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January 15, 2007
NES mini (entire NES system in controller!)
Gforce sent in this NES mini, an entire NES system in a Nintendo controller that plugs in to a TV and plays games... From the benheck.com forums, where else! - Link.
Related:
- NES Guitar Mod - Link.
- Giant NES@! - Link.
- Rancilio Silvia "PID PIC NES" mod - NES controlled ... - Link.
- The NES Flashback - review - Link.
- nPod - NES portable - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2007 07:06 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming, Retro |
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HOW TO - Make an iPod Shuffle 2nd generation AC/DC wall charger
Here's a nice little 2g iPod shuffle charge you can make... Microhaxo writes -
"Let me first start off by saying this is a wall charger for your ipod shuffle and i have taken the time to make very easy to understand diagrams for everyone, originally the german pinout diagram for the 3.5mm mini jack is well just very basic, so i have shown everything you need to know and where it should go.
THIS ONLY WORKS FOR THE iPod Shuffle 2nd Generation ClamShell - the only working way i know of besides the mintyboost, but far simpler in design and no battery operated. " - Link.
Related:
- Hand powered iPod Shuffle - Link.
- Minty Boost Kit - Link.
- HOW TO - Make an iPod charger for your bicycle! - Link.
- HOW TO - Build a solar iPod charger - Link.
- HOW TO - Make a dual iPod charger - Link.
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Jan 15, 2007 06:44 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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Bent 2007 : The Fourth annual circuit bending festival
Mike writes -
"This is the Open Call for circuit builders, benders, and destroyers! The fourth year of this annual festival of music and art features nightly concerts, daily workshops, and site specific art installations. Now in three back to back incarnations in LA, Minneapolis, and NYC. Show us your stuff!" - Link.
Related:
- The Tank - Link.
- BLIP festival wrap up - Link.
- Photos from BLIP - Link.
- Circuit bending projects and more @ MAKE - Link.
More:
- Build an Incantor, a classic circuit-bending project that turns an old Speak & Read toy into a looping, stuttering, sound effects synthesizer - Link.
- Add a port and two plug-in-able external controllers to the circuit-bent SK-5 keyboard project in Make 04 - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
- Circuit Bending. Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you've ever heard. MAKE 04 - page 90. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 04.
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Jan 15, 2007 04:38 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Events |
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Arduino + virtual worlds
Matt writes -
"Over the last couple of weeks I've enjoyed playing with the Arduino hardware prototyping board. This week's open-sourcing of the Second Life client came at exactly the right time for a new experiment.
Here's a video demonstration (people reading the feed, start your web browsers). On the left you'll see an Arduino reading analogue values from a potentiometer and feeding the results in via the USB-serial interface to my Mac. On the right, you'll see a modified version of Second Life that is feeding those values in via my avatar's chat channel. An object in the Second Life world is reacting, with perhaps a half-second lag." - Link.
Related:
- Arduino-serial: C code to talk to Arduino - Link.
- Arduino projects @ MAKE - Link.
- Virtual world archives - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 15, 2007 12:25 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Virtual Worlds |
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January 14, 2007
Tesla Coil
If you're into electricity, Tesla1000's photostream is worth checking out. I like how he shows all the parts and process of putting one of these together! - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 14, 2007 04:09 PM
Electronics |
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January 13, 2007
It's Learn to Solder Month!
The folks at Instructables have declared that it's Learn to Solder Month! Make sure to watch the Make video podcast about soldering and then head on over to Instructables to catch the soldering action! Make your own soldering instructable and get a patch!
Make: Soldering Tutorial - Link
Gareth's Awesome How-To PDF - Link
How-to solder - Link
Tin the Tip - Link
What NOT to Do When Soldering - Link
Soldering Maintenance - Link
Soldering Paste Stencils - Link
Hot Air Sodering Iron - Link
Soldering Underneath Chips - Link
Solder Exhaust Fan - Link
Improving a 3rd Hand - Link
Super Simple Soldering Arms - Link
Homemade Nearly Free Soldering Iron Stand - Link
Check them out as more people submit soldering instructables through the end of the month - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 13, 2007 05:25 PM
Electronics |
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Speaker in a Can
Speaker built into lid of a large cookie tin. Sitting on the speaker (6 inch, 8ohm), the bottom of the can is free to vibrate. Using reverb, overdrive and a compressor, the can hyper-resonates making extended metallic wails. - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 13, 2007 02:18 PM
Electronics, Music |
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January 12, 2007
Teeny Tiny Commodore 64
At first glance, I thought this was a hacked Game Boy Advance... I was wrong.
Here are a few pics of my own DTV Hummer project. I had an old PSOne LCD screen lying around and I thought I'd make a C64 laptop. Actually, it's more like a C64 PDA! It measures 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 inches (15.5 x 16.5 x 4 cm) when closed. It can run from an AC wall adapter or 6 NiMH AA batteries. The keyboard is hacked from a portable folding keyboard for a Jornada PDA which outputs RS-232. I'm using a PIC 16F88 to decode the signals and re-encode them to PS/2 (that was an ordeal to figure out). The PIC checks to see if an external PS/2 keyboard is connected on power up.
Here are some of the innards. It was originally a Hummer. I cut the power supply part of the PCB off and supplied my own regulated 3.3V. [via]- Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 12, 2007 10:29 AM
Computers, Electronics, Gaming |
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January 11, 2007
Thames and Kosmos Microcontroller Kit
I grew up on 50-in-1, 100-in-1, 150-in-1 and I think a 200-in-1 which were electronics kits that radio shack put out that let you mock up different circuits like an alarm for your room, a crystal radio, and others.
Here's a similar kit, but for microcontrollers. I haven't tried it out yet, but it looks good for starter microcontroller projects. If you've got played with it, drop a comment and let us know what you've made with it and what you think! - Link
Posted by Bre Pettis |
Jan 11, 2007 10:26 AM
Electronics |
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January 10, 2007
MAKE Daisy MP3 player kit
Ty put the MAKE MP3 player he made in to a metal cigarette case... Nicely done!
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Jan 10, 2007 11:17 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Kits |
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January 9, 2007
Don't waste my time clock
Ralf writes -
"You've been in a meeting and you thought somebody wasted your time with bla bla? There was an appointement and ten persons kept waiting for (an important) one who doesn't care when he is frequently late? Here's what you could enjoy meanwhile. This is inspired by this and this.
Internally it uses 2 ATTiny2313 that communicate via their serial interface. One runs a clock with a multiplexed 7 segment LED display and a "reset to 00:00" button - the other one has a button to increase the multiplier and shows it on the 2 digit multiplexed display. How to do the display? Here we go... I'll be updating this with the serial communication code for the ATTiny2313 multiprocessor system :-) as well. Enjoy. " - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 9, 2007 07:01 PM
Electronics |
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Another DIY function generator
David made a spiffy function generator (second one we've seen in a week)...
"An extremely simple and low cost Sine/Square wave generator based on the Analog Devices AD9835 Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) Generator chip. The frequency can be set for any frequency from 1Hz to 10MHz in 1Hz resolution steps! All this with three push buttons and a novel "sliding window" LED display. The controller chip is a Microchip PIC16F628. There is no wiring, and the PCB fits into a standard UB3 Jiffy Box." [via] - Link.
Related:
- HOW TO - Make a function generator - Link.
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Jan 9, 2007 06:58 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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HOW TO - Post-Circuit board
Q-Branch from GRL shows you how to make a circuit board from postal supplies and electronic parts...
"How to make your own PCB on free postal labels using conductive ink, epoxy and a few parts. By PCB I mean, Post-Circuit Board: as in enter the age of circuits painted on walls. And also because its on postage. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor law nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their self-appointed rounds. Lets all Go Postal." - Video & how-to.
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Jan 9, 2007 03:20 PM
Arts, DIY Projects, Electronics |
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PCB Pupppet
Here's a "PCB puppet" it reacts to music and is controlled via a Gameboy (circuit available on the site) - Link.
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Jan 9, 2007 02:59 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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AVR based Tux droid - Linux robot
Huh - it's not clear the status of this project but, here's an interesting AVR based bot you can control/program/hack on...
"Tux Droid is a first generation 2.4 GHz wireless robot specially built for Linux.
Tux Droid will be your favorite smart companion. Connect him to your PC and make him flap his wings, dance around, talk, blink his eyes, and all the other stuff you can imagine...
- Let Tux Droid dance when you receive an e-mail
- Program Tux Droid as a guard dog to scare away intruders
- Program Tux Droid as a wake-up clock
- Take Tux Droid to your bathroom to listen to the news broadcast
- Program Tux to be a remote control for your PC, activating multimedia applications
- Program Tux Droid to function as a wireless VOIP phone
- Or just show Tux Droid around to impress your buddies.
So hackers challenge your programming skillz !" [via] - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 9, 2007 06:39 AM
Electronics, Robotics |
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Free samples of electronics parts
Here is a MASSIVE list of companies that have free samples of electronics parts for your projects... [via] - Link.
Got others post in the comments!
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Jan 9, 2007 02:40 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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January 8, 2007
iRobot Create, projects and (more) photos...
Tom just sent over his review of the new iRobot Create, complete with tons of photos and projects, he writes -
"iRobot, a pioneering robot company that has sold millions of iRobot Roomba vacuuming robots, has introduced a remarkable robot platform that fills a major gap.
The iRobot Create is a dependable, rugged and versatile robot base that can be used for uncounted robotics hobby and research applications. It includes a selection of software routines developed for iRobot's commercial appliance bots and a well-engineered, robust chassis designed for longevity. Many will consider this to be a DIY-roboticist's dream come true. " - Link.
Related:
- iRobot "Create" - Educational robot - Link.
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Jan 8, 2007 11:55 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Robotics |
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HOW TO - RGB Color controllable high power LED room & spot lighting (under $100)
Dan just posted 3 great LED Instructables, including this one on making your own color controllable high powered lighting...
"Build your own fully color controllable RGB room or spot lighting for under $100. Perhaps you are asking yourself: "why would i want an any-color light?" well, for starters you can give your pets a virtual color make-over! ever wondered if Fido might look better in purple? perhaps you'd like to see your makeup the way Bono's seeing it with those blue-lens sunglasses? or maybe you're sick of your almond-white wall paint and want to give it just a tweak of eggshell today? of course, it's a gimme for the dance-party, but you can also use it to tweak the shade on your existing room lighting, or as a standalone to get any shade of white (and perfect color rendering) - invaluable for visual arts. in search of an existential crisis? i just spent a good half an hour with this light staring at my hand and trying to figure out what color it is *supposed* to be." - Link.
Related:
- Power LED's - simplest light with constant-current circuit - Link.
- Circuits for using High Power LED's - Link.
- LED projects @ MAKE - Link.
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Jan 8, 2007 06:45 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics |
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iRobot "Create" - Educational robot
News.com's Michael Kanellos has the scoop on the latest bot from iRobot, an educational, programmable bot...
"At the Consumer Electronics Show, iRobot will publicly release its latest product, the iRobot Create, a programmable robot for entertainment and education. The base of the Create is similar to the Scooba, the company's floor-mopping robot, and the carpet-vacuuming Roomba. It comes with wheels, motors for movement, and sensors that prevent it from tumbling downstairs or getting mired in corners.
iRobot Create
The brushes and fluid tanks, however, have been removed. Instead, the Create comes with a series of connectors that let users attach reticulating arms, cameras and other devices." - Link & gallery.
We have a unit here at MAKE and will post about this very soon!
More:
iRobot Create- Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 8, 2007 03:22 PM
Electronics, Robotics |
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Cellular Automata video synthesizer kit
Owen writes -
"In this example we build a self-contained cellular automata video synthesizer using the Video Critter Mini. The Video Critter Mini is an AVR based video board that can be used to generate simple graphics on an NTSC television. By adding 3 pots and a button, we can make a complete 1-D cellular automata demonstration for around $50." - Link & Cellular Automata Video Synthesizer Kit.
Related:
Déplacements, a material "Game of Life" (with PC fans) - Link.
Game of Life Board - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 8, 2007 12:03 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Kits |
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