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[Dino's] hack this week seeks to create sunglasses that dim based on the intensity of ambient light. The thought is that this should give you the best light level even with changing brightness like when the sun goes behind a cloud or walking from inside to outside. He started with a pair of 3D shutter glasses. These have lenses that are each a liquid crystal pane. The glasses monitor an IR signal … [Read more...]
Every smartphone (and most dumb phones) has a video camera built into it these days. Some of them are even capable of recording respectable HD video. So we'd bet that the decades old camcorder you've got kicking around isn't getting any use at all anymore. [John] wants to encourage you to hack that hardware. He published a post showing just how easy it is to salvage and use a camcorder CRT. The … [Read more...]
[Zachariah Perry] builds a lot of replica props, and judging from the first few offerings on his blog he's quite good at it. We enjoyed looking in on the Captain America shield and Zelda treasure chest (complete with music, lights, and floating heart container). But his most recent offering is the wearable and (kind of) working Pipboy 3000 from the Fallout series. From his description in the … [Read more...]
Since he's got several Raspberry Pi boards on hand [Eric Erfanian] decided to see what he could pull off using the robust networking tools present in every Linux installation. His four-part series takes you from loading an image on the SD cards to building a mesh network from RPi boards and WiFi dongles. He didn't include a list of links to each article in his post. If you're interested in all … [Read more...]
If you're looking for a way to push your comfort zone with that slick new microcontroller you've been working with we think [Morgan Gangwere] has the answer. He took his chipKit development board and used it as a demoscene platform. Demoscene refers to audio and visual demos written to squeeze as much entertainment out of a given platform as possible. We've seen demos for a lot of different … [Read more...]
[João Ribeiro] is an electronics engineer by day, but in his free time he likes to ply his trade on everyday items. Recently he's been integrating his own microcontroller network to unlock and start his car via RFID. In addition to the joy of pulling apart the car's interior, he spent time designing his own uC breakout board and developing an RFID reader from a single chip. He's working with a … [Read more...]
In the C64 demoscene there are a ton of awesome software hacks that push the Commodore 64, the 1MHz 6510-based computer from 1982, to its limits. Most of these C64 demos are very much limited by the hardware inside the C64, but the demoscene is always coming up with new ways of pushing the envelope. [No Quarter] just sent in one of these software hacks that propel the capabilities of the C64 into … [Read more...]
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