Hacks

If you want to shoot time lapse movies with your DSLR, you need an intervalometer, a simple device which sends a signal to your camera to trigger the shutter at a timed interval. You can buy one for around $100, or you can write a few lines of basic and have your trusty TI calculator […]

We filter our drinking water at home, though it’s not because there’s a risk of giardia or heavy metals in the tap water where we live. Personally, I just like the taste of water that’s been run through activated carbon. If your own water is safe from heavy metals, but you still like the way […]

I’m told that one of the most popular projects at the CRAFT table at Maker Faire is our friend Becky Stern’s electronic embroidery. If you’re into crafting, all it takes is a little conductive thread and you can make your own fabric gadgets. Becky posted an introduction to electronic embroidery on the CRAFT blog today […]

Using a standard DV cam, a Mac Mini, and the Quicktime Broadcaster utility, you can roll your own Slingbox-style TV streamer on the cheap. David Glover, realizing that his DV camera had an analog input and firewire output, put together a howto for doing just this: Yesterday from a dusty shelf I discovered my Sony […]

I’ve been trying to get better at Guitar Hero and I’m bothered by the fact that you dump so much time into learning a basically useless combination of finger twiddling tactics. At least with DDR you get some exercise, and other video games let you drive fast or kill things. Of course, I say this […]

A little while ago we posted about a fun LED scroller project made by Hackszine pal Kalanda. He wrote in today with an update about his latest howto project, a multi-color animated LED controller based on the AVR platform. The new project based in AVR microcontrollers Its an “Habitat Mirror Hack” with RGB Leds (superflux). […]