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Why take an iPhone, a slim device that already takes decent photographs and add several macro magnifying lenses ? For [Mathijs], simply because he could, But now he can take some awesome macro pictures.
[Bhautik] (maker of the tilt-shift Plungercam ) took the concept further. With some ...
iPhone
iPhone
Remember slide shows? The ones that used a carousel projector and real slides? [Brian] wanted to bring his slides into the digital age but was spending far too much time scanning in the 35mm relics. He set to work and built a rapid slide digitizer using a projector, a DSLR, and a ...
Gadgets
DSLR
We got a tip about a USB CD destroyer. We found its methods amusing as it just scratches the CD as seen above on the left. If you really have data security issues, perhaps something more than scratched plastic should be used. There are a lot of paper shredders that can also shred CDs, what ...
Home Theater
We saw [Kevin's] home-built Linear Variable Differential Transformer in a YouTube video last week and wanted to know more. We’re in luck, he agreed to share all the details as well as a bunch of information on these sensors. An LVDT is used to measure distance along a straight path. ...
Online
YouTube
While it may sound like a dirty joke, turning off the alarm clock with a wiggle of your joystick is entirely possible here. [Sean] was inspired by the light gun alarm clock featured in Make magazine a while back and decided to build something similar. Instead of going the light gun route, ...
Other
[David Terrill], whose exploits we have covered before , has shared with us his techniques for building circuits without a prototype or bread board. [David] managed to incorporate a Dual D flip-flop at the heart of the circuit, as well as an impressive number of transistors, diodes, and ...
Other
We honestly never thought we would see an internet controlled Christmas tree before, sure maybe a remote controlled claw or online soccer robots , but a tree? Regardless, team [Schwippy] did just that. 5 separate sets of lights are connected to 5 individual x10 modules . The x10s are ...
Other
[Hunter Davis] is at it again, this time hacking the pink IM-ME to use as a wireless terminal . It sells for between $12-16 and he ordered it to get free shipping with another purchase. The wireless antenna registered as an HID device when he plugged it into his Linux box. He then sat down ...
Software
Linux
[Epokh] has release some homebrew software that uses a Nintendo DS as a voice reader for documents. This is extremely useful for blind and visually impaired folks who normally use screen readers but can utilize this technology for reading books, documents, and email on the go. Future ...
Gaming
DS
Nintendo
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This year at the creepy robot dace-a-thon, also
known as the Robo-one dance competition, we get to...
see the creepy brought to new levels . We thought the Lou Vega decapitated head bot was creepy, but somehow these people managed to make a biped ...
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Robo-one dance competition
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This interesting use of Lego popped up on the mailing list of the University of Bergen. Build by a group of Norwegian students, it’s a simple computer that implements Alan Turing’s design from 1937. Having both read and write functions, it implements its own (somewhat ...
Other
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Some may think that linking an Xbox 360
controller to an original NES console is overkill. [Francois]...
would not count him self among that group. When the robotics team at his school was done using the controller with one of their projects, ...
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Xbox 360 controller on NES
Sometimes we wonder if we’re making good choices with PCB layout when using EagleCAD. Watch how the pros do it with a video of an hour-long Adafruit PCB layout session compressed into seven minutes.
[Elijah] documented his RepStrap build . This is a chicken-or-egg project in that ...
Hardware
Though [Will] is more of a PC guy, he needed a Mac to run the software he needed for his line of work (Final Cut). Making the best of an unfortunate situation, he constructed this hackintosh inside the case of Microsoft’s original gaming console – the Xbox. [Will] did a good job ...
Hardware
Mac
Apple
PC
Microsoft
Intel
Straight out of the fiction of Harry Potter is The Magic Clock . Just like in the novel this clock (is it still a clock even thought it doesnt tell time?) shows the current location of family members, from home to the doctor’s office, even to mortal peril (We hear its nice this time ...
Online
[Jesus Alvarez] sent us this funny little project. If you happen to have an iPhone and an old Apple Newton, you can use the iPhone as a keyboard for the Newton . You can download the schematic from his site to build the wire to connect the two. After that, you have to run an app on your ...
iPhone
iPhone
Apple
The security door at the front of [Oliver's] building uses an intercom system to let in guests remotely. Each unit has an intercom handset with a button that unlocks the door. [Oliver] wanted a way to enter without carrying any extra items so he built a system to unlock the door with his ...
Other
[ Sprite_tm ] has whipped up yet another interesting tutorial – software-based this time. He basically describes how he connected his Wiimotes to an HTPC. A USB Bluetooth receiver, and a little bit of Linux scripting, was all that was necessary to get the system up and running. To ...
Software
Linux
Wii
Nintendo
Bluetooth
[Tom Wujec] explains how an astrolabe works and its importance in our technological development. He argues that an astrolabe was the world’s first “popular computer”. It measures the sky and that measurement can be used to tell time, survey land, and navigate a ship.
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Other
We know that feeling, you’ve been up all morning working hard, and now you just want to relax. What better way than to sit back and watch as helpless electronic devices are stripped, forced to show their goods, then put back together only hap hazardly – not that we’re into ...
