Collaborate Disseminate
When [Robot Cantina] isn’t busy tweaking the 420cc Big Block engine in their Honda Insight, they’re probably working on some other completely far out automotive atrocity. In the video below the …read more Continue reading Saving Fuel With Advanced Sensors And An Arduino
No spooky mansion is complete without a secret passage accessed through a book shelf — or so Hollywood has taught us. What works as a cliché in movies works equally …read more Continue reading A Classic TV Trope For An Escape Room
[Gili Yankovitch] has always wanted some kind of macro keypad for all those boss-slaying combos he keeps up the sleeve of his wizard robe while playing WoW. Seventeen years later, …read more Continue reading a Customizable Macropad to Make Anyone’s Tail Wag
A traditional early project for someone discovering a love for electronics has been for many years a metal detector. This would mean a few transistors back in the day, but …read more Continue reading A No-Calibration Metal Detector
The hacking life is not without its challenges, and chief among these is the tendency to always be in acquisition mode. When we come across a great deal on bulk …read more Continue reading A Handy Tester for a Mountain of PS/2 Keybords
Drums are an exciting instrument to learn to play, but often prohibitive if there are housemates or close neighbors involved. For that problem there are still electronic drums which can …read more Continue reading Arduino Drum Platform Is Fast
Before smartphones exploded on the scene in the late 00s, there was still a reasonable demand for pocket-sized computers that could do relatively simple computing tasks. Palm Pilots and other …read more Continue reading Pocket Computer Reminds Us of PDAs
The oldest form of television used a spinning disk with a progression of holes — a Nipkow disk — to slice the image into lines for display. They’re surprisingly simple …read more Continue reading 3D Print A Colour TV
Aren’t ball races and marble runs fun? Wouldn’t they be so much more enjoyable if you didn’t have to climb back up the ladder each time, as it were, and …read more Continue reading Sisyphean Ball Race Robot Toils Gracefully, Magnetically
The Logitech Z906 is a well-rounded 5.1 surround sound system. It’s capable of putting out 1000W in peak power, and can decode Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks as you’d expect. …read more Continue reading Hacking the Logitech Z906 Speaker System