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As is common among some hackers, [Henry] re-purposed an ATX power supply unit to function as a bench power supply for testing circuits on a breadboard (much like this fancy example). However, safety mechanisms on some modern PC PSUs do not automatically reset after over-current protection has kicked in, which soon became annoying for [Henry]. In order to make his power supply more … [Read more...]
When pigs fly.... close enough. There are too many jokes to be made about this one. It's a quadcopter made out of a dead cat. [Bert Jansen], the artist behind this, calls him Orville. He died from natural causes, and what better way to remember a feline friend that liked chasing birds? Refurbishing an Apple ][ That thirty year old computer in your parent's attic isn't going to clean … [Read more...]
We're happy to see Arduino enthusiasts championing the use of smaller hardware when the need for a full-blown ATmega-based board just isn't there. [Chris] has been doing just that, using ATtiny85 chips in his projects. But he's tired of hooking jumper wires to flash the sketches. He finally got around to etching this ATtiny85 programming adapter. If the project is not pin hungry, an ATtiny85 … [Read more...]
[Robert Mibus] took on a project which his kids could present to Mom on Mother's Day. It's an LED heart built into a ring or necklace box. The series of white LEDs are animated in a chase pattern. The project let [Robert] push his comfort boundaries by moving past a stock Arduino board. Inside you'll find an ATtiny85. He picked up the chip to try running Arduino sketches on smaller hardware. … [Read more...]
[Pete Mills] recently bought himself a motorcycle, and as people are known to do, they start trying to scare him with gruesome stories of cycling accidents once they hear about his purchase. While he tries to shrug them off as people simply not minding their own business, something must have resonated with him, because he started tinkering with the bike’s taillight in order to ensure he was … [Read more...]
Like many businesses out there, [Joonas Pihlajamaa’s] employer requires him to change his password every few months. Instead of coming up with a complex, yet easy to remember password again and again, he built a small USB device to do the work for him. He dismantled an old USB memory stick, fitting it with an ATtiny85 with its required components on a small piece of perfboard. Using the … [Read more...]
[Shawn McCombs] has been spending some time refining his Xbox 360 rapid fire hack. This time around he's got a lot more features, many of which we haven't really seen before. When we looked at the original project he had added an ATtiny85 which read a potentiometer to set the rapid fire speed for one of the buttons. This time around he's opened up settings for individual weapons in the game. … [Read more...]
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