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[Joe's] wife grew up playing Sega games and he wanted to help her unwind by reliving the experience. Since the work computer she uses when travelling isn't a good place to install emulators he built this plug-and-play emulator inside of a Sega controller. We've seen this type of thing a few times before (even with XBMC in a SNES controller) but there is one thing we hadn't thought of lately. … [Read more...]
This is [Robert Jarvis'] new MIDI controller which he has christened the Archaeopteryx. It makes its home (quite nicely might we add) in a discarded wooden cutlery case. This provides a strong and stable base for the controls while keeping the electrical connections close at hand for any rewiring or repair work. The interface is made up of several different input devices. The guts from two Korg … [Read more...]
[Niklas Roy] wanted to create electricity from moving water so he came up with this hyrdopower generator. It is part of his grand scheme to rent out small personal fountains made from buckets. They need electricity to run so he hooked up the generator to the water jet of a public fountain. It should be possible to use this setup with falling water in a similar way that other generators do. To … [Read more...]
[Gigawatts] built a pair of USB ports into his mouse and there's enough room to plug-in small USB drives and dongles. After seeing Thursday's storage mouse hack he decided to tip us off about the post. He started with a Logitech G5 gaming mouse. The wireless version of this mouse has a battery pack, but on the corded version this space is used for a weight cartridge. Since he didn't really care … [Read more...]
[Thice] wanted to try his hand at incorporating a USB driving into other devices. He chose to add storage to his USB mouse but didn't want to alter the factory look provided by a color-changing LED inside. To make things fit he ended up cutting a good portion of a USB hub's circuit board off and placing it beneath the mouse circuitry. You can see the board from the thumb drive wedged into one end … [Read more...]
[Mr.X] added support for four controllers to his Super Nintendo (Google translated) by internalizing the multi-player adapter. In the video after the break you'll notice that he also added some bling to the case by positioning the power LED beneath the logo and adding a two-digit display. There is a switch on the back that allows him to choose PAL or NTSC standards with the current setting shown … [Read more...]
Did you order that 4-port USB hub because it was almost free but now it's just sitting in your junk box? Why not turn it into an In System Programmer for AVR chips? [Paul] came up with HUB ISP as an answer to the chicken-or-egg problem we've seen with other diy programmers. It uses the data wires from four different USB cables to program AVR chips, enlisting the help of a 74HC00 NAND gate along … [Read more...]
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