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At long last, LG has an OLED TV competitor in the US market. And it makes sounds with its screen. The post Sony’s First OLED TV Is Freaking Gorgeous appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Sony’s First OLED TV Is Freaking Gorgeous
LG’s 4K, HDR OLEDs dominated our top spot again this year. The post Best Television: LG B6 Series appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Best Television: LG B6 Series
Most hardware hackers have a clock project or two under their belt. A pretty common modification to a generic clock is to add lights to it, and if the clock has an alarm feature, it’s not too big of a stretch to try to get those lights to simulate a sunrise for a natural, peaceful morning alarm. The problem that a lot of us run across, though, is wiring up enough LEDs with enough diffusion to make the effect work properly and actually get us out of bed without an annoying buzzer.
Luckily for all of us, [jarek319] came up …read more
Subatomic physics is pretty neat stuff, but not generally considered within the reach of the home-gamer. With cavernous labs filled with racks of expensive gears and miles-wide accelerators, playing with the subatomic menagerie has been firmly in the hands of the pros for pretty much as long as the field has been in existence. But that could change with this sub-$100 DIY muon detector.
[Spencer Axani] has been fiddling with the idea of a tiny muon detector since his undergrad days. Now as an MIT doctoral candidate, he’s making that dream a reality. Muons are particles that are similar to …read more
Continue reading Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach
[Facelessloser] is interested in glanceable information. Glancable devices are things like your car’s dashboard, your wristwatch, or widgets on a smartphone lockscreen. The glanceable information distribution system in this case is rpi_status, [facelessloser’s] entry in the Enlightened Raspberry Pi Contest.
[Facelessloser] coupled a ring of eight WS2812 RGB LEDs with a small OLED screen managed by a the common ssd1306 controller. Since he was rolling his own board for this project, [faceless] some buttons and a BMP180 temperature sensor. Going with popular parts like this meant libraries like the Pimoroni unicorn hat library for the WS2812 were readily available.
[Alain Mauer] wanted to build something like a Google Glass setup using a small OLED screen. A 0.96 inch display was too large, but a 0.66 inch one worked well. Combining an Arduino, a Bluetooth module, and battery, and some optics, he built glasses that will show the readout from a multimeter.
You’d think it was simple to pull this off, but it isn’t for a few reasons as [Alain] discovered. The device cost about 70 Euro and you can see a video of the result, below.
The video shows a common problem and its solution. You are probing a …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Head-up For High Voltage
Apple squeezes every last bit of performance out of LCD. The post Why the iPhone 7’s Screen Looks So Amazing Despite Its Dated Tech appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Why the iPhone 7’s Screen Looks So Amazing Despite Its Dated Tech
Building your own smartwatch is a fun challenge for the DIY hobbyist. You need to downsize your electronics, work with SMD components, etch your own PCBs and eventually squeeze it all into a cool enclosure. [Igor] has built his own ESP8266-based smartwatch, and even though he calls it a wrist display – we think the result totally sells as a smartwatch.
His design is based on a PCB for a wireless display notifier he designed earlier this year. The design uses the ESP-12E module and features an OLED display, LEDs, tactile switches and an FT232R USB/UART interface. Our beloved TP4056 …read more
Continue reading DIY Smartwatch Based On ESP8266 Needs Classification
Building your own smartwatch is a fun challenge for the DIY hobbyist. You need to downsize your electronics, work with SMD components, etch your own PCBs and eventually squeeze it all into a cool enclosure. [Igor] has built his own ESP8266-based smartwatch, and even though he calls it a wrist display – we think the result totally sells as a smartwatch.
His design is based on a PCB for a wireless display notifier he designed earlier this year. The design uses the ESP-12E module and features an OLED display, LEDs, tactile switches and an FT232R USB/UART interface. Our beloved TP4056 …read more
Continue reading DIY Smartwatch Based On ESP8266 Needs Classification
Using a brighter, more focused backlight system, Sony’s pricey new Z series has its eyes on the picture-quality throne. The post Sony’s New Super-Bright TV Aims to Outshine OLED appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Sony’s New Super-Bright TV Aims to Outshine OLED
