Collin’s Lab: Monotron Hacking
The Monotron mini analog synthesizer is a simple but sweet-sounding synth that sports basic features that give a nod to us hardware hackers.
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George “geohot” speaks and Sony’s own infringements
Two updates to our Sony article “Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators”. First, I sent George Hotz an email asking what he thought about the article and if he had anything to add, we also had a reader email that was pretty interesting.
Two Open Source Hardware Makers Featured On Entrepreneur.com!
Big news in the world of Open Source Hardware! Two Open Source Hardware makers were featured on Entrepreneur.com! These are well known innovators in the maker community, Bre Pettis and Limor Fried. It’s fantastic to see OSHW folks getting the spotlight, not only because they make great stuff but they’re also doing great business. I’d […]
Hacked Clock Radio for Art Exhibition
Michael Colombo writes: Recently I completed a hardware hacking gig for the French street artist Zevs. He wanted to take an old school Sony Dream Machine clock radio and enable it to play “Hip to be Square” by Huey Lewis and the News at a greatly reduced speed. The piece premiered along with several other […]
Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd!
Deadline for OSHW logo submission EXTENDED TO March 3rd! We’ve been overwhelmed with the response (over 45 logos submitted!) and many of you have asked for an more time. So we are extending the OSHW Logo Submission Deadline till MARCH 3rd! With the Open Hardware Definition, we would like to release a logo for Open […]
LED Display Shows Time and RSS Feeds
Bob Alexander wrote in with his elegant USB clock/web data display: When I built my Homemade Digital Clock, I shamelessly overdesigned it. It had an eight character alphanumeric display (plus two discrete LEDs for a colon), four more discrete LEDs for indicators, two printed circuit boards, and two microcontrollers (three, if you count the GPS […]
Make It Last Build #3: Rigging Up Your Drawbot
Welcome to the fifth installment of the Make It Last Build #3, the Drawbot, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. The goal this week is to build and rig all of the mechanical parts on your drawing machine. By next week you should also have a more permanent version of the controller and stepper drivers soldered […]