Collaborate Disseminate
Guitar pedals are designed to take in a sound signal, do fun stuff to it, and then spit it out to your amplifier where it hopefully impresses other people. However, …read more Continue reading Running Video Through A Guitar Effects Pedal
Old desk phones are fairly useless these days unless you’re building a corporate PBX in your house. However, they can be fun to hack on, as [0x19] demonstrates by porting …read more Continue reading Old Desk Phone Gets Doom Port
If you’ve ever used a ballpoint pen with a clip on the top, you’ve probably noticed they bend pretty easily. The clip relies on you only bending it a small …read more Continue reading Designing A Pen Clip That Never Bends Out Of Shape
A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that …read more Continue reading Back to Basics: Hacking on Key Matrixes
A hackerspace is a place that generally needs to be accessed by a wide group of people, often at weird and unusual hours. Handing around keys and making sure everything …read more Continue reading Building a Hackerspace Entry System
If you want to pull apart a program to see how it ticks, you’re going to need a disassembler. [Ricardo Quesada] has built Regenerator 2000 for just that purpose. It’s …read more Continue reading C64 Gets A Modern Interactive Disassembler
Historically, moving and pointing a camera while filming was the job of a highly-skilled individual. However, there are machines that can do that, enabling all kinds of fancy movement that …read more Continue reading Pan-Tilt Head For Camera Motion Control
Many different types of printers have entered the market over the years. Most of us are intimately familiar with the common inkjet and laser, both of which can be found …read more Continue reading LED Printers: The Quiet Achievers You May Not Have Heard Of
[Nagy Krisztián] had an Intel 286 CPU, only… There was no motherboard to install it in. Perhaps not wanting the processor to be lonely, [Nagy] built a simulated system to …read more Continue reading Making a 286 Think It’s Alive Again
One of the problems with being a graffiti artist is that you have to carry around a different spray can for each color you intend to use. [Sandesh Manik] decided …read more Continue reading Color Mixing Spray Paint On The Fly