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Rocket-Launched Camcorder

Rocket-Launched Camcorder

Hack a $30, single-use camcorder to make it reusable, then launch it up in a model rocket and capture thrilling astronaut’s-view footage of high-speed neighborhood escape and re-entry.

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Build a projBox Controller

Build a projBox Controller

The finished projBox controller provides physical inputs for your software in addition to the computer’s conventional keyboard and mouse. The combination of open-source enclosure schematics and the use of standard electronic components provides an infinitely customizable prototyping platform. The projBox is specifically designed to integrate with software written in Processing, the IDE that the Arduino’s […]

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Digital LED Color Organ

Digital LED Color Organ

I’ve had color organs on the brain since the last installment of the circuit skills series, so I decided try my hand at a new incarnation of the basic 3-channel sound-to-light machine using high-power LEDs. This time, I took advantage of the fact that I play all of my music from a computer, and created […]

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