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We all love getting a good deal on sweet parts, but not all of them are documented. Some of us have trained our eyes and brains to spot “timesinks”, having been burned before. The rest sit down with whatever pile of stuff they have on hand, and figure out how to talk to that HP Media Center VFD. [Jayeson] found some good deals on some Vacuum Fluorescent Displays from a HP Media Center … [Read more...]
[Punish3r] wanted to have power for prototyping on the go. What he came up with is this little thing above. Inside you'll find common components that let the unit provide 10 amp hours of current with a 12V 500mA output. The storage capacity is provided by a dozen Lithium batteries. These 3.7V cheapies are wired in parallel behind a protection board. For charging and discharging, a … [Read more...]
[Luis] is very particular about his gaming controllers. He wanted to mod a Six Axis controller to fit into a Nerf gun body but there wasn't really enough room for all of the components. After shopping around for a while he discovered a wired gun controller made by Namco which was developed for use with the game Time Crisis. He picked one up and went to work replacing the guts with a set pulled … [Read more...]
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