Hackaday Links: Sunday January 24

Everyone Remembers Free day right? [The Ideanator’s] Bus Pirate came in such a nice red box – he decided to make it his permanent case.

[Chico] is in the middle of making a CNC, but decided to make some music with the steppers in the mean time.

What looks like an old wooden box is actually [Ludvig’s] super sweet retro arcade cabinet. Complete with a giant emergency stop red button.

Who says Legos are dead? [Carl] used them to create a simple and cheap diffraction grating projector. Including video!

[Torchris] used an Ethernet shield exactly as it was designed, sending data over Ethernet. Still a nice hack for those needing help working with Ethernet shields and Arduino.

Finally [Robert] let us know about a friends Arduino Binary Clock. But we think his elegant use of tape and a sand blaster to engrave glass is cooler.

16 thoughts on “Hackaday Links: Sunday January 24

  1. I’m pretty sure that it’s universally recognized that the plural form of ‘Lego Bricks’ can be Legos, regardless of the fact that Lego is referring to the company and the pieces are technically Lego Bricks.

    Don’t be a retarded semantics nazi unless it’s really important.

  2. That diffraction grating projector must look amazing in a fog filled room or outside in a slightly foggy night.
    I’ve got a pair of glasses that came with a ‘trippy’ VHS some years ago which do the same kind of effect when you look through them, I’ll have to see if it’s possible to make a diffraction grating projector from them.

    And I’m with GD; Lego, not Legos.

  3. that’s it rub it in you got parts and the rest of us go screwed….. When I could not get in to the site I tried later and was just going to pay for the parts only to find they were now out of stock….so I bought them else where cheaper…

  4. And also, they could have just as easily not given away $100K+ in free stuff, Sparkfun didnt screw anyone over, they were generous enough to give away more then they said they would.
    I’m a little sad, but thats life.

  5. “And also, they could have just as easily not given away $100K+ in free stuff, ”

    well with their markups (I mean seriously 5$ for a 65 cent cd4051 stuck on a chunk of pcb)they only really gave away about 10-20 grand

    so quit acting like them giving out 100 grand was some gigantic noble thing, they are screwing you even when its free

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