From the MAKE Flickr pool Captain Credible created quite the cool controller using Arduino + 4051 multiplexer chips. The custom MIDI interface sports a plethora of controls including jacks to connect modular external control boxes as well – still, I think the best part is the labels – Hmmm … interesting enclosure – perhaps from […]
Larry Pesce wrote in to let us know that he’s posted his build notes for this year’s Shmooball Cannon: Shmoocon (hosted by the fine folks at the Shmoo group, an independent security “think tank”) is a small hacker/security conference in Washington, DC, typically some time during the month of February. … They provide a foam […]
Hack a Day reports on what appears to be the first shield created specifically for the forthcoming Arduino MEGA board. NKC’s prototyping shield is of course predictably longer and uhhh … mega-er. The comment thread over at NKC points out that their shield only has 2 holes for standoffs – apparently the massive connecting pin-count […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Furan dug into an LED message scrolling badge to gain custom control – This is one of those el-cheapo led nametag badges. The inside of the badge had one of those gloptop chips between some pads for a smt chip, so I dremeled out the gloptop, reverse engineered the schematics […]
This workshop looks like it will be a really interesting combination of electronics and activism, soldering and information privacy. Build your own rfid sniffer from Marc Boon’s kit. If you’re in or around Amsterdam, I hope you can attend one of the two additional workshops they’ve scheduled since the first one has filled up, April […]
NES emulator hacker Xkeeper has been working on a Lua script that allows you to manipulate Super Mario Bros. game objects right in the middle of game play: FCEUX is a NES emulator. It has Lua scripting support, and in the latest versions, a feature that allows you to grab input from the mouse and […]
On Wednesday at 4pm EDT, Magda Sayeg aka PolyCotN from Knitta, Please, will be in Etsy’s Virtual Labs encouraging guerilla crafting! Come on by and get inspired to start your own street crafting crew. Read a recent interview with Magda at The Storque.
