HACKADAY LINKS: SUNDAY, APRIL 7TH, 2013

By ofojf

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…

DS TROJAN

By ofojf

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…

VIBE MIRROR

By ofojf

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…

AUTOMATA as well as wooden GEARS

By ofojf

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]…

WIRELESS POWER transfer FOR QUADROTORS

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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…

A KEYGEN FOR THE genuine world

By ofojf

[Nirav] discovered that he seldom printed anything helpful with his RepRap, so to shake things up, he chose he needed to work on a job that didn’t include printing yet much more RepRap parts. The…