Hackaday links

posted Aug 18th 2005 8:00am by Eliot Phillips
filed under: Uncategorized

I’ve used coral cache for anything I thought might go down. You can always remove the .nyud.net:8090 if there are problems.

[daguuy]’s Portable N64
USB to RS-232 dongle, circa 2003, there are probably cheaper versions now [Omega-x]
Ambigram generator [tX]
Search engine for free code [Caleb Jones]
Speech recognition circuit [M@RK]
Make a solar cell [plain old adam]
Molex pin removers [Omega-x]
Water heater sized subwoofer [GRimo]
OSX in your browser [Voteccow]
Bubble torch [Omega-x]
PS2 on/off with door chime [digitalFX]
Dual boot OSX/XP [XyTec]
Ghetto PC [J to the D]
[Tea Vui Huang] Podcast to AMR converter for mobile phones
The kernel in color [angrygoatface]
[53tab5] has built a couple of these line follower ‘bots before
[Bill Dudley] decided to get on the modified FM transmitter bandwagon
TV in your drive bay [dama9ed]
Rockbox open source firmware for your Archos [vor]
If you missed [mark]’s comment yesterday, here is Ben & Jerry’s Flash thermoacoustics presentation

Thanks for hookin’ a brotha’ up!

Comments [13]

Reader Comments

that sub looks yummy.. and that pc is definitly ghetto-ized. *nod*

Posted at 9:11 pm on Aug 18th, 2005 by ry

wow, the PS2&Xbox in one case that the dude in the PS2 doorbell link is awesome.

Ghetto pc is um… dope… yo.

how do people solder those tiny SMT componets like the ones on the usb-rs232 dongle? i’d say that it’d be impossible to do with a regular iron.

Posted at 10:24 pm on Aug 18th, 2005 by Captsnuffy

Captsnuffy–I think they do have special mini-irons. The guy at the computer repair shop mentioned it (Me and Pa tried to fix my brother’s laptop by ourselves…it eventually arced and I felt like a dumbass.).

Posted at 10:36 pm on Aug 18th, 2005 by joshua holbrook

and i thought they were “for tobacco use only”. Who knew your local head shop had the major components for a high-temp blowtorch? seriously though, your average water pipe would be perfect for the bubbletorch.

Posted at 12:31 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by precisionentropy

That bubble torch is awesome, I might have to try and make one of thoes.

Posted at 12:42 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by toaster

i noticed that link to my portable N64 doesn’t work, here’s the real one: http://www.freewebs.com/daguuy/m64.htm

Posted at 12:49 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by daguuy

Could somebody explain the “OSX in your browser” link? Is this supposed to be some sort of web-based OS X interface with web-based apps, or is this just a fancy interface for a website about a special version of OS X?

Posted at 1:20 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by Bucky

sorry to disappoint you, it’s just a fancy interface.

Posted at 5:01 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by togi

I respect the effort of the USB dongle, but man is that thing huge!
They are pocket-sized now!

Still a very nice way to demonstrate the concept, however.
A built-it-yourself USB to Serial dongle would be an awesome educational project on so many levels.

Posted at 6:15 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by strider_mt2k

Bunch of fat, lazy kids can’t even get their asses up to push the on/off button on their PS2? Wonderful…

Posted at 8:12 am on Aug 19th, 2005 by dm14

I dont know why nobody mentioned the line follower robots, they are friggin’ cool, im gonna make one next week. super cool shit, as always thanks for the links guys, eliot, hackaday and weblogs inc..

Posted at 12:08 pm on Aug 19th, 2005 by fucter

That molex connector link seems to be dead or broken, so I didn’t get to see what they suggest using for pin removers.
For the pins inside of the larger power connectors (i.e. to a hard drive), I use the straws off of CapriSun juices. They are the perfect size, and since I am friggin addicted to Red Berry, I have a large surplus of them on my floor. hehe.

Posted at 10:03 am on Aug 20th, 2005 by Indigent

anyone have a mirror of the bubble torch and/or the portable n64, gah i hate freewebs, and bravenet

Posted at 5:48 am on Aug 23rd, 2005 by calgar