If you’re curious about designing your own circuits now might be a good time to give it a go – Ian over @ DIYlife took the new version of Cadsoft’s circuit design software out for a spin and tested its compatibility with the latest beta of Eagle3D. – Cadsoft Eagle 5 test drive Related: Eagle […]
Curiousinventor wrote a nice technical guide to working with ps2 controllers – Despite the large number of guides already out there that describe how to communicate with a play station controller (or guitar hero), most do not cover all the details, or do so sparsely. We consolidated and tested all the info we could find […]
The ‘duino variants keep a rollin’ on in – The Freeduino SB from Solarbotics/ HVWTech features – USB Mini jack(optional type B), pads for an ARef trimpot, and a much appreciated power switch. The board comes as a kit with all SMD parts already mounted. Good to see a switch finally grace an Arduino board. […]
This week: Remaking Wooden Toys With Electronics (And Wood), Hair Hats by Nagi Noda, The Death/Return of the Print Gocco, Toshio Egawa – Death Metal Art, Massh – Nao Tokui, Kondo Robots KHR 4th Anniversary, Nicota AVR Project Game Board, The Unconventional Flying Object, Shuetsu Sato – Gaff Tape Artist, Tokyo’s Top 10 LED Signs, […]
This hack shows you how to convert a 3 channel, 40 MHz FM Hi-Tec Ranger 3S radio controller to transmit and receive a signal on 7 channels. Pretty nice description, complete with instructions and circuit diagrams of the full transformation process. Tornado – The 7 Channel Hack
This is just the beginning of a project that aims to display video via a homemade electron gun. So far the gun is operational in a vacuum bell jar and it is able to produce scanner line. [Thanks Noah!] The aim of this experiment was to construct an electron gun completely from scratch. The ultimate […]
I love these super-simple floppy disk earrings. Related: Wait, there’s more! Floppy disk necklace & bracelet!
