Collaborate Disseminate
Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Rethinking Body Art With LEDs
The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a short one, almost as small as the exclusive club of states that possess nuclear weapons. The …read more Continue reading Australia’s Steady March Towards Space
Lord Vetinari from the Discworld series is known for many things, but perhaps most of all a clock that doesn’t quite keep continuous time. Instead, it ticks away at random …read more Continue reading Malfunctional Timekeeping With The Vetinari Clock
Many of us know the basic Blink Arduino sketch, or have coded similar routines on other microcontrollers. Flashing an LED on and off—it doesn’t get much simpler than that. But …read more Continue reading Shrinking Blinky As Far As Possible
Microsoft made gaming history when it developed Achievements and released them with the launch of the Xbox 360. They have since become a key component of gaming culture, which similar …read more Continue reading Bringing Achievements To The Nintendo Entertainment System
A great many PlayStation 2 games were coded in C++, and there are homebrew SDKs that let you work in C. However, precious little software for the platform was ever …read more Continue reading Golang On The PS2
[Luca Dentella] recently encountered a toy, which was programmed to read different stories aloud based on the figurine placed on top. It inspired him to build an audio device using …read more Continue reading A Music Box Commanded By NFC Tags
[Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was created a fancy levitating generator that turns a stream of air into electricity. The basic …read more Continue reading Levitating Lego Generator Runs On Air
Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] …read more Continue reading Building a Sliding Tile Clock
Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA. …read more Continue reading A SNES CPU Replacement Via FPGA