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This drill press was built to drill through-hole printed circuit boards. [Rhys Goodwin] didn't want to shell out for new equipment, so he dug through his scraps to see what he could accomplish. He already had the power drill, and there was no shortage of wood and fasteners. Once he had a mounting platform for the power tool he grabbed a pair of slides from and old rack-mount server rail. This … [Read more...]
We're not sure how we missed [Jack Eisenmann's] 4 bit TTL CPU when we were tipped off the first time, but we're glad it was sent in again for us to feature it. 41 different ICs (mostly TTL) come together to comprise the DUO 128 Elite. While the architecture is a little different than what we've seen before, using "nyckles", the DUO 128 Elite still works perfectly. Catch a video of some example … [Read more...]
If you are curious about reading all the bits on a DVD, [tmbinc] has devised a hardware hack that uses a Pioneer DVD drive with leads soldered onto it and a Cypress FX2 microcontroller board to grab the flow of bits and push them over USB2.0. My favorite part of this tutorial is when you slow the spinning DVD down very slightly with your finger with a scope hooked up over what you believe to be … [Read more...]
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