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The team at Eschelle Inconnue wanted to "trace a sound cartography of Islam" in Marseilles, France, so they came up with a clever little GPS walking tour powered by an Arduino, MP3 playback module, and a surface transducer speaker. The team used a Processing app to define geographic areas where each MP3 file would play. An Arduino on the build queries a GPS module and selects the audio file … [Read more...]
[MyMagicPudding] wanted to try his hand at hobby electronics, so he decided to go all-in and build himself a PIP-Boy 3000. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the PIP-Boy 3000 is a wrist-mounted computer from the popular Fallout video game series. The PIP-Boy is based around an HTC Desire HD mobile phone, which [MyMagicPudding] mounted inside case custom made for him by [Skruffy] from the … [Read more...]
[Igor] helped his friend's family out by retrofitting an old Philco television with a newer flat panel (translated). The original conked out over thirty years ago, but the look of it still held quite a bit of nostalgia for his girlfriend's Grandmother. She showed it to him on a recent visit and asked if it could be restored. He told her that it would most likely never work again, but that he … [Read more...]
When we see artists like Daft Punk or Madeon working their magic in a live setting, we're always impressed with their controllers. Sample-based artist use controllers like the Monome and Kaoss Pad a lot, but these devices are fairly expensive. Thankfully, we live in an age of multitouch displays, so [Graham Comerford] came up with his own multitouch controller that does just about anything. The … [Read more...]
[Adam Outler] and [Rebellos] have been working feverishly to advance the world of mobile device hacking. They're attacking on two fronts, making it easier for the common hacker to monkey with the phone's firmware and OS with impunity, and by finding ways to make regular handsets into dev-hardware for low-level hacking. The Hummingbird Interceptor Bootloader (HIBL) circumvents the chain of … [Read more...]
Why build a pick and place machine from the ground up when you can start with a full featured, but non-functional unit, and bring it back to life. That's exactly what [Charliex] is doing with this Juki 360 rebuild. A bit of background is in order here. [Charliex] is working alongside other hackers at Null Space Labs to restore this hardware. The Los Angeles based hackerspace sponsored the … [Read more...]
[vinod] sent in his replica of a Snake game, the game to play on old Nokia dumb phones. The build is based on a PIC16F877 microcontroller just like previous Snake builds we've seen, but [vinod] didn't use physical buttons in his build. Instead, he used a Philips infrared TV remote to control the game. The infrared controller only takes up one pin on the microcontroller, as opposed to the 4 pins … [Read more...]
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