Happy Lady Ada Day!
Lady Ada Day celebrates the life of Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron credited with being the world’s first computer programmer.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Mind-powered Animal Ears
Yesterday I went to check out Burning Man Decompression in San Francisco. As always, there were incredible costumes: a pair of giant cardboard robots, interacting with passersby, a gentleman dressed as a walking gold lamรฉ shower, and my personal favorite, brainwave-controlled animal ears.
Teague Labs 13:30 Printable Headphones
Over at Teague Labs maker John Mabry has been having a bit of fun creating printable consumer electronics. Named after its elapsed print time, the 13:30 is a pair of working stereo headphones. The idea for these stylish ear goggles centered around the notion of printed prototypes as actual products.
360-degree iPhone Panoramic Camera Travels Across America on a Scooter
Panoramic videographer and iPhone hacker Gabriel Paez is currently half-way across the country on his coast-to-coast trip from Seaside, OR to Portland, ME. As of this writing he’s in Dubuque, IA with his 2005 Vespa PX150 named Pucho.
Whirlwind Papercraft Passive Amplifier
We’ve seen papercraft passive amplifiers before, but the Whirlwind from instructables member urant folds away flat so you can stick it into your pocket. [via Life Hacker]
Snakes on a Game
“Enough is enough! I have had it with these blankety-blank snakes on this blankety-blank, um…ARM…Cortex-M0, ah, microcontroller.”
Right, so, apologies are now due to hardworking Hack a Day writer Mike Szczys for reducing his latest tasty MCU project to a perfunctory SamJack joke. In point of fact…
Glove Based Sign-to-Speech System
The EnableTalk system uses a glove-mounted microcontroller to collate information from a passel of onboard sensorsโ11 flex sensors, 8 touch sensors, 2 accelerometers, a compass, and a gyroscopeโand transmit it wirelessly to a nearby computer or smartphone for translation into machine generated speech.
