SCRIPT MAKES custom PINOUT labels FOR YOUR CHIPS
After years of prototyping hobby electronics we’ve learned (several times actually) that when something’s not working it’s a problem with the hardware. usually the jumper wires aren’t hooked up correctly, or we needed to throw a pull-up resistor in and forgot to. One thing that can really help sort these problems out quickly is a pinout…
ANTIQUE PHONE DOORBELL
[Bryan] sent in this awesome doorbell he constructed out of an antique phone. After seeing similar phones for $150 to $399, he chosen one up on ebay for $10. After some cleaning as well as polishing, it was looking fantastic, however relatively useless. At this point, he broke it open as well as started hacking…
WORDS OF wisdom FROM A maker entrepreneur
have an awesome invention that you want to create and sell to the world? think you have everything all planned out and you’re ready to just let the money flow in? maybe not. Take a few moments and read [Jonathan]’s first hand experience of a maker start up business that didn’t go anything like he…
HACKADAY prize ENTRY: ZAPPOTRON incredibly SEQUENCER
If you elegant a go at circuit bending, where do you start? maybe you discover a discarded musical toy at a junk sale as well as have a poke around, perhaps you discover the timing circuit as well as pull it a bit to create a pitch bend. add a few wires, see what fascinating…
PHOTOCHROMIC EGGS: not for breakfast
Photochromic paint is quite nifty – under exposure to light of the best wavelength, it’ll modification colour. This provides everything type of applications for short-term displays. [Jiri Zemanek] chose to apply photochromic paint to an egg, utilising it to produce stroboscopic patterns with the assist of a laser. Patterns for the egg are produced in MATLAB. A discovery STM32…
PLAYING MAME games ON A RGB LASER PROJECTOR
Vector based screens were utilized for arcade games in the ’70s as well as ’80s. A normal CRT utilizes raster graphics, which are displayed by deflecting a beam in a grid pattern onto a phosphor. A vector screen deflects the beam in lines rather than a full grid, drawing only the needed vectors. maybe the…
BUILDING A BLINK BASED INPUT gadget
fans of the AMC show Breaking Bad will keep in mind the original Gangsta [Hector Salamanca]. When very first introduced to the story he communicates by ringing a bell. however after being transferred to a nursing house he communicates by spelling out messages with the support of a nurse who holds up a card with columns as…
REVOLVING video camera mount helps TO capture 3D VIDEO-GAME ASSESTS
Here’s a video camera rig that makes it a snap to produce photorealistic 3D models of an object. It was put together rather inexpensively by an indie game company called Skull Theatre. They published a couple of messages which show off how the rig was built and how it’s used to capture the models. They’re…
THE CUBIC CYPHERCON BADGE
last week in Milwaukee was Cyphercon, Wisconsin’s premier hacker conference. You can’t do a hacker con without either an electronic conference badge or a 45 hanging off a lanyard, and the Cyphercon 2017 badge doesn’t disappoint. It’s an electronic cube, lovingly designed by the folks at tymkrs. It’s also a puzzle box with security holes and wireless…
FLOWCODE GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING
If you’ve ever been curious if there’s a way to program microcontrollers without actually writing software, you might be interested in FlowCode. It isn’t a free product, but there is a free demo available. [Web learning] did a demo of programming a Nucleo board using the system. You can check it out below. The product…