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We can't say we've had problems typing on our iPhones here at HackaDay, must be the elfin fingers, but for [Ben Kurtz] it was a real pain. The obvious solution is to carry around an Arduino, 9 volt battery, iPhone breakout board, a ps2 keyboard, and of course the iPhone itself. Well, maybe it could be a little smaller with fewer parts, but at least it works. The Arduino reads input from the … [Read more...]
We've been watching the development of the snega2usb since it's debut on Hackaday. Now it's grown up and is ready to be manufactured. In the low quality video above [Matthias] shows some of the latest high quality additions to the board. It now has a case, shiny new firmware, production made PCB, and game pad ports. The snega2usb is shipping this December for those who preorder now. … [Read more...]
Quick: which pins are used for I2C on an ATmega168 microcontroller? If you’re a true alpha geek you probably already know the answer. For the rest of us, ChipDB is the greatest thing since the resistor color code cheat sheet. It’s an online database of component pinouts: common Atmel microcontrollers, the peripheral ICs sold by SparkFun, and most of the 4000, 7400 and LMxxx series … [Read more...]
It seems like creating an automatic dorm room door opener is a rite-of-geek-passage each fall. [Adam], a student at Vassar, passed with flying colors by creating this clean setup. We've got video, more pictures, and a description after the break. … [Read more...]
[Rob928] has done a fantastic job converting his Dell mini9 into a tablet. He has done several updates, such as an SSD hard drive and touchscreen. The final product looks quite nice. From a few feet away, we wouldn't have noticed that it was a home made one. We've seen several tablet conversions before from macbooks to EeePCs. [via Engadget] … [Read more...]
'There's a sucker born every minute" -P.T. Barnum This morning we've been having a heated discussion at the Hack a Day offices (read: legion of doom) over Dyson's new offering, a "bladeless fan". At first this seemed extremely exciting, but how is the air being moved? We were hoping for a device operating via ionic wind but that's simply not the case. Some of us think the bladeless claim is an … [Read more...]
Behold the Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod (DASH). The video above was presented at the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. In it we see the toils of a team from UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab. They've developed a robot propulsion system that mimics some of the best aspects of cockroaches and other insect bodies: speed, economy of motion, ability to … [Read more...]
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