2019 Ford F-150 Limited combines rugged luxury with Raptor power

The best-selling vehicle in North America is a pickup truck. The world might roll their eyes at that American fact, but there’s good reason for it. Americans like big, capable, and luxurious. That’s what the 2019 F-150 in its Limited package … Continue reading 2019 Ford F-150 Limited combines rugged luxury with Raptor power→

Skoda students turn SUV into rugged one-off Mountiaq pickup truck

Students at the Skoda Vocational School (SVS) have finished their training year with a bang. The Skoda Mountiaq concept pickup truck was eight months in the making and morphs a Kodiaq SUV into a monstrous-looking truck in brilliant Sunset Ora… Continue reading Skoda students turn SUV into rugged one-off Mountiaq pickup truck→

Building Your Own Guitar Pickup From Scrap

Pickups are a key part of an electric guitar’s sound. You can spend a king’s ransom on tracking down just the right Vintage American Original 1950s Whatevers (TM) to put in your Spudocaster, but it’s not the only way. [Keith Decent] decided to make a pickup from scratch, using only …read more

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Fidget Spinner Shreds with Bass Guitar Pickup

Hackaday continues to embrace our implacable spinning overlords-of-the-heart.

[zazzazzero] posted a YouTube video showing him fidgeting one of those spinners that had been hooked up to a bass guitar pickup. It makes a rather awesome rumbling sound as the pickup registers the bearings rolling around, and when hooked up to a Digidelay effects pedal he moved it beyond the rumble to more of an industrial growl like a factory hum. He also got interesting sounds by tapping on the spinner with a screwdriver.

Then he switched up to using an iPad audio app called Shaper to modify the resulting sound …read more

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