Month: March 2007

Lemon-Powered AVR Tiny

Dhananjay V. Gadre wrote in with this awesome project: We have been itching to try running an AVR micro on fruit power. I do have the latest Picopower AVR samples, but it was too much of an effort to solder a 64 pin TQFP and so we decided to give a try with Tiny13V chip […]

MintyBoost! Kit V1.1

MintyBoost! Kit V1.1

Here’s another one of our kits with instructions, up on Instructables – This is an updated version of the detailed instructable by this device’s inventor, Ladyada. The updated version has some extra components. Also if you’re having trouble be sure to read the extra section in step 4 about modifying the MintyBoost to work with […]

HOW TO – Make a thumb piano

HOW TO – Make a thumb piano

BobsDogHouseon writes – I saw one of these somewhere a while back and always thought it would be fun to play with. A quick Google came up with several including the one in this picture. It’s available online for about $33. I’m no kind of musician and I’ve never built a musical instrument before but […]

AppleTV Running On a PC

bikedude880 from the hackint0sh forums posted this video of the AppleTV OS booting on PC hardware. It looks like this is a proof of concept – it’s possible that this isn’t fully functional yet. Anyone know more about this? Link. Previously: HOW TO – Run AppleTV on a Mac Mini