Also, congrats to reader [j guillory] for being the first with a great quality, MPG version of the All-American Rejects performance on Letterman. He’s won himself a prize pack with a t-shirt, stickers, and some buttons! Congrats! You can view the video here (if it’s still up). Great performance. All runners up (like 3 others) will get extra stickers and buttons in their next sticker SASE.
Also note I’m no longer giving out buttons. I have about 20 left that we need for Defcon. So sorry folks, stickers for now. Buttons will be re-ordered probably. We also will be selling t-shirts soon. Maybe even packs. Like a t-shirt, sticker pack, and a few buttons for a good price. Exciting eh? Go read the HOW-TO, watch the video, and sit back for Defcon. <3
cool and all, but that “hack” is just a switch and an led.
cool and all, but that “hack” is just a switch and an led.
that tutorial sucks!
lol @ comments, i kept thinking there was something else coming… nope just a switch in a box
i dont understand there is a dc adapter just to power the led?
damn, i sent a dvd in the mail today with the aar performance from the letterman show, i wanted that dam proze pack
i second the sucking tutorial. it’s a decent idea, but implemented like crap. it basically says put everything in the box and wire it up. for a tutorial it would be nice to have a bit of theory on what your hooking up and where. hook it up to what? no wiring schematic and the pictures show very little. please edit the pictures and bring out the details. it’s great that you have a bass in the background, but crop and set your levels so we don’t have to be distracted by it. plus the parts list is lacking in where actually to obtain the parts. for a first project, it lacks a lot of detail.
don’t get me wrong. i appreciate people putting up tutorials on projects. but give some decent info so that it can be followed.
( and what’s with the killing my correct use of caps? )
its hip to have everything lowercase these days.
damn, i had the video up completely within 20 minutes of the show… was mine not high enough quality?
a switch and two 1/4″ plugs… whoooo… better wiat ’til i get my electrical engineering degree…
eh, oh well, if anyone wants it (the other appears to be down) go at it http://fadedcode.com/show.mpeg until my bandwidth is used up/the mpaa hunts me down.
sorry, mine is down, i ended up having to make room for something else. if someone wants it, just ask or email zachman123@gmail.com
why did the guys with the rec of the show got stuff, was it a contest or something?
i didn’t know ramsy was still doing leet hacker tips. next we watch some boob bbq a laptop…
maybe we need a hackaday kiddy section, for say the under 12 crowd. serious thought, it could have things like basic soldering, crap like this, messing with the flash unit in a disposable camera… (getting shocked by those and blinding your classmates on middle school feild trips was always a good way to kill time on the bus.)
next up, how to cut a board in half.
when making it look good is the hardest thing in a how-to, there’s kind of a problem. :p
“next up, how to cut a board in half.”
does the board have a hackaday sticker on it and a guitar behinf it?
hey everyone, be quiet!!!!!!
there are some of us out here who don’t know much about electronics and such, and this is a good way to get started
i need to make some shirts for my club. i need a link to cheap tshirt making less than 4 bucks a shirt? i know hackaday bought cheap shirts lol
send the website link to xtremedissa@gmail.com
remember i’m going to be using my club logo on these shirts
ehh, i was expecting a little more from the how-to… =/
and i didnt know we were having a contest for the shirts and stickers yet. =[ i thought we had to send in something like ‘hacks’ for that?? you know, so we earn it?
perfect i need one of those
there’s no rating system so you don’t know if it’s going to be advanced material or a very basic “how to wire a switch”. i like finding the equivalent of a “hello world!” example when i’m learning something brand new. i know some ee so this wasn’t informative and i can make fun of that crappy bass.
oh yeah, and with all this swag it’s starting to look like g4 tv. can i get some factor gear for kids?
~lemme but it to ya this way: if someone sent you that tutorial as their hack, would you post it? i doubt it.
when i sent for buttons all i got back was an empty envelope :'(
i’m looking for the aar video, anyone still have it?
well put, skab/#23.