Collaborate Disseminate
[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: program an Arduino to do it. Some aluminum extrusion and solenoids later, and it was …read more Continue reading Piano Gets an Arduino Implant
Occasionally, we get a tip for a project that is so compelling that we just have to write it up despite lacking details on how and why it was built. …read more Continue reading Cool Kinetic Sculpture Has Tooling Secrets to Share
Fresh from AliExpress, [Big Clive] got another fascinating item to tear down: a crane claw, as used in those all too familiar carnival games. These games feature a claw the …read more Continue reading How Crane Games are Playing Claw Games with the Player
Automated musical instruments aren’t a new idea. From water chimes to player pianos, they’ve been around for a while. But we can’t remember the last time we saw a player …read more Continue reading Player Ukulele Pulls Your Strings
Few consumer-grade PCs are what you’d categorize as built to last. Most office-grade machines are as likely as not to give up the ghost after ingesting a few too many …read more Continue reading Custom Pneumatic Cylinders Lock This Monitor Arm in Place
For most of our prototype, hobby, or one-off electronics projects it’s perfectly fine to use a development platform like an Arduino Uno or something to that effect. They’re both easy …read more Continue reading Arduino PLC Keeps the Beat
Sand has been used to keep track of the passage of time since antiquity. But using sand to make a persistence of vision digital clock (English translation) is something altogether …read more Continue reading POV Digital Clock Is the Literal Sands of Time
It might not count as “DC to daylight,” but an electromechanical attenuator that covers up to 70 GHz is pretty close, and getting a guided tour of its insides is …read more Continue reading A Look Inside a 70-GHz Electromechanical Attenuator
When we last left [Wes] amidst the torn-open guts of his Logg Dogg logging robot, he had managed to revitalize the engine and dug into the hydraulics, but one big …read more Continue reading Sketchy Logg Dogg Logging Robot Remote Control Hacking
For plenty of media center PCs, home theaters, and people with a simple TV and a decent audio system, the standard speaker setup now is 5.1 surround sound. Left and …read more Continue reading Recreating The Quadrophonic Sound of the 70s