Hackaday Links: April 16, 2011

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Induction cook top provides power too We're familiar with induction cook tops but we never thought to power a microcontroller with one. [Thanks Hadez] Ping-Pong Uranium We've been big fans of the chain reaction demonstration using ping-pong balls and mouse traps ever since we saw [Mr. Wizard] do it back in the day. If you don't know what we're talking about, check out this … [Read more...]

Oscilloscope Piano Tuning 101

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[Todd Harrison] recently wrote in to tip us off on his submission to the Tektronix oscilloscope contest – using a scope to tune a piano. In his video he demonstrates how a Fast Fourier Transform can be used to determine the fundamental frequency of the note being played. This is a quick and easy way to determine if that key is in tune, and if not, how far off it is from the desired frequency and … [Read more...]