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[Mike] sent in a project he's been working on - a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny BASIC form, it fits in the very limited RAM of the Arduino. True to Tiny BASIC's assembler roots, [Mike]'s C port makes extensive use of the "infinitely-abusable" goto statement. Kernighan and Ritchie said … [Read more...]
[Doug Paradis] found a simple way to use dials instead of hands on a clock. Actually, that's pretty much the entire hack... use dials instead of hands. He grabbed a battery-operated clock movement from the hobby store, then printed out one dial for hours, another for minutes, robert's your mother's brother, and you've got a new clock. The case seen above is laser cut, with a window and index line … [Read more...]
[Thomas] wrote in to tell us about his latest project, the "AlarmTock". Like many hacks, this was inspired by some outdated hardware, a radio alarm clock from 1992. After finally getting fed up with his old alarm clock, [Thomas'] wife purchased him a new one for around $10 from a local retail store. Although most likely an improvement, [Thomas] wondered why after so many years he still had to … [Read more...]
This is a picture of the guts of a diy Segway project (translated). Everything fits into a tiny space under the platform upon which the rider stands. It's tight, but makes for a sleek look when the diamond plate is covering up all of the internals. An ATmega644 controls the vehicle. It does so by using a PID control scheme to monitor a gyroscope, driving the wheels to maintain the center of … [Read more...]
Over the last two weeks, we've seen some pretty crazy and potentially dangerous stuff, like a stun glove and modern day alchemy. For our high voltage theme finale, we couldn't pass up [Photonicinduction]'s YouTube channel. Best known for his self-destructing washing machine (the source of this animated .gif), [Photonicinduction] is also the brainchild behind the hair dryer flame thrower and his … [Read more...]
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