what u posted then steve?after all the carry on u do no leds,

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ill comment when i see it

ok cal think u will love it just what we need on hackaday not a led in sight love steve

lol cal & steve owned by elliot

eliot, i love the site, I really do (long time reader, new poster).

however, would it be so hard to add a new deny from line into apache.conf/.htaccess?

or atleast add an ignore feature into the comments code. or get this, wrap comments with tags like this; <span class=”poster.steve preece”> (or whatever the poster’s name is) and i’ll hack up a moz extension to set certain spans too display=”none”… hell, i’ll even document it and make sure i use a grand total of sh!t loads of LEDs.

jeez, some people. thanks for your time.

You might be able to write a greasemonkey script to do that with what’s already there. :D (I wouldn’t be so irritated if Cal/Steve actually, like, used punctuation or something.)

Heh, this looks like something I should try when I have the time. Why the led warning though? Is there something about leds I don’t know (Highly likely)?

sorry pedro that would still not work u would have to invent ur own browser and i dont think ur that clever ru

In honor of the LED week that wasn’t here is [Zach Dicklin]‘s head lamp http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~zdicklin/headLamp/

He sent it in to us, but MAKE posted it first, so I didn’t.

As to that keyboard mod, I think I have a workable idea:
Replace keys on normal keyboard with metal surface keys, add a piggyback board with 220v mains and a uC to monitor keystrokes. When a threshold for mispellings is exceeded, turn on 220v to the key surface.

Sweaty hands may need an additional hack to dispose of a body : )

This isn’t a hack. It’s a how-to.

Ok, I have a hack, and I don’t know why hackaday doesn’t use it. click on my name, and click on $30 serial Bluetooth adapter. I have been working on it for the last month.

Decidedly shiny hack; I like. Very nice with the scap construction. reminds me of what can be done with steel – you’d be amazed at what a truck’s leaf spring can do if you apply a bit of persuasive rearrangement to it :) – woot recycling :)

jfh: LEDs are objected to by some members of the readership. Therefore, mocking.

And as for the quesiton of filtering; dropping anything with the sequence of bytes 0×20 0×75 0×20 would seem a good start. Perhaps have 0×20 0×75 0×72 0×20, as well, just in case.

Posted Jun 30, 2006, 9:37 PM ET by Benjamin Roy

This isn’t a hack. It’s a how-to.

Ok, I have a hack, and I don’t know why hackaday doesn’t use it. click on my name, and click on $30 serial Bluetooth adapter. I have been working on it for the last month.

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All things being equal, you merely cracked open a piece of plastic and soldered wires to some well-labeled contact points.

At any rate, elliot,

Posted Jun 30, 2006, 9:37 PM ET by Benjamin Roy

This isn’t a hack. It’s a how-to.

Ok, I have a hack, and I don’t know why hackaday doesn’t use it. click on my name, and click on $30 serial Bluetooth adapter. I have been working on it for the last month.

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All things being equal, you merely cracked open a piece of plastic and soldered wires to some well-labeled contact points. If this clock or any of his other projects are not considered hacks, then how can you consider what you have done to be a hack?

Here’s my short list for what is considered a hack:

a. Gaining some secret or creative functionality out of a piece of hardware or software.

b. A quick and inelegant method of getting a job done (or pranking people).

As far as a lot of us are concerned, this hack easily falls under “b”. He could have done this with a microcontroller, surface mount components and a silkscreened double-sided PCB. Instead, he threw it together with parts that an average hobbyist electronics engineer has in their toolbox. That’s hack enough for me.

At any rate, I love his site. I think that the DIY Voltmeter also looks pretty and simple to make.
http://www.hanssummers.com/electronics/equipment/voltmeter/index.htm

Is it just me… or has the community been arguing about what is allowed or not allowed to enter the realm of ‘hackdome’ a lot recently?

Really, it just misses the point… is it so hard to appreciate the work of someone else (perhaps give advice if you’ve done something similar)? Flame me/this if you disagree — just put aside the superiority complex…

humm, led’s are freaking awesome. i dunno why anyone would hate them. they provide a simple way to show something, with out having to fiddle with an lcd of any sort. keep the led hacks comming…
haha i made something like this for my seventh grade science fair, i don’t think it told the exact time, it just counted up in binary from the time it was turned on in seconds…. I dont think it was too terribly accurate, either.
sweet project, keep em comming hackaday.
-bryan

I wonder how hard it would be to design a binary clock which syncs to NTP? IANAEE, obviously.