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[Andrew] wanted a tablet computer but is tired of waiting for Apple to come up with one. eBay and Craig's list to the rescue, he picked up some parts and built his own tablet. You can take a look at the video tour of it after the break, or peruse parts one, two, three, and four of his work log. The unit is assembled from a 500 MHz iBook. [Andrew] picked up a touchscreen from ebay and … [Read more...]
Alpha-Geek Clock Oh this one's good! This clock has a built-in WWVB receiver to make sure the time is always accurate. But with just one LED as the display we wish you good luck when reading it! A whole bunch of info (time, day, year, etc) is blinked out in binary encoded decimal. [Thanks Tymm] Standard Time Manual labor. This clock is an art installation in Rotterdam. In the video … [Read more...]
[Jarek] found a non-functional robotic arm sitting around and wanted to get it working again. By adding a few custom boards to an Arduino he managed to do just that. The arm is driven by six stepper motors, each having four control wires. To handle all of these [Jarek] used TIP120 transistors to protect the controller. This still leaves the problem of 24 control wires to connect. By using a … [Read more...]
[Jeffery] hacked the Bluetooth standard in order to use this bracelet as a custom display. He took up our challenge to hack the device when we first saw it back in February. In order to display his own messaged he looked into how the HFP is implemented in the Bluetooth stack. The details are shared in his readme file but it goes something like this: The Bluez package needs to be compiled with a … [Read more...]
Nixie tubes make for fun projects but the fun can't start until you get your hands on the hardware. Well, [Dieter's] got you covered with his one-stop repository on Nixie tubes and where to get them. We know that Woz's watch isn't currently available because of a lack of tiny tubes an obsolete accelerometer. Ladyada's Ice Tube Clock depends on a rare 8-digit VFD tube. But you can get around parts … [Read more...]
We've been watching this project ever since [Dann] emailed us about the first prototype back in September. This bassline generator has a lot of functions we like, such as an adjustable melody seed, light-sensitive controls, and device interactivity. Line up a row of them and they'll sync up the beat, building layers of sound on top of each other (see the first video after the break). The system … [Read more...]
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