Hackaday Links

It was a decent weekend and it sounds like I’m going to ToorCon.  Anybody else planning on attending?

Yesterday I asked for a decent hovercraft link. [lehmon] says he followed these instructions and it worked great. Mirrored at i-hacked.

UPDATE: I’m an idiot [Logan]

The minisub yesterday was cool, but the mini Nautilus is awesome. [anonymous]

Here is an SWR for your O-scope [mizar]

List of browsing proxies [Matt I]
2D barcode decoding [nanobot]
Cooking with your sunshade [deniz]
Guitar tuning assistant for your PSP [darkk]
Build your own tattoo machine, no don’t [Billy Bones]
Barbie menstrual mod, I am so, so, very sorry [chris]
[ryan] reminded me of Newton poetry, ah memories
The Pope doesn’t want you to build your own religion [bird603568]
[Dylan] made his own Hack-A-Day stickers
Robot attacks Japanese prime minister
Whax and Auditor demo videos collected in one torrent, (.rar grr) [via Digg]

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Hackaday Links

Yes, the “Best of WIN” are auto posted by someone else in the system and will probably continue to be posted long after I’m dead. If you are wondering, they turned off commenting because of us; someone seems to have deleted the comments though.

[toby whittome] is quite happy using GPS on his bicycle
Telemarketing counter-script [angrygoatface]
Adventures of iGuy, looks like he hasn’t gotten very far [Anonymous]
[preston] pointed us to these tshirts, I personally prefer Downhill Battle and Creative Commies
Build a hovercraft, somebody submit a better link [Howard]
Go cart links [Howard]
[tdstr] suggests building a centronics cable for your CVS camcorder instead of the Palm cable
While you’re at it you might as well change the screens [caRpespasm]
Homemade submarine [Billy Bones]

I’ll leave you with this XP alarm clock from [kth]:

Use the “Scheduled Tasks” feature that comes with Windows, but when the wizard asks for a program, instead supply an mp3 filename. When the time comes, the task scheduler will open the mp3 file with the associated app. I just tested it and it definitely works.

Wait, one more thing: What do you want to see on or change about Hack-A-Day? That should make for some interesting reading.

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Macro Photography Rig

macro rg

This macro photography rig is really incredible. The system uses two lasers to trigger the camera when photographing flying insects. The site has an extensive writeup of the trials and tribulations involved in this build. The D100 shutter ended up needing to be replaced by a faster one. Of course the article also has lots of example images.

[thanks unstable_geek]

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Wimshurst Electrostatic Machine

wimshurst

When I saw the subject line “homebuilt Wimshurst Machine” I was thinking “sausage maker?” Turns out that a Wimshurst machine was an early electrostatic generator design. It is more efficient than its friction based predecessors. The one featured here was built in 1976, but the site has a ton of other designs. If you just want to learn the principle behind the Wimshurst, that’s there too.

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