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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...]
[Bogdan] received this set of Serioux Panda speakers as a gift. I turns out that they sound very good and he decided to make them more useful to him by converting them to work as Bluetooth speakers. To begin with he bought the cheapest A2DP device he could find. This is the protocol that identifies a Bluetooth audio device. The unit is designed to provide a Bluetooth connection for a set of … [Read more...]
Just the other day we were reading a Reddit thread asking about how to control a television with a smartphone. The conversation started by talking about adding an IR LED to the phone. Then it was suggested that there should be standalone Bluetooth devices that convert commands to IR, and came around to the ideas that TV's should ship with native Bluetooth hardware. We couldn't agree more but … [Read more...]
These robot cubes, called BOXZ, use an interesting interlocking part design to mount and protect the parts within. But to really make them pop you need to color and apply your own papercraft skins. The actual hardware is quite simple. They've used an Arduino, along with motor driver and Bluetooth shields, to control a set of geared DC motors. There's a battery pack which holds four AA cells and … [Read more...]
Very tiny keyboard The idea behind the iControlPad2 is pretty simple - just take the slide-out keyboard from a phone, discard the phone part, add two analog sticks and a D-pad, and put Bluetooth in it. It makes for a very small keyboard perfect for controlling a Raspi, a home media server, or even a phone or tablet. I think it's cool, anyway. I mustache you a question. Where's … [Read more...]
[Chet] is showing off the Bluetooth controller upgrade for this RC car. The donor vehicle is a rather inexpensive Porche which he purchased to make sure he didn't start hacking up his more expensive toys. He took a bit different route than the IOIO RC truck we saw earlier in the week, but the concept is basically the same. That build used an IOIO board with a USB Bluetooth dongle. This one uses … [Read more...]
This RC truck can be controlled with the tip of your thumb or the tilt of a wrist. That's thanks to the IOIO which was inserted in place of the toy's original controller. [Exanko] made the hardware changes in order to use his Android phone as the controller. The white circle is a software joystick that acts as throttle when your thumb moves along the Y axis, and steering when it moves along the X … [Read more...]
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