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[EverestX] works in the Security industry and is often required to recover or penetrate various systems for a variety of reasons. He wanted to create an all-in-one tool that he could easily carry from job to job which would provide him with several essential functions. He required that the device house a bootable operating system through which he can perform his work, have an Internet connection … [Read more...]
[Vincenzo] wanted to read some 82S129 bipolar proms, and why not, they were very common in the 1980's arcade scene. The problem is that its kind of an odd ball part now, and typically only (even) more expensive EPROM programmers can read them. An Arduino, breadboard and some quick scripting quickly takes care of that problem with this Arcade Rom Reader. You stick the prom in your breadboard, … [Read more...]
[Jordan] writes in to show us his hacked up car stereo. [Jordan]'s 2004 Subaru, like many of our cars, does not offer any kind of auxiliary input, and aux-in/mp3 adapters tend to run on the not so cheap side of the price scale. Even a replacement head unit was too rich for his blood. So it was time to wire something to the old head unit. On inspecting the radio's PCB [Jordan] managed to locate … [Read more...]
[Ginge] sent in this fun little project. He gave himself 3 hours to complete a hack (not including research time) and managed to come up with this cool activity meter. He handles the entire project like it is some kind of contest. Ground rules are laid out, requiring practicality of the final product, minimum investment, and almost complete use of junk pile pieces. Using an old hard drive for … [Read more...]
It always blows our mind to see the things that people dream up when playing with Lego. Given enough time, you could likely replicate almost any mechanical device with the right amount and type of blocks. [Friedemann Wachsmuth] recently wrapped up construction on a very impressive Super-8 movie projector with the help of his friend [Kalle]. The projector is fully functional, and is made … [Read more...]
[Dino], who has become a regular face here on hackaday, sent us one of his weekly projects that we thought was pretty cool. He wanted to shoot some video of photographs to commemorate his late mother. The goal was to achieve the "Ken Burns Effect", but in hardware instead of just doing it in software. To do this, he built a 2 axis rig, very similar to many home made CNC machines we've seen. He … [Read more...]
[Paul] wrote in to tell us about some interesting Arduino latency issues he helped nail down and fix on the Arduino. It seems that [Michu] was having some problems with controlling his Rainbowduino project we featured earlier this year, and he couldn’t quite figure out why he was experiencing such huge delays when sending and receiving data. Searching online for answers turned up very … [Read more...]
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