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Join [Fran] as she dons the hat of an electronics archaeologist when looking at this vintage circuit board from the space race. As part of her personal collection she somehow acquired a Launch Vehicle Digital Computer board for a Saturn V rocket. This particular unit was never used. But it would have been had the Apollo program continued. [Fran] is enamored with this particular board because … [Read more...]
A crack has been found in the armor of Windows RT. This subset of Windows 8 is designed to run on ARM processors. The payload listed in the image above allows you to run unsigned desktop applications on the OS. We haven't seen very much about the Windows RT package, so it's nice to hear [Clrokr's] thoughts on it. As far as he can tell the system has not been watered down from its Intel-aimed … [Read more...]
This rear-window LED marquee will help let the driver behind you know when you're planing to change lanes or make a turn. But it also includes the ability to send a message like "Back Off!". [Robert Dunn] was inspired to undertake the project after seeing the one we featured back in October. We'd say his has a better chance of being street legal since it uses all red LEDs. The marquee is a … [Read more...]
The live Adafruit Show and Tell stream from last weekend featured this project put together by [Silent Jeff]. He's called "Silent" because when it came time to present his project on the show his microphone wasn't working. As you can see in the video after the break, [PT] and [Ladyada] worked together to explain the project (of which they had no prior knowledge) using a game of charades. This is … [Read more...]
We remember several years back, when text messaging was first becoming popular, we went to a bar which had a huge television that would display text messages sent to a particular number. This sounds like a novelty, but in a large group of folks who know one another it's the sandbox of social games. Wanting to tap in on that fun for his New Year's Eve party, [James] built this countdown timer that … [Read more...]
The spire used in this lamp is a part from an old television. It's a glass delay line slide which pipes the light up from the Bluetooth controlled RGB lamp (translated) in the base. We have looked at delay lines previously when [Dave Jones] tore down a camcorder to get at one. But we must have missed the EEVblog follow-up episode which explains how the glass slides work. The device uses … [Read more...]
On November 23rd last year, [Dhairya] attended a little shindig at MIT. Three drinks into the night, he blacked out and woke up in the hospital the next day. It was an alcohol-induced blackout, and like all parties at MIT, there's an ingenious solution to [Dhairya]'s problem. [Dhairya] came up with an alcohol-aware ice cube made of a coin cell battery, an ATtiny microcontroller, and an IR … [Read more...]
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