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[Brane] built an underwater ROV from LEGO mindstorm parts. Look closely at this image and you should notice something missing. The tether that normally carries power and control lines from an ROV to the surface is missing. This is a wireless solution that lets him control the device using an Xbox controller. The video after the break shows about five minutes of test drive footage. [Brane] has a … [Read more...]
We see a lot of projects related to Conway's Game of Life, but this one is Hasbro's Game of Life. The board game company recently commissioned a giant game spinner as part of a museum exhibit. Here's the build log that shows how it was pulled off. The first thing to note is that [Jzzsxm] does this for a living. His company was hired to build several exhibits related to board games for a … [Read more...]
Only 80s kids will get this: remember when computers had built-in keyboards, like the Apple II line, or the Commodore 64? That's a form factor duplicated by case modders many times over the years, but [preamp]'s project is the first time its been done using a Raspi (German, Google translation). For his build, [preamp] used what he considers the best keyboard in the world, the Cherry G80-3000. … [Read more...]
http://vimeo.com/47380710 Ah, chiptunes. One of the few remaining human endeavours where less RAM, less storage space, and fewer capabilities are actually considered an improvement. [dop3joe] over at the Stuttgart hackerspace Shackspace sent in a tiny chiptune playing circuit using the most bare-bones hardware we've ever seen. The Noiseplug, as [dop3joe] calls it, is based on a very, very … [Read more...]
There's a lot of cool stuff brewing on the Hackaday forums. [igor_b] posted a project he's been working on that uses a servo, motor, wine glass, and a balloon to create a one-glass armonica. A glass harmonica is a series of nested bowls turned on a spindle that is played by running your finger along the rims of the glasses. They're very unique sounding instruments and something [igor] decided … [Read more...]
[Michael] built his own clone of the popular MaKey MaKey Kickstarter project. His implementation uses an ATMega328 and the V-USB stack to connect as a USB Human Interface Device. He was showing it off at Toorcamp wired up to a banana piano, which captured the interest of kids and adults alike. The digital inputs are pulled to ground with a large (10 Mohm) resistance. The user holds a supply … [Read more...]
The art of taking long exposure photographs with blinking RGB LEDs has improved greatly over the years, mostly due to the extremely easy to use Arduino and hundreds of tutorials on the web. If there's one problem with light painting with a 'duino, it's that large, full color images take up a ton of storage space, much more than the flash memory on an Arduino can provide. Wanting fancier and more … [Read more...]
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