From the MAKE Flickr pool While working on a new board mightyohm grabbed some footage of his reflow soldering process – My AVR HV Rescue Shield has a 5V to 12V step up converter, constructed with surface mount parts (all 0805’s and one SOIC). This video shows the board being reflowed on my hot plate, […]
Ben Heck shows us how to trigger Guitar Hero 4’s kick drum switch by mouth – I had a request to build an alternative to the GH4 drum kit’s kick pedal for a person who uses a wheelchair. Tour apart the kick pedal and a few hours later came up with this: […] Basically this […]
Flickr user solipsistnation created this rather awesome sample sequencer using Meggy Jr. and an Arduino WaveShield – The Meggy Jr RGB from Evil Mad Science running MeggySeq, driving a Wave Shield from Lady Ada. MeggySeq is a pattern-based drum machine sequencer. It has 8 patterns of 16 steps each and each step can play one […]
Here’s a smart, easy, and fun reconfigurable marble course, made from PVC plumbing pipe, magnets, and a framed metal board. Kids can change the track shapes as they please. Sent to us by Jack McKee of Hands-on Books.
My friend Tom O’Neill got to hacking yesterday and created an uber-useful Twitter tool called HashTweeps. The idea is that you enter a hash tag, and HashTweeps will dig through Twitter’s search results and return a concise list of all the Twitter users who have tweeted with that tag. It’s a handy way to track […]
On the Vintage Computer Festival website, they document a number of builds of replica computers from the history of computer science. This gallery shows progress pics from the recreation of a DEC PDP-8, the first commercially-successful minicomputer. This is a non-working replica, BTW. To get the look of the Flip-Chip Module Arrays inside, photocopies of […]
Selection from the Glitch Art Flickr pool (glitch art refers to art inspired by computer crashes and digital errors in a site). Glitch art Flickr pool More: Glitch Art
