[Matthew Daughtrey] is going to have one of his paws out of service for a while following some hand surgery. Making a living as a coder seems a bit harder with one hand but he was able to find some solutions online only to balk at price tags reaching $600.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 19:11
[Jaromir Sukuba] built a very portable, low power consumption Z80 emulator using a PIC microcontroller. Looking through his build photos we love the clean and resilient construction which includes a breakout board for the PIC 32MX795F512H that interfaces with the main board via pin headers and sockets.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 19:11
The video of [Thibault Brevet's] printer makes it look like he’s actually designed a vinyl cutter (watch it after the break). But at the end of the printing process you see that the top layer was actually a piece of carbon copy paper and the magic was happening underneath.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:48
[Squirrelfantasy] built a printer using LEGO pieces. It’s not a Mindstorm project but instead depends on some type of development board and some auxiliary components on a protoboard.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:33
Instead of building a $500 iPad into a cabinet [Gojimi] used the old hardware he had lying around to building this kitchen computer. He did buy a few items such as a used touchscreen and a bar code scanner but the 2 GHz computer was just collecting dust.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:33
Anyone who has tried their hand at RPG Maker 1 (or any text input with a controller) knows how difficult it can be typing long paragraphs into the console.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:27
[Amr Bekhit] converted his gameport joystick to use as a USB joystick. Much like a universal USB joystick interface, this uses an additional microcontroller to talk to the serial bus while monitoring the controls on the stick.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:16
WA5ZNU has made a cool version of the Hard Disk Drive Laser Oscilloscope. For all of those going to the Bay Area Maker Faire look out for it since it will be on display!
Via: HG Forum
“A local ham club is privileged to have a table at the SF Bay Area Maker Faire next weekend, and one of the demonstrations we’re doing is oscilloscopes.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:15
[Darrell] is using a sound card to drive this servo motor. The motor draws power from a cellphone battery with the control signal coming from one of the audio channels.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:12
Did you order that 4-port USB hub because it was almost free but now it’s just sitting in your junk box? Why not turn it into an In System Programmer for AVR chips? [Paul] came up with HUB ISP as an answer to the chicken-or-egg problem we’ve seen with other diy programmers.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2010.06.07 at 18:11