GO portable WITH GAMECUBE advance SP
Off the hop, we love portable consoles. To be clear, we don’t just mean handhelds like the 3DS, or RetroPie builds, but when a maker takes a home console from generations past and hacks a childhood fantasy into reality — that’s amore. So, it’s only natural that [Bill Paxton]’s GameCube re-imagined as a game boy…
THE most significant very HEXAGON fan
For those who haven’t addicted themselves to very Hexagon yet, it’s pretty… addicting, to say the least. typically this 80’s arcade-style game would run in a browser but some of the people at Club de Jaqueo in Buenos Aires chose to cram all of that into an Arduino. They didn’t stop there, though, and thought that…
TWO interesting BOARDS COMING DOWN THE pipe
Hey, it’s a hardware twofer! Here’s two platforms coming down the pipe: First up is the Mimo Dreamplug, the current in a continued expansion of choices for very tiny, single-board Linux computers. The Dreamplug must be very capable of just about any type of task you can throw at it. With a 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU,…
HACK A DAY’S entry into THE RED BULL development contest
We had tons of ideas, however the one that seemed a lot of feasible, as well as had the least probability of triggering mortal injury, was this. We produced a red bull introducing mortar system. The cans are introduced as well as a parachute deploys to bring them down to the excited people below safely.…
BOOBIE BOARD POWERED TWITTER NOTIFIER
The team over at Archonix often difficulty themselves to produce a full working job in under 20 minutes. [Andrew Armstrong] put together a blog publish outlining their most recent “Quickproject” – a simple Twitter notifier developed utilizing their Boobie Board. They started by putting together a little notifier breakout module that might later be connected…
DEAD drop concept inspired BY [ENDER WIGGIN] family
[Tyler Spilker’s] DDD project is a digital Dead drop system based on Python and a Raspberry Pi as a server. It’s pretty rough around the edges at this point — which he freely admits. but we like the concept and figure it might spark an interesting conversation in the comments section. Now by far our…
LIPO BATTERY TESTER FOR SOLAR car BATTERY range
If you’re building solar cars at a competitive level you’ve got to know exactly how the storage batteries will perform. To that end [Matthew] built a Lithium Polymer battery tester for use by the McMaster university Solar automobile Project. It worked well, but could only test one battery at a time. He just finished up a…