Collaborate Disseminate
Land speed racing is one of the oldest forms of motorsport, and quite literally consists of going very, very fast in (ideally) a straight line. The higher the speed your …read more Continue reading How To Get Into Cars: Land Speed Racing
Believe it or not, there was a keyboard peripheral sold for the original GameCube, and it was built into the middle of a controller. Designed for the Phantasy Star Online …read more Continue reading The Ridiculous GameCube Keyboard Controller Gets Modded
There’s plenty of obscure sports in the world. Many of them could benefit from bespoke equipment like scoring displays, but are too obscure to support commercial efforts in this regard. …read more Continue reading Mickey’s Big Timer Makes Glider Competitions Better
[AndrewMohawk] had seen all kinds of ambient lighting systems for TVs come and go over the years, and the one thing they all had in common was that they didn’t …read more Continue reading TV Ambient Lighting Built for Awesome Performance
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a pop culture classic, and remains one of the standout teen films of the era. Notably, titular character Ferris was somewhat of a hacker himself, …read more Continue reading Recreating the Intercom from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
There’s plenty of times we’ve seen a laptop fail, break, or just become too slow for purpose despite the fact that it’s still packing some useful components. With all the …read more Continue reading Recycling a Laptop Screen Into A Portable Folding Monitor
Back in the early days of the musical synthesizer, some designers who wished for polyphony in their instruments would simply build multiple tone-generators for as many notes as they wished …read more Continue reading 12-Arduino Orchestra Plays Star Wars Fanfare
Few in the 1980s were too fussed about their home computer only supporting a single monitor; indeed, most were satisfied enough by the brand new capabilities on offer at the …read more Continue reading A Dual Monitor Setup for the C64, and Yes, It’s VGA Compatible
One of the most annoying things about bicycles is that they don’t stay up on their own, especially when they’re stationary. That’s why they come with stands, after all. That …read more Continue reading A Self-Driving Bicycle is Something to Marvel At
Back in 1996, Bob Pease posed an experiment in an April Fools column. “Take an ordinary NPN transistor, ground the base, pull the emitter up to 12 V with a …read more Continue reading An Explanation of a Classic Semiconductor Riddle