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In the 60s 70s and early 80s, roadies would lug hundreds of pounds of musical equipment around to gigs. Although the 8x10 Ampeg bass cabinet wasn't fun in the least, the absolute worst was the Hammond organ. These behemoths of tonewheel organs sounded great, but moving them was a pain. For better or worse, portable MIDI keyboards caught up with the sound quality of these old electromechanical … [Read more...]
Last week we reported on the upcoming 2012 Robogames competition would be held in San Mateo, California. Nobody from the Hackaday staff could make it this year, but luckily [Sabrina Merlo] from the Make: blog was able to provide a full report of the spectacle of fire, sparks and pierced metal this year. For anyone who remembers the wonderful Battlebots TV show from 10 years ago, the main event … [Read more...]
When it comes to making PCBs at home really quickly, there's not much to improve upon with [Ryan]'s bodged up Epson printer that prints an etch mask directly on a piece of copper clad board. Like most of the direct to copper PCB printer conversions we've covered ( 1, 2, 3 ), [Ryan]'s build relied on an Epson printer and Mis Pro yellow ink. The Mis Pro ink is one of the most etch-resistive … [Read more...]
An old book - the smell, the texture of the slowly rotting paper, and the smudges and margin notes accrued over decades - is one of the finer points in life taken for granted much too often. We're bombarded with high precision vector typefaces all day, but [Dan]'s Avería font is beautiful in its irregularity. [Dan] made a font that is the average of all the fonts installed on his computer, and … [Read more...]
If you're a home hardware hacker in the United States, chances are most of your electrical components come from Mouser or Digikey, your hardware and tools from Grainger, and your raw materials from McMaster-Carr. This setup is great - we'd hate to locally source parts for a robot - but organizing larger orders can be a bit of a pain. Enter Amazon Supply, the new place to buy business and … [Read more...]
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