I Talked to Four Humanoid Robots and They’re Mostly Dumb as Doornails
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I Talked to Four Humanoid Robots and They’re Mostly Dumb as Doornails
“Human relationships can be hard to define.” Continue reading I Talked to Four Humanoid Robots and They’re Mostly Dumb as Doornails
Homemade Subaru Head Unit is Hidden Masterpiece
The Subaru BRZ (also produced for Toyota as the GT86) is a snappy sportster but [megahercas6]’s old US version had many navigation and entertainment system features which weren’t useful or wouldn’t work in his native Lithuania. He could have swapped out the built in screen for a large 4G Android tablet/phone, but there’s limited adventure in that. Instead, he went ahead and built his own homemade Navigation system by designing and integrating a whole bunch of hardware modules resulting in one “hack” of an upgrade.
The system is built around a Lenovo 4G phone-tablet running android and supporting GPS, GLONASS …read more
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Here’s North Korea’s Totalitarian Android Tablet
But don’t try to install your own apps on it. Continue reading Here’s North Korea’s Totalitarian Android Tablet
Review: Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base
Microsoft’s new graphics-boosted hybrid is a more-powerful version of last year’s machine. And that’s good, because it’s still crazy cool. The post Review: Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Review: Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base
Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Out Again: Serial Over Headphone Jack
[ttsiodras] tells an epic tale of getting a custom Debian kernel installed on an Asus MemoPAD (ME103K) tablet. Skipping to the end of the saga, he discovers what looks like serial data coming out on the headphone jack when the system boots, but the signal was so distorted that he couldn’t simply interpret it. The solution turns out to be attaching a level-converter chip.
A level converter is a non-inverting amplifier, usually with a Schmitt trigger for immunity against noise. In this case, it acts like a “binarizer” — outputting a high voltage when the input rises above a threshold, …read more
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Ask Hackaday: DIY Handwriting Recognition
Computer handwriting recognition is very cool by itself, and it’s something that we’d like to incorporate into a project. So we went digging for hacker solutions, and along the way came up with an interesting bit of history and some great algorithms. We feel like we’ve got a good start on that front, but we’re stuck on the hardware tablet sensor itself. So in this Ask Hackaday, we’re going to make the case for why you could be using a tablet-like device for capturing user input or doing handwriting recognition, and then we’re going to ask if you know …read more
Broken Android Tablet Mini-MAME Cabinet
Everyone’s got an unused or even quasi-broken tablet lying around these days. [sairuk] has three kids, and somehow ended up with three broken tablets in short order. We’re not saying that correlation implies causality…
The digitizers were shattered, and since they were relatively cheap tablets to begin with, [sairuk] started thinking what could be done with a tablet that doesn’t have touch sensing anymore. He tried making an e-book reader for his kids, but somehow the idea of a MAME “cablet” (get it?) won out in the end. We’re not surprised: simple woodworking, gaming, and electronic hacking. What’s not to …read more
