Excuse Me, Your Tie is Unzipped
If you ask your typical handyperson what’s the one thing you need to fix most things, the answer might very well be duct tape. But second place — and first …read more Continue reading Excuse Me, Your Tie is Unzipped
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3D Printed Preschooler Proof MP3 Player Takes A Beat-ing
Prototyping new ideas can be a lot of fun, but putting new projects in a durable enclosure can be a difficulty. This is especially the case when the user of …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Preschooler Proof MP3 Player Takes A Beat-ing
Hanging, Sliding Raspi Camera Adds Dimension To Octoprint
Are you using Octoprint yet? It’s so much more than just a way to control your printer over the internet, or to keep tabs on it over webcam when you’re off at work or fetching a beer. The 3D printing community has rallied around Octoprint, creating all sorts of handy plug-ins like Octolapse, which lets you watch the print blossom from the bed via time-lapse video.
Hackaday alum [Jeremy S Cook] wanted to devise a 3D-printable mount for a Raspi camera after finding himself inspired by [Tom Nardi]’s excellent coverage of Octoprint and Octolapse. He recently bought a wire shelving …read more
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CIPODS: Earbuds for Cochlear Implants
If you wear cochlear implants, sound doesn’t enter through your ear, but rather from microphones above your ears. That means earbuds are useless and you have to resort to large and clumsy over the ear headphones. [Mjcraig23] wanted the convenience of earbuds and set out to do what we all do: hack it.
The result is handily portable as you can see in the video, below. The trick is that he used replacement battery covers and then grafted earbud holders (called EARBUDi) to them using one of our favorite fasteners, zip ties. Apparently, you can wire a cable directly into …read more