Turning an iPhone into a USB Flash Drive?
Watch an extended exercise in frustration eventually reveal the true rewards of hardware hacking.
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Ready, Set, Repeat After Me!
The Repeat After Me: A Mintronics Memory Game project is a throwback to the era of Simon and Pocket Repeat. Even more than 30 years after its initial release, this electronic game remains a hit.
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Raspberry Pi Doubles RAM to 512MB, Price Unchanged
The Raspberry Pi foundation announces that boards shipped from their distributors will now have double the memory.
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How-To: Read a ROM
NYC Resistor member Adam Mayer just posted this fantastic guide to reading the data off of old EPROM chips. To grab the data, you’ll need an Arduino Mega (or a microcontroller with 24 I/O pins), jumper cables, breadboard, and of course an EPROM to read.
Continue ReadingShane Waltener: Lace Webs
Many moons ago I found the above image in a Tumblr feed without any luck of locating the artist. Finally, Lovely Textiles has the answer: London artist Shane Waltener! This piece, Auntie Peggy Has Departed, is a great example of his body of work, utilizing lace doilies and audio as part of an installation focused […]
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Storing data in waves: Delay line memory
It’s the ’60s, and you don’t have access to a semiconductor fab to make piles of cheap memory for you, so how could you store data on your computer?
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Reformatting memory cards
Dale tweets: “Did not know that you should reformat flash memory cards frequently for your camera. More to do.” And points to this New York Times Gadgetwise column: Reformatting ensures that the data on the card and the file structure are clean, which will help you avoid error messages or missing images. And the longer […]
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