Inventgeek has the start of a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) dance pad – can be used with the free/open source Stepmania we’ve posted about before – Link. Related: StepMania: A DIY Dance Dance Revolution – Link. $10 Kraft dance pad hacking – Link. Disassembly / modification of Kraft GamePad – Link. Use your feet to […]
FrankG writes – “Here some more adventures with the “Electric Bike” project, this installment covers upgrades for extended range, road tires and a small rant on cheap electronics…” – Link. Previous: Electric bicycle (part 1) – Link. Electric bicycles – Link.
Alan writes – “Here is a simple LED mirror ball project that can be completed in less that an hour and should not cost much money. My daughter is getting interested in electronics and she wanted to make something for her room.” – Link.
Bryan writes – “Interfacing older, non VGA displays to systems with VGA hardware without the help of a hardware scan converter- Almost every linux embedded project out there today uses some form of LCD text or graphics display. CRTs have been abandoned as bulky and obsolete. But not all are. Forgotten are the tiny portable […]
Make your own “Universal Software Radio Peripheral” – it can do things like…record every FM station, all at once “The UniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral (USRP) is a low-cost, high speed implementation of GnuRadioHardware, developed by a team led by MattEttus. You can buy your own USRP(s); see [www.ettus.com]. The price for the motherboard is $550, and basic daughterboards […]
Since Phil has posted up some great shots of Maker’s workshops I started wondering about where people craft. I found this great Flickr group called “Craft Rooms” and there are tons of cool photos of craft rooms or corners and how people organize their craft supplies. As a comment on this photo’s page says, “I […]
Ben has his Apple IIe on the web, here’s how he did it – “My Apple IIe is online via an ethernet card I bought from a2RetroSystems, and the Contiki Operating System. I used a super serial card along with a Windows machine and some software called ADT to transfer disk images of Contiki to […]
