Hackaday Links: April 11, 2012

water

This hurts our head You know you can 'freeze' drops of water in mid-air by flashing a LED at the right time, right? Well, according to this video you don't even need a strobing light; just use the frame rate of the camera. Much cooler if you don't know how it works, in our humble opinion. Now do Junkyard Wars! [James Cameron] and [Mark Burnett] (the guy who created Survivor) are … [Read more...]

Wireless controllers for all your retro systems

snes

Remember those old wireless controllers made for the consoles of our youth like the NES and Super Nintendo? They didn't work well, mostly owing to the fact they were built using the same infrared technology that is found in a remote control. Now that all the modern consoles are wireless, [micro] over at the nftgames forum decided to update his classic systems for wireless control. The … [Read more...]