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The GoPro line of HD cameras seem like they were specifically designed for use with quadcopters. We say that because the small, light-weight video devices present a payload which can be lifted without too much strain, but still have enough horse power to capture video of superb quality. Here's a hack that uses the camera to provide a remote First Person View so that you may pilot the aircraft when … [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...]
[Berto] wrote in to tell us about the visual effects synthesizer he built. It works as a pass-through for a video signal, rendering crisp clean images into a more psychedelic flavor like the one seen above. On the one hand this does a dishonor to the high-quality video devices we carry around in our pockets these days. On the other hand it will make some really interesting background video at … [Read more...]
Confronted with a monitor that would display neither HDMI signal, nor composite video, [Joonas Pihlajamaa] took on a rather unorthodox task of getting his oscilloscope to work as a composite video adapter. He's using a PicoScope 2204 but any hardware that connects to a computer and has a C API should work. The trick is in how his code uses the API to interpret the signal. The first thing to do … [Read more...]
What good is a moat if nobody is guarding it? We suppose that depends on what beasties lurk beneath the surface of the water, but that's neither here nor there. The members of LVL1 continue their quest to outdo each other in augmenting the building's automated features. The latest offering is this security camera which is operated with an analog thumb stick. These are the people who are … [Read more...]
[Vinod] has done a lot of work with microcontrollers, but this is his first try at displaying graphics using composite video. He had a small PAL television on hand, and an ATmega32 which just needs a stable clock source and a few resistors to get things going. There are a lot of other hacks around that use composite video out with microcontrollers. But this is a ground-up approach which will … [Read more...]
We've all seen them - those fireplace DVDs that seem to pop up on grocery store endcaps and get traded in white elephant gift exchanges. If you don't happen to have a fireplace in your home they might make a reasonable solution, but [Nick] from the Gadget Gangster thought it would be far better if you could create your own interactive digital fireplace instead. Using the Gadget Gangster … [Read more...]
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