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As devices get smaller and smaller, it becomes a bigger challenge for engineers to squeeze a product's components into an ever shrinking footprint. [Bulgarien] certainly found this to be the case with his Asus Eee Pad Transformer. He was not impressed with the volume or clarity of the tablet’s audio, so he disassembled it to see if he could somehow improve its performance. Once he got the Eee … [Read more...]
[Julian] wanted a way to remotely control various appliances and lights around his house without spending an arm and a leg on home automation. He also desired the ability to easily switch what items he was controlling without a ton of hassle. Since he couldn’t find anything reasonably priced to do what he desired, he built his own SMS-triggered remote control system. He designed his system to … [Read more...]
Although not everyone has the ability to make a hacked Pong game Like [Marcelo], even fewer have the ability or the creativity to come up with the elaborate hack that he did. The basic premise of his game is a version of pong played on a breadboard with a 8x8 matrix of LEDs. The controls are really what sets this hack apart. Instead of using a paddle controller or normal switches, small … [Read more...]
Yup. We have all been there. You throw together a really elaborate Arduino project that only really needs a couple pins, far fewer than the Arduino's native microcontrollers have to offer. Well fear not, [Thatcher] has solved just this problem by adding some ATTtiny cores to the Arduino IDE. His blog details the process from grabbing the MIT developed core files and loading them up in your Arduino … [Read more...]
[Olli] sent in his writeup of a musical instrument he made called the Black Deck. [Olli]'s instrument was inspired [Jimi Tenor]'s photophone - a transparent disk attached to a fan and photocell. A transparent disk is placed on the turntable [Olli] rescued during a dumpster diving expedition. A light shines though the optical disk and is picked up by phototransistors. After writing a program to … [Read more...]
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