[Steve] is in the MFA design and technology program at parsons, and as part of his studies, has developed a couple really interesting projects. First, the beat boxxx, as seen in the video above, is an 80’s retro looking portable beat looper. You create and loop your beats at the time of playing using simple…
finding himself in need of an arcade monitor [Eric Wright] turned to this ancient CRT television. The problem is that arcade monitors and televisions didn’t operate in the same way, differing in both resolution and refresh rate. [Eric] modified the television to work like an arcade monitor, but only with limited success. He’s hoping a…
The HD44780 is one of the first chips we learned about as a kid, and chances are good you’ve used one in your project at some point, and nearly certain that you’ve interacted with one in your life. The character LCD is ubiquitous, easy to interface, and very robust. They are available in sizes from 8 x…
Let’s wind down the weekend with some jobs that didn’t rather warrant their own feature, however we believe they’re still worth a look. First up is a quick tip on cracking the lids on those difficult to open jars of food. [Jason] states just grab about a foot of duct tape as well as the…
It looks like the DS trojan bricker is in the wild. There are instructions up to fix the situation. I was contacted by DarkFader last week wondering if I’d be interested in his answer to the PSP’s malware that had been circulating. I’m not interested in this kind of hacking because I feel it takes…
We love a good art-related project here at Hackaday, and [Wolfgang’s] vibrating mirror prototype is worth a look: into its distorting, reflective surface, of course. [Wolfgang] began by laser cutting nine 1″ circles from an 8″ square mirror, then super glued a 1/4″ neoprene sheet to the back of the square, covering the holes. Each…
This is a Yamaha XG card, the SW60XG to be exact. It’s an audio card for a PC which extends the MIDI basic to include over six hundred instruments. By today’s requirements the practically twenty year old card isn’t all that powerful, however it is fascinating to see it utilized as a standalone device. [Benji…
While most animated machines we offer with every day – whatever from clocks to cars to computers – are made of metal, there is an art to creating automated objects out of wood. [Dug North] is a creator of such inventions, making automata out of wooden gears, cogs, as well as cams. [Dug]’s inventions are…
Last summer in the heyday of software defined radio via USB TV tuners we asked hackaday readers a question: Is any individual using everyone’s favorite method of SDR for radio astronomy? It took nearly a year, but finally there’s an amazing project to turn a USB TV tuner into a radio telescope. It’s from the fruitful…
Quadrotors are great, but what kind of range can you get on them, really? What if you could charge them up just by flying over high voltage power lines, by or temporarily hovering by a charging station? That’s just what [Dr. Carrick Detweiler] composed a paper about! (Caution: PDF) The paper discusses the method of wireless…