nice project thanks for the warning aboute the leds shame other wise a good project steve and buy the way readers have sent in my own hacks so there and they dont involve leds ok

Posted at 5:34 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by steve preece

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

Posted at 5:42 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by cal

well cal i have a nice playstation 2 eyetoy hack i use it as a web cam great little cam moded driver and also a computer hack to increase frame rates in pc games using a sound card does that appeal to u cal

Posted at 5:48 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by steve preece

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ill comment when i see it

Posted at 5:56 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by cal

Cal, Steve,
You two have so much in common: love of wasting other people’s time, inability to type the word “you”, matching IP addresses…

Posted at 6:02 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by Eliot Phillips

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

Posted at 6:03 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by steve preece

ok i will come clean she my wife u got me not wasteing time thoe new hacks realy r needed sorry if this offends u dont mean to

Posted at 6:10 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by mr s .preece

lol cal & steve owned by elliot

Posted at 6:14 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by miron

Props to Summers for using straight up digital logic instead of throwing a pic in there.

Posted at 6:16 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by koft

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.

Posted at 6:20 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by Pedro

damn, did you see the riskometer led thingy? eliot plx post that so mr i hat leds can see it. here is the link anyway:
http://www.hanssummers.com/electronics/equipment/riskometer/index.htm

happy now steve?

Posted at 6:42 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by you know who i am

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)?

Posted at 6:47 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by jfh

hate*

Posted at 6:48 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by you know who i am

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

Posted at 6:55 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by steve preece

jfh u got no chance greas monkey script so unreliable and there r such things as proxy server u no masking ur ip adress sorry boys ur stuck with us for now

Posted at 7:11 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by steve preece

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.

Posted at 7:17 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by Eliot Phillips

Immense wealth will follow after I create a keyboard hack preventing people from typing like six year olds.

Posted at 8:22 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by Christopher Hewitt

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 : )

Posted at 8:59 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by shadow

I’ll be the richest man in the world after I invent a way to stab people in the face over the internet.

Posted at 9:13 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by PacketMonkee

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.

Posted at 9:37 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by Benjamin Roy

“Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry: inappropriate or purely promotional comments may be removed.”

Posted at 10:02 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by Chris_Rybitski

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 at 10:29 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by jonored

heh no need for this hack — got a binary clock on my desk right now :)

Posted at 11:03 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by andrew

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.

—–

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 at 11:29 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by sean s.

Pretty neat. I’m not enough of a geek to want one, just enough of a geek to admire it! Ha.

Anyway, Steve’s various incoherent mumblings have got me thinking about new projects I can do with LEDs. In fact why don’t we all make lots of new hacks with LEDs. Lets put them in everything. Maybe Steve’s head will explode with childish frustration.

Posted at 11:32 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by bp

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.

—–

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

Posted at 11:46 pm on Jun 30th, 2006 by sean s.

I don’t see how LEDs aren’t cool. Humans are naturally attracted to light, like fire for instance…

you know what would be cool? An oLED matrix printed on a foldable mat
can we say, 19″ TV in my pocket? W00t
but i doubt that would be within my price range

Posted at 12:32 am on Jul 1st, 2006 by Matt

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…

Posted at 12:48 am on Jul 1st, 2006 by trebuchet03

all this “i ams hate led i ams child” stuff kindah makes me wanna make a led hack, il get on it right now.
or maybe tomorrow.

Posted at 7:24 am on Jul 1st, 2006 by you know who i am

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

Posted at 12:08 pm on Jul 1st, 2006 by bryan

i like binary clocks, but why do they all count the day in regular 24:60:60 format? the best use of a binary clock would be to count the time of day by powers of two. For instance the first light would tell you if it was am or pm, the second if it was after or before 6, the third would tell you if it was after or before 3 and 9. then 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 and 10.30 etc.

Posted at 2:45 pm on Jul 1st, 2006 by Stephen

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

Posted at 5:46 pm on Jul 1st, 2006 by grant

Since there seems to be some division on whether LED projects are appropriate or not, I recommend the following: 1.) adopting a new meme to amuse ourselves, namely, “ZOMG LEDS!!1!!1!”. 2.) someone should immediately take this to an extreme by making a blinking sign of LEDS that says just that.

Posted at 5:51 pm on Jul 1st, 2006 by Raiku