AIRSOFT HACKING
[Barrett] sent in this hack he did to an airsoft pistol. He was using “tracer rounds” or glowing airsoft pellets as well as found that there was no commercially offered way of charging them up with uv light before they are shot. He cracked open his pistol, removed the safety mechanism, as well as placed…
SNES super FX OVERCLOCKING
marshallh from the benheck.com forums has managed to overclock a super FX chip. The super FX was an additional graphics processor included in some super Nintendo games. using this chip, games like star Fox were able to handle polygons as well as intensive sprite scaling. marshallh removed the 21.4Mhz ceramic resonator from a Vortex cartridge…
LONG-RANGE CANON DSLR REMOTE video set off
Instructables user [Justin] typically delighted in shooting video with his Canon 60D DSLR, though there was one small problem. The only way that the video camera could be remotely triggered to shoot video was through a small IR remote with a paltry 10 foot range. even worse, the remote had to be pointed directly at…
R2D2 CAKE PLAYS LEIA’S DISTRESS MESSAGE
As all 6-year-olds should, [Marc]’s kid is a substantial fan of star Wars. For his birthday party, he wanted a star Wars themed cake, and making one in the shape of R2D2 seemed to be ideal up [Marc]’s alley. Of course any clone of everyone’s favorite R2 unit must also display Leia’s distress message to…
THIS BINARY KEYBOARD IS FOR ASCII PURISTS
So, you’re a keyboard enthusiast. The ‘board that came from Dell, HP, or whoever made your computer is just not for you. You have an ancient IBM, a decal-free Das Keyboard, or another similarly esoteric text input device. Your typing can be heard three blocks away as the unmistakable clack of bent-spring switches reverberates around…
MAKING cool LOOKING PCBS
[Mike] has posted an instructable on making cool looking PCBs. He does it a little differently than we do. He uses soda cans for the stencils and combines the solder mas and silk screen steps. Also, a bit of extra cooking gives him this cool gradient of color. He has managed to get some really…
GESTURE controlled TETRIS
look at this awesome glove. This awesome glove is used to control tetris. Yes, you read that right, it controls tetris. This was a final project at Cornell in the summer of 2008. They built this glove to do gesture controlled tetris. With all the announcements of the PS3 motion device and Microsoft’s project Natal,…
EVERYTHING YOU need TO know TO MAKE A LASER ENGRAVER FROM SCRAP
check out the Einstein head which [Sebastian Müller] etched on the cover of his calculator using a laser engraver he made from scratch. We think he did a terrific job with the build, but we’re even much more amazed with the work he put into sharing the techniques he used to salvage and repurpose all the…
AN AWESOME, FUTURISTIC, ALL-IN-ONE ROBOT CHASSIS
No matter exactly how numerous advances in electronics we find, we’re continuously amazed at the lack of development in robot chassis. Sure, it ought to be a easy task to make a capable robot that looks cool, however aside from the Veter job team, nobody else seems to be advancing the specify of robot mechanics.…
Z80 FUZIX is like OLD FASHIONED UNIX
traditional Z80 computers tend to run CP/M. If you’re a purist you’ll be pleased keeping that since that’s definitely what many major Z80 computers ran back in the day. However, for actual use, CP/M does feel dated these days. Linux is much more comfortable however isn’t likely to run on a Z80. Or is it?…