Etching panel faces on the cheap

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[James] came up with a way to make small numbers of high-contrast instrument panels cheaply, and without too much labor. We'll make with the bad news right away; you're going to need a laser cutter to use this method. Traditionally, panels that look like the one above are etched onto special composite that has one color at the surface and a contrasting color beneath. [James] started with plain old … [Read more...]

Propeller Platform Logic Analzyer

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[Wulfden's] new gadget is a 28 channel 3.3 volt digital logic analyzer. Powered by a Parallax Propeller running at 100MHz (permitting a 10 nanosecond sampling rate), using all though hole parts, and open design so it is possible to whip up your own. Data is collected and sent to a host computer running Propalyzer which looks to be a very nice logic analyzer front end, and sports all the needed … [Read more...]

DIY fizzy fruit

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[Rich] over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs took it upon himself to make eating fruit a little more enjoyable for his kids by infusing it with CO2 using his CO2inator. Observing the same principles used in making soft drinks and force-carbed beer, he decided to build a CO2 pressure chamber for use in his kitchen. He gathered a handful of easy to find components to construct his rig, including a … [Read more...]

Classical’s greatest hits on hardware’s greatest flops

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We get a lot of tips about old hardware playing recognizable tunes. But once in a while one of these projects goes above and beyond the others and this is a shining example of great hardware music. [FunToTheHead] put together a music video (embedded after the break) that shows his custom MIDI device playing Bach's Toccata in d minor. He left some comments that clue us into the way he did it. Most … [Read more...]