Hackaday has a store‽ Yes, it’s true, and we have a Memorial Day sale going on right now. Get a cool robot had t-shirt, a cool clock, or a GoodFET. Spend money. Consume.
[fbustamante] got his hands on an old GP2X Wiz, one of those ARM-based portable media player/emulator things from a few years ago. This is a complete computer, and like the Pandora, it’ll do everything one of those Raspberry Pi laptops can do. The Wiz doesn’t have a keyboard, so [fbustamante] created his own. He etched his own PC, repurposed a keyboard controller from a USB keyboard, and stole the keycaps from an old Sharp digital organizer.
Speaking of portable consoles, [Element18592] built this incredible Nintendo 64 portable. He’s done an XBox 360 laptop and stuffed a Pi into an old brick Game Boy. This N64 mod is great, uses a 3D printed enclosure, and has truly amazing vinyl graphics.
To the surprise of many, [Photonicinduction] is not dead. The drunk brit with a penchant for high voltage electrics and a very, very confused power company is back making videos again. His latest video is a puzzle. It’s a plastic block with a light bulb socket, a UK power outlet, and a switch. Plug in a light bulb, flip the switch, and it turns on. Plug a blender into the outlet, and that turns on too. No wires, so how is he doing it?
Introduced at CES last January, Monoprice – yes, the same place you get HDMI and Ethernet cables from – has released their $200 3D printer. This one is on our radar and there will be a review, but right away the specs are fantastic for a $200 printer. The build area is 120mm³, it has a heated bed, and appears to be not completely locked down like the DaVinci printers were a few years ago.
And you forgot that the location for that keyboard is not in English.
No comprende, it’s a riddle.
Translation from Spanish.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread.php%3F158364-Wiz-con-teclado-un-poquito-de-por-favor&usg=ALkJrhj3UNxhKIM7uiGadpmieWTZFK4QZg
Hope that works.
For those who can’t find Google’s webpage translator, it’s not your fault! They are hiding it from us.
If you put a website rather than other text in translate.google.com it’ll do a webpage translate.
Isn’t this common knowledge?
For some reason, on my phone it won’t! Android phone, Chrome browser. It tries to get me to download the Tapatalk app and I refuse. (I don’t really want a Google account.) There is a skip option but it goes to the original webpage.
So it doesn’t seem to work for everyone the same way anymore. I do know that it works fine on my ancient XP desktop.
I don’t like obvious cut/paste jobs either! Most of you ‘old timers’ know I’m new to posting here, but I’ve been watching HaD weekly for years. The community has been very nice to me. Thanks for the heads up!
Re: 200$ printer: 120 cubic millimeters is 3mm X 4mm X 10mm.
Yeah I noticed that too. 1.2 cm3 or ~0.1 cubic inch. Possibly quite useful for microbial building construction.
It is a typo.
Build area: 4.7″ x 4.7″ x 4.7″ (120 x 120 x 120 mm)
Build volume: 103.8 cu-in (1728 cc)
http://www.monoprice.com/mobile/product/specification/15365?maincategoryid=107&categoryid=10724&subcategoryid=1072403
Looks cool. Do want.
I’m going to try to buy it this week! I can’t look away from it. :)
If it’s awsome I’ll let HaD know! If it sucks then… it’s probably my fault it will be my first 3D printer. :)
Heh. What is the ‘Hello World’ equivalent for a 3D printer? A cube?
I have research to do about filaments.
Yeah, a cube or usually a fan shroud. $200 isn’t a bad price for that size and a heated bed.
Yeah. My first 100 prints will be mostly copy paste jobs. Planning everything out first. I know the resolution is low but I don’t need HD for until I need it.
(120mm)³ instead of 120 (mm³)
Build Volume 103.8 cu-in (1728 cc)
I swear… [photonicinduction] never gets old. …I wonder how many times ‘photonic must be making a new video has been uttered in his power companys control room.
I’m not impressed by his power cube though. He should stick to his usual videos.
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(WARNING: Loud, bright, and awesome!)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GBaUoVe34xs
P.S. I want those capacitors for Christmas please. :)
I used to know COBOL but we never got on. I’m actually looking for a job now but would refuse to work with COBOL again.
It was one of the languages I learned in college, haven’t used it since apart from the odd dip into Delphi, but then again, Delphi isn’t really Cobol anymore.
Not only is it no longer really COBOL, it also has never at all been COBOL. :)
I assume you were thinking of pascal.
So happy there’s a brainfuck -> COBOL translator. Because brainfuck is SO much easier than COBOL.
FWIW: I also wrote a brainfuck to assembler, c, javascript, pascal, ruby, python, java, Go, PHP, Perl5 and 6, C#, SDLBasic, ada, Arduino-code and bash-script. See https://vanheusden.com/misc/blog/2016-05-19_brainfuck_compilers_compared.php
That wireless power box is just a LiPo battery with a microinverter on it. You don’t need much battery when you’re only running a load for a few seconds…
Yeah, not impressed at all. Two thumbs down.
That little 3d printer looks great! And 15% off with their discount (MEMORIAL15). I would be sorely tempted if shipping to my neck of the woods was feasible :P
FYI, that 3D printer doesn’t seem to work with the MEMORIAL15 discount code. (“Excludes select products”)
And coupon codes usually change every week or sooner. It’s another way to track how well the advertising is going and where you may have heard about the product.
Search for them manually just before buying it.