maybe matchbox crashes with pyro and sound effects?

Slow news day?
Really now.

Whats the purpose of this??? I remember when I started reading hackaday, there was only one hack a day and I was learning something every time,, NOW, we have about 2 maybe more hack a day, if we can call it a “hack”, and these are useless “hack” like this. So, please stop this.

o.O

WOW.

It seems like a game of limbo, how low can they go?

Next time, find some true hacks to post, this rubbish is pissing me off,

Yeah, and its not like there isn’t tons of GOOD material they could be using instead.

Hell, I submitted cool stuff I stumbled across for awhile, but like everyone else I eventually stopped as it never ever got published – not enough Arduinos I guess.

This no substance crap is getting old.

i’d rather crash windows, but matchbox cars recover easier, WTG

I liked it better when you just stole articles from Instructables on the days you were too stoned to do your job.

I just don’t see what the issue is here. Somebody needed a quick fix for a switch and grabbed what has handy and turned it into something else besides the intended purpose. Wait… there is another word for that. Oh damn, what is it? Can’t think of it right now. People do it all the time. They have entire websites about it. Damn! I wish I could think of it. Oh well.

I want to put them in my ass

In snort this is shit. See comment about your other shit post for reference (you know the lame ass lego stand post WTF?!?!).

wow… a switch… this is usually the kind of technology that is unveiled at MIT! You are SOOOO lucky to have this on here… what’s next?

I GOT IT!

do away with the switch… what would happen if there were no switch and a staight wire was used? IT WOULD STAY ON ALL THE TIME!

we’ve all had enough arduino “hacks”… I agree with the guy below… i liked it much better when you just stole hacks from other sites and posted them here…. it’s too boring to come here any more…

SEE YA!

IMAGINE THAT!

BEST. Arduino. HACK. EVAH!

WANT MOAR!!!

But seriously, Troll bait much? I ROFLED so much over this article and the comments below it I had to go FAP!

Thanks HAD, you made my day :)

try moist dog turds

What if, instead of Matchbox cars, they used…

wait for it…

real cars!

And four Arduinos!

You’re welcome.

The next picture in hist stream explains it just a bit better. He is using the arduino to detect the collision between the cars and trigger a camera to capture the crash.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unavoidablegrain/3924334227/in/photostream/

“This one is a little puzzling. Does he intend to keep using the cars or was he just fooling around? Is he working on a toy that does something when they crash? Was he merely bored and wanted to see what he could attach to his Arduino. We may never know.”

Step One: Click on next item in stream
Step Two:…
Step Three: Profit from his description of what he is using the switch for.

I keep coming to this site for the same reason I still watch thundercats once in a while. I think, man it used to be so cool, I gotta see that again. Then when I watch it or come to this site I’m filled with a cold realization that I was either easily impressed because I was 8 or I’m a fucking idiot.

Considering I didn’t start reading this site until much later in the timeline of my life it can’t be that I was easily impressed because I was 8 so I must be a fucking idiot for continuing to read this site. And yet here I am again, really its getting to the point that I am almost ready to accept what you post as possible hacks and this makes me sad, like put a gun in my mouth sad. Please don’t kill me hackaday……please.

wow great hack! ‘ve got to figure out how to do this at home and show all of my friends so we can turn on some LEDs with our toy cars. excellent yuhu!

Yesterday I used two wires as a switch. If you just touch them, it’s like a push-button. But if you twist the ends, it’s like an on-off button. Isn’t it cool or what?
Oh, it’s not using an arduino, so I don’t think it will get published on hack-a-day :(

[holding a torch AND a pitchfork]

@ Helladay lol no shit right? I was just curious if you guys get a kickback everytime someone mentions the Arduino? If so you guys should be asking for a bigger kickback as much as you talk about how f’n great it is. Just aayin.

I think the car on the left is a Majorette, not a matchbox.

/useless

OMG!

I FOUND TEH VIDOES!

Carz touching – maek me fap!

But anyway, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen similar switches integrated into toys like these, not just toys, also the fact that cars chassis usually serve as the ground gives me the impression that this inspired this thing [that's not a hack].

For whatever its worth, this photo was documenting an early stage of a project that actually did have a practical application (however modest). I used the ability to detect the moment of impact between the cars to flash a bank of LEDs. That way, I could take a picture of the moment of impact between two rolling cars by leaving a camera in position with the shutter open. With the lights off, a short enough LED flash would act like a short exposure of just the collision. Check out the rest of the documentation photos and some of the results here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unavoidablegrain/sets/72157622259091291/ I’ve also written up the results of the process and what I learned here: http://itp.nyu.edu/~gab305/blog/?p=3

Oh, the Huge Manatee!

Greg:

You ever heard about sarcasm?

Greg – The vitriol isn’t hard to understand; previously this was an awesome site. Now the person who brought us slothra and the arduino mousetrap managed to sink even lower – an accomplishment many didn’t think was possible.

Not that anything you did was inherently wrong, but do you honestly think it was newsworthy? That using an arduino as yet another common simple device was an accomplishment needing coverage?

“All contents copyright © 2008, Hack A Day. All Rights Reserved.”

I think this shows exactly how bad this site is managed…

i wish someone would post a hack about how to delete websites from a remote location,so i could put this miserable “hack” site out of it’s misery.

no court would convict me,since it would be OBVIOUSLY be a mercy killing.

..now if you replace the toy cars with two golden spike dildos and shove one in each of Caleb’s orifice, that should trigger a reaction of some kind..maybe upgrade to a voltage regulator and…and…what’s the use, nobody listens to me anymore…silly wabbit

@Remarknl
:”“All contents copyright © 2008, Hack A Day. All Rights Reserved.”

I think this shows exactly how bad this site is managed…”

I think so too.

BTW: I think the site should enforce email confirmations again so idiotic noobs such a myself don’t flame… Or maybe we can all have accounts someday. (When pigs fly) I say we will never have an account system. Prove me wrong.

sigh

How stoned author of this article was when he wrote this. What drugs he use ? can I have some ?

uelectronics.info is also a great place….
i used to lurk at pyroelectro but the site’s dead

(sigh) The arduino-equipped toothbrush arrived even sooner than I expected.

Coming up – turning an arduino into a 555. (Oops. My bad. That’s what this already is.)

@ Strider

HA Good one

@jamieriddles – I like the hack! I liked it so much, it got a link on my site :)

WANT MOAR!