No, I never wondered what meteorologists did when they were bored. I'm happy to discover that they're building slick little devices like this. It is a mini-ITX based system that uses StormPredator for the generating the display. Everything is housed inside an old marine weather display. It is a really thorough write up covering the entire build process even covering bugs found along the way. … [Read more...]
hackaday monday sipping
hello los amigos! it's monday, rainy, crappy, and disgusting outside! so looks like it's up to us to keep you entertained. because today we most certainly will. i must insist we start off with some fresh links. this is amazing. i can't believe it even exists and the cost to make it is nearly nothing if you have a kinkos or fedex store near you. this dude makes furniture out of fedex boxes. … [Read more...]
hackaday links
ouch. i burnt myself cooking up all these links. but now that they're done, I can dish them out to you guys. if you've got some cash and a ton of free time, make your own R2-D2. [xytec] be a real dork and make an ethernet testing keychain. [2bitwhore] an interesting method of scanning negatives. [foo] totally missing my childhood now. this is all about super soakers and water guns. they even … [Read more...]
USB rotary channel changer
Kentaro Fukuchi originally built this simple controller for an art installation. He needed an easy way for visitors to switch effects on an EffecTV system. To avoid writing device drivers he canabilized a cheap game pad. There were 16 available buttons but only 12 were needed. Once the rotary switch was wired to all of the buttons he could use simple scripting to grab the button press events. You … [Read more...]
Home built water injection
Okay, so you've built your manual boost controller and want to know what to add next? Water injection is the answer. Okay maybe if the original question was "what's the last thing you want to spray into your engine?" On turbo cars water injection helps cool the injection charge as it enters the engine. Compressing air generates a lot of heat and the hotter the air/fuel mixture is when it enters … [Read more...]
hackaday links
to anyone who attended the philly meeting last night, i hope you guys had a great time together and i apologize for not being able to come. some personal matters came up that i needed to attend to. so thanks for understanding. youse guys (in joe pesci voice) sent in alotta nice lookin links! because of that, i'm totally teasing you guys by only posting 5 links today. plus, this'll give you more … [Read more...]
Technics 1200 pitch lock removal
Yes, even the venerable Technics 1200 turntable can be improved. This simple, completely reversible, modification removes the automatic pitch lock from the mk2 model. If your decks have seen a lot of use the true zero point has probably drifted from the one marked on the scale. This is easy to tell by observing the strobe. If the large dots aren't stationary when the zero is locked, you're out of … [Read more...]
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