Hack-A-Day wouldn’t exist without our venerable readers. As a HADA01 tribute, here is a mini photo essay of the many and varied ways you’ve displayed the skully hardware hacker logo. If you’ve tagged anything from towers to notebooks with the skull-and-hack-bones, please leave a link in the comments. From us to you: thank you and keep ripping that gear apart.
pictured above: [ryan] was the first to send us a pic of our buttons or stickers in use.
I asked each of the former and current editors to pick out their favorite project featured on Hack-A-Day.
At my request, [stok] added some info on the board etching process to his GPS “thingy” page.
I met former editor Jason Striegel at DefCon this summer and was thoroughly convinced that he was not a robot. I guess I was wrong.
Well, my Facebook link really took off. If you’re looking for other readers at your school, just check out my friends from “Other Schools”, those are all Hack-A-Day readers. Trying to kill some time? Go hunting for the female reader.
[Jettz] has started posting some VB tutorials.
The GoogleTalk fan site is already up. [Sam]
[shandar] suggested ShouldExist for getting project ideas. The HalfBakery would probably work too.
How-to cram a MDD dual processor G4 into a G5 case. [thanks Anthony]
Get 8-bit sound from your parallel port. [camzmac]
Interesting interactive audio/video projects
Some readers have put together a Hack-A-Day Folding@Home team. Hmm
Nuts to the Midigun, we’re talking gauss pistols today. The gun works by accelerating a projectile through a pair of coils. Is it dangerous? Only indirectly: There is 440V across the capacitor terminals. It is kinda heavy, so you could throw it at someone. The laser sight could cause eye damage. The small parts are a choking hazard. Finally, it has about the same power as a pellet gun, but the projectile is much heavier so it moves a lot slower. All the info you need can be found in the FAQ.
[thanks Jason]
The first anniversary of Hack-A-Day is coming up Monday September 5th. So if you’ve got any pictures of Hack-A-Day swag in the wild, now is the time to send them in. Since it is labor day I’ll probably be idling on the #hackaday Efnet channel most of the day too. So stop by and say hi.
Wondering what to do with the vacuum forming table? The process was used to create the case for this portable Dreamcast. [ian]
The ReBirth software synth has been retired and released for free. The software models two Roland 303s, an 808 and a 909. [via MeFi]
The competition for the Treehugger DIY contest is heating up. Check out this solar powered hydrofoil. UPDATE: Readers have cried foul because Marquette’s Solar Energy Society deserves all of the credit for this project.
Fabienne was wondering the other day how to make private links in del.icio.us. She dug up this clever bookmarklet hack that encrypts your links.
How to make your Molex power connectors glow. [AD]
I’m not sure if these guys are in the DARPA Grand Challenge or if they just enjoy running crap over in their homebuilt tank. [Baconjacobs]
I guess today is BlogDay. No, I wasn’t holding my breath for this either. It seems like a good idea though: introducing your readers to other blogs you read, that aren’t necessarily related to yours. So here are five of my favorites that really have nothing to do with hacking.
The Kneeslider is a great motorcycle blog. Paul does a really good job covering the latest news and interesting topics like alternative engine designs.
Preshrunk is a t-shirt blog. This is the place I go to find non-black t-shirts to wear to hacker conventions. They’re also good about pointing out Threadless sales.
Drawn! is dedicated to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. I read a ton of webcomics so this blog was pretty much a given in my eyes.
The Drunken Lagomorph is the only personal blog I read where I don’t know the author personally. It is written by a former EMT turned RN and is consistently hilarious
In last week’s installment, we showed how to get started with Csound. This week we take it to the next step by constructing a homemade MIDI controller circuit and use the new device to control Csound in real time.
What you will need:
a computer on which you have Csound up and running
a MIDI adapter for your computer (usb to midi adapters are the norm here)
a microcontroller / breadboard / microcontroller programmer (in this example we will show some BX24 sample code)
a MIDI female connector (either a cable or circuit board mount type, also known as 5 pin din)
a 2N2222 NPN transistor
some resistors (10Kohm and 220ohm)
some sort of sensor or button or potentiometer or any combination of the above
Continue reading “How-To Control Csound With A Custom Midi Controller: Hardware (2 Of 2)”
