HAND-WOUND BRUSHLESS MOTORS REVIVE GROUNDED QUAD
You’re happily FPVing with the wild blue yonder, dodging as well as jinking with the challenges of your preferred quadcopter racing course. You get a shade as well close to a branch as well as unexpectedly the photo in your goggles gets the shakes as well as your bird hits the dirt. then you odor…
SENSE HAT COMES alive
remember the Raspberry Pi sense Hat? originally developed for a mission to the international space Station, the board has quite a few sensors onboard as well as an 8×8 RGB LED matrix. What can you finish with an 8×8 screen? You might be amazed if you use [Ethan’s] Python sense Hat animation library. You can…
MAINS frequency screen
[James] lives in the UK where the frequency of electrical power is expect to be 50Hz, however it has a tendency to vary based on supply and demand. He chose he desired a screen to track this. Now, the national Grid site shows a real-time graph of the last 60 minutes. however that’s method as…
HACKADAY LINKS: DECEMBER 15, 2013
want to get a hold of a gaming controller attachment for iOS at a rock bottom price? [Dark GOD] learned that Amazon is closing out the Gameloft DUO gamer hardware for $6 because the hardware is no longer supported by the operating system. He shows how to make it work using a Cydia app. [Thanks…
TRICK mouse keeps THE screen SAVER at bay
[Jerry] wrote in to share a little gadget he built to solve a issue he was having at work. You see, every computer in his office has a policy-enforced idle timeout, requiring the individual to go into a password in buy to regain gain access to to their desktop. This is a significant pain, since…
HACKADAY prize ENTRY: WATER level station
all over the world, in particular in underdeveloped countries, people die every year by the thousands because of floods. The sudden rise of water levels often come unannounced and people have no time to react before they are caught in a bad spot. modern countries commonly have measure equipment deployed around problematic areas but they…
SONAR WITH PYTHON and conference call HARDWARE
[Jason] just tipped us off about his recent experiment, in which he creates a sonar system using conventional audio equipment and a custom-made Python program. In case some of our readers don’t already know it, Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to discover objects on or under the surface of the water. It is…
AN even larger range OF numerous LEDS as well as NO PING-PONG spheres
[George] has gone pro with his newest RGB LED panel. We’ve chronicled [George’s] journey toward the elusive land of LED nirvana for a couple of years now. He started with an 8×8 rainbow board of numerous ping-pong balls. When that wasn’t enough, he upped the ante to a 32×16 range of ping-pong balls. Still not…
USING A SCREWDRIVER TO start YOUR car
[Hahabird] uses this screwdriver to start his car. despite what it may look like, only this particular screwdriver will start the ignition because it still uses the key lock. What he’s done is alter the screwdriver to act as an extension for the key. It’s purely aesthetic, but you have to admit it looks pretty gnarly hanging…
BOOTABLE EMULATOR FOR THE DCPU
[Notch], the man behind Minecraft, is currently working on a new game called 0x10c. This game includes an in-game 16-bit computer called the DCPU that hearkens back to the 1980s microcomputers with really strange hardware architecture. [Benedek] believed it would be a excellent concept to turn his ThinkPad into a DCPU, so he composed a bootable x86…