Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re really good, it’s possible to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 10 seconds. For the rest of us, though, it can be an exceedingly tedious task. For that …read more Continue reading Building a Rubik’s Cube That Solves Itself
Multitasking is something we take for granted these days. Just about every computer we use, from our desktops to our phones, is capable of multitasking. It might sound silly to …read more Continue reading Multitasking On The Humble Z80 CPU
If you’ve ever wanted to pump sound to all the rooms of your house, you might use any one of a number of commercial solutions. Or, you could go the …read more Continue reading An Audio Brick For Your Smart Home
Wi-Fi cameras are everywhere these days, with wireless networking making surveillance systems easier to deploy than ever. [CiferTech] has been recently developing the RF Clown—a tool that can block transmissions …read more Continue reading Simple Device Can Freeze Wi-Fi Camera Feeds
Most of us do our writing on computers these days, but the modern computing environment does present a lot of distractions. That’s let to the concept of the writer deck, …read more Continue reading Building A Clamshell Writer Deck
Speech synthesis has been around since roughly the middle of the 20th century. Once upon a time, it took remarkably advanced hardware just to even choke out a few words. …read more Continue reading Speech Synthesis on A 10 Cent Microcontroller
When it comes to microphones, [Roan] has expensive tastes. He fancies the famous Telefunken U-47, but doesn’t quite have the five-figure budget to afford a real one. Thus, he set …read more Continue reading Hacking Together an Expensive-Sounding Microphone At Home
If you want to dyno test your tuner car, you can probably find a couple of good facilities in any nearby major city. If you want to do similar testing …read more Continue reading 100-Year Old Wagon Wheel Becomes Dynamometer
Force feedback joysticks are prized for creating a more realistic experience when used with software like flight sims. Sadly, you can’t say the same thing about using them with mech …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Force-Feedback Joystick
These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital files that cram in many millions of …read more Continue reading Analog Surround Sound Was Everywhere, But You Probably Didn’t Notice