6 Ways to Mod Your Old-School Nintendo Controller
If you have some old controllers lying around, let these Nintendo controller mods act as inspiration for bringing your gaming up to snuff.
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Weekend Project: Aircraft Band Receiver
Dig out that vintage AM/FM radio and modify it so you can pick up air traffic control communications.Thanks go to Cy Tymony for the original article in Make Magazine. To download Aircraft Band Receiver MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the HardAircraft Band Receiver article MAKE 09 “Aircraft Band Receiver” & You […]
Control Arduino with a universal remote
Here’s a helpful library that allows one to add simple IR control to projects The library implements the NEC IR protocol, so set up the universal remote for any NEC device (TV, DVD, VCR, …) and the 32-bit codes should be received. The example sketch provided just prints out IR codes as they’re received, so […]
Space weather sound receiver
This very low frequency radio reciever kit is sold by Nasa’s Inspire project – a group based around the study radio atmospheric phenomena, aka whistlers. These pulses occur in a frequency range audible to us humans (1 to 30 kHz) – and they sound quite mysterious an interesting. Listen to some samples – Spaceweathersounds.com VLF-3 […]
Infrared remote control receiver for Arduino
Having a remote control pass data, via an Arduino and the serial port, can be a great addition to a lot of projects. This is not the most detailed of builds, but I think there is enough information there for anyone that is already tinkering with the Arduino. There is a link to the sketch […]
