a revision on this, we’d love to hear from you…i) What musical instrument would you like to control with your brain?ii) Since the brain signal is a bit noisy, how would you map it to control that instrument?Look fwd to your responses!Best,Akshay Kothari",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6201642",
"author": "D. Enki",
"timestamp": "2019-12-10T14:54:51",
"content": "Frequency identification is key to finding your specific output requests from the brain.Each of the three layers operate on a unique range, the “reptilian brain” being the lowest frequency where as the top “humane” layer has two degrees of the ultra freqency. A “Ying and Yang” , ” Male and Female sort of or in more distinct terms a logical and emotional side. It is said that those who are able to synchronize the two have the understanding of the gods.Cymatics is your starting point.Enjoy the journey",
"parent_id": "103801",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "103869",
"author": "Joel & Akshay",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T03:54:48",
"content": "@zibri thanks for sharing your info. We checked out your blog – that’s a fantastic hack!Joel & Akshay",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103872",
"author": "Zibri",
"timestamp": "2009-10-25T04:22:37",
"content": "@Joel & Akshay:I tried contacting you.. maybe I got the wrong email. Drop me a mail if you like.“One is glad to be of service” ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104891",
"author": "Michael",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:41:28",
"content": "http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826100006Seems like this usb would be a bit easier to “hack”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.264931
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/mit-rethinking-popup-books/
|
MIT Rethinking Popup Books
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"LED Hacks"
] |
[
"book",
"kids",
"led",
"pop-up",
"popup"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-6wMlaVTc]
We know the folks at MIT are the cutting edge scientists of tomorrow right?
We’re always impressed
by the stuff coming out of their labs. Well,
almost always
. This rethinking of pop-up books does not let us down. We’ve seen some pretty complicated pop-up books. Some that made us really wonder how they pulled it off. But all of those were simply paper and card stock. At MIT, they’re wondering how we can improve the interactive experience now that the electronic components are so cheap and easily available. Even if you don’t have kids, or have no interest in pop-up books, consider this some inspiration for things like packaging and art. This looks fantastic and we know we would enjoy it. Then again, a few flashing LEDs always pique our interest.
[via
Gizmodo
]
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| 32
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102657",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:38:52",
"content": "oooo… blinky lights… *stares*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102658",
"author": "MI6Labs",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:38:59",
"content": "Woah – this is fascinating, kind of inspired me to attempt making one!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102659",
"author": "Bob Roberts",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:40:12",
"content": "A pop-up book with lights. Fantastic! What will those clever students think up next?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102663",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:52:03",
"content": "i think this kinda stuff brings out the inner kid in a lot of us…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102671",
"author": "MrX",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:09:00",
"content": "Not sure if this would survive most kids.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102674",
"author": "Mr Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:18:05",
"content": "This has given me an excellent idea for this years Christmas cards!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102677",
"author": "Tim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:36:10",
"content": "How come MIT does so much crazy research? Where do they get the funding for this useless stuff?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102678",
"author": "humorousreview",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:36:34",
"content": "I would never have thought of that on my own. That’s a great starting point.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102679",
"author": "Big Pizzle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:38:00",
"content": "For sure this wouldn’t survive my 2 year old, but that concept is pretty neat. I’d buy one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102688",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:57:12",
"content": "“How come MIT does so much crazy research? Where do they get the funding for this useless stuff?”Amen. Though I’m fairly sure they have sufficient income from other research to pool it and do blue-skies fun stuff.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102690",
"author": "michilge",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:02:43",
"content": "I am very fond of absolutely any project I came to know which Leah Buechley has been involved in for the last years.Do You remember the led clothing, the LilyPad applications, the wind board …? Her way of integrating advanced technical elements with so called low tech and techniques which are often atributed “feminine” touch me under both aesthetic and social aspects.Beautiful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102693",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:13:03",
"content": "I’m thinking that this “technology” will likely end up in Hallmark cards. Now you can have cheezy visuals to go with the distorted audio coming out of the piezo disk buried in the cardboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102698",
"author": "HaDAk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:22:08",
"content": "What a fantastic idea! Anyone have any idea what song that was?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102705",
"author": "Bonkers",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:30:14",
"content": "@pookey : We’ve already got “cheesy visual” technology in Hallmark cards. I’ve gotten more than a few with blinky lights and such, even several years ago.@Tim : This is probably a self-funded student project, or a class assignment where the students were asked to use certain materials. I doubt very much someone financed this project specifically, and this was probably done for a reasonably low cost.@ The OP : The single thing that I spotted in this video which was even close to unique was the Venus Flytrap at the end. The rest seem like an the project of an overpriced artist who stole the idea from highschoolers, and a lot of this stuff has already BEEN in pop-up books, advertisements, and greeting cards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102708",
"author": "Sparky",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:42:32",
"content": "What I spotted is that she starts out with only the nails on her right hand polished, then neither hand, and later both.The concept is very slightly amusing, the artwork is terrible, and the electronics… what electronics? You mean a battery, a few resistors, and a couple of LEDs? Just maybe there is an comparator or oscillator circuit somewhere in there. This has very little to do with technology.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102715",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:04:14",
"content": "The interesting part is removing the control electronics from the substrate itself (and lowering the possibility of damage from crushing/bending), and using PCB shape to key the correct board to the correct pad locations.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102716",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:04:40",
"content": "horay for degradation nation now MIT join to hobbyist to blink leds together",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102728",
"author": "Pete",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:28:02",
"content": "Richard Heene would be impressed",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102734",
"author": "Brett",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:09:47",
"content": "I never understand the comments on this blog. Is everyone who reads HaD a genius semiconductor engineer for a chip manufacturer? Some of you act like this blog is an IEEE journal. Hint: it’s not. They’re allowed to post interesting things along with complex things. Just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s not interesting.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102739",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:20:02",
"content": "@Mr Dan – snap! me too…@Brett – oh how I lol’ed…I came to the conclusion that it is a sport amongst some of the readers to see how witty they can be with their critiques for the projects posted.I for one loved the fly trap, that was a fine example of using simple components in an effective way – less is more.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102740",
"author": "Michael",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:21:11",
"content": "hey, I like the music they chose – anyone know the name of the artist/s?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102792",
"author": "rSquare",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T23:29:35",
"content": "I second that, I need that music! That’s real thinking music.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102804",
"author": "Tux-fan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:26:13",
"content": "to be a MIT student seems to be boring…as shown in the video, she had time to colour hair nails ;)But serious what is that… some blinking lights in a child toy… hmmm guess every Chinese mass production designer will come up with something like that.Consider this people get paid full time for doing thinks like that ?! What a waste of resources…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102810",
"author": "Tux-fan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:49:50",
"content": "o.k after rethinking…my last comments might be some harsh…if this was a student project and if this was performed from a design student without deep background of electronic… I apologizeI just get tired of the fact that people always think … a MIT… great… this might be a nice student project but I saw many similar projects from other universities which easily can compete with this … somehow they never get the kind of publicity…I guess what MIT is really good in is self-performing… creating videos… publish on blogs and web…that’s something other can learn from",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102812",
"author": "wbori",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:52:31",
"content": "Perhaps this MIT alum can provide a little background:This kinda stuff and other projects like it are typically funded out of the MIT Media Lab where they do off the wall projects like these. Usually they involve people interacting with technology and can have an artsy spin to them. While they have produced some neat stuff, the place does have a reputation on campus of being a bit of a playground.I assure you there is still plenty of traditional science and engineering research going on at the numerous other labs on campus.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102815",
"author": "rSquare",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T01:18:47",
"content": "Found it The Cinematic Orchestra - All Things to All Menhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rZdfZfMPw",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102864",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T09:23:22",
"content": "@Brett “Some of you act like this blog is an IEEE journal. Hint: it’s not.”The problem this site was pretty much ‘IEEE journal’ for a long time, it had was very useful website having rare information very helpful serious information. But during couple last year it turn first to atrsy fartsy, then to ‘instructables’ like and during the last half year especially thanks to Mike it turn in to ‘craft’ and ‘tech review’ site. And it not OK with old folks who was here for long timewho know real valuable of Hack a Day. There is countless ‘instructables’ & craft & tech news websites. But websites like old hack a day can be counted on fingers of one handMaybe comment harsh but we try to fight for unique website so it continue to be unique, probably it too late but hope dies last",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102915",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:53:17",
"content": "Nicely done, but it’s pretty much been done before. I saw something almost like this that had no micro-controller, just passive contacts, sliders etc. Much cheaper – similar effect.Note however; if I was lucky enough to be at MIT, I would feel obliged to use that valuable time for something much more beneficial to Society. Not blinky LED pop-up books. Shame on this student’s adviser for not suggesting the same.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102936",
"author": "malikaii",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T13:35:38",
"content": "So what most of you are saying is that if it has been done before, it should never be done or showcased again, even in a better format? I guess car manufacturers should stop improving on their products every year by your asinine logic.Improvements to products are based on research and development. Just because this has been done in Hallmark cards and other low-quality implementations doesn’t mean that all inquiries should be stopped. How else do you get things like the next iPhone, or xBox or some of the other purely consumer based products?This is a great way to improve on an existing technology, no matter what closed-minded people think.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103003",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T17:55:33",
"content": "I found it to be nothing less than magical.Okay, now back to the bickering.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103251",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:22:44",
"content": "I remember this from when I was a kid, except it was using lightbulbs and fewer of them, but yeah if this is ‘research’ it had better be from the history department.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103252",
"author": "Wwhat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T17:25:05",
"content": "Oh and this project should be in pre-school not in highschool and certainly not in college or MIT.Sorry to be harsh but some things you just can’t sugarcoat.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/two-factor-authentication-using-a-hardware-token/
|
Two-factor Authentication Using A Hardware Token
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Security Hacks"
] |
[
"encrypted",
"key",
"SecurID",
"vpn"
] |
We ran into a friend a while back who was logging into her employer’s Virtual Private Network on the weekend. She caught our attention by whipping out her keys and typing in some information from a key-fob. It turns out that her work uses an additional layer of protection for logging into the network. They have implemented a username, pin number, as well as a hardware token system called
SecurID
.
The hardware consists of a key-fob with an LCD screen on it. A code is displayed on the screen and changes frequently, usually every 60 seconds. The device is generating keys based on a 128-bit encryption seed. When this number is fed to a server that has a copy of that seed, it is used as an additional verification to the other login data.
This seems like a tech trickle-down of the code generating device from
GoldenEye
. It does get us thinking: with the
problems free email services have been having
with
account theft
, why aren’t they offering a fee-based service that includes a security fob? With the right pricing structure this could be a nice stream of income for the provider. We’re also wondering if this can be implemented with a microcontroller and used in our home network. As always, leave comments below and let us know if you’ve already built your own system using these principles.
Update:
Thanks to Andre for his comment that tells us this type of
security is available for Apache servers
. The distribution includes a server side authentication system and a Java based token generator that can run on any handheld that supports Java.
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{
"comment_id": "102611",
"author": "matthack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:30:58",
"content": "Its hacked…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102612",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:32:09",
"content": "to my recollection, paypal offers these devices as well. though alot of companies are just using a juniper sslvpn with a SSO login…. thats asking for trouble imo",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102613",
"author": "Paul J",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:32:23",
"content": "If I recall correctly AOL briefly offered a secure email service, which used these SecureID fobs; it was mainly for business customers. Don’t think it lasted very long, like 99% of their products.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102614",
"author": "heltoupee",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:32:37",
"content": "These things have been around for forever. An alternative to building one in hardware would be to create an iPhone/Blackberry/Pre app that does the same thing. The app would be initialized securely from within the employer’s network, then function the same way as this keyfob does. I’d be willing to bet that something like this exists already. If not, there’s your million-dollar idea.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102617",
"author": "dubyaohohdee",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:34:54",
"content": "My Networking prof claims to have one for paypal.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102618",
"author": "Ron Proctor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:36:05",
"content": "The first time I saw one of these was in the late 90s…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102619",
"author": "Ben Ryves",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:36:06",
"content": "When logging into your online banking in the UK (and no doubt other countries) you need to insert your card into a portable card reader, enter your PIN and then type the resulting code shown on its LCD into a field on the login page.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102620",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:36:15",
"content": "I have to agree with heltoupee – I know someone who worked for British Telecom some 15 years ago who had to log in with a per-minute changing ID number on a keyfob to check his email?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102622",
"author": "TUP",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:38:12",
"content": "These devices are also available from blizzard for their warcraft accounts for about 6$ as a one time fee.People who went to blizzcon this year got a special edition fob in their giftbags",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102623",
"author": "curtis",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:38:18",
"content": "I had the PayPal fob for a few weeks… until it died randomly and I was locked out of my account…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102625",
"author": "Phil H.",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:38:37",
"content": "For $5 you can get something simmilar from PayPal.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102626",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:39:48",
"content": ">This seems like a tech trickle-down of the code generating device from GoldenEye.Um, right…SecurID has been around for about 20 years… about 5 years older than GoldenEye… I tried to get an exact date, but the patents were filed starting in ’85 and the RSA site says “20-year history of outstanding performance and innovation”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "102627",
"author": "Git",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:40:19",
"content": "While the type of code generation may have changed over time, I was using an lcd key fob to log into a remote machine back in 1999 (and even then I suspect it wasn’t a new technique). The biggest annoyance was that the code changed every 15 seconds, and as the remote machine was slow to respond it would usually take 3 to 5 attempts to get in during the small window.I like your idea. Hell, if Google offered one for their auth that cost $20 then I’d buy it right now.Ideally tho you’d need a way of using the same unit for multiple services, otherwise you’d have a pocket full of fobs :/",
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"depth": 1,
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{
"comment_id": "102628",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:41:32",
"content": "The standard fobs rotate on a 60 second timer, but they do have 30 second models which are much nicer for network ops where you’re logging into devices more quickly than once per minute.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102634",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:52:15",
"content": "The issue with an IPhone/Blackberry app is that they aren’t secure. If it just runs on the phone the device would lose sync for the server and if it is connected it is an insecure connection that would not improve security. The only thing it does is require you to link the phone to the user, but given you can log into the bank page from the phone, that shouldn’t be too hard.These really only work for places where you need the extra security and can respond with tech support(like replacing the fob) in a timely manner. Forcing SSL and stronger rotating passwords should be enough to secure an email account for the general public.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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{
"comment_id": "102841",
"author": "Saphiric",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T04:46:53",
"content": "As mentioned before, blizzard ha been using these thingies for WoW accounts for a while. However they do actualy have an app for the iPhone that does the exact same thing, it doesn’t run all the time, and you can use it when your not connected to the Internet. It just works, and it’s frigging awesome.",
"parent_id": "102634",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "102635",
"author": "doomstalk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:55:07",
"content": "PayPal’s are even fancier. They’ve got eInk displays, and are about the size of a credit card.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102636",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:55:17",
"content": "The key part of this is that it is a separate hardware device. The viewed key is derived from the internal key, but figuring out the internal key from the viewed key is very, very, VERY difficult, and thus the ‘next’ displayed key is assumed to be safe and secret until it is needed for use. If this were implemented on a phone in software, it would be trivial to read out the internal key and render the system insecure. You’d have to add a proprietary hardware module to the phone in order for it to work.Yes, it might be possible to read the internal key from the keyfob by prying it apart with sufficient care, but I’d assume there were safeguards against this (keeping everything ‘secret’ on one piece of silicon, requiring continuous power to keep the memory of the internal key alive, etc).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102637",
"author": "Peter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:55:39",
"content": "I don’t see why an iphone/blackberry app would make it any less secure. As the above poster said, it would need to be initialized (get the seed) while connected securely within the network. Afterwards, it doesn’t need to connect at all, just generate an ID based off that seed.At worst, an attacker would still have a password and username to put in, nothing lost.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102640",
"author": "Asmor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:10:07",
"content": "As has been mentioned, Blizzard offers this for World of Warcraft and, now, their new Battle.net system.There’s also an iPhone/iPod Touch implementation which is free. That’s what I used.Blizzard claims that there’s never been an account hacked which was using one of these, though I doubt they’re in wide enough usage for that to be a truly great claim.",
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"comment_id": "102641",
"author": "Thomas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:10:44",
"content": "Blizzard does this for World of Warcraft already. There has been no verified instances of a WoW account being hijacked when an authenticator (as Blizzard calls it) was present and active on the account.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102642",
"author": "Neckbeard",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:11:03",
"content": "I wonder if you could do this with an Arduino and an LCD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102643",
"author": "ax0n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:11:27",
"content": "SecurID, originally made by Security Dynamics before RSA bought it, was around several years before GoldenEye. They’re NOT new.The problem with SecurID apps is that the seed file, in combination with the serial number, is all that’s needed to clone the system. The ACE/Server needs these two pieces of information, which are provided on removable media with the tokens as an file called nnnnnnnn.asc (where n* is the serial number stamped on the token) probably ascii-armored, uuencoded or base64 version of a raw binary seed.If you can get the .asc file, you know the serial number (the filename) and you have the seed (the contents of said file), and you can then run it through any of a number of freely available tools, such as this beauty:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2000/Dec/459which will spit out the next few numbers that will show up on the screen.If the seed file is stored in any kind of decode-able format and it can be harvested from your phone/pda/whatever, it is most certainly less secure than the hardware. You can’t get the seed off the hardware tokens. With hardware tokens, the seed exists only on the media that shipped with the fobs (hopefully locked away or destroyed) and on the authentication server. That is more secure.",
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"comment_id": "102644",
"author": "Roofus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:12:08",
"content": "Cannot beleive this is the first you’ve seen these, they’ve been around for ages. I know there are websites out there with free services offering these as an extra layer of security, E-Trade I beleive is one of them. And I do know I’ve seen smartphone apps to replace these types of keys.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102645",
"author": "Carl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:17:24",
"content": "RSA has been doing these at minimum of 4 years in the enterprise space and my online banking has had similar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program) for 2 years now.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102646",
"author": "Cmd 0c3",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:17:35",
"content": "@PeterThe point of having a hardware token is to minimize the window an account could be compromised.These are quite effective assuming the holder is a trusted user. Some of the tokens usually have tamper detection in the hardware – so if it is opened it dies.",
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"comment_id": "102647",
"author": "agrajag9",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:19:30",
"content": "I have one of these keyfobs for my office network VPN connection. It is a random number generating device that has the same algorithm as the VPN concentrator. What happens is that when using the RSA algorithm, you have some ciphertext (c), message (m), and a few other numbers, p, q, n, e, and d. p and q are both large primes and n is the product of these two primes (n = p*q). You then chose some e > 1 that is coprime to the totient of p and q, which can be expressed as phi(p,q) = (p-1)*(q-1). Then GCD[e,(p-1)*(q-1)] = 1. Next we compute d, the multiplicative inverse of e mod phi(p,q), which can be expressed as the congruence de = 1 (mod phi(p,q)). Now we have our public key, n & e, and our private key, n & d. We now compute c = m^e (mod n) and m = c^d (mod n). See wikipedia for a good example.There is an issue with this however, in that if the same m is sent to e or more different people and those people share the same e value, then it’s easy to solve for n by using the Chinese Remainder theorem.This is where the keyfob comes in, I suspect. RSA does not tell people exactly how these work, and for very good reason. It is probably a padding mechanism for the original m value. When entering your username/password you create a new key pair, and you have to enter the number on the keyfob to tell your end what pad to use, in addition to using it to verify in a third way that the user is authentic.This might seem like a great idea for an iPhone app, but the iPhone app would need to be reseeded every time it started and that seed would need to be given to the endpoint somehow. Also the keyfobs are decently physically secure as well, but nothing is perfect in that respect – even the moon can be opened up and analyzed (as NASA has recently shown us).",
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"comment_id": "102649",
"author": "singu",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:21:53",
"content": "Actually there is a way to securely implement this on the phone, as most phones ( GSM at least ) have already hardware security module installed – it’s called SIM card. Newest generation of SIM cards actually can allow for another application to co-exist, so it can be used as smartcard and or such one-time-password ( OTP ) generation.As far as DIY goes… it’s all matter of crypto-hash algorithm ( available ), hard to get secret key ( so.. epoxy over the circuit board, disabled debugging, etc ) and the most-important one – to ensure that the clock on the damn thing is very reliable. The same goes for the clock on the server. AFAIK the drift of the build-in clocks in microcontrollers is not enough over the lifetime of such hardware token ( 3-5 years ) so special external module with better accuracy.",
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"comment_id": "102650",
"author": "ax0n",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:28:03",
"content": "Singu: There are options on the authentication server to allow for clock drift. In fact, I believe that it’s capable of not only accepting the next- and previous-key in the sequence, but if you are consistently entering a key behind its normal window, it will adjust for a time offset on a per-token basis. Say I’m always entering the number that it thinks should be NEXT (not the one it thinks should be currently displayed), it will actually adjust my keyfob’s timetable in the system. The Auth server is always synchronized with NTP, so it’s rarely off global time by more than a few seconds.agrajag9: The algorithm has been reverse engineered (see the link in my above post) and it’s easy to implement, even though RSA never told anyone how it works.Also, if a phone/PDA application can access and otherwise decode the seed file, it doesn’t matter where or how it’s stored, it’s vulnerable.",
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"comment_id": "102651",
"author": "pillbox",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:29:05",
"content": "I’ve had the Paypal dongle for about five years now.Friend that worked as a Admin for Merril Lynch had one that looked like a credit card. He had this about 10 years ago.Nothing new. Wonder why this technology is not available for the small business/home user yet..",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102653",
"author": "Craig",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:30:48",
"content": "I manage a SecurID server at my job. The value of “two-factor” authentication is that there are, well..um, two factors. Something you know (the pin) and something you have (the key fob). If there were an app, it’d be trivial for someone/trojan/malware to obtain the seed. Then you’re back to one factor authentication — like a password, something you know. If an attacker has the technical ability to obtain the seed out of the app, it’d be nothing for them to obtain the pin & username.With the SecurID fob, you can trust that there is only ONE copy of the ‘seed’.Sure they could make an app, but that defeats the two-factor security model.",
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{
"comment_id": "102654",
"author": "Stefan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:30:59",
"content": "My company is using these devices and I have one allowing me to connect through VPN. I think it’s a great additional security as the network I can connect to is international and contains several companies. I ave 60 seconds to log in and today this is far enough for the speed of the servers.",
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"depth": 1,
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{
"comment_id": "102656",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:37:39",
"content": "everyone in my office/company has one of these for vpn access and for loggin into secure sites within the intranet. (largest telecom company in canada). userid is text over 6 chars, personal code of 4 digits + 6 digit code from the fob. the number changes avery 60 seconds, and is very random. not sure of the cost, but the admin geek that used to be here a few years ago mentioned itwas upwards of 100$ t the company per fob – i’m guessing he was throwing me a line of crap though. they do die if you open them though, and batteries only last about 5 years.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102660",
"author": "Ed",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:41:20",
"content": "Hmm, RSA is proprietary & hacked, you can do the same using the OATH algorithm which is more secure and is public (RFC4226), also seehttp://www.openauthentication.org. Works fine, easy to implement, dozens of vendors offering OATH-compliant tokens… RSA is pretty much a thing of the past, just lives on because of the large install base…This type of solutions have been around for ages, my father used more advanced challenge/response devices than this RSA token in the 80’s to authenticate to his corporate network!",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102661",
"author": "denoobifyme",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:46:54",
"content": "A recent article on online banking points out that this is merely one more layer that can be compromised as easily as the other layers, as long as the user or bank is running Win-don’ts. Since you’re hauling around a fob anyway, why not make it a USB stick with a livecd Linux distro? That way, your bank account, email, and various private files are incapable of running any .exe files and you’re therefore virus- and malware-free.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102664",
"author": "[H]ackerK",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:58:17",
"content": "I recall the days of PalmPilot, RSA has the KeyFob app for PalmOS.",
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"depth": 1,
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},
{
"comment_id": "102665",
"author": "Ste",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:59:18",
"content": "the paypal/ebay model is run by verisign under the VIP (https://idprotect.verisign.com/learnmore.v)someone should code the VIP into a ssh server or somthing like that, that would be pretty cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102666",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:04:15",
"content": "I used to use one of these a fair amount. The reason you don’t see them more is because they are a PITA from a usability perspective. The pointy-haired-one will be calling _you_ when he looses it. I have heard stories of people playing ‘RSA Key Poker’ with the values, though…",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102667",
"author": "mojo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:04:16",
"content": "I’m surprised no-one has made an open version of this. Imagine being able to have a keyfob that you can use for almost any site.All that is needed is a device like this with a microcontroller and a public/private key setup. The code is generated using the private key you set up and verified with the public key that any website can get (either from you or from a central server). The code change every minute with the time used as the cleartext.",
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"depth": 1,
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},
{
"comment_id": "102668",
"author": "CDub",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:04:52",
"content": "SafeWord also does two factor authentication for much cheaper than RSA. They also have integration for messaging and active directory and they have phone apps as well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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},
{
"comment_id": "102672",
"author": "jc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:10:00",
"content": "Downloadable OTP app for your phone –http://www.verisign.com/authentication/consumer-authentication/identity-protection/vip-access-for-mobile/index.html",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102676",
"author": "Falcolas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:31:54",
"content": "@ax0n: Sure, the dongle/phone apps are vulnerable, if you have access to the dongle in the first place. This is not the case with most phishing/keylogger attacks on paypal/WoW/email accounts.It’s less a foolproof method of protection; it is another link in the “something you know, something you have, something you are” authentication toolchain.And there is a case of white-hats using social engineering to decouple a WoW authentication dongle from an account in the past… so even with all this in place, it’s still possible to be hacked.",
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{
"comment_id": "102680",
"author": "Pete",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:39:27",
"content": "I always thought the RSA fobs or software tokens should be called 3 factor authentication as a 4 digit pin is required in the code as well. The pin can be similar between all users or in my case i always issued dissimilar pin’s for more security.",
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{
"comment_id": "102681",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:40:14",
"content": "We’ve been using a RSA secure card with similar generated numbers at work for years to place orders with our manufacturer. (copier / printer supplier) Adding a additional layer of security like this is the only thing I can think of that brings credit/debit card security up to an acceptable level.Also – weather the seed is stored in software or in hardware it is stored in the device somewhere and thus will be targeted for extraction.",
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{
"comment_id": "102682",
"author": "nave",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:42:59",
"content": "We use one to log in to our frost bank account. They are pretty cool but it would get annoying if I had to use one every time I wanted to log into gmail or something else.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102684",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:44:25",
"content": "I’ve been using a OTP device called a Yubikey. This is a hardware device the size of a small USB drive and it emulates a keyboard. So instead of reading a number off an LCD screen, you touch a button and it types the OTP in for you. The company that makes it is hoping to make money off of selling the hardware device itself and is open sourcing the back-end software infrastructure needed for the hardware device. I was able to 2-factor authentication enable my website by adding just a few lines of code to the website’s existing authentication programming. You can read more about the Yubikey at the Yubico homepage:http://www.yubico.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102685",
"author": "jkl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:49:44",
"content": "I build my own “token” midlet last year.It does both time based authentication and signing.http://www.serious-thinking.nl/serious-sign/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102686",
"author": "darksim905",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:51:17",
"content": "I just wish these were easily available for end consumer use and easy to implement.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102687",
"author": "Till",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:54:54",
"content": "Lufthansa time-tables for pilots are secured the same way via vpn + rsa-device with unique pins every day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102689",
"author": "wdfowty",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:02:04",
"content": "my pops has had this thing for years, but i never knew what in the world it did. you learn something new every day :D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102694",
"author": "Seth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:14:20",
"content": "Overseas they have much more secure banking. The credit cards now have computer chips. Home banking often uses fobs and other systems.The reason we don’t have this in the US is the banking industry doesn’t want to pay for it. For some reason they rather pay for fraud.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.46307
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/20/reprap-in-space-sorta/
|
RepRap – In Space! (sorta)
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"home hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] |
[
"future",
"reprap",
"space"
] |
[vimeo
http://vimeo.com/7141942%5D
We aren’t exactly sure how or even why you would need to
RepRap in space
, but we guess their team needed something to do while designing and printing
their next version
. They figure that if they can print completely upside down in -1G and then upside up in 1G, that 0G hopefully wont be a problem; hopefully being the keyword.
Even if it isn’t
true
space printing, the concept opens several new doors. Instead of having risky rocket or shuttle launches when the secondary air oscillator on the IIS is struck by an asteroid, print a new one. Or perhaps, the ocean floor research facilities’ external hull is punctured by an asteroid, print a new one. Or the HaD office chair breaks because [Mike] was hit by an asteroid, print a new one.
Lets not get ahead of ourselves here. But alongside
circuit board printing
, perhaps in-home fabrication is the way of the future. What would you like to print? Before you answer, yes, we will release the [Mike©] plans.
[Thanks Julius]
| 20
| 20
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102584",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:30:12",
"content": "You really can’t see the utility in being able to fab parts from scratch on the space station or in the shuttle?Really?Did you ever see Apollo 13?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102587",
"author": "Adrenaline Junkie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:42:10",
"content": "Someone’s humor switch is broken…Let’s fab a new one!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102588",
"author": "Martin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:46:31",
"content": "> Did you ever see Apollo 13?Yes. And did *you* ever see how long a RepRap takes to print something? The astronauts would be out of oxygen before the part was done!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102589",
"author": "Iv",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:51:04",
"content": "The reprap obvisouly is not the ideal machine for the ISS, but having rapid prototyping capabilities or small CNC tools would have obvious usefullness. Stop bringing new experiments from earth, BUILD new ones instead ! You still need raw materials but that would be an interesting step.The NASA used to financed research on Von Neumann probes and self-replicating devices. I wish they continued some fundamental researches that are only remotely connected to space exploration.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102591",
"author": "manatee_militia",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:13:43",
"content": "I wonder if true zero g would affect the density of the extruded material.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102592",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:18:34",
"content": "so are they suggesting we print a new office chair or a new [Mike]?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102594",
"author": "Maroc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:24:35",
"content": "the whole CNC thing is great just wish I had one want to “Print” a L.A.M. for a Airsoft pistol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102598",
"author": "matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:48:07",
"content": "NASA’s still on it. But with metal:http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/electron_beam.htmlFor long term manned missions, it’d be nice to be able to make a part in case of failure.Also, you can custom make alloys during the manufacture process.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102604",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:04:16",
"content": "@matt: Woah. That’s cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102606",
"author": "mars",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:04:58",
"content": ">I wonder if true zero g would affect the density of the extruded material.Likely not enough to be noticed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102624",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:38:21",
"content": "I remember seeing something on either the science channel or the discovery channel where NASA was thinking of fabricating homes/buildings on the moon. It would make like a paste from the lunar dust and create igloo type structures layer by layer. I can definitely see the usefulness of this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102633",
"author": "medix",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:49:24",
"content": "“NASA’s still on it. But with metal.”That is likely because they (and the rest of industry) realized that plastic, while nice for ‘prototyping’, is basically useless.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102652",
"author": "sly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:29:26",
"content": "Plastic is great for clips and other low tension fasteners. I need about 10 plastic clips for my car that are out of production. This would be a great way to source them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102662",
"author": "matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:49:24",
"content": "“That is likely because they (and the rest of industry) realized that plastic, while nice for ‘prototyping’, is basically useless.”Pretty much, yeah. The polycarb stuff from the pro FDM machines can be used for light duty assembly tools. But there are very few cases where it’d justify the cost of the machine for that application alone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102730",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:32:18",
"content": "Plastic is useless. Nonsense. I love polyethylene. The stuff that milk jugs and soda bottles are made of. NASA was working on a fun catalyst system that I cant think of off the top of my head. You simply give it co2 and water. It pumps out mehtane, propane, ehtanol, based on what heat it is run at, plus through another simple reaction polyethylene! Yeah! Make your own rocket fuel and plastic for buildings with the mars atmosphere. I just can’t remember where to get more info on it. Sorry guys.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102756",
"author": "Vik Olliver",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:02:34",
"content": "In space, vacuum-coating things with metal is trivial. Plus, RepRap is not limited to plastics – that’s just mostly what we work with for convenience and because we have a pathetic budget.I actually started down the RepRap path when I realised that the closed environmental life support system I was designing needed to be self-repairing.Vik :v)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102788",
"author": "DubMuffin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:48:35",
"content": "I think the important thing to note here is not whether this opens up ‘applications in space’ but rather that the mechanism is no longer dependent on a constant -y acceleration due to gravity. This allows the entire assembly to be taken off-axis without negatively impacting operation.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102836",
"author": "PidGin128",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T03:58:22",
"content": ">> #comment-102624@Jack : I remember seeing that also. They had footage of it forming building walls [in the desert I think?]. I remember them focusing on the transition from one layer to another for some reason.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102858",
"author": "l",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T08:28:54",
"content": "Perhaps printing a toothbrush with crisscross fibers in one piece would be a nice capability test.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103135",
"author": "anonymous coward",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T03:06:30",
"content": "Synthesizing plastic parts (instead of metal) would have two key advantages over most structural metals in space applications for two reasons. First, it takes less energy to melt most plastics than most metals because they melt at lower temperatures and have lower heat conductivity. Energy is pretty scarce in space.Second, the raw materials and resulting synthesized plastic parts are about an order of magnitude lighter than metals. In space missions, mass is everything.Even if I had already committed to FDM metal parts, I’d still want to have the capability to synthesize plastic parts (preferably with the same device, of course) because it would be such a huge win with every opportunity to use it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.73947
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/dresser-tool-chest-isn%e2%80%99t-as-ghetto-as-you%e2%80%99d-think/
|
Dresser Tool Chest Isn’t As Ghetto As You’d Think
|
Phil Burgess
|
[
"home hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] |
[
"chest",
"drawers",
"frugal",
"organization",
"tool"
] |
A dedicated rolling chest for one’s tools is among the most indulgent yet worthwhile acquisitions. Having everything mobile and organized for quick access improves efficiency and keeps the shop tidy. But
holy living crap,
have you
priced
these things? Even a mediocre setup costs more than the gross national product of some small nations!
Here’s a project that tarts up a dresser into a passable tool chest
. Using casters, modern drawer pulls and a tidy paint job, they turn a nasty old dresser into something presentable. It’s nowhere near as slick as the commercial units…no ball bearing glides, not chemical resistant, and your macho
grease monkey
friends will just roll their eyes…but if you’d rather spend your hard-earned money on
more
and
better
tools
than a pretty box to put them in, this might be just the thing. From across the room, you’d hardly know the difference.
A good tool chest will include several shallow drawers so that all the tools are visible at a glance and not buried in a jumble. If searching for a piece of furniture to re-use, look for something with multiple slim drawers rather than just a few deep ones; a large jewelry chest might work well.
[via
Craftynest
]
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| 43
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102448",
"author": "Sobachatina",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:19:49",
"content": "I have a similar tool chest that is a repurposed hospital cart. It’s metal, nicely sized, and I got it for free from a hospital that was upgrading.The biggest problem is that mine is pink. Maybe I’ll try this idea out. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102450",
"author": "Jack Buffington",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:24:06",
"content": "I have done the same thing for some of my larger tools. It works great and cost a whole lot less.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102453",
"author": "Carl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:27:04",
"content": "I’m not sure it’s really hackaday quality (maybe if there was an integrated soldering station or similar), but I love the look at final product and given me another thing to look out for in the recycling.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102454",
"author": "Carl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:29:42",
"content": "Thoough you wouldn’t put a soldering station in a chest of draws (maybe a workbench), doh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102458",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:46:15",
"content": "how does using sandpaper on an old cabinet and attaching wheels to it count as a hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102461",
"author": "Alan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:52:17",
"content": "Lack of heavy duty runners with proper bearings makes this a chocolate fire-guard. Sticking to a Snap-On box thanks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102470",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:12:18",
"content": "more a craft than a hack. still like it, though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102473",
"author": "maxdamage",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:17:40",
"content": "Not a hack.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102474",
"author": "firetech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:26:13",
"content": "Normally I don’t go after Troll Posts…@kirovHack has several related meanings in the technology and computer science fields. It may refer to a clever or quick fix to a computer program problem, or to what may be perceived to be a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem. The term is also used to refer to a modification of a program or device to give the user access to features that were otherwise unavailable, such as DIY circuit bending.Another definition is … Kludge – A kludge is a workaround, a quick-and-dirty solution, a clumsy or inelegant, yet effective, solution to a problem, typically using parts that are cobbled together. This term is diversely used in fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet slang, and evolutionary neuroscience.Most of the stuff on Hack A Day is Kludgish. (New word.. I like it!). Maybe we should rename hack-a-day to Kludge-a-day! But the point is, if something is used or modified in a way it was not originally designed, and the effect makes life easier, it can be classified as a Hack.@Hack-A-Day Authors / ModeratorsCan we get a moderator system for comments… PLEASE!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102476",
"author": "VIPER!",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:37:10",
"content": "Looks nice and make since! However is this person color blind??? I mean Baby blue is not very manly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102478",
"author": "Acidque",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:45:20",
"content": "Here’s a link to the ikea alex drawer unit. I have two of these in my woodshop for small tools / router bits / dremel accessorys etc….I replaced the plastic casters with harbor freight ones. Much cheaper than a metal tool chest.http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30104322",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102486",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:42:43",
"content": ">Can we get a moderator system for comments… PLEASE!I’ll take trolls over censorship any day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102492",
"author": "dude",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:05:58",
"content": "hackaday…what teh hell is this?its a trend of shit lately",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102506",
"author": "firetech",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T01:09:36",
"content": "But censoring trolls is so much better then listening to them whine….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102516",
"author": "tbase",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T02:39:03",
"content": "Um, actually, it’s EXACTLY as ghetto as I thought. Every dresser I’ve ever seen that would be a candidate for this has a hard enough time handling the weight of half a dozen pair of jeans, which weigh substantially less than tools. IIRC I bought my 3-piece Craftsman setup on sale for a couple hundred bucks brand new with a buy the top and bottom, get the middle free sort of deal. Seems to me, minus the casters, you could get almost that much for this selling it for its original purpose, especially if it’s anywhere near well built enough to handle the weight of tools.That being said, I used to have a garage dresser, but it was for car towels and other light-weight items- and this looks waaay better than what I had. But tools? Lets see a picture of it after 6 months of actual use as a tool chest and see how it looks. And no hiding the boot-prints with Summit Racing stickers, either ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102519",
"author": "cath0de",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T03:29:06",
"content": "does every asshole use the nick kirov or is it always the same guy? i’ve started reading the comments on every post just to hear him whine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102524",
"author": "Brooks",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T03:46:22",
"content": "VIPER!: Good on you for avoiding sexism by thinking to say “this person” instead of assuming it was built by a man, but does everything have to be “manly”? That seems pretty limiting, and to more than just your color palette.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102526",
"author": "Ben Wright",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T04:02:11",
"content": "Buy the one at Sears only when is has a big yellow Clearance sticker on it for less than half of suggested retail. It will hold the 70 pounds of wrenches and sockets in each drawer. It looked like it was more of a craft supply cabinet to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102527",
"author": "spacecoyote",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T04:05:42",
"content": "Got my rolling chest/toolbox combo for $70 at Walmart. The steel used is a little flimsy but probably a lot better than this thing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102563",
"author": "PKM",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T09:27:22",
"content": "@Brooks: If you care about what your greasemonkey friends think, then yes, it does. Paint it Snap-On red or DeWalt yellow/black, and it wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb. If you don’t care, however, paint it whatever colour you want (or have paint to hand).The second commenter says“Why can’t Craftsman figure out that if they made their chests in a color like this, we might be tempted to pay those big bucks?”– maybe this is a precious insight into the female tool-buying mind?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102570",
"author": "Derek Vance",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T10:21:23",
"content": "wow, looks pretty nice, maybe i shoulda done that instead of buying a $6000 snapon :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102573",
"author": "Pilotgeek",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T10:48:55",
"content": "@kirovI see you criticize damn-near every post. Why don’t you post something? I’d call this a damn fine hack. It doesn’t have to be electronic to be a hack, now can we PLEASE stop with the is this a hack or not arguments. THE “NOT A HACK” PEOPLE ARE WHAT IS RUINING HACK-A-DAY. IF YOU DON’T LIKE A SUBMISSION, IGNORE IT.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102574",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T10:50:01",
"content": "Architects plan chests are slowly going out of fashion due to the increse in CAD drawings and less plots, although still fairly expensive they are a much cheaper alt to Snapon tool chests",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102578",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T12:30:44",
"content": "once again, this is an object being modified and used for a purpose for which it was not originally intended. i swear you people start the “not a hack” chant just because you realize you don’t need an electronics degree or heavy machinery to pull it off. nice job, nice money saver and in these times that’s what its all about.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102579",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T12:32:29",
"content": "I think I would make a coule of modifications:First I’d screw a piece of plywood to the very bottom to attach all the pieces of the dresser together and then put the casters on THAT.Second I’d buy a few metal brackets for the inside corners of the dresser.Rolling around with a bunch of weight in it is going to impart stresses on that dresser that weren’t imagined in it’s original task.Strengthening the joints and attaching to a good solid plate at the bottom will help it all last longer in it’s new job.I wouldn’t be suggesting stuff for this if I didn’t find it awesome and well worth keeping around!Kudos for hacking and re-purposing!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102581",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T12:52:40",
"content": "-sorry one more thing!A thick piece of plywood at the top will give a good surface to work on, and if you make it slightly larger than the original top then the overlap will give you a place to attach clamps and such.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102586",
"author": "robokoi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:39:28",
"content": "@strider_mt2k:Definitely agree w/ the reinforcing. the pic on step 2 looks like the bottom is a solid plank, so additional plywood might only be necessary if what looks like a crack is really there.Another thought… add strips of thin polyethylene for glides under the drawers. Will help a lot with the wear ‘n tear on them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102601",
"author": "Isotope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:56:29",
"content": "VIPER!:”Looks nice and make since! However is this person color blind??? I mean Baby blue is not very manly.”Maybe that’s because it was a woman who built it. Follow the link.I like this post. Having just bought a several hundred dollar rolling tool chest, I still need a place my larger hand/power tools, and this is a good idea. An improvement I would try to make is adding some nice drawer slides, possibly ball bearing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102602",
"author": "strider_mt2k",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:58:40",
"content": "You are right. I didn’t see that was a solid piece on the bottom already.Cool! :)I wonder if there is any other kind of tough plastic that can be re-purposed for glides?Milk bottle plastic or something?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102607",
"author": "barry99705",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:12:14",
"content": "Go to Sam’s Club. In the kitchen isle they have those white cutting boards. Stuff works great as slide material.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102608",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:25:15",
"content": "I have done something similar with the ivar cabinets from IKEA. I have 6 of them on castors. When I require more surface space I can just roll all the units together. I have an anti-static mat top on one of them and a steel plate on another.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102610",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:29:38",
"content": "Suggestion for hackaday:1) register the domain “www.bitchaday.com”2) Write a script that parses comments looking for phrases like: “that’s not a hack.”3) Delete that comment here, and post it on “bitchaday.”At the very least, it would make things much more pleasant for the rest of us, here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102615",
"author": "tbase",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:34:02",
"content": "pookey- you should submit that as a hack.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102621",
"author": "ac7zl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:37:53",
"content": "I like this idea a lot. There are a lot of nasty old dressers at garage sales and church rummage sales that have little potential but for firewood. This type of re-purposing breathes new life into them, and keeps them out of the landfill.The key to success is to make sure that you beef up the drawers and dresser body, as necessary, to account for the greater weight of tools.In my own case, I have many dozens of plastic containers similar to these:http://www.akro-mils.com/industrial/coupon_display.asp?id=124I repurposed an old dresser by removing the drawers, and building a series of shelves into it. The plastic organizers slide into the shelves. I also added casters to the dresser. The result is a chest of parts… all of my resistors, capacitors, and small fasteners (nuts, bolts, washers) organized and easy to wheel around if needed.My dresser had a faux woodgrain formica finish, so I left it as-is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102630",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:45:35",
"content": "Here’s another idea for hackaday and the bitch-a-day crowd:1) the hackaday staff should write a script to parse comments looking for lame “that’s not a hack” phrases.2) Once detected, the script will check to see if the person who is bitching has *ever* submitted useful work of their own.3) If not, they are wanna-be’s or just plain trolls. *plonk* The comment is deleted.4) Everyone’s life gets better. ;)Man, I’m full of great ideas today.I figure I should have hackaday straightened up by lunchtime. This afternoon, I’ll tackle world hunger, and cure corruption in the White House.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102632",
"author": "tbase",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:49:10",
"content": "pookey- the first one was great, but this one is clearly not a hack ;-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102675",
"author": "Brooks",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:26:16",
"content": "PKM: Actually, my complaint about the “everything must be ‘manly'” idea was inspired by one of my grease-monkey friends, who regularly complains about that sort of nonsense.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102702",
"author": "pookey",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:28:33",
"content": "@tbase-Good thing I was checking over at bitchaday, otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed that the sweet script I proposed earlier had moved your last comment over there!;)But seeing as you obviously don’t recognize my brilliance, let me propose this hack:1) Take kirov (or the group of people pretending to be him/her) and set this person(s) in front of a mirror.2) Trick him/her into facing the mirror while saying, “this mirror trick is a hack.”3) Upon seeing his/her image declaring something to be a hack that surely isn’t, kirov will spontaneously respond, “no it isn’t”4) Upon seeing the reflection assenting this, he/she will be forced to take the opposing position just for the hell of it. “Yes it is!” That’s what trolls do.5) This will lead to another round of exchanges with the mirror, which lead to more and more, and so on. It’s like a 2-line piece of assembler code where a jump loops back onto itself.And like the processor, which is rendered non- functional by all the wasted cycles, kirov will likely be incapacitated (at least until the mirror is broken or he/she is rebooted).Result… the signal to noise ratio in hackaday comments will improve by many decibels.Now @tbase, I defy you… tell me *that* isn’t an 3l33t hack. Sweet! 8^o",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102745",
"author": "Adam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:27:43",
"content": "@Acidque,I’ve got the Alex from IKEA too. Mine was “modified” by my wife and featured on IKEA hacker:http://sheekgeek.org/2009/jessicasheekgeek/my-first-ikea-purchase%E2%80%A6needed-a-facelift",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102785",
"author": "Zymastorik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T22:43:15",
"content": "Doods… even my wife looked at this and cried wtf… bullshit. In the famous words of Jimmy Vulmer, “I mean… come on!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103163",
"author": "Doug",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T08:04:53",
"content": "I own a decent Craftsman tool cabinet/chest set on casters. However in my home shop it hasn’t moved an inch, but quality construction is great whever you are going to be opening the drawera to retrieve tools multiple time during the day. This project is what it is. Most DIY are smart enough to figure out if duplicating this would fit their needs, without comment frome the rogues gallery",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108403",
"author": "Garry jordan",
"timestamp": "2009-11-22T21:12:12",
"content": "Hi im Garry i will like to know if you do sale or order tool chestGarry",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "109487",
"author": "tool chest uk",
"timestamp": "2009-11-30T01:22:42",
"content": "That’s awesome.Tool chests are expensive. Why shed out all that money when you can make something for hardly any money.Heck, why not treat the wife to a new dresser, gaining some good behaviour points! Then turn her old one into a tool chest. Everyones a winner!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.603144
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/cnc-hot-wire-cutter-from-scanners/
|
CNC Hot Wire Cutter From Scanners
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"cnc hacks"
] |
[
"ATmega128",
"Atmel",
"AVR",
"cnc",
"cutter",
"hot-wire",
"microcontroller",
"scanner"
] |
[Raul]
built a CNC hot wire cutter
that he uses for cutting shapes out of foam. His device uses two flat bed scanners to provide two planes of motion. One scanner arm has the foam mounted on it and provides the Y-axis movement. The other scanner has the hot wire mounted on it and provides the X-axis movement. The cutting wire is mounted on a flexed bow made from heavy gauge coat hanger wire.
He tapped into the logic board of one scanner to gain access to the motor movements. The other is connected through a couple of H-bridges. Both are controlled by an Atmel AVR ATmega128 which in turn takes its commands from a connection with a computer printer port. A python program uses vector graphic files in SVG format and traces the outline for cutting.
We’ve got a video of this in action after the break. At our request, [Raul] took some time to post
a set of pictures
and make comments on them. Thanks for the hard work and great job!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1G15yUXb04]
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{
"comment_id": "102417",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:02:30",
"content": "yet another useless hack. I suppose if you need a thin piece of foam less than 7 x 7 cut out this will be perfect for you, but my bet is the creators never use it other than exhibiting how “31337” their hacking skills are.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102418",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:07:09",
"content": "This is an awesome hack… I’ve been looking for something just like this to create custom attache case cut outs, it’d also be incredibly handy for modifying the foam inserts on automotive interiors.. something I have to do often by hand and could do with perfect precision using something like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102419",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:11:24",
"content": "now to do it with something other then foam….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102420",
"author": "Robert",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:13:00",
"content": "@kirovWhoa man, whats all the angst for? Just because you don’t see the usefulness of something doesn’t mean its not useful. You could use these to cast metal and make models, or home made gears for drive trains.And even if it is useless, who cares? Its a fun looking weekend project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102427",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:26:59",
"content": "@kirovProbably one of the most ignorant comments I’ve seen on hackaday. Raul set out to automate something and did a fine job. Maybe you don’t need foam cutouts, I bet you don’t need an NES guitar or a VR maze either but that doesn’t make them useless.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102431",
"author": "sellout",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:41:43",
"content": "The hack is cool and all, but I gotta give huge props for the old school PC demo music on the video. It makes we want to download a DOS emulator and watch some Future Crew demos.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102435",
"author": "polymath",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:48:46",
"content": "This would be great for making model airplane wings in cross section pieces, or just the ribs. I wonder if it would go through thin ABS plastic sheets as well. At any rate, for small modeling and rapid prototyping this is a pretty neat hack.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102438",
"author": "captain obvious",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:54:07",
"content": "Guys, it’s pretty obvious kirov is trolling. Just ignore him.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102439",
"author": "loltrolls",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:56:30",
"content": "@kirov: successful troll is successfulsrsly. gtfo the had comments, this one is rather decent although obivously for specific use.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102441",
"author": "lejupp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:03:17",
"content": "so glad he’s not an atomic playboy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102462",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:56:31",
"content": "Great hack! I had some moderate success with cutting black foam with a 300mW laser on my plotter, but it’s a fairly slow process. Hot wire is probably much more practical.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102479",
"author": "Adam Ziegler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:56:48",
"content": "Lost foam casting… that foam can now be turned into aluminum bronze or even iron. Think lost wax investment casting… except foam = wax and sand (or other material) = investment. Instead of melting the wax from the mold, the metal tends to be poured right into the low density foam surrounded by the mold material. (This is not intended to be an all inclusive explanation of the subject…)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102481",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:08:46",
"content": "Get a new hobby kirov.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102484",
"author": "anonymous coward",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:29:56",
"content": "@polymath: My understanding of hot wire cutting is that its not particularly suited to anything besides foam. As others have suggested, these can be used for lots of useful things none the less.One deficiency I noticed was the way it had to cut through the edge of the annulus gear in order to cut out the void. I wonder if there’s a better way…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102487",
"author": "jωt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:43:19",
"content": "excellent hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102490",
"author": "atrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:53:03",
"content": "@ac: He could have cut a hole in the middle of foam, fed the wire through it, and edited the parameters of the program so it knew it was starting in the middle…You can also do something like this with a scroll saw and a spiral blade.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102491",
"author": "Frank McSteez",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:55:58",
"content": "Kirov, you fucking troll. Will someone ban him yet? He does this on every post and gets a mess started.Anyway, this is a great hack and I can think of several uses for something along these lines. Super cool thing to have, and I never even would have thought of it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102496",
"author": "psymansays",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:32:34",
"content": "This is a really nice build. I have been plotting against a few old scanners, myself, but I haven’t gotten far on that project. This guy’s work could really help me, to build my own project (@ Kirov). So, even though this only slices foam, it’s well built, well-documented, uses parts others have available, and it works.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102503",
"author": "Jon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T01:03:40",
"content": "You know that this is a really great hack for people interested in the lost foam casting method. CNC rapid protoyping for any type of aluminum part. just glue on your risers, nest the parts together and pour in your molten aluminum. Blam! rough cast intricate parts. better than most people can do by hand.. and quicker too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102517",
"author": "Kenny G",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T02:43:29",
"content": "He gets points just for using the soundtrack from Future Crew’s Second Reality demo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102558",
"author": "Phil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T09:10:02",
"content": "The speed on that rig is as impressive as much as anything. I could see myself using this to make ink stamps for my mum as she’s been on a handicrafts tip for a few months now.Wonder how much further it could be taken to get a hobby scale band saw under control, maybe as a material controller with the saw stationary. Then a whole pile of new materials come in to play.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102567",
"author": "anon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T09:50:56",
"content": "video needs more references to yoghurt",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102609",
"author": "kabukicho2001",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:28:39",
"content": "The next one upgrade with only one scanner?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102616",
"author": "David L",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:34:23",
"content": "I don’t think you realize how much a cnc foam cutter cost, of course this one is smaller, so its only a couple of hundred, but if you’ve ever played warhammer or other table top you know how annoying cutting foam can be. This would be perfect to cut in layers and then come through with a hand cutter and make it into an actual hill or barrier",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102727",
"author": "Richard",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:26:13",
"content": "That’s a neat piece of re-purposing… and my very favourite sort of hack.*nods head approvingly*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102752",
"author": "tehgringe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:53:48",
"content": "Ah Kirov, like the child no one wanted.It is also brilliant that his post is immediately followed up by a “This is an awesome hack… I’ve been looking for something just like this…” – kirov = fail.Nice trolling though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102816",
"author": "silvershovler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T01:24:09",
"content": "ok here is the plan with this one. go to the local gun shop. offer to do a pistol case for free to show and display on counter, set out some bussiness cards and blamo you have a money making venture.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102893",
"author": "Sepherion",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:05:01",
"content": "Similar to the pistol case, the first thing I thought of was to cut holes in foam to store my ever increasing Warhammer armies. Cutting foam by hand is a bloody nightmare.Awesome hack. *nods nods*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "113418",
"author": "Tridentinvestments",
"timestamp": "2009-12-26T07:52:25",
"content": "Trident Steels handles a wide variety of metals, such as stainless steels, wear-resistant steels & so on, to produce top-quality Stainless Steel Investment Castings in all common alloys.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.677378
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/10gui-multi-touch-for-all-ten-digits/
|
10gui: Multi-touch For All Ten Digits
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Peripherals Hacks"
] |
[
"10gui",
"fingers",
"gui",
"linux",
"multi touch",
"pressure sensitive",
"touch pad"
] |
The race for the next revolutionary input design is an ongoing event. [Clayton Miller’s] newest offering in the contest is a
multitouch concept that separates the display from the screen
and is meant to utilize all fingers. His video explanation includes a description of the physical input device, a software implementation, and a demonstration of how a finished system will work. After the break we’ll look at the hardware, the software, and the concept video.
The implementation is pretty simple. A pressure sensitive and proximity sensitive pad is used as the interface. The hardware can tell when your fingers are resting on it and when there are pressure increases for “clicking” inputs. This is basically a very large laptop touch-pad that can also sense pressure. This removes the issue of hands obstructing the screen that you encounter with
multi-touch displays
.
[Clayton] goes further with his design. He’s come up with a Graphic User Interface concept that should be incredibly simple to implement. The example is a Linux-based system that modifies how, where, and when menus and windows are used. The multi-touch pad has zones to the left and right edges that control the menu system. A single finger acts in the same way a mouse cursor does. Two fingers work for click-and-drag as well as pinch zooming. Three fingers do the same for different windows.
The video is well made and the concept seems like it could be right around the corner. Possible caveats to widespread adoption include the learning curve for a transition from a mouse to this, as well as the dexterity necessary to use it well. We’d like to get our hands on one, and would be interested in working with something similar to the
BumpTop
to manage data and organize our digital storage in a more physical way.
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/6712657]
[Thanks Tex©]
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| 37
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102400",
"author": "landon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:07:59",
"content": "looks like a wonderful alternative to the mouse, can’t wait to see it commercialized.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102402",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:19:31",
"content": "The technology to do this is here. It will take a few iterations to get it right. Not sure if i agree about the finger occlusion problem as the iphone is not difficult to navigate even with fat fingers obscuring the view! An excellent example of getting ones point across.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102404",
"author": "Edd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:30:41",
"content": "I complained about this the other day, who pronounces GUI ‘gooey’?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102406",
"author": "VV",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:33:01",
"content": "looks interesting, Flawed, but interesting. This looks like it will take up alot of room, and being designed for both hands, will not allow the device to be situated to the right of the keyboard in a traditional desk setup many of us will have.The other major problem i have had with touch and multitouch devices is, ironically enough, feel. Wether its a laptop trackpad, an ipod touch or an old school touchscreen, they have no feel, no responce to what you are doing. Unlike a keyboard or mouse, which have that mechanical confirmation of what you are doing, rather than a visual one.That said the concept looks awesome, I think it would be a little easier to get used to if it was a single hand device. But i am intrigued and will be keeping my eye on this one.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102411",
"author": "javi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:42:35",
"content": "So how do I make it?I want this..Instructions to how to start building a prototype would be great",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102413",
"author": "javi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:43:31",
"content": "opensource for the software to be used with our own multi-touch pads would be great too",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102415",
"author": "Dan J.",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:54:39",
"content": "An interesting variation that would probably not be practical for normal usage but might work well for specific application would be to have a dual display – one horizontal, one vertical. The horizontal display would mirror the vertical one, and would be touch sensitive. This would give you both the ability to touch the screen itself, and the ability to see the screen without it being occluded by your hands/fingers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102423",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:20:45",
"content": "I like this idea a lot. I do have a few concerns, though.As for the desktop concept, I agree with their concept of simplifying it. A “3D Desktop” is a bad way to go, it just means more clutter and more brain power to figure out where objects exist in the desktop’s space. The linear approach is a pretty good idea, best I’ve seen yet, but it seems to have a drawback. People do actually like, and use, multiple application windows at one time. Instant messaging applications are a perfect example. How does that fit into a linear view? Its application window and contacts list are not suited for a linear desktop, but perhaps those could be rethought in order to work in this manner.Another question I have: Is a keyboard necessary anymore? One of the last images shows this input device sitting directly in front of a keyboard. With a full 10-finger input scheme, they could just increase its size a bit and completely remove the need for a keyboard. Yes, a keyboard provides useful tactile feedback to the user, but perhaps retraining the user’s means of textual input to use something with less tactile feedback could help reduce physical desktop clutter. It would also create less strain on the user, as he/she would not have to move from using one input device to another.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102424",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:23:04",
"content": "I’m not at all sold on this line of thinking. I’m extremely comfortable using a keyboard and mouse. I personally have no desire for multitouch interfaces – it just seems too gimmicky and unnatural in most implementations. Not only that, think about your average/novice computer user(grandma) – they can barely comprehend a single point of interest, let alone the need for multi-touch. Next-gen PC input should be designed starting with the comfort and posture of the user.@VV: I agree – the idea here is that multi-touch will give some sort of unprecedented level of interaction, but that’s just not happening until something like a Tangible/Textured Multi-Touch interface arises.But, of course, all of this will become moot when computers are mind controlled.",
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"comment_id": "102426",
"author": "renter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:25:51",
"content": "I like the idea of having the touch part down by the keyboard and have croishairs on the monitor but i dont like their gui at all. Imagine youre referencing youre going to have to keep scrolling back and forth. We will see how it works out in the end.",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102428",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:28:45",
"content": "@James question – Think Chinese water torture, only your fingers are the drops of water. This lesson has been learned once in projection keyboards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102430",
"author": "cjac",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:32:03",
"content": "I like this idea, but I think it downplays the importance of multitouch interations within applications too much in favor of interacting with the window environment. Generally speaking, most of what I do, I think, on the computer is within applications (save for the initial step of loading and arranging the apps.) A lot of apps could have the potential to use many more than just two or three fingers.",
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"comment_id": "102434",
"author": "Bärta",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:47:43",
"content": "I already have a great input device. The keyboard, the one and only input device needed. In combination with the great window manager Ratpoison of course! Say goodbye to the rodent!",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102436",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:49:10",
"content": "I want one. Make it happen.",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102446",
"author": "SirisC",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:10:44",
"content": "I like the idea, but don’t think it will work with the touch area below the keyboard. The touch area could be placed in the middle of the keyboard in between the two halves that are usually split on ergonomic keyboards.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102452",
"author": "Oler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:26:15",
"content": "Wow that looks amazing.I like the touch interface verry much but not the keyboard.As said before why not get rid of it tottaly.The GUI would run verry nice on a wider than wide screen. I saw a cinema lcd screen a couple of days ago and it was amazing. I think it was 21:9 if i remember corectly.That was a huge screen and i loved it!But at 4000 euros the 60 inch ultra wide screen is going to remain a dream.Does anybody knows if you can buy a multytouch cappacitive-resistive combo drawing tablet yet?I would like to make a multytouch interface myself but i dont like to have a very high box or bloking the cammera view. Is it possible to register touches with a camera mounted on top of a screen?",
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"comment_id": "102463",
"author": "Oler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:56:37",
"content": "Does anyone has a Wacom bamboo tablet? It seems quite small but totaly useable as a touchpad.Is the multitouch implementation done well?Is it compatible with touchlib?",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102477",
"author": "Yen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:40:10",
"content": "I saw this the other day. My idea for integrating a keyboard: you have ridges on the outlines of where keys would go (possibly fixed, possibly raised and lowered), and make the surface actually clickable in those areas. That is, if pressed down hard enough, the surface buckles in a bit, like a traditional keyboard.Then, you could do cool virtual keyboard stuff, like selecting accented characters a la iPhone, but still have the feel of a regular keyboard.The biggest problem with that approach is determining whether the device should be in keyboard or multitouch mode.",
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"comment_id": "102495",
"author": "fenwick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:26:40",
"content": "Looks hokey to me.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102497",
"author": "Ryan Leach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:34:33",
"content": "i think this is a great idea, but for tabbed applications have 3 finger app scrolling do up and down to swap tabs/opened files in the same program.also a setup of horizontal vertical horizontal would seem to make sense too.",
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"comment_id": "102499",
"author": "Gez",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:51:18",
"content": "Looks interesting, they could also have the touchpad as a screen in order to remove the keyboard altogether. I think it’ll be one of those things that until you get to play with it for real will seem like more trouble than its worth.",
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"comment_id": "102509",
"author": "K",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T01:39:08",
"content": "This is not a very good idea and there are two big reasons why.The first is indirectness of control. Anybody out there who has used a graphics tablet (like the wacom) will tell you that what they really want is a cintiq or equivalent thereof. (For those that don’t know, a cintiq is a computer drawing tablet with the screen built in. You draw directly onto the screen.)When you use a regular tablet it can be very good for inputing lines and the like but because the input and output are too far apart there is a kind of learning curve. Whereas with something like a cintiq it is just like everyday physical manipulation where you and what you are working with interact directly.This is one of the reasons people like touchscreen and multi-touch interaction; it has interactions that seem more real and thus are easier for everyone to grasp.The other reason that this is a bad idea is the unneccesary complexity of the contenuum style desktop.Imagine you find five people who have never used a computer but all share the same aptitude for it after being taught with the mouse i.e. they can all complete a task on the computer in more or less equivalent time. This time would be your baseline.Now imagine you take the five and give each of them a different method of control. One gets the 10gui, another the standard multi-touch, another a graphics tablet, another a cintiq, and the control is the guy who keeps the original mouse.They are each taught to use the input method given an hour to familiarise themselves with it.Then they are tested. All five are given tasks to complete that require mostly mouse input. In the end the one using the mouse would probably be fastest still just because of familiarity but the rest would fall into a fairly predictable pattern.Touch/multitouch then cintiq then tablet then 10gui.In the end the 10gui system would be left in the dust in terms of both time and accuracy. But all this becomes even more pointless when considered against similarly priced BCIs and haptic interfaces. (They aren’t available yet but they will be)",
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"comment_id": "102518",
"author": "Schmozer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T02:48:44",
"content": "I like the idea of different numbers of fingers controlling different levels of functionality, but I agree that example setup showing the interface directly below the keyboard looks awkward. Shifting between the two effectively would be difficult. However I don’t believe removing the keyboard is the solution. I think the most likely application of this kind of system would be similar to the keyboard/mouse configuration currently in use- right hand on the interface, left on the keyboard. If using both hands on the interface is necessary, perhaps it could be divided into two parts, one on either side of the keyboard. I think a multi-touch system like this one could easily replace a mouse, but not a mouse AND a keyboard.",
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"comment_id": "102522",
"author": "Jack Sprat",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T03:36:31",
"content": "Having a giant touchpad below the keyboard wouldn’t work for me, because I like to rest my hands below the keyboard and I’d end up having my palms doing a whole lot of clicking. Instead they should combine the keyboard with the touchpad and just have a bar on the top that you touch to switch between keyboard and mouse.As for their horizontally stacked windows, it would be nicer if you could shrink them just horizontally until they are just title bars, sort of like the xbox, instead of turning them into tiny icons. I still like the openness of my desktop where I can arrange windows however I want. Oh and GUI is definately pronounced gooey. :D",
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"comment_id": "102542",
"author": "eljonco",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T06:57:47",
"content": "@K: If there is a camera is in the bottom end of the screen recording your hands, you could opt to blend in an image of the hands in the computer screen. That would greatly enhance the visual feedback experience, even more than the graphical representation of the fingers as is currently suggested.",
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"comment_id": "102551",
"author": "mrasmus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T08:28:01",
"content": "@K’s point on indirectness of control — I disagree. I use a Bamboo (just recently upgraded to one with multi-touch… the implementation isn’t good, but I’m hoping it’ll improve via support or OSS) primarily for drawing and taking notes. I’ve also used Cintiqs in the past. The problem with the Cintiq is even though the technology is amazing and very effective — there’s a slight delay. It’s hard to notice usually, but if you drag your stylus across the screen at a decent clip, “drawing” a line in Photoshop, for instance, there’s a not-insignificant gap between the tip of your stylus and the “ink” on the document, or the cursor on the screen. The delay is still there if you use an indirect version as well, but it’s less noticeable /because/ of the separation. My experience with both has led me to conclude that it’s a personal preference, but my friend (a graphic designer) uses the Cintiq for certain things, and an Intuos (non-screen model, higher-end than the Bamboo line that I use) for the others. Once you use a single device heavily enough, you mentally memorize the mapping of surface to screen — it takes some getting used to, but it’s very workable and I can easily click a small button anywhere on screen using my tablet, without having to “hover and find”. So it comes down to personal preference.As for this idea — It’s interesting. I like the idea of throwing out old design practices so that we can better explore what’s possible with the new technology — while I doubt we’ll be moving entirely away from the traditional model (relative mousing utilizing an X/Y coordinate, which quite frankly I wouldn’t /want/ to get rid of entirely) it’s definitely worthwhile to explore and come up with ideas without worrying about old conventions. As larger, n-finger touch surfaces become more and more standard (a laptop that had a smart touch surface for the entirety of it’s palm rest, and was intelligent enough to know not to react to a resting palm, would be spectacular, for instance), brainstorming for application and usability improvements is going to become crucial. It’s great to talk about ideas, even if a complete overhaul of the system’s GUI shell is unrealistic.As for people who think multi-touch is just a fad: yeah, you’re right in some ways, some of the stuff people are claiming MT is good for is just ridiculous. However, it’s a useful new technology that you shouldn’t discount in it’s entirety. I didn’t expect it to be very useful when I got it on my current computer (MacBook Pro, pre-unibody so it still has a distinct mouse button) moving from a Sony with a classic trackpad (which I really loved, honestly). However, it really has changed my usage of the computer — firstly, it’s eliminated the dead space on the right and bottom of the trackpad that was for scrolling. Two finger scrolling took about ten minutes to get used to, and not having /any/ dead space on the trackpad just feels so much nicer. Three-finger gestures make for nice Home/End, Back/Forward commands mapped in my browser, and the two-finger right-click is elegant in how natural it is once you get good at it — it lets your thumb rest anywhere on the mouse button (and on more recent models, anywhere on the anywhere :P… not sure how I feel about that, it’d definitely be weird at first) rather than constraining it to the left half when you want to click. This lets you basically have your index finger and thumb in a “pinch” configuration, vertically aligned. It’s hard to describe, but anyone who’s spent much time with one of these models will understand what I’m saying and likely agree with at least some of it. I personally haven’t found as much utility for the pinch/reverse pinch and rotate motions… but some people love them. They’re great on devices with smaller real estate, where zooming is a more common action. Honestly, I see no reason, since we have the technology, to /not/ move in the multitouch direction, even if the changes it brings are less revolutionary than some might predict.",
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"comment_id": "102554",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T08:40:57",
"content": "I’d use two separate units for each hand. I’d have a button on one to overlay an on screen keyboard with key highlighting. I’d use a refined driver and app service framework for it.",
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"comment_id": "102572",
"author": "Kaotik4266",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T10:40:53",
"content": "Conceptually it’s impressive. I’d love to try it out. It’d be interesting to see how well it works in a real-world context, rather than just a demo.",
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"comment_id": "102582",
"author": "KnightGeek",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:17:10",
"content": "I love the idea, but it wouldn’t be functional for shooters… I need my mouse for those epic headshots! Ever try to play a shooter on a laptop touch pad? It just isn’t functional…Other than shooters, I think it’s a great idea! It would be great for video editing/photo editing, and I’d love to try an RTS on it!",
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"comment_id": "102683",
"author": "jyrus",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:43:08",
"content": "I think the makers of the Optimus Maximus keyboard had plans to make something like this. Google “Optimus Tactus”",
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"comment_id": "102737",
"author": "Fik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:16:29",
"content": "Some observations:1: People has used horizontal tables to work on paper documents and physical objects without much complaining about neck pain. Using a touchscreen in a drafting table configuracion should not be too difficult. Perhaps midways from horizontal to vertical is best. The problem of the visual obstructions from the hands would remains, though.2: IMO, it will be more difficult to find a window when constrained to one dimension, there is less “distance to go” to the desired window if the windows manager uses both dimensions of the screen. The user only has to keep certain order on things (and bigger monitors, ideally).3: The (multi)touch screen and the (multi)touch pad are not mutually exclusive. The screen could also tilt forward and down to a drafting table position when convenient.",
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"comment_id": "102758",
"author": "vash",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:11:12",
"content": "I love this IDEAi think though the keyboard can be cut out and a few change here and there.OF COURSE TIS NOT PERFECT! were just getting started.plz dont complain unless YOUR GONNA DO SOMETHING AZBNOUT IT AND POST IT HERE!I would love to get a hold of the sorce codes and build one myself…VERY INTERESTING!",
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"comment_id": "102801",
"author": "Falcolas",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T00:04:08",
"content": "@Edd Me, most of the people I work with.GUI = GooeySQL = SequelQt = Cuteetc.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102848",
"author": "NoobSaibot",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T05:32:45",
"content": "Why do i have to open one app at a time though? couldn’t I open a web browser a text editor and a photo editor without bringing up a menu for each one? Kewl ideo tho",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "103647",
"author": "Status0",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T23:31:33",
"content": "Whay can not emulate this in keypad of MacBook pro by Linux.the is option install linux on Mac,so there is option to use the Multi touch keys and simulate the 10th gui,The development shouldnt be problem.have you gonna to Pwn2Own your smartphone ?",
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"comment_id": "109357",
"author": "GoTactile",
"timestamp": "2009-11-29T00:06:03",
"content": "Hi,I like some of Claton Miller ideas too. So I start working on it. I Hope to know what you think about that :http://wpfcon10uum.codeplex.com/Many thanks",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "174288",
"author": "Boxman",
"timestamp": "2010-08-28T03:28:09",
"content": "Kudos to R. Miller and I have nothing but respect for his pioneering intellect, but I think 10\\GUI may be a solution in search of a problem. The issue of your hands & wrists blocking the screen is overstated. The only reason it’s a problem on the OS’s of today is because those operating systems were all designed with a “top-down” philosophy (ie: all the important buttons and menus are on the top of the screen, with taskbar/dock/startmenu/etc on the bottom).Simple solution to that problem – just orient your GUI to favor the bottom of the screen. Put all the menus, buttons, minimize\\maximize\\close at the bottom the screen or active window. With this layout, you’d have an OS well-suited for the kind of multitouch control we’re familiar with from iPad\\iPhone type devices, combined with a good onscreen keyboard (perhaps with haptic feedback) that comes up when needed and disappears when not.You could get really good (and easy to learn) functionality with this type of setup, without needing a physical keyboard, mouse, or trackpad. Of course, you’d probably still want a physical keyboard for extensive typing, but that could easily be housed in a keyboard tray under your drafting table touch screen. Picture the ergonomics and you get an idea how well this could work.",
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/dso-nano-oscilloscope-reviewed/
|
DSO Nano Oscilloscope Reviewed
|
Phil Burgess
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"Reviews"
] |
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"oscilloscope",
"oscope",
"portable",
"review",
"scope",
"seeed studio"
] |
We’ve been eyeing Seeed Studio’s
DSO nano
digital storage oscilloscope with a mix of intrigue and skepticism. A pocket-sized $89 storage ’scope? This is a joke, right? Hack a Day reader [Blair Thomson]
has written a thorough review based on his experience with one of the beta test units
, and it might be a winner after all.
[Blair] feels the unit compares favorably to buying a similarly-priced secondhand analog
oscilloscope
. The DSO nano wins major points for ease of use, a good range of functionality, and of course the whole portability thing (the enclosure is a repurposed portable media player). Can’t say we’re entirely convinced though. As a single-trace ’scope with 1 MHz bandwidth, the DSO nano may be extremely limiting for anything but basic hobbyist use…which, to be fair, is exactly how they’re marketing it. We can see a place for this the same way there’s a place for
$10 multimeters
— an inexpensive, toss-in-the-toolbag second ’scope to quickly test for vital signs, something that might complement but not replace a good bench unit.
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"comment_id": "102381",
"author": "Sobachatina",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:21:15",
"content": "Why does this post sound so critical?“anything but basic hobbyist use”? You mean like most of the projects that this website features?Most people don’t have >$2k to spend on a scope. If this works it is a good thing and there is no reason to qualify it.",
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"comment_id": "102382",
"author": "The Moogle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:21:22",
"content": "trying to read the review but it keeps crashing Firefox?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "102385",
"author": "Robert",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:39:47",
"content": "I have been waiting for a project like this to spring up. I mean the technology is there, it just takes the right group to realize the money making potential. An 89$ hobbyist scope is a wonderful idea, And the only limitation i see is that even a hobbyist will want 2 channels on a scope. Tho I can see why they are limited to one, and i think i would still be interested in purchasing it.Also i agree with Sobachatina.Not to be to much of a snot. But for a web site that posed a Card board box PC case “Mod” yesterday i think you are being a little critical of what appears to be a really decent project.",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102386",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:39:49",
"content": "or you can just get a high quality used analog one off of ebay for less than this, seriously when do you need to lug around an oscilloscope",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "102388",
"author": "JD",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:44:56",
"content": "Portable Scope?Field work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102391",
"author": "Lupin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:51:25",
"content": "I really wonder where the casing and display comes from. It would be a shame to only use it as a scope (the device should have more capabilities – like a swiss knife of electronics :)). 2 channels and >25MHz sample rate please!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102393",
"author": "Phil Burgess",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:54:21",
"content": "@Sobachatina, @Robert: touché, quite right. I was trying to head off the inevitable, “Just buy a REAL oscilloscope!” comments from power users, and stepped on the toes of beginners in the process. Wasn’t my intent, and I apologize for that. Boy, I am on such a roll lately! :)@Moogle: indeed, seeing it drag down Firefox pretty hard, though no crash here. Safari FTW.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "102396",
"author": "jc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:57:53",
"content": "A 1-Mhz bandwidth scope is phenomenally narrow. This would basically allow you to measure very slow speed analog signals, time the flash of an LED, verify that an I/O pin is toggling. Consider that a PIC or AVR can toggle an I/O pin faster than this. It’s really not even fast enough to accurately measure power supply ripple, except for what 60Hz will impose.The only aspect of this that’s really useful is that it’s analog. So unless you’re dealing with things that aren’t 0 and 1, you’d be better off with something like a Saleae or USBee logic analyzer that has 8 channels, and a MUCH higher sampling rate.While this thing does have a certain “je ne se qua” cool factor, it has some drawbacks. It’s slow, the probe impedance is *really* low (>500K ohms, most ‘scope probes are the 10Mohm+ range), and it’s single channel. Usually when I’m at the point of digging out a ‘scope, I need 2 or 3 channels.The fact that it uses an SD card is nice, as is the fact that it will measure signal periods, etc (something I keep wanting to trade in my Tektronixs 2445 for a 2465B to get).For me, the portability aspect is of limited usefulness. If you’re into the Make-a-thon type things, it’s probably handy. When I’m debugging, I’ve usually got a test-bench full of project and gear, and portability is an issue.The fact that they repurposed an existing product to do this is way-cool. And I like Seeed products: I have a pair of Bus Pirates that get used fairly often. Would *I* buy this ‘scope? No. But I’m also not the market demographic they’re interested in, really.",
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"comment_id": "102397",
"author": "jc",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:59:31",
"content": "er, portability is NOT an issue. But then, y’all probably figured that out. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102403",
"author": "polossatik",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:25:07",
"content": "I have , and still use a very old Velleman P7105 kit/scope (http://cba.sakura.ne.jp/kit01/kit_174E.htm) with a very limited input bandwidth ( 750KHz :) ) , put together in 1993 or so.A current velleman model with similar bandwith to the DSO nano , the velleman 2MHz HPS 10 model is about 170 euro. So this DSO nano is good $$ value at first sight and even this limited bandwidth is still use full in for lot of things, for example certainly is when dealing with audio amps/designs or so.When I did my electronics degree in the dark ages a 50MHz scope was top notch to have and costed a fortune. Now you can get a second hand 100MHz Fluke for a bit over 300 euro on ebay…",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102405",
"author": "Tai O",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:30:59",
"content": "Cool idea but not very practical becuase of the low bandwidth. For $90 I got a Tek 475A 2 channel 250Mhz scope w/ 3 probes. It doesn’t have the storage capability but having a voltage input up to 400v (using a standard 1x or 10x probe) has been very useful. That thing probably won’t survive if anything more than 5v is applied to the input. I’d say save your money and start off with a good analog scope.",
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"comment_id": "102414",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:51:44",
"content": "“A pocket-sized $89 storage ’scope? This is a joke, right?”you absolutely right with rate 1Msps it is a joke and forget about 1 MHz bandwidth it not analog so it tell absolutely nothing, divide sample rate by 10 or 20 to get some reasonable bandwidth you can measure",
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"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102421",
"author": "vic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:15:01",
"content": "Contrary to what the article says it does not even compare to a 20 year old analog scope. Take 20 points per period to get a decent view of a waveform and you get at maximum workable frequency of 50kHz. Alright for audio, but apart from that all events will be too fast for this scope to pick up. Even for audio, you will almost always need 2 channels to compare. The storage feature might compensate for this but it does not seem very practical.I don’t get either why the resolution is 12 bits, considering the screen is only 240 pixels high. They would probably have been able to get a higher sampling rate with 8 bits.If you intend to examine something else than audio, then don’t buy this. You’ll realize the limitations quite quickly and end up either not using it, or buying a real one, losing money.",
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"comment_id": "102422",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:16:06",
"content": "I’ve been looking for something just like this for automotive work. it’s quite often I need a scope to determine the frequency and range of a particular sensor on a car when doing customizations… unfortunately it’s a HUGE pain to lug a full sized scope out to the garage or in some cases the driveway.Single channel is fine for me as I typically only need one Chanel at a time, the portability factor is AWESOME, though the rate is a bit low… 1MHz will work for most applications but some of the higher speed sensors would require ~25MHz at least for this to be useful.Even still I might pick one up as it will be useful for at least 75-80% of what I need to probe in the garage.",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102425",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:24:33",
"content": "people dont get focused about analog bandwidth of 1MHz, it hot capable measuring 1MHz, actually analog bandwidth on digital scopes is very dirty marketing trick to confuse people and it is not a parameter at all, divide sample rate by 20 to get real useful bandwidth",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "102432",
"author": "boomer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:45:17",
"content": "As the head of field service repair for a large a music electronics company, this is a godsend. Our independent field service guys cant afford most portable oscilloscopes and if they could , they only need a small feature set at hand in the field. Usually doesn’t justify the price.If the one I buy works as well as it seems to, I will be sending dozens of people Seeed’s way. Ramp up that production, boys.",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102445",
"author": "Andrew Yeomans",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:08:33",
"content": "See alsohttp://www.nkcelectronics.com/digital-storage-oscilloscope-very-low-cost.htmlfor $49 from JYEtechhttp://www.jyetech.com/en/default.html.The kit is $35.95.",
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"comment_id": "102455",
"author": "jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:33:09",
"content": "To answer a question in the article itself – I assume the spare backplate is either an accident or because they anticipate the original becoming bent if you remove it to replace the battery.Of course you could just use a flat knife to pry it up gently, but whatever, that’s my two cents.",
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"comment_id": "102456",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:33:13",
"content": "good for car work, certainly better than USB sound cards sold for $100 as “digital osciloscopes”http://www.oscyloskop.com.plbtw remember saleae Digital Logic Analyzer? Russian dudes figured out how to make a clone for $20, cloned USBee AX comes down to around $50-100",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "102459",
"author": "svofski",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:48:47",
"content": "Don’t fall for this. 1MSPS == 250kHz at best. Not useful even for debugging a POV toy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102482",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:10:07",
"content": "“As the head of field service repair for a large a music electronics company, this is a godsend.”think tvise, you will not be able to catch noise coming from power supply or anythingexcept basic audio signal, and do you rally need to see just sine wave amplitude ?",
"parent_id": null,
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"comment_id": "102483",
"author": "jimmys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:22:52",
"content": "Therian-I really haven’t looked at these low-cost USB devices because I’ve got dedicated oscilloscopes and a logic analyser. Is the bottleneck on the microcontroller side (mips) or the USB side?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102485",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:34:10",
"content": "first you record and then send so A/D and memory writing speed create limit",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102500",
"author": "Nick",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:51:32",
"content": "While I like the idea, I can’t see a purpose other than playing with RC circuits.Anything with signals or any AC circuit is beyond the bandwidth of this.The only useful frequencies under 1MHz are 50Hz and 60Hz that I can think of, and last time I hooked a hobbyist measuring tool up to 60Hz, it did not end well. 10A fuses are too big!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102507",
"author": "hrpuffnstuff",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T01:27:47",
"content": "I got yer bandwidth here, 65k dollars (43.5k euros) and color even.http://www.lecroy.com/tm/products/Scopes/SDA_8_Zi/",
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"depth": 1,
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"comment_id": "102508",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T01:28:11",
"content": "@NickI take it you never worked on cars. <100KHz is all you need.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "102539",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T06:36:42",
"content": "@hrpuffnstuff what is you point?, yes there is exclusive tools costing like sport car but today middle range digital oscilloscope will cost 400$ and 1K for brand named one",
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"comment_id": "102545",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T07:23:56",
"content": "Look at Andrew Yeomans post above. Seeed Studio also sells the JYE Tech pocket DSO for $35 kit or $49 USD pre-built. This isn’t as flashy but it has five times the bandwidth at 5Msps. I own two high-end Tektronix scopes, one DSO and one high bandwidth analog. I still use my little JYETech scope when lugging around one the Teks isn’t required. Very useful, espeically for $49.I agree with all posts criticizing the bandwidth of this new DSO. The JYETech achieves five times the bandwidth with just a single ATMega8.All that said, the new scope is quite flashy. It might even help you pick up girls.Parallax will release a new Propeller based DSO in the next coule-few weeks. Supposedly 25Msps. Don’t know about the price, but I’ll be it is going to be on par with other USB based scopes.",
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"comment_id": "102547",
"author": "pippo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T07:31:09",
"content": "@rasz:“btw remember saleae Digital Logic Analyzer? Russian dudes figured out how to make a clone for $20, cloned USBee AX comes down to around $50-100”Where???? I need one!",
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"comment_id": "102549",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T07:43:44",
"content": "@pippoturns out there is no firmware on Saleae unit, only USB descriptor, every time you plug it in it downloads latest firmware from your computer. Theres Linux software package with firmware and code to use it, all you need is a board with Cypress chip and correct descriptor in serial flash (you can read it from the code). Project name saleae-logic-libusb",
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"comment_id": "102566",
"author": "pippo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T09:46:11",
"content": "Interesting. I just found the old thread (http://hackaday.com/2009/03/06/tools-saleae-logic-logic-analyzer/), so I’ll try to start from there. Thanks!! :)",
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"comment_id": "102571",
"author": "Will R",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T10:27:15",
"content": "What I’d love to see would be a plugin for Rockbox which could handle the software side of things, and a 3.5mm-BNC adaptor to use real scope probes (hell, you could even just knock up a set yourself considering).Any MP3 player with an ADC would be able to handle this – granted a pretty low sampling rate – but it’d definitely be a cost effective solution…",
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"comment_id": "102577",
"author": "MoJo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T12:29:46",
"content": "I am planning on getting JYE Tech scope for debugging analogue stuff, but then again I already have a Saleae for digital.For the money you really can’t complain, and bandwidth isn’t the be-all and end-all. If you need to debug a higher frequency signal you can always just slow it down for testing and then speed it back up when everything works. Not ideal but also not costing £££.",
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"comment_id": "102583",
"author": "Jay Vaughan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:22:49",
"content": "I want one of these to put in my synthesizer toolbox .. it’d be perfect to mount in a modular synthesizer rig for audio visualization .. but if anyone knows of a better solution I’d love to hear it .. getting a cheap second hand one would be an option, if it were available in the same small-n-light form factor, though ..BTW, if any of you beta testers of this DSO want to sell yours now you’ve played with it, I’d be willing to take it off you .. kinda bummed that they’re sold out. I’d definitely put this to use.",
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"comment_id": "102585",
"author": "Sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:33:49",
"content": "http://www.luminarymicro.com/products/lm3s3748_usb_h_d_evaluation_kits.htmlalso here –http://www.circuitcellar.com/designstellaris2006/winners/1751.html",
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"comment_id": "102590",
"author": "Sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T13:51:30",
"content": "Forgot to add – it’s a 10bit adc not 12 as claimed elsewhere and luminary themselves say 100KHz useful bandwidth from the 1Ms/s sample rate in their docs for their own scope application. I’ve used it quite successfully for audio.Should be seriously hackable – you can re-purpose it completely just by uploading new code and dual channel should be possible albeit at half the sample rate per channel.Great fun to play with.",
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"comment_id": "102599",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:48:49",
"content": "You guys are spoiled rotten. My first CRO was a 1-inch 1CP1 on an old mantle radio chassis, no graticule, AC only. It eventually grew a Y-amp and thyratron timebase (which was horribly non-linear but still a huge improvement over the initial 50Hz sine sweep). But even in its most basic form it was helpful to a teenager building valve guitar amps.This DSO does have obvious limitations, but it is important to know, understand, and work within the limitations of *all* your testgear lest you wind up chasing your own tail. As long as you understand the implications of 1Msample and 12 (or is it 10) bits, then a cheap instrument like this (or the one linked above) can be very useful – much like cheap DMM’s which aren’t too great either.As a professional tech I would have one of these for the toolkit to use *as well as* the multi-knob analogue CRO on the bench, not *instead of*.Elektor did a Gameboy hack like this a while back.@Sean“you can re-purpose it completely just by uploading new code”And that *has* to make it more interesting.",
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"comment_id": "102849",
"author": "cantrip",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T05:42:09",
"content": "This is a cute first (or third, I’ve seen a couple of cheapie micro and LCD scopes for sale) step towards low cost portable scopes. Grab a device with a higher sample rate, and perhaps some ram to use as a buffer for capturing data from trigger mode and you have a really handy tool.Or if I could be so bold as to suggest the $10 multimeter be paired with a $10 scope? Neither tool replaces professional grade, but I’d rather cause harm to the “dollar store” item vs, say, a fluke…I’ve also seen low bandwidth audio scopes people seem to love to hate… What’s a better way to get that kind of data in to a PC? Could someone stuff an ADC and supporting circuitry inside last generation’s PCMCIA cards and stick it in a laptop? Could the port handle the bandwidth? Should I just put my ebay’d tektronix 465 and a spare battery backup power supply inside an old suitcase and call it good?",
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"comment_id": "102856",
"author": "Jay Vaughan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T07:46:48",
"content": "I think this product is great – its exactly what I need, since I don’t have the space for a gargantuan CRO, nor do I have the need for a lot more features, since I’m only building analog synthesizers and such small things in my lab ..If the demand is there – from people like us – I’m sure the future will hold more devices in this form factor and price range with more features. If I could buy this today, I would ..",
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"comment_id": "102881",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T09:50:01",
"content": "@Jay VaughanNo space for tools ?!!! ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶I rather wil have no space to sleep than limiting space for tools",
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"comment_id": "105320",
"author": "zlab",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T09:55:50",
"content": "you can buy one here for a lowest price, if you can read chinese.http://store.taobao.com/shop/view_shop-e3b1a195b9b0ab73d3e1a721efe67e9e.htm?ssid=r11",
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"comment_id": "105483",
"author": "rasz",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T00:41:30",
"content": "thanks for the link Zlab, there was another link in that shop to a whole board about this DSO with firmware files, schematics and pcb designshttp://bbs.e-design.com.cn/bbs/index.asp?boardid=5",
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"comment_id": "108147",
"author": "bcanon",
"timestamp": "2009-11-20T06:55:29",
"content": "I just got my DSO Nano in the mail today and I’ve had the JYTech scope for a couple of months. I *am* a hobbyist and I tend to take projects with me when I travel. (I *always* get tapped out for security screenings due to the amount of electronics in my carry-on.) I bought both units to have something I could travel with. The limitations vs. weight & cost ratio are pretty hard to argue with…I haven’t had enough time to get into the code that powers the Nano, but I assume that many of the complaints can be overcome in software. There are trade offs, but, as it is with everything, you just have to find the balance that works best for you.",
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"comment_id": "112956",
"author": "walter delbono",
"timestamp": "2009-12-23T05:53:43",
"content": "awesome…:)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "138043",
"author": "Raymond Johnson",
"timestamp": "2010-04-25T14:25:45",
"content": "I received an email from marketing today and they tell me that a second-generation DSO Nano is in the works. It will have two-channel and possibility utilize extended flash. My guess is it will have more bandwidth and a higher input impedance.I am a systems engineer working offshore globally. I deal with timing issues associated with data acquisition systems. A two-channel or external-trigger input is a must. This little scope, although limited in bandwidth, will be a great addition to my very-small field tool case. I currently carry a Tektronix 223, dual-channel battery operated analog scope that I picked up on eBay for $50. It will be a treat to leave this scope behind when I travel. I will be able to leave my pocket DMM behind as well. So, for me, this is a win-win situation.",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "161458",
"author": "Andy",
"timestamp": "2010-07-23T12:10:55",
"content": "Ordered one of these from a Chinese ebay seller for £55 shipped. Displays car sensors nicely such as camshaft, crackshaft and ABS signals. Show’s duty cycling of actuators and CAN bus signals, glad I didn’t buy a Picoscope :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "174369",
"author": "Valerio",
"timestamp": "2010-08-28T11:02:26",
"content": "Hi everybody. I posted on my bloghttp://www.micro-lab.blogspot.coma short guide on how to hack dfu files to change language and fonts…Hope it will be useful.",
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"comment_id": "218531",
"author": "Dave M",
"timestamp": "2010-11-25T17:46:46",
"content": "Unless you need to be able to hang it around your neck, forget this. Check eBay. I got a Tek 475A for $75, 2430A for $102.50, Tek TDS 310 with Tek probes for $119, TDS 380 for $240, etc.",
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"replies": []
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"comment_id": "248075",
"author": "Dejan Pavlovic",
"timestamp": "2010-12-05T00:16:21",
"content": "This is great product, mostly because of its small size and price. I use it to see signals on industrial machines. The 1MGh is OK for that purpose. It can be used to 200-300 kHz digital signals too. Screen layout and commands are nice. The software could be better (there is delay in displaying on some modes, which theoreticaly can be removed, …), but it satifies basic needs. The bast product I buy for its price. Very very useful product. For professional use: when you are traveling and/or you do not have a space on system you test, which is usually the case.",
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"comment_id": "358065",
"author": "Pete B",
"timestamp": "2011-03-14T17:10:17",
"content": "Hi Folks,So this unit may not meet the strigent requirements of advanced electronic hobbyists, but it fits the bill for my particular need: automotive diagnostics. There are many feedback circuits in your car that are controlled by pulse width modulated signals (0-12V) that do not require leading edge specs to monitor. Compared to the cost of other automotive diagnostic tools, this is a very economical addition to any toolbox.",
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||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/awesome-robots-love-fanta/
|
Awesome Robots Love Fanta
|
Caleb Kraft
|
[
"Robots Hacks"
] |
[
"dexterity",
"fanta",
"robot"
] |
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOESSCXGhFo]
What you are seeing above is not a commercial for Fanta, though we think it would have been a good one. It also isn’t being played at an accelerated speed. That is a
real time demonstration of the accuracy and speed the ABB robots achieve
. We were surprised, even shocked, when we clicked play. We don’t know who came up with this idea, but we want those robots, and we want some Fanta. We’re a bit curious what industry needs beverage tracing robots though.
The last time we saw such amazing feats of robot awesomeness, they were
bouncing balls and catching stuff in mid air
.
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"comment_id": "102369",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:09:28",
"content": "WOW! fast…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102376",
"author": "The_Evil_Machinist",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:50:02",
"content": "dammit, I just bought a set of twins for my shop. These abb’s look way better than the fanuc twins I just got. Probably cheaper too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102377",
"author": "Arkenklo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:53:50",
"content": "They also have very sensitive 3 dimensional pressure sensors and advanced dynamic artificial intelligence, so if you in any way hinder their path they’ll pick your eyes out and beat you to death.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102389",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:45:15",
"content": "cool for the first 5 seconds but its 3 minutes of doing the same damn thing",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102392",
"author": "Ryan Leach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:53:06",
"content": "Hmm, from the title I would have expected them to be opening the cans and drinking them but whatever.I don’t know much about robotics but can someone with experience tell me whether the features listed are actually as groundbreaking as the ad makes them out to be?#ad-a-day",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102398",
"author": "spiderwebby",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:03:55",
"content": "meh, i think a better feat of engineering would be the old style smt chip placers like this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaiDXi0UOnc&feature=relatednot amazingly impressive until you find out there 80% mechanically controlled",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102407",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:34:10",
"content": "I hate to be this guy but..not a hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102408",
"author": "Palli",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:36:19",
"content": "I wouldn’t trust a robotics company that mixes millimeters and centimeters together.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102410",
"author": "spiderwebby",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:37:48",
"content": "blame the sales department, they always get it wrong",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102440",
"author": "Hackius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:56:36",
"content": "How much does one of those cost anyway?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102442",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:05:15",
"content": "Get them to use knives and flesh instead of Fanta and a small cylinder.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102443",
"author": "Wiggy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:07:50",
"content": "Was anyone else as disappointed as I was to find out that the cans were simply glued to the platforms?I think the point they wanted to make was that the software allows simple paths (which this was) to be combined with other simple paths to create complex motion. 6 out of 10 for making an effort, but a much better demo could be done.I hate to say it, but really… in that world, it’s pretty much a valid hack. Is it as cool as 3D milling an engine block with a 5 or 6 axis mill? Nope. But the point is that they worked out the maths and included it in their product.Good on them!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102472",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:13:51",
"content": "wow, I always thought robot having sex would look like the 2 robots with the cans, now i know what a robotic ménage à trois would look like. way cool",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102488",
"author": "smilr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:47:32",
"content": "meh – nifty in it’s own right, but I fail to see how this is groundbreaking or hack worthy.This kind of precision movement is exactly why these robots were created. This is like a video crowing about how your ford focus excels at rolling forward under it’s own power.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102493",
"author": "Jeff",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:13:50",
"content": "I work with OTC-Daihen, Kawasaki, and ABB robots. They can all do this. Most modern robots are repeatable within half a millimeter.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
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"comment_id": "102494",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:19:50",
"content": "What I’d like to know is who still makes the deliciously synth-heavy 80s-ish backing tracks for corporate and defence demonstration videos, and where I can buy a CD of said tracks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102514",
"author": "Yen",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T02:33:29",
"content": "My new favorite phrase:“As you can see, we’ve added another robot!”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102534",
"author": "napalm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T04:56:36",
"content": "Dudes, why the free advertising?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102550",
"author": "Squantmuts",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T07:43:49",
"content": "I am not that much of a robot person but it seems pretty nifty, high tolerances and repeatable action. They also emphasise how easy it would be to program the paths and “stepping” trough the robot motion.Btw i find the flexpicker way cooler ;-).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHuDvVa7mkw",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102557",
"author": "Amos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T09:00:09",
"content": "@SquantmutsI totally agree about the FlexPicker! Especially the part at 0:30 where they start playing “Sausage-tris” and the muffin part @ about 2:00 showing the planning software :)I have /got/ to make one of those delta bots…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102561",
"author": "Squantmuts",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T09:25:27",
"content": "@AmosI am curious on the actuators, i guess they use servo feedback linear motors. I have seen these in action and they did not have the characteristic buzzing sound of stepper motors. Besides, stepper motors in these sizes would be enormous.Would be a pretty cool hack to build one of these at home, but very expensive. Curious if stepper motors would be suitable for this, it cuts down on the complex servo steering.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102629",
"author": "James",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T15:44:57",
"content": "If the two external ones had been visually servo’d and following the centre one moving under a programmed action I’d have been impressed :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102669",
"author": "Jordan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:05:05",
"content": "“What I’d like to know is who still makes the deliciously synth-heavy 80s-ish backing tracks for corporate and defence demonstration videos, and where I can buy a CD of said tracks.”Agreed, that was the first thing that I thought of.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102847",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T05:18:56",
"content": "@Squantmutsthey probably use brushless DC motors with harmonic drive gearing. very high reduction in a small weight and volume, and minimal gear slop",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102959",
"author": "Easy_E",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T15:48:01",
"content": "@SquantmutsWhat the crap? That muffin thing is ridiculous. Is there seriously not a simpler, more efficient way to arrange muffins in trays? It seems like the same kind of engineering overkill as using an Arduino to switch a light when you press a button. I’d fire the guy who suggested those expensive robots.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103028",
"author": "bhartley",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T19:44:00",
"content": "I thought he meant centimeters too, but he actually says “the distance between the cans and the pin” which does look to be about 1 mm.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103091",
"author": "Spork",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T23:01:50",
"content": "I’m pretty sure it’s 1mm. It looks like a standard 20 penny framing nail to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104168",
"author": "Tim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T00:22:53",
"content": "Is that really 1mm between the cans? It looks more like 1cm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,562.044192
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/shift-powered-pumpkins/
|
Shift Powered Pumpkins
|
Jakob Griffith
|
[
"home hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] |
[
"halloween",
"led",
"shiftbrite"
] |
[Garret] and a couple of friends
totally stole our idea
wanted to
light up their pumpkins
a bit differently this year. They used some ShiftBrites and all the corresponding shift hardware (who knew there was
so much shift
out there) to bring their carved orange minions to life. Yes, this could be done a lot less modulated by using a regular LED and perhaps a PIC. Maybe it’s not the most technically challenging, but hey its in the spirit of Halloween – one of our favorite holidays. Speaking of which, doesn’t
that fence
look familiar? Check out a video after the break.
Seriously,
Mutton
Chops?
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJIjwZnU-dw&feature=player_embedded%5D
| 15
| 15
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102390",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:46:02",
"content": "woo look at me i can stick LEDs into a pumpkin",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102395",
"author": "wdfowty",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:57:29",
"content": "i’m definitely enjoying the midi ghostbusters theme. lol. this is a pretty cool idea, would be better if it was synced with the song on loudspeakers, like those christmas light arrays that blow people’s minds.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102401",
"author": "TRB",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:17:05",
"content": "Hah thats so weird. We just went over shift registers in Electronics 201 today. pretty simple indeed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102433",
"author": "xrazorwirex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T20:45:49",
"content": "At first glance I thought this read “shit powered pumpkins” and thought “FINALLY someone’s putting those damn kid’s vandalism to good use”….Oh well..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102464",
"author": "RT (Panzer Time!)",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:01:13",
"content": "That pumpkin looks like one of the cats from Azumanga Daioh.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102465",
"author": "eee",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:06:46",
"content": "had to double take that headline.thought someone solved an energy crisis.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102489",
"author": "aztraph",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:48:12",
"content": "hey kirov, I know where you can stick your LED’s",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102535",
"author": "napalm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T05:08:38",
"content": "Yo kirov, love it or shove it baby!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102536",
"author": "tMH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T05:28:20",
"content": "simply fuckin awesome",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102648",
"author": "austin cosmetic dermatology",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:21:38",
"content": "Awesome! I want to try it on my pumpkin.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102691",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T18:06:39",
"content": "Haha Jakob, I see what you did there with the black on black text at the end of your summary. As I said in the article, the mutton chops were a joke for my friends. I shaved off part of my beard and then cued up the Shaft music on my phone and walked into the kitchen. I assure you that right now, my face is devoid of all hair.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102714",
"author": "jason",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T19:03:56",
"content": "i think the chops should stay!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103044",
"author": "george",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T20:33:38",
"content": "pics or its not true! just kidding… howd you do the flicker effect?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103063",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:38:48",
"content": "@george: The candle flicker effect is pretty simple. Move up and down in brightness by a random amount, but not too far. The following function writes an individual flicker effect to all the ShiftBrites in a chain. You just run the function as many times as you want; loop it forever to get neverending candle.void runCandleFlicker() {int flicker;for (int j1 = 0; j1 1023) flicker = 1023;if (flicker < 100) flicker = 100;LEDChannels[j1][0] = flicker;LEDChannels[j1][1] = flicker*2/3;LEDChannels[j1][2] = 0;}WriteLEDArray();delay(random(20,70));}",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103065",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T21:42:14",
"content": "Or at least that would have been the right code if the comments weren’t filtered. Here’s the unmangled version:http://pastebin.com/f49488d12",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,561.973012
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/build-your-own-wristwatch/
|
Build Your Own Wristwatch
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"LED Hacks"
] |
[
"16f88",
"Microdot",
"pic",
"surface mount",
"wrist watch"
] |
[rgbphil] has done a great job
detailing how he built his Microdot wristwatch
.This project is a lot more approachable than the
pong watch
we saw last month. If you’ve made a few printed circuit boards, but haven’t yet tried working with surface mount component, this is a great way to give it a try.
The parts count is pretty low, a few switches, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, a watch crystal, and a PIC 16F88 microcontroller.[rgbphil] is
using a charlieplex
so that a separate shift register is not needed to drive all of the LEDs. He goes into detail about the process of laying out the circuit. Some of the problems he encounters include how to manage all of the charlieplex connections in a simple way, how to program the chip once it’s on the board, and how to layout the controls for the device.
The display looks great in the video we’ve embedded after the break. We’re going to add these components to our next parts order and make this project part of the plan for getting us through the long cold winter ahead.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbi1DIKptIY]
| 12
| 12
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102355",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:53:02",
"content": "too bad if you wear this thing you look like a pretentious douche to everyone. “OMG GUYS LOOK AT ME I’M SO COOL I WEAR AN OVERSIZED CIRCUIT BOARD FOR A WATCH”. Couldn’t they have at least TRIED to make it look the least bit classy?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102356",
"author": "Borb",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:54:11",
"content": "Cool but it’s not a watch yet. The case, band, etc are missing!Have you seen this Arduino based wrist watch?http://sites.google.com/site/arduinowatch/Combine a pro mini with a 4D systems serial OLED and then the pong watch becomes really approachable.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102365",
"author": "cynic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T16:38:11",
"content": "ban kirov",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102366",
"author": "dirk",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T16:46:13",
"content": "once he fabs this into an actual watch (rather than, as mentioned in previous comments, a bare circuit board), this would actually be pretty sweet.the video’s lacking commentary but it definitely looks to have a good variety of features.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102378",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:59:03",
"content": "@cynicactually kirov give most realistic comments on this site",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102457",
"author": "elschopi",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:38:20",
"content": "too bad i´m not as much into building and designing circuits as i´d like, so i have to ask: would it be too difficult to add a microphone of sorts and give the display sound reactive capabilities? like a graphic equalizer?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102502",
"author": "ewertz",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:55:08",
"content": "Noone’s seen Dave Jones’ watch…?You’re probably not going to get laid wearing it (and if you do, she’s a keeper!), but it’s very well done. And he’s a riot.I’d always assumed that someone would get one and re-skin it with a laser-cut faceplate, but I haven’t seen it happen yet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102638",
"author": "Purduecer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:05:37",
"content": "The thing that’s failed to be mentioned in this post is that the project is a hair over 3 years old. Not that that’s a problem, it’s just that usually a “This one managed to slip by us” or similar phrase is thrown into the project.Still, it’s good to have hacks, be they new or old. Good work folks",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102655",
"author": "ibuildrobots",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T16:31:32",
"content": "@kirovApparently you need more social interaction. This watch (once finished with a faceplate, bezel, and strap) would make a great conversational piece and I’m sure garner a lot of positive interest.Try not to be so narrow minded.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102748",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T20:39:29",
"content": "@ewertzThishttp://www.calcwatch.com? I plan to get one and do just as you describe. Just need to decide on the case design.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102793",
"author": "Alan Parekh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T23:31:12",
"content": "It’s going to be great when you are asked if you have the time. Just say yes I do and casually twist your wrist over to them to see what the time is. You will get some great looks from everyone except from the TSA.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "145313",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2010-05-27T03:28:17",
"content": "Check out:http://www.oldradiobuilder.com/LED%20Wristwatch.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,562.096736
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/lunar-auto-repair-depends-on-the-sticky-stuff/
|
Lunar Auto Repair Depends On The Sticky Stuff
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"Transportation Hacks"
] |
[
"lunar rover",
"moon",
"nasa",
"repair"
] |
When you’ve got problems with your lunar rover you can’t just “trust the Midas touch”. Every unexpected repair that happens outside of the Earth’s atmosphere is a hack and it seems the common ingredient in each one is Duct tape. If you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13 you know it was used in making a square carbon dioxide filter fit into a round filter socket. [XD] let us know about another hack where
NASA used Duct tape to replace a fender on the lunar rover
during the Apollo 17 mission.
The rover kicks up a lot of moon dust as it cruises around on its wire tires. When a rear fender started to come loose it was secured with duct tape. We delighted in watching a moon-man tear off chunks of tape for the fix, shown in the video after the break. When the fender finally flew off of the vehicle, the engineers on the ground came up with a way to replace it using laminated maps and more duct tape.
We’ve been
critical of the use of duct tape
in the past. But when you’re in a bind, accept no substitutes.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E08PAv43Zdw]
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| 15
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102344",
"author": "monkeyslayer56",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:50:57",
"content": "this proves it DUCT TAPE FTW!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102346",
"author": "kirov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:56:11",
"content": "why does everyone had such a duct tape fetish, its like superglue: doesn’t stick very well, horribly messy sticks to things you won’t want it to. On top of that it falls apart after a few months and leaves a nasty residue.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102347",
"author": "Bill Doorley",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:57:45",
"content": "Actually the lunar surface crews of all three Apollo “J” missions (those were the ones with lunar rovers) managed to break a fiberglass fender, and all three crews solved the problem with a spare map or checklist and some duct tape.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102348",
"author": "Andy Twiss",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:59:23",
"content": "If anyone’s interested, this weeks Mythbusters is an entire hour dedicated to the sticky stuff :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102349",
"author": "Seth",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:01:41",
"content": "Moon dust is like super tiny jagged pieces of glass. It gets into equipment and completely destroys it. This was a continual problem on Apollo missions and also for any current projects.Moon rocks are cool, but moon dust is a bitch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102350",
"author": "Aaron",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:19:34",
"content": "[sarcasm]This must be fake since we all know that we didn’t land on the moon.[/sarcasm]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102351",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:22:31",
"content": "how did he rip the duct tape, we all know you need to bite it to rip it lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102354",
"author": "addictronics",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:45:16",
"content": "@Aaron Actually if you look at the pic, there are no tire tracks from the vehicle rolling forward or backward….. hmmmm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102364",
"author": "emilio",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T16:37:42",
"content": "go pro. go gaff tape.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102373",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:36:33",
"content": "Where are the tracks in the sand? It seems the buggy has been lowered in place with a crane.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102383",
"author": "nope",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:29:41",
"content": "really old news. note the tape was thinned to reduce the weight..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102412",
"author": "Roman Dulgarov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T19:43:30",
"content": "Other parts included in your “Lunar Emergency Kit” are a paper clip, and a stick of chewing gum.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102480",
"author": "3ldon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T23:02:54",
"content": "Gaff tape is only superior to crappy off brand duct tape, we use it precisely because doesn’t stick very well to say, carpet, sound stages, microphone cable etc.FYI: The tracks are clearly visible, the lunar rover had 4 wheel drive and 4 wheel steering, the back right tire didn’t move but 1/2 meter.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102909",
"author": "CodeASM",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T10:30:16",
"content": "They posted it… Happy ME ! XD",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103144",
"author": "hairyjuan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-22T04:24:45",
"content": "There, I fixed it…. ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,562.159306
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/19/reverse-geocache-puzzle/
|
Reverse Geocache Puzzle
|
Zach Banks
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"classic hacks",
"gps hacks"
] |
[
"arduino",
"geocache",
"gift",
"gps",
"lcd",
"puzzle",
"servo"
] |
[Mikal] wanted to create an awesome electronic wedding gift for his friend who was moving to France. After experimenting with a few things, he settled on
creating a puzzle box that would only open in a certain location
. Since his friend introduced him to the Arduino, he fittingly used one in the design, along with a
serial GPS module
and a mini character LCD. The box itself is locked using a servo-controlled chopstick, which could theoretically be snapped if [Mikal] really screwed something up. To save battery life, he used a small
Pololu module
to provide power that uses only 0.01
micro
amps in standby, and can be shut off by the Arduino.
The box was designed to be mysterious yet self-explanatory. When the button on the front is pushed, the box comes to life for 3 minutes, displaying the distance away from secret location. Additionally, it warns how many tries are left: the button can only be pushed 50 times before it is sealed “forever”. In order to open the box, you have to be within 2km of the destination. Theoretically, you can narrow down the location to one of 2 points after 2 readings, but a less scientific approach would probably be a lot more fun.
This seems like an amazing gift, and the same concept could be repurposed into hundreds of other devices. For extra fun, he could have placed it at a geocache location.
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|
[
{
"comment_id": "102324",
"author": "wolfy02",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:07:39",
"content": "thats a really awesome idea. when I read the title I was puzzled for a bit, then I had one of those duh moments. Really cool though, good to see people still geocache.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102327",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:23:39",
"content": "excellent concept…now, Jumanji anyone? :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102328",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:35:17",
"content": "“As of this writing I do not think they have yet managed to open the box.”He will be quite happy when he finds the guy’s website :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102329",
"author": "Josh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:37:15",
"content": "Wow. Now, that is an idea worth building on. It sounds like one of those sci-fi/treasure hunting movies where you have to be in an exact spot to activate a clue.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102333",
"author": "MikeW",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:52:47",
"content": "An awesome gift, to be sure. Certainly, the contents need to be either unbearably lame, or even more awesome.IMHO, the best thing to put inside the box would be, like Russian nesting dolls, a smaller version of the box set for yet another location. The recipient’s head just might explode, eh? Any guesses as to what words might flow from his mouth upon opening the box.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102334",
"author": "David S",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:53:53",
"content": "Awesome idea MikeW. How funny would that be?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102339",
"author": "GenesisOfMoY",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:26:49",
"content": "Mikal – Brilliant! The hack, the puzzle, the gift. all brilliant.MikeW- One could use the same electronics for every successive box, just shedding the outer shell.I would like to see fewer external electronic. maybe a rotating wooden wheel of runes. or screen projected from the inside.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102342",
"author": "dwabbit",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:31:04",
"content": "I have a wallet like that it will only open when wife is nearby. But I do love the idea by josh aswell",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102343",
"author": "McSquid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:35:33",
"content": "That is awesome! and i love the idea of multi staging this. it would be so fun and even better as a gift. I’m thinking marriage proposal with the ring in the like 6th box =)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102345",
"author": "D1g1talDragon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:51:52",
"content": "I…love this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102352",
"author": "Reid",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:24:22",
"content": "One concern…what’s it going to look like when his friend gets on an airplane with this thing? I can’t imagine that wound end well…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102353",
"author": "twistedsymphony",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:29:33",
"content": "you could add clock and only allow it to open at a certain time AND location…OR you could have multiple geocache locations, so maybe there is a “3 step” combination and in order to unlock the box you must go to each location in the right order and push the button at each of them…the box would tell you if you were right and maybe scroll some text with a clue to the next location.I really love this device, it’s a very cool concept.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102357",
"author": "Olivier",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T15:57:51",
"content": "@Reid : it’s ok, the secret location is in jail anyway.And for someone moving to France, the best gift is a rope. I feel very sorry for the guy, he’ll regret it very quickly :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102363",
"author": "tim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T16:33:28",
"content": "it is not so comon to have only positive comments,very nice toy indeed",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102370",
"author": "Haha",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:16:26",
"content": "when you fly internationally you must clear security – this project would get your party cavity searched or tasered.Best gift ever…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102374",
"author": "Ken",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:47:24",
"content": "Try and get this on the plane to France, “no I did not pack this box”. All those wires look great on an x-ray machine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "2316808",
"author": "Your Teacher",
"timestamp": "2015-01-04T14:07:50",
"content": "Don’t put it hand luggage, silly.",
"parent_id": "102374",
"depth": 2,
"replies": []
}
]
},
{
"comment_id": "102394",
"author": "sol",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T18:54:34",
"content": "Wonderful project!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102451",
"author": "peter",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:25:45",
"content": "i like the combination lock idea… you could carve some sort of clues or whatever into the top that would signify where each location was, and instead of gps readout on the top, you could just have wooden dials that swing into place or something maybe when you get to each location",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102498",
"author": "jpristel",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T00:49:57",
"content": "Cool idea, but I’m confused as to why the GPS antenna is exposed?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102513",
"author": "Dan Cardin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T02:03:54",
"content": "if i missed my deadline of 50 tries, id smash it open with a sledgehammer.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102530",
"author": "phoenix mattress",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T04:31:38",
"content": "wow, hopefully he won’t spend the honeymoon trying to solve this, very brilliant invention.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102543",
"author": "F7",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T07:21:30",
"content": "You know, If he brought this to the airport then he might get to see what is inside through the xray machine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102546",
"author": "F7",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T07:30:35",
"content": "Oh, and it would be even more interesting if there were some kind of secret transmitter inside. Like, every time you press it a cell phone dials out and logs to a secret twitter, and also something else that depends on location. For example, if you’re in France, it plays a really raunchy prank call to the foreign legion and tells them your current coordinates.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102555",
"author": "blizzarddemon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T08:51:01",
"content": "Lol good for the coal gifts given to christmas rascals. : D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102764",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T21:35:09",
"content": "Ooohh…. that gives me ideas. Puzzle boxes. :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102927",
"author": "yuppicide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-21T12:54:17",
"content": "Awesome. I’d buy one if they weren’t that expensive and you could program in your own stuff easily.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108069",
"author": "Dan Dart",
"timestamp": "2009-11-19T18:56:11",
"content": "@yuppicide They are cheap (hmm, ($20-$30) and easy to program for as they have their own API! Many projects have been made using Arduinos!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108348",
"author": "Guitar Tuition Reviews",
"timestamp": "2009-11-22T05:10:12",
"content": "Hmmm, I was struggling with what to get people for Christmas myself.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "110609",
"author": "Harry Barracuda",
"timestamp": "2009-12-06T13:52:24",
"content": "Extrapolating further, we know someone who must have a wallet that contains technology like this, because it never f**king opens when he’s in the bar drinking beer paid for by others!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "2273525",
"author": "Ryan",
"timestamp": "2014-12-21T22:33:11",
"content": "Do you have schematics / parts list for this project? I would love to try and make this for one of my very good friends, who is also moving across seas. Please email me back when you can at02e9ca46@opayq.com(this is a masked email for security purposes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "2316821",
"author": "Pro",
"timestamp": "2015-01-04T14:14:49",
"content": "Sounds nice, except for the “only be pushed 50 times before it is sealed “forever””First thing I would do, is to press that button like a mad.Deal with that, creator of a non fool proofed system!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,562.480168
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/18/3d-magnetometer-mouse-in-processing/
|
3D Magnetometer Mouse In Processing
|
Zach Banks
|
[
"Arduino Hacks",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] |
[
"3d",
"accelerometer",
"arduino",
"cad",
"gyro",
"magneto",
"magnetometer",
"mouse",
"processing",
"solidworks"
] |
[etgalim] works in Solidworks extensively and wanted a more intuitive way of rotating objects onscreen. To do this, he
created a mouse that responds to rotation
. He put a 3D
compass module
inside an old mouse and wired it up to an Arduino. The Arduino then relays the I2C sensor data to the computer. So far, he has a Processing script that uses the mouse to rotate a cube, but eventually he wants to write a Solidworks plugin. It’s a bit shaky, and we think it would be a bit smoother (and cheaper) if he used
gyros
like the
jedipad
. Video after the jump.
[youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PgvRAeuIrk%5D
| 22
| 22
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102203",
"author": "Jim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:45:54",
"content": "It looks like it would be easier to use if the cube kept rotating while the mouse was tilted.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102204",
"author": "Andy1988",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:47:05",
"content": ">It’s a bit shaky, and we think it would be a bit>smoother (and cheaper) if he used gyros like the>jedipad. Video after the jump.How about an RC-Filter (in software possible, too) or some other data filters?Those are normally used to remove the jitter of several sensors.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102207",
"author": "reboots",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:59:32",
"content": "Can we assume the first of the redundant Sparkfun product links was meant to be the guy’s page? Google translated version:http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcm.bezalel.ac.il%2Fcourses%2Fmat09%2F%3Fp%3D424&sl=iw&tl=en&history_state0=Arduino Duemilanove: $30Sparkfun compass module: $150 (wow!)Replicating the functionality of the $53 SpaceNavigator PE, supported by SolidWorks:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826154009Let’s be charitable and call it priceless.At least it’s a hack. I’m curious how the compass is affected by localized variation in the Earth’s magnetic field and/or nearby electromagnetic disturbance.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102208",
"author": "cowboywasteland",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T23:00:08",
"content": "If you’re really looking for an intuitive way to rotate/pan/zoom CAD models, not an electronics project, there are any number of devices – we call them ‘space-balls’ – available, such as this one, from Newegg, for $50http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826154009.I’ll never go back to CAD without one. The purchase price pays for itself with increased productivity inside of a week, easy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102215",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T23:33:34",
"content": "I guess this is as good a place to ask as any. I gave SW a try a while ago as a step up from SketchUp (don’t laugh) however there was one thing that just bugged me to the point of quitting. In SketchUp when you “orbit” a model the model will stay upright so to speak. In SW when I “orbit” a model around it will spin around itself and I spent more time trying to get things into position than I did actually learning the program. No matter how many keys I held down or how many menus I went through I couldn’t make it behave like SketchUp. Was it just me being retarded or is there no way to make it behave similarly to SU?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102238",
"author": "jproach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:36:46",
"content": "That spacepilot and a mouse seems like a great combo. Much easier than lifting the mouse, rotating, placing mouse back down, etc.Still a cool hack though.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102249",
"author": "napalm",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:02:42",
"content": "This looks almost identical to a post a few days ago.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102278",
"author": "uldics",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T04:50:27",
"content": "Compass? Gyros? Nice work, but thats what I would call overkill. Why not just take two optical sensors inline. So if the sensors are lined up on Y axis, then mouse is rotated and not moved A sensors X movement would be direct opposite of B sensors movement. If their signal/value sum is positive, mouse is moved to one side, negative, other side. If their values are identical, no rotation is present, only movement to one side.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102290",
"author": "mifau",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T06:59:04",
"content": "I’t a poor impementation.I made a headtracker with 3d magnetometer (which was much cheaper than that in sparfun) , and it’s work like a charm:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjfY05ZicE",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102296",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T07:37:41",
"content": "Sparkfun compass module: $150 Why it so expensive ? I remember blousing Mourse couple moth ago, compass chips was something like 30$",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102298",
"author": "grovenstien",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T07:46:21",
"content": "Yep i have to agree its a good hack but very expensive, also this sort of object navigation is really limited, compaired to the Space Navigator.Also it could be easily achieved with an Xbox controller, Iphone, PS3 controller, Wii remote with much better results.Cool though craming all that additional tech inside a standard mouse",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102303",
"author": "ryantheleach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T08:42:00",
"content": "@sneakypooim not sure what you mean, but i spent 6 months on solidworks at uni and hated it, but if you make assemblys and use “mates” you can normally get things to align nicely.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102305",
"author": "Shy Shalom",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T08:58:02",
"content": "looks painful.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102311",
"author": "markii",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T09:57:09",
"content": "very expensive…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102314",
"author": "crnobs",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T11:00:00",
"content": "@uldics: Exactly. It is probably doable even without hardware amendments to the mouse on your desk. Optical mice have low-res monochrome cameras inside (there was a hack some time ago to use optical mouse as crude handy scanner) and calculate the movement per x and y axes between two consecutive frames. In other words, they could as well calculate angle of rotation between the two frames, if they had it implemented and if their MCU processing power suffices. That would be a neat hack…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102321",
"author": "EdZ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T12:30:34",
"content": "My guess is he wanted something with an ABSOLUTE 1:1 mapping, rather than the relative mapping you’d get with a SpaceNavigator or similar. Looks like he’s using the compass along with accelerometer data in order to get an absolute orientation (with just the accelerometer, like the many wiimote projects, you have no way of accurately measuring rotation in the horizontal plane, so things get out of alignment rather quickly).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102330",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:42:00",
"content": "@ryantheleach: My explanation was more than a little fussy so I’m not surprised. The operation I was talking about is when you hold down the middle mousebutton to rotate the view of the object. In sketchup the y-axis is kept perfectly straight while orbiting the object, think coffee cup on the rotating plate in a microwave. You can hold down the button and spin the mouse round and round and you’ll still be right side up.Now, with SW if you do the same there it is more like watching space-debris spinning out of control.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102337",
"author": "ryantheleach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:23:09",
"content": "@sneakypooAh I see what you mean, probably because it gives you too much control by mapping the y axis of the mouse to a pitch change.You should mail the developers, I’m sure they would at least take it into consideration to make it an option. Alternatively its been a while since I’ve used it but there might be a right click option to only rotate in 1 plane but that would get tedious having to right click all the time and use the context menu.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102444",
"author": "swgeek",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T21:08:15",
"content": "In solidworks, to rotate about a plane (or cylinder or really anything that only varies in two dimensions, like the outline of a hole or an arc…) do the following, assuming you have a clickable scroll wheel (which you do, if you’re doing the normal pan/rotate thing)1) find the plane you wish to rotate about2) click on the plane withe the click button in the wheel and let go without moving the mouse. The plane will turn purple3) click again on the plane and hold. now drag. Your view will spin about the plane.Normally, you’d just do step 3. Steps 1 and 2 are what lock you into a plane.If you’re looking to do engineering for a living, knowing SW or PRO/E or inventor(ick) is pretty much a requirement. don’t bother with things like sketch-up, you’ll only waste your time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102475",
"author": "will",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T22:26:57",
"content": "@swgeekI second that motion. I’ve used sketchup. It’s nicest feature is that it’s free, intuitive and makes decently pretty pictures of models. It’s not useful for much more. I’ve spent about equal time (multiple thousands of hours) on SW, Autocad, and ProE…plus less on a few others.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102540",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T06:44:18",
"content": "@swgeek: Sweeet, thanks man I’ll have to give that a try. I’m not using these programs for anything but my own amusement. I find SketchUp absolutely brilliant for quickly making mockups of things I want to build, to give a quick idea if it’s going to work at all (is that circuit going to fit in that box? things of that nature).Most recently I designed a new desk in it and it turned out pretty nice in real life as well. I’ve also designed a CNC machine in it but I have yet to build that one. It’s for things like the latter a more capable program such as SW would come in handy but the issue I mentioned was driving me crazy.Oh and one last thing @will, give Kerkythea a try if you want to produce stunning looking renders of your SketchUp work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104334",
"author": "ETgalim",
"timestamp": "2009-10-27T20:53:06",
"content": "All you need to know (aside from the meaning of life), and in English :)http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-AIR-mouse-Arduino-Processing/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,377,562.242696
|
||
https://hackaday.com/2009/10/18/alzheimers-victims-fitted-with-lojack/
|
Alzheimer’s Victims Fitted With LoJack
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"gps hacks"
] |
[
"Alzheimer's",
"design",
"gps",
"tracking"
] |
First it was for finding stolen cars, then keeping track of criminals, now
Alzheimer’s sufferers are being fitted with tracking devices
. This has been going on for some time now, but unlike the
old tracking devices
we’re seeing an update in technology to take advantage of the cell network for communications. The person wearing the device can be located using Uplink Time Difference Of Arrival or
U-TDOA
. This is the same technology that is used by 911 services to calculate the location of a cell phone.
Alzheimer’s is a frightening disease
. The thought of a loved one wandering off with nothing to identify them and no recollection of who they are is a fear of every family dealing with the illness. There’s no doubt that this is a cost-effective solution that really works.
But from our perspective, can someone hot-glue a $3
Seiko
to this thing? If you were designing this, would you even consider something that straps to your wrist and doesn’t have a clock on its face?
Update:
Andrew corrected an error in the original post. This system uses U-TDOA for location, not GPS.
Update:
Jeremy works for LoJack
and has informed us that the product in the post and the technology used have nothing to do with the LoJack brand of products.
| 23
| 23
|
[
{
"comment_id": "102177",
"author": "bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:09:08",
"content": "Just draw a few clock hands on the front, if the alzheimers is bad enough they wont know the difference.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102178",
"author": "silvs",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:13:52",
"content": "Great idea. Although I’m with you on the clock face. Now they’ll be even more confused thinking their watch face fell on the ground somewhere.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102181",
"author": "KT",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:22:49",
"content": "lol @ bobNow, my question is, what if they forget to charge it every night? Cuz I sure as heck forget to charge my phone and I dont have alzeimers (i think)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102185",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:40:29",
"content": "These are not GPS devices at all, and neither is LoJack.All they do is broadcast an RF signal that can be used by authorities to track down the source when they are nearby.GPS is a completely different animal, and the terminology is extensively abused in the mainstream press. I am honestly surprised to see Hack-a-day confusing the issue.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102189",
"author": "thethirdmoose",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:51:23",
"content": "From the article you linked:Seiko produces both quartz and mechanical watches of varying prices. The least expensive are around ¥4,000 (US$45) (Alba); the most expensive (Credor JURI GBBX998) costs ¥50,000,000 (US$554,000).Seikos aren’t crappy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102193",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:11:37",
"content": "what if they forget to put it on",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102205",
"author": "jamieriddles",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:55:51",
"content": "@Danthen you make it smaller, cut open a hole somewhere in them and stick it in and stitch it back up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102209",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T23:02:57",
"content": ">But from our perspective, can someone hot-glue a $3 Seiko to this thing?It’s kind of pointless. If an Alzheimer’s sufferer looked to see what time it was they’d have to check again a few seconds later.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102214",
"author": "Mike Szczys",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T23:12:15",
"content": "@Andrew: You are correct. This system uses U-TDOA and not GPS. I’ve updated the post with the proper information.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102242",
"author": "gomer pyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:43:56",
"content": "NEWS FLASH!We know!Nobody with Alzheimer’s will remember, so keep em coming Mike!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102252",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:10:21",
"content": "I got something similar for my cat:http://www.com-spec.com/thecatlocator/index.htmIt has come in handy many, many times. He spends almost all of his time outdoors in the summer and goes FAR away. One summer he left for a month. Now he usually doesn’t leave for more than a day (not as many mice to eat?) but this comes in handy for example when we need to go on vacation and have to bring the cats to their babysitter’s house.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102268",
"author": "cyanide",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T03:24:48",
"content": "use wireless chargingalso @ “alzheimers victims” – victims implies there was someone who did this to them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102274",
"author": "StrangeRover",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T04:02:27",
"content": "@cyanide. You mean the way “earthquake victims” implies that someone did an earthquake to them?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102281",
"author": "somebody",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T05:08:29",
"content": "That somebody is mother nature. Thats why I say we destroy her before she destroys us!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102284",
"author": "phil",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T05:20:07",
"content": "Jesus wants them lost. He wont like this one bit.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102300",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T08:26:48",
"content": "Dave: Hey Steve, good to see you Hows the Alzheimer’s coming along?Steve: Oh hi Dave im just about getting by, it’s a bit scary not remembering where you are sometimes though.Dave: Thats terrible um.. whats with the faceless watchSteve: arghh where the F**k did that come from [throws it in the nearest bin] …….Oh hi Dave?Did anyone else see this happening?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102313",
"author": "THOR",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T10:43:17",
"content": "While a little bit of “what if” scenarios forruggedizing a product is a welcome part of anywell engineered device. The sick attempts at“humor” (humour for our UK audience) at the expenseof Alzheimers VICTIMS (yes they are “victims” ofa disease) are disgusting. Proper karma would besomeone in your family (or perhaps even yourselves)develop the disease and then we’ll see how funnyit is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102316",
"author": "Jack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T11:37:10",
"content": "@THOR, Almost anyone who lives long enough will gain Alzheimer’s to some degree… It is just a matter of when. I hope someday I live long enough to get it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102332",
"author": "Jeremy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:51:23",
"content": "Hi Mike – I work at LoJack and wanted to notify you that we have a tracking device that helps law enforcement search for people who wander, including those with Alzheimer’s. It’s called LoJack SafetyNet and what you’ve detailed above is from a different company. LoJack SafetyNet is based on Radio Frequency technology and features a Personal Locator Unit worn around a client’s wrist or ankle. Police and other public safety officials use Search and Rescue Receivers to track the person who wanders. If you could either edit this post or remove mentions of LoJack in the headline, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102593",
"author": "Santa Clara divorce lawyer",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T14:22:00",
"content": "It is not a bad idea, but it would be better if it could look a little more like a regular watch.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "103367",
"author": "justamar",
"timestamp": "2009-10-23T00:35:33",
"content": "See the issue with this is, an uncle of mine from india is an engineer, he lives with his daughter and suffers from Alzheimers, they got him something like this, BUT! he takes it off in like a minuet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104995",
"author": "Reiki Tutor",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T21:23:22",
"content": "Great blog. Do you know of any relevant forums or discussion groups?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105337",
"author": "mercato",
"timestamp": "2009-11-03T14:34:43",
"content": "Je partage votre opinion sur ce sujet",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/18/samsung-tv-firmware-hacking/
|
Samsung TV Firmware Hacking
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"home entertainment hacks"
] |
[
"firmware",
"hex editor",
"samsung",
"telnet",
"tv"
] |
[Erdem] is leading up the efforts to
reverse engineer Samsung TV firmware with a project called SamyGo
. Official Samsung firmware uses the Linux kernel, making it a familiar system to work with for many developers. So far they’ve implemented NFS and SAMBA for sharing files over the network, improved playback from USB devices, and unlocked the ability to use non-Samsung WiFi dongles.
In order to make changes to the system, you need to
enable a telnet connection on the device
. The SamyGo team accomplished this by changing an official version of the firmware in a hex editor to start the telnet daemon at boot time. This altered firmware is then flashed using Samsung’s built in upgrade system. Once telnet is enabled, non-official firmware can be manually flashed.
We’d love to see this project expand to other TV Brands in the future. In fact, we were looking for something like this back in June when we realized that our Sony Bravia runs a Linux kernel and can be updated via USB drive. Be careful if you want to try this out. We can only imagine the fallout after telling your significant other that you bricked a high-priced LCD.
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"comment_id": "102153",
"author": "Zeecue",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:03:20",
"content": "NiceI just got my Samsung UE46B7050 LED tv, and was thinking about if only a samsung wifi dongle would work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102158",
"author": "Doc Oct",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:29:18",
"content": "I don’t know if the arm chip is up to it but how cool would it be if someone could port the mythtv frontend to this? You could have a backend computer somewhere with your tuners and hdd and then you wouldn’t even need a computer for the frontend.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102159",
"author": "st2000",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:31:08",
"content": "I am sure the thought crosses the mind of many of us reading this:Is a native mythtv front end possible?(What’s mythtv? See mythtv.org and see what you are missing.)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102160",
"author": "Zeecue",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:31:36",
"content": "You dont need a frontend allready.It supports DLNA, and playback from USB allready.And youtube also.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102161",
"author": "st2000",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:32:43",
"content": "D’oh, got beat out mentioning mythtv by only 2 minutes!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102162",
"author": "Redline",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:34:46",
"content": "Westinghouse Digital TVs are using a linux platform too. At least their ATSC boards do.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102164",
"author": "Skyler",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:40:08",
"content": "“D’oh, got beat out mentioning mythtv by only 2 minutes!”Which only serves to prove your point:“I am sure the thought crosses the mind of many of us reading this”;)My question is, can you play Doom on it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102165",
"author": "pov",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:44:22",
"content": "Philips LCDs run Linux too. But as much as I like hacking, don’t count on me to risk bricking my TV :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102166",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:46:16",
"content": "“The interesing point now is, why is the PS3 different? The reason is because they released Linux, and they allowed homebrew software” – Michael SteilGot Irony?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102167",
"author": "st2000",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:46:38",
"content": "Ok, ok… Re: Zeecue…As a mythtv user w/several other media players collecting dust. I have got to say – native mythtv play back is very much worth it!From my experience, nothing else comes close to a real mythtv front end. Not UPNP, not VLC, not even videos loaded directly on the HDD of some of these media boxes. I know, I have some of those media boxes.—This hack is really interesting – however, I see trying to understand the video hardware as being an almost insurmountable challenge. Mythtv uses a lot of graphic overlay. If you can’t stick the menus and overlays onto the screen (in some cases on top of the video) it will make for an intolerable experience.Of course if, by some stroke of luck, they used a common video chip set, it could all just fall into place. That would be awesome. Having put off buying a new TV – I would then have to seriously consider a Samsung.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102169",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:52:41",
"content": "To clarify my above statement: This is bad for OSS. A major vendor moves to OSS and their product is revered. Any chances of profit margins through extended product lines is shot down. Trust me when I say there engineers and marketing pukes see it the same way I do. Other major vendors are going to take this into consideration.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102172",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:56:11",
"content": "(reversed* + their* = troll proofing)Never mind, I’m probably baiting, but if you work at one of these companies you know how influential this will be; design is dictated by marketing/profits.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102183",
"author": "TJ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:34:22",
"content": "It’s unlikely that the few people willing to risk bricking their TV is going to be be a significant segment of the population. It’s also unlikely to influence any of the “general public” buying one of these TVs.Your more likely to hear news stories about them refusing to honour warantees for people who’ve put 3rd party firmware on it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102184",
"author": "TJ",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:35:28",
"content": "“You’re” damn it…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102188",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:49:07",
"content": "You should go read it and try again. Vendors= manufacturers…not end users.This will effect vendors decisions to go with open source implementations. How many proprietary firmware units do you see this being done to anywhere?You should of corrected “be be” and went and mocked someone closer to your own level of intelligence. Which is needless to say(given the noob-troll way you used my name and failed at patronising me) far below mine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102220",
"author": "gomer pyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T00:13:10",
"content": "“affect”See how dumb even persons of YOUR intelligence can be? Superior intellect FAIL!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102223",
"author": "gomer pyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T00:20:14",
"content": "It sounds to me like others are more likely to BUY the product because it may open other possibilities. The normal home user isn’t going to try to enable telnet and flash firmware on a new TV. Samsung will more than likely MAKE money because hobbyists and hackers may be able to delve into the inner workings of a TV they wouldn’t have bought if it weren’t for a glimmer of hacking the box. This is exactly why OSS can and does work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102232",
"author": "charlie",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:10:14",
"content": "I think gomer pyle may have just starred in his own XKCD strip, or at least something to that effect.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102233",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:14:32",
"content": "It worked for the WRT54G, why not this?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102240",
"author": "Edd",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:39:18",
"content": "LG tv’s are running linux too, I’d just be too scared to play around with my 40 odd inch tv just for streaming medai when my ps3’s plugged in and running to a media server too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102255",
"author": "Chupacabra",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:24:30",
"content": "I hope I’m not totally offtopic here. I have an European Sony KDL-32V5500. It’s quite limited compared to its Japanese (as I know, they have a full web browser) and American (many Yahoo! widgets) brothers, and I guess their (I mean the actual Bravia line’s) cores must be the same, probably ARM based.Are there some hackers working on this firmware too? I have several decades of software hacking (currently I do this for living) and assembly coding (including ARMs) background. Maybe I could join a project, but so far the firmware is too crippled for me (heavily encoded chaos without headers and footers).I figured out these Bravias run special MontaVista Linuxes, firmwares are available here:http://support.sony-europe.com/TV/parts of the sources (the GPL-ed libs) are available here:http://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/Unfortunately my TV isn’t listed on the second one yet.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102256",
"author": "Steve Nordquist",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:31:40",
"content": "Has bricking the thing been proven to some extent? The claim that Linux (or FOSS) enables that is a bit trollish, and I expect unwarranted, certainly in this decade when the Mars Explorer has been ‘bricked’ and recovered in a public way especially visible to EEs.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102259",
"author": "farthead",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:37:18",
"content": "mythtv frontend? Why? I’d rather havea GOOD media center frontend like XBMC. Mythtv SUCKS horribly at media playback. It’s a great DVR, something that is impossible in a TV as it wont have tuner cards and storage.Put XBMC in there, unfortunately most TV hardware does NOT have the horsepower to playback HD content or even decent quality SD content, nor enough storage to put in anything significant. The hacking is light playing at best, Boot a kernel from a 2 gig sd card and actually gain access to the data streams then I’ll be impressed.but 90% of the tv functions are NOT linux controlled. the Linux kernel is for the photo playback and very limited media playback. None have the ability to even playback a xvid 720p video file.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102269",
"author": "st2000",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T03:32:19",
"content": "I believe the MARS explore was running VXWorks, not Linux. But I see your point – remote bricking and unbricking. Let me just say – they were lucky as all get out – I was amazed after reading the details.—Isn’t XBMC the XBox media player? Boy, the last time I tried that I wasn’t very impressed. The graphics were nice – but that’s because it’s a game console. Guess I’ll have to try it again sometime. No, wait – to get HD I’d have to buy into a x360. Isn’t that over $300? For that I can get a duel core PC w/plenty of HDD space and build a myth box. But here’s the x360 killer for me – the PC can have tuner cards in it. The X360 can’t. Of course, if you like games that flips the argument the other way.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102270",
"author": "Redline",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T03:32:30",
"content": "xvid file? No, certainly not. MPEG 2 transport stream? Yes. Why would you want to send a xvid file to the TV? HD TVs have chips to decode MPEG2 TS, which should be taken advantage of. If you wanted the TV to decode any possible file you have on your NAS, that’s like saying, “I want my new phone to do EVERYTHING.” Phones were meant for communicating. Now they do everything, and the battery life sucks ass.Next you’ll be seeing TVs do everything. Yeah, I really want my TV generating more heat than my actual computer. To each their own, I guess…Oh, and linux is used for various tasks, such as the menu UI, controlling the chips and telling them all to do this or that through I2C. Having linux on the TV to playback media is not the point. It’s to control the hardware, like switching to different inputs. The program they coded to run in the linux environment watches the IR reciever, you hit the HDMI button, and it switches to HDMI (in the case of my TV, the program scans the HDMI inputs for an active signal and switches to it), and then tells the audio decoder to take input from the HDMI input. Linux isn’t doing the decoding, and it is not doing the rendering (a dedicated chip does this), but it does control the hardware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102283",
"author": "VSack",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T05:19:31",
"content": "@st2000Based on your comment, it sounds like you think this is the baked in version of Media Center XBox comes with. XBMC, Boxee, and others are versions of software that can be installed on old XBoxes to convert them into full blown media center consoles.If you aren’t aware, I highly recommend checking them out.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102285",
"author": "Ryan Leach",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T05:29:26",
"content": "@st2000Also, XBMC is no logner xbox media center, but simply called XBMC, due to it now working on a large range of platforms, including: windows, mac, linux, linux live cd, apple tv and Boxee.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102286",
"author": "Doc Oct",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T05:34:19",
"content": "@farthead, Mythtv does a good job playing videos when mythvideo is configured to display them in a list. That makes the videos show up as the directory structure on the drive, which is how I prefer it. Plus you can configure it to play the videos in an internal player or any number of external players such as vlc and mplayer. Either way the reason why I said a mythtv frontend would be neat is because you can have a computer acting as a backend with your tuners and hard drives somewhere else and with a network connection you can use all that from any frontend machine on the network.But you already knew that so let me compliment you on your choice of names instead.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102289",
"author": "Fowl",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T06:19:07",
"content": "I know of a LG TV that does (at least) 720p H.264 in MKV playback off USB storage (with overlayed status ui, and sub support), so at least some of these TV’s have the “grunt” as it were to do interesting things.Hopefully eventually we’ll end up with a OpenWRT situation where the ‘same’ base firmware can be ported to many different TV’s. Otherwise devs will just be spread too thin.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102293",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T07:20:17",
"content": "@gomer pyle: It bypasses DRM. I’m sure people with money will buy it just like some did the x360 and make 3rd party vendors pissed at the unit manufacturer.Consumers don’t see this aspect of the electronics industry. DRM exists to protect profit margins that keep companies in operation, which in turn pay tens of thousands of individuals thus fueling the economy, and giving funding to the next product line. A million dollars doesn’t go far when you have that many employees making 15k+ a year.effect and affect are a nound and a verb with very close applications, I used it in the wrong context..boo hoo. I wasn’t the one correcting grammar in the first place. I see mistakes all over this and every other site on the internet, and it has little affect on my understanding and day to day life. Also, English language isn’t the human default despite the census in your suburb.I’m going to go do other stuff now besides entertain lifeless internet trolls. This is my last comment on this entry.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102310",
"author": "Laxminarayan G Kamath A",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T09:43:58",
"content": "You just need a remote to brick Samsung LCD TVs. All I needed is to go into my TV’s service menu and change the model and a few other options :-p",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102325",
"author": "MrX",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:12:50",
"content": "@farthead“but 90% of the tv functions are NOT linux controlled. the **Linux kernel** is for the photo playback and very limited media playback. None have the ability to even playback a xvid 720p video file.”Linux IS the kernel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102331",
"author": "Octothorpe",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T13:46:29",
"content": "I happen to be running 30 Samsung LCD TVs that have Microsoft Windows XP installed on them at work. They also have 2 USB ports. The feature is called “MagicNet” for whatever reason. These TVs cost about $1200 currently for 40 inch.I understand there are instructions to build MythTV for Windows, although I can’t imagine that it would be too difficult to get these things to run Linux rather than Windows. (Can’t try myself as they are currently in use).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102341",
"author": "tw",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T14:29:48",
"content": "@farthead I think the point of using samsung TVs is that many if not most of them do have the horsepower to decode 1080p h264 (in an mkv container, no less). At least my 40″ 630 can. In the manual, they list the (lgpl) license for ffmpeg so you know samsung is using pretty standard multimedia software stacks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102362",
"author": "gomer pyle",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T16:21:11",
"content": "@tjDRM is a failure all around. Time for a new business model. I stand by my statement that more people are likely to buy their product if it could be modified. That means more sales of units. Adding peripherals shouldn’t have a 150% mark up. If a company wants to nickel and dime us all to death with minor upgrades..let that company die a slow death.Not everyone can afford an all in one box that does everything…they have to buy things as they can afford them.Since you possess such a superior intellect, you probably can afford anything you want. The only reason I brought up only one of your mistakes was to point out that you too can be wrong..big deal..so can everyone else. The difference is, I know that I don’t know everything whereas you seem to be far ahead of the rest of us. Get a grip and don’t be so arrogant. (climbs down from soapbox)",
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"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "102375",
"author": "Evan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T17:47:38",
"content": "@Skyleryes youcanplay doom on it, the question is when will you be able to…doom can run on everything, it just doesn’t yet (does on most)better question, when will you be able to at 1080p?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102670",
"author": "jv",
"timestamp": "2009-10-20T17:08:59",
"content": "If some one manages to hack in a new app that turns out to be popular then Samsung or any other manufacturer will be able to take the code and use it in their products. That saves the manufacturer development time and money. It allows them to tap into more minds with a greater range of back grounds. That is the power of open source.A really killer app would be getting calibration equipment talking to the firmware making calibration faster and easier.Go to local electronics store and rent some calibration gear go home, hook up, run calibration software on the laptop, take gear back to the store. Done. Give me that any day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104796",
"author": "Abby",
"timestamp": "2009-10-30T16:17:04",
"content": "Is it possible to hack the firmware so that it can play movies from a USB stick, instead of just pictures and music?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104892",
"author": "Steve Nordquist",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T00:51:25",
"content": "Abby, that’s going to depend on the set; having a few of the right ARM9 cores, or MPEG4 hardware, available and well placed is going to be the tipping point, as casual access to framebuffers and overlay doesn’t mean 740i 28fps (or 60 or 128fps) can be played, scaled, nicely postprocessed, etc. Once the model’s fancy enough, you’re good to add SVG animation, browsers, video, tuner features, loud ad triage, etc.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "104901",
"author": "Brad",
"timestamp": "2009-10-31T02:46:07",
"content": "Can anyone tell me how to undo a firmware update. My motorized mount will not work with the new firmware update. Samsung has been no help. I need to go backward.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105565",
"author": "seikath",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T09:15:35",
"content": "I work a lot with LG TV sets.They use busybox as well ..:)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105587",
"author": "Laxminarayan G Kamath A",
"timestamp": "2009-11-04T13:49:51",
"content": "What about routing audio through custom number crunchers? What about Jack, ladspa, gstreamer and stuff like that? or pulseaudio?Of course on stripped down versions of those! Wouldnt’t it be awesome to have several filters like noise reduction, custom equalizers, hum remover, reverbration, oscilloscop etc ?What about Auto volume normalization for each equalizer frequency, so that you get crystal clear sound, even on crappy speakers ?What about running text to speech from the thumb drive?how about simple games like tetris?backing up and restoring preferences from thumb drive?Cellphone text messaging like keyboard using remote?overlaid calendar, clock.Synchronizing clock/calendar with some external source?Fake TV OS crash would be awesome as April fool joke.Finally, I guess there will be a SamyGo Appstore one day!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "105931",
"author": "Jorge Luis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-05T19:42:27",
"content": "Hi,B650 with DLNA on PC: OKDoes anyone have a router uPNP (Asus WL500GP) with Samba HDD as a server for B650?My idea it is to replace DLNA PC by already existing Router uPNP server. Got it?Thanks in advance.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "108366",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2009-11-22T10:10:19",
"content": "well i just usedsamy go on my series 6 40″ media2.dlna just didnt want to work with my ushare so i used samygo and now i can play ALL of my movies mp3s and jpeg through a mounted share direct to te tv NOT using dlna.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "108711",
"author": "Jorge Luis",
"timestamp": "2009-11-24T14:24:31",
"content": "Hi,a couple of questions more:1) you mean, ushare on router (wl500gpv2) + samygo on LCD?2) Does it work with sub-titles?3) Can you provide some inputs how can I load ushare on router? I never tryied and I don’t want to loose print server + Samba features on WL500gpv2.As I don’t have a NAS, I must have USB samba to share contents.Regards.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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"comment_id": "118116",
"author": "michu",
"timestamp": "2010-01-18T08:34:29",
"content": "I try the same thing but a philips tv – but i’m stuck. I need your help, I wrote down all my findings here:http://neophob.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/182-Root-my-TV-Hack-Philips-PFL9703.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "118120",
"author": "Samsung",
"timestamp": "2010-01-18T10:01:32",
"content": "LG tv’s are running linux too, I’d just be too scared to play around with my 40 odd inch tv just for streaming medai when my ps3’s plugged in and running to a media server too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
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{
"comment_id": "118422",
"author": "Bigby",
"timestamp": "2010-01-20T00:57:07",
"content": "Given that Samsung don not seem to want to expand the platform in the UK or even fix the bugs (slow UI, non standard DLNA, etc) I can only applaud and support you guys.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "128315",
"author": "josep",
"timestamp": "2010-03-07T07:57:40",
"content": "My experience on hack my samsumg tv with the samygo project was exciting, and I recomend.reason 1 : fix some bugs on the original.reason 2 : add wonderfould functions. forget dlna or upnp simply browse your network shares and goreason 3: open door to a new things, real browser instead blody and limited widgets, or recording video on the usb or shares disk. (PVR perhaps)reason 4 : access to the os as a root. you can install ….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "129471",
"author": "Samsung LED TV",
"timestamp": "2010-03-12T15:34:37",
"content": "Did anyone have try with new 2010 series. My brother just got new 40″ series 5 and still have no idea with it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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https://hackaday.com/2009/10/18/cheap-and-flimsy-pc-case-provides-no-protection/
|
Cheap And Flimsy PC Case Provides No Protection
|
Mike Szczys
|
[
"computer hacks"
] |
[
"case",
"fail",
"mod"
] |
[Rafael] tipped us off about
a “case mod” he completed for his PC
. The email he sent provides no details and the link just shows five pictures of his computer in a “dead file” container (we’re guessing he doesn’t want to be an
Internet sensation
). What we get out of this is that he took a corrugated plastic box meant to house old files on shelves, and thew a set of computer parts inside of it.
This would be a great hack if [MacGyver] needed a computer to defuse a ticking bomb while trapped inside of a room built completely out of metal. The plastic provides protection from shorting out the motherboard but, other than low cost, that’s the only upside of this hack.
The downside here is obvious, there’s no protection from physical damage. In fact, a good bump might flex the box enough to slam the motherboard into the PSU housing. And what’s with the external WiFi fob? We could understand the point of this a bit better if it could blend in with a rack of archived files in the back room.
We give this one an ‘A’ for creativity, a ‘B-‘ for execution, and an ‘F’ for longevity. This should have been built in an acrylic case sized to fit perfectly in the yellow plastic box. But what does your unorthodox PC case look like?
Let us know by sending in a tip
.
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|
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"comment_id": "102060",
"author": "Bonkers",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T15:37:32",
"content": "The idea seems to be reasonably handy for a temporary case when assembling a junker, and it could be reinforced with a little scrap wood.Of course any old container could be adapted and plenty of folks have done better, so I don’t really see how this one is special. This story could be summed up thus: “Hey look! I found a box my junk fits in.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102061",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T15:38:19",
"content": "Now I’m not one of those that like to bitch and moan about content but really guys? There’s no creativity at work here, none, he stuffed some parts in a “cardboard” box. Oh yeah and he cut a hole for the PSU, yay. This is one step above having your parts spread out on the floor.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102066",
"author": "bobob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T15:55:52",
"content": "you know things are getting bad when even the person posting the crappy “hack” is pointing out that very fact in the posting.sigh,yet another new low achieved by “hack” a day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102069",
"author": "atrain",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T16:06:33",
"content": "I did this when I was 14. It may be fun, but I don’t consider this a hack.Hint: Get plastic-covered paper clips to hold things (eg: mobo) to the sides, or cover metal paper clips with masking tape.Depending on the layout and the type of equipment in the box, consider cutting some holes and sticking some fans in there. Definitely cut out the area behind the CPU if your mobo is directly mounted to the box.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102070",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T16:07:14",
"content": "I had a friend that made a case out of lego that was pretty kick ass.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102075",
"author": "DEATH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T16:24:20",
"content": "Ive done worse. I had my home server running inside a HP 27A toner box for about 5 months. Not much of a hack at all, but it was an extremely compact way of getting the server out of the way. Plus the parents thought I just had a spare toner cartridge for my OTT Laserjet 4050dtn so it got left alone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102082",
"author": "spy",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T16:35:07",
"content": "if this were meant to be used for a spy rig in say a long term records storage where noone goes. I bet a covert server on a shelf hiding as a file box would be a great network security bypass launchpad that noone would notice for quite some time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102098",
"author": "sean",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T16:59:34",
"content": "what theOK, Hackaday,really now. I’ve been kind of impressed lately that y’all have been adding a lot more content up here as far as the number of posts a day go, but this is ridiculous. Aren’t you trading quality for quantity here? You said yourselves that there is no information here besides “five pictures”.Even by spurring a discussion, this is hardly related even in the broadest sense. This is almost as bad as the LEDs on the clothing.sorry, I love you guys, but this needs to be addressed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102102",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:06:50",
"content": "If it’s such a terrible idea why the hell are you posting it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102105",
"author": "alex",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:20:16",
"content": "caleb, control your staff!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102108",
"author": "Rob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:30:05",
"content": "Take a plastic enclosure (with no frame), add electronics with the optional addition of some carpet. Can anyone fathom a guess as to what happens next?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102109",
"author": "tej",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:31:44",
"content": "I would still have concerns about static electricity build-up with corrugated plastic. The open channels are a classic Jacob’s Ladder structure.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102114",
"author": "Skitchin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:47:11",
"content": "I put a computer inside of an old crate guitar amp – worked pretty well for lugging around. Eventually, I mounted it inside of a desk cubbyhole, which was great. It never did get a real case, because it was a non-atx compatible Dell mobo, BOOO!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102115",
"author": "Caleb Kraft",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:47:31",
"content": "ack! I’m so sorry guys. I tried to explain to Mike that you don’t really like to have intelligent discourse about projects that have questionable quality or use.Really, I don’t see the problem with this case if it’s just going to sit on a shelf. It isn’t the coolest looking thing in the world though. I generally prefer unorthodox cases that improve the looks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102116",
"author": "nrp",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:48:28",
"content": "I’ve done much worse. I once decased a power supply so I could fit an entire ATX computer inside the cardboard box the motherboard came in.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102117",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:51:16",
"content": "Even the homeless need computer cases.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102118",
"author": "MadMod",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:54:34",
"content": "Ouch! While I don’t think this is really worthy of an entire hackaday post and the details are sparse you have to give the guy some points on resourcefulness. This is a creative use of some junk that would otherwise just go to waste. Of course there are always better ways of doing something, but that doesn’t mean that this guy didn’t do a good job with what he had on hand. Those are the true hacks, not going to a store and buying sheet metal and acrylic and making a perfect industrial case. Hacking is about making something useful/cool with the junk you have lying around and your creative mind!! Think outside the box! (sorry for the bad pun I couldn’t resist! :D)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102119",
"author": "Gosh",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T17:55:42",
"content": "I had no idea it was this easy to get on Hack A Day. I threw a monitor into a cardboard box, is that a good hack?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102122",
"author": "Audin",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T18:01:02",
"content": "What I love about many many ‘alternative’ cases is the complete and total lack of any RF shielding. thanks a lot guys for completely destroying the RF environment on your block.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102124",
"author": "CH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T18:04:06",
"content": "Actually, I think this is a fine post, as it encourages discussion on a relevant topic (as well as encourages submissions)The main issue with a case like this is the lack of RF shielding. This comes before thermal conductivity and structural stability as top answers to “why use a metal case”. Also, shorting on the case isn’t a bad thing, or at least not a problem with the case.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102130",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T18:47:34",
"content": "Mike mike mike, you make me sad panda",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102132",
"author": "joshua",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T18:52:20",
"content": "I’m not that excited about this either, but I’d greatly prefer a little less negativity in the description. Sure it’s easy to be a critic and hate on it, but the guy at least took the time to build something and share it with the ‘nets. I’d much rather see people do something like this than sit around passively watching TV or wasting their time/money hoarding “collectibles.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102133",
"author": "divolb",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T18:56:48",
"content": "What is happening to Hackaday? I can fold a paper airplane, should I send in some pictures and a write up? Maybe I misunderstand what Hackaday is about. This marks an all time low for Hackaday.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102139",
"author": "jan",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T19:22:19",
"content": "this is just a silly joke..come on mike tell them..no?omg",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102140",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T19:25:51",
"content": "@nrp I did the same thing! Cardboard box.@tej Big time Jacobs ladder.@divolb, don’t send in the paper aeroplane, but do send in something interesting please! SAVE US!Sad panda, therian… Heh Ive used that line before >< To convey serious unhappiness.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102141",
"author": "tom",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T19:27:24",
"content": "I’m sure the guy who did this appreciates the level of hate towards his project. Even though it’s not really a “hack” at all, he did something and shared it with the Internet. There’s no need to bash his creation so harshly.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102144",
"author": "Donald Haase",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T19:36:52",
"content": "4 years ago I was trying to build a NAS machine in a compact junk case, and after it wouldn’t quite fit in an old fridge crisper drawer, I put it into a cardboard box for ‘elite coffee’. Grounded all components to the PSU and screwed 4 hard drives into the sides of the box. It’s gone through a few different purposes since then, but despite being moved across country a few times (pittsburgh miami) it’s never failed.Only problem I ever had was having to toss a rubber washer onto a screw that had started to tear through the cardboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102147",
"author": "jamieriddles",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T19:44:22",
"content": "@divolbno the lowest was the car switch this is some advanced stuff compared to it",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102149",
"author": "matt",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T19:50:58",
"content": "I thought the Taxidermy Beaver case was cooler:http://www.instructables.com/id/Compubeaver—%3E-How-to-case-mod-a-beaver—in-29-e/yea yeah, i know it’s an instructable, but it’s cuter that this cardboard box :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102168",
"author": "Mic",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:47:03",
"content": "Case mod a beaver! Sick, really. Buddy there says, “Another plus with the MiniITX board is that it included an external power supply, which means a good bulk of the heat will not be inside the beaver. Good news, trust me.” Hmm he makes it sound like there could be a down side to beavers as computer cases.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102173",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T20:58:30",
"content": "SUMMARY: A very thorough analysis of why it sucks.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102191",
"author": "pragma",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:56:24",
"content": "If you add some coroplast ribs to the interior, this might make a pretty stable case. Granted, it’ll never be sturdy enough to put under something else.Rather than demonstrate a superior building technique, this helps underscore the value of otherwise “wasted” materials, while forcing us to re-evaluate what a computer case is supposed to do.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102192",
"author": "RT (Panzer Time!)",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T21:57:53",
"content": "I agree with MadMods here. I once did a similar thing. My mother had thrown out the case for an old PC I had, so I ended up subbing a box that a pair of boots came in. It was perfectly fine, with some duct tape to hold everything in place.It really pisses me off that you guys go so crazy about RF noise (which my c-box PC never had problems with) and lack of shinyness. That’s really what it boils down to. The dude didn’t spend a fortune on fancy parts and didn’t use an Arduino. He hacked; he used what he had at hand to solve a problem.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102195",
"author": "8-[",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:15:11",
"content": "Bonkers:“Hey look! I found a box my junk fits in.”[Insert random “long-penis-joke” here]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102196",
"author": "DEATH",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:19:29",
"content": "I agree with [RT (Panzer Time!)] here.Its nice to see a project show up that /doesnt/ feature an Arduino. Yes, the Arduino platform is extremely flexible, but it gets exceedingly old to see (nearly) every project on HaD/Make/generic electronics blog feature an Arduino as its core.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102199",
"author": "Rage",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:34:40",
"content": "Perhaps he’s just mocking casemodders for reinventing the wheel?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102202",
"author": "Frank McSteez",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T22:40:50",
"content": "Looks like a pretty clean case to me. Maybe it’s not a big enough thing to make it to the front page, but everyone’s acting like it’s such a piece of shit that he should be hunted down and have his eyes removed with ice cream scoops.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102211",
"author": "BigD145",
"timestamp": "2009-10-18T23:06:33",
"content": "Not a hack. There’s absolutely no reason to have the wifi on the outside as the plastic is not going to stop any interference from the mobo or psu.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102234",
"author": "Simon",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:15:08",
"content": "A bunch of crap in a box. We come here to be inspired, Hackaday morons.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102244",
"author": "Kyoorius",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T01:49:06",
"content": "Another ghetto case done a few years back:http://photo.omnistep.com/minatxpc/BRING IT ON, let’s see the worst!Must be something in a box. Raw boards on newspaper doesn’t count.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102258",
"author": "brsnow",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:34:13",
"content": "I’ve got the guts of a dell optiplex inside a dell computer box, running OS X serving as my media computer hooked up to my flatscreen for watching movies and playing some games on the big screen. I had to cut holes in the side and top for the fans, cards and chords. I couldn’t find a good spot to mount the optical drive inside, so it is sitting on top of the box with the ribbon cable and power cable fished through their own custom holes. While it is ugly as sin sitting under my cable box, it runs pretty cool, and its my MacInBox and I love it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102261",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:52:10",
"content": "Mike: Please take it easy on your submitters. You guys have plenty of content now- don’t post it if you don’t like it.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102263",
"author": "psymansays",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T02:54:50",
"content": "Hey, Mike. You put up several posts, in one day, and you were a little harsh on all of them in your write up. Were you trying to change the general tone around the site?Well, my junker PC is just a M/B bolted to a chunk of wood, with the PSU and HDD and Optical drives each bolted to it with scraps of aluminum made into angle-brackets. Oh, I also had to make brackets to hold each PCI card down in its slot. I use that one for quick Parallel Port projects, and for a Linux programming environment.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102265",
"author": "Roly",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T03:08:39",
"content": "Do I detect a new cynical edge here? ’bout time I’d say.Well there also no screening of RFI, but I can’t see the point when I actually have to get *rid* of redundant cases.Yo don’ care if yo unshielded mutha plays merry hell wit’ my microvolt hack? Weeel I’ll jes’ turn on ma 10kVA Tesla coil and see how yo com-puter likes DAT! Ha!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102266",
"author": "simmos",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T03:18:00",
"content": "I made a PC out of an old suitcase as a bit of an off-beat joke.. but then decided to actually complete it. I wrote a short article about it in my linky but some stuff has changed since.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102271",
"author": "Jeff",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T03:35:18",
"content": "Looks like a horrible ESD nightmare to me.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102277",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T04:48:12",
"content": "I actually don’t mind this. That corrugated plastic stuff is pretty durable, and it doesn’t look like a very new motherboard. If you’re just throwing something together for a temporary server in your closet, this looks pretty easy. Punch 12 or so holes, cut a vent for the power supply, done. Needs no description. True hack.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102280",
"author": "uldics",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T05:01:10",
"content": "I have had this type of box for my sound amplifier for my PC. I gutted 2 pairs of cheap speakers with internal amlifiers. Just because I wanted to change volume and turn them on and off at the same time as having them stand as far from each other as possible. So now I have had such cardboard box for years actually. No temp is rising, almost surround sound ala cheapo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102294",
"author": "therian",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T07:29:08",
"content": "@RT (Panzer Time!) “t really pisses me off that you guys go so crazy about RF noise (which my c-box PC never had problems with)”How do you know it didnt cause RF noise ? do you have a spectrum analyzer? just beacause you pnone and wifi continue to work it dosnt mean it dont cause RF noise. If you had a HAM living near you I bet he trow a brick in to you window",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "102302",
"author": "macegr",
"timestamp": "2009-10-19T08:39:38",
"content": "Someone could make a bunch of die-cut corrugated plastic computer cases. Flat-pack…simply fold up to make the case and drive bays, fasten with pop rivets or just zip ties. The door could just be a folded flap. Could be a really cheap case for developing countries. These could be shipped in a dense stack of flat pack sheets, instead of boxes of empty air like normal computer cases.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
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