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November 20, 2006

The Electronic Sitar controller

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Here's the The worlds first digitized Indian String Instrument! -

"The purpose of this project is to use microcontroller technology to create a real-time instrument that models the Sitar. This Electronic Sitar (known as the ESitar) has digitizing sensors, custom positioned to traditional Sitar technique, which converts human musical gestures to binary code which machines can comprehend. These signals can then be used to trigger real-time sound and graphics.

With the goal of capturing a wide variety of gestural input data, the ESitar controller combines several different families of sensing technology and signal processing methods. The specific gestures our system captures data from are the depressed fret number, pluck time, thumb pressure, and 3 axes of the performer's head tilt. The core of the ESitar's sensing and communication systems is an Atmel AVR ATMega16 microcontroller." [via] - Link.

Related:

  • The Electronic Tabla - Link.
  • The Electronic Dholak - Link.
  • Sound lab controllers - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 07:42 PM
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Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest [via] - Link.

Here are a couple electronics related ones and toy imports - I'm sure over time regions deflate, then inflate to their current states...

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Electronics imports- Whilst many people use electronic items as part of their day to day life, others have very little contact with electronics. This is particularly the case if someone has no electricity supply, or an insecure electricity supply The United States is a major net importer of electronics, people living there spend US$47 billion per year on imported electronics.

North American territories import (US$ net) almost half of all electronics traded worldwide. North African territories, with a similar total population size to that of North America, import only around 5% of the electronics imported (net) by North American territories - Link.

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Electronics exports - Asian territories are the major world-supplier of electronics. In particular Japan, China, Taiwan and Malaysia. As 85% of territories import (net) electronic items, these exporting territories are from where these demands are met. These territories, with others, are sometimes referred to as Asian Tigers, or Tiger economies. This is claimed to be due to their high growth, rapid-industrialisation and export-driven trade strategies.

Worldwide, electronics exports generate 10.2% of all money earnt from trade in goods. Electronics include television and radio receivers, photography equipment, and electro-medical equipment - Link.

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Toy imports - Most imports of toys (US$ net) are to the United States, followed by the United Kingdom. Toys are fun but not necessities. Thus toy imports give an indication of disposable incomes. The lowest imports of toys (US$ net) per person are to territories in Africa and also Tajikistan (in the Middle East). Central Africa, Southeastern Africa, Southern Asia and Northern Africa contain the poorest territories in the world. The highest imports of toys (US$ net) per person are to territories in Western Europe,North America, Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe - Link.

The site includes PDF posters for printing, Excel data files and Opendoc data files.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 05:18 PM
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HOW TO - Make a "Frankenbear Synthamajig"

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Randofo show you how to make a nice PIC based bear... - "Have you ever wanted a teddy bear that looks like Frankenstein and makes sounds like "bleep bleep bloooop de de bleep.... EHHHHHHHHHH...... dadadadadadadododododod bleep bleep bloop"?

Look no farther, you have found it!

Now you can perform the nights away with your new USB-Powered teddy bear instrument. Yay!" - Link.

Related:

  • PIC resources @ MAKE - Link.

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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 04:57 PM
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HOW TO - Peripheral power control with screen saver

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Photozz shows you how to turn off your computer peripherals (like a printer) when your screensaver kicks in....

"I tend to leave my computer on all the time. It's a combination of laziness and need. I sit on line quite a bit, and the kids use it as well. I don't think I'm unique here.

Recently moved to a smaller apartment, and finally noticed the somewhat shocking electric bill. When I was in a house, I used to put it down to the baseboard electric heaters, or the watter heater or something. Now, it appears that it pretty much has to be the computer. With the monitor, printer, speakers and other crap I have going all the time, it has to be sucking up the power while it's just idling along. Putting the computer into screen saver still leaves all the external stuff turned on.

Last Christmas I grabbed a bunch of solid state relays off Ebay to use in a computer controlled lighting display. It's came out pretty cool, and left me with 8 spares.

For those who don't know, a solid state relay is something like an electronically controlled switch. More info here.

When I was looking for ways to control my Christmas lights, I came across some software for controlling the LPT (printer) port pins. The raw software is available here.

After thinking about my power problem for a while, I decided to try and rig something up to turn on and off a bank of power sockets triggered by the screen saver." - Link.

This sounds like a great idea for a power supply maker to consider...

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 03:58 PM
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XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 - Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development

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Try your hands at the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development with a new kit we're carrying in the MAKE store. Twenty years ago, says André LaMothe, game programming was a real art. LaMothe, programmer extraordinaire and probably the best known author in the field of game programming, remembers when 32 kilobytes on machines with clock speeds of 1 MHz, was state of the art. The game programmers of the 1980s created classic video games with perfectly tuned mechanics and unbelievable details. Using ingenuity and elegance, not to mention myriad hacks and tricks, they routinely created wonderful games and gave early gamers every reason to stay glued to their joysticks.

Today, because of improvements in hardware and software, the quality and overall richness of computer gaming has increased by orders of magnitude. But, says LaMothe, with that has come a decline in programming skill; the power of the machines allows game programmers to get away with inefficient, poorly organized, and generally non-optimized coding.

Enter LaMothe's XGameStation, a hardware platform developed exclusively for the purpose of educating a new generation of hardware and software hackers in the nitty-gritty, low-level world of hardcore game development. Combining modern technology with the bedrock-solid design philosophies of the past, XGameStation opens a window into history's most important gaming hardware, systems such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari 800 to create a tight integration of past, present and future.

The XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 is a build-it-yourself game development kit based on the technologies of its bigger brother, the XGameStation Micro Edition. The XGS Pico Edition 2.0 comes with a solderless breadboard and parts as well as the Pico PCB Add-On Kit.

After you build the breadboard version you can solder your unit together and have a completely portable and reprogramable embedded game system. Complete instructions covering assembly, architecture, and programming of the Pico Edition comes with the kit on CD.

The Pico Edition may be simple, but it packs a punch with a Ubicom SX28 microcontroller running at a blazing 80.000MHz. It comes with a 7-Segment readout, 15-pin interface, A/V jacks, and a built in directional game pad for a completely portable mini-game console.

XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 - Link & get one at the MAKE store!

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 02:52 PM
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RGB LED kits

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Usually playing around with multi-color LEDs requires some microcontroller programming and a lot of work, Gerry has some great kits to control LEDs (schematics and source included) -

"RGBLED Controller - Lets you control the exact color of an RGBLED to be one of 16.7 million possible colors via a serial connection. The mRGBLED controller has three channels allowing between 1 and 3 independently controlled LEDs to be attached. The RGBLED controller has 13 channels allowing between 1 and 13 independently controlled RGBLEDs. Each controller has a unique board identifier, so you can daisy chain multiple boards to provide more channels/LEDs...All the projects are free for non-commercial use and include all the schematics, firmware and supporting documentation allowing you to build them yourself." [via] - Link.

Related:

  • LED projects @ MAKE - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 12:33 PM
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USB/Serial PIC programmer

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If you need to program PICs but don't have a serial port, here's a USB programmer from Carl's electronics for $44 -

"USB ports are just about standard on all PC's now a days. So this is our first PIC programmer using the USB port. Just in case, we have also left a standard serial port connection.

Features:

  • USB/Serial Port Connection
  • Software that can be updated as new Pics are released
  • Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP Compatible Software
  • ICSP (In Circuit Serial Programming) Connector
  • Quality PCB and Silkscreen for Easy Assembly
  • Complete Assembly and Programming Instructions
USB/Serial Pic Programmer" - Link.

Related:

  • PIC microcontrollers - a beginner's guide - Link.
  • Get your PIC on - free PIC programming resources - Link.
  • HOW TO - JDM2 based PIC Programmer- Link.
  • Programming PIC microcontrollers in BASIC- Link.
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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 11:33 AM
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HOW TO - Make a USB-Powered apple

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Randofo writes - "Well, the holiday season is quickly encroaching upon our otherwise uneventful and pleasant existences. Soon most of us will have to sit through many long meals with our family (or someone else's) and try to keep our sanity. I don't know about you, but during this time of year I could use some stress relief.

To keep with spirit of the season I made this USB-Powered Apple. It is really quite a simple device. It vibrates when a person grabs for it and does not vibrate when a person does not. Unlike your family, this apple is predictable and may relieve stress." - Link.

Related:

  • USB projects @ MAKE - Link.
  • Building simple motors and more - Link.
  • Holiday projects @ MAKE - Link.

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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 10:27 AM
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Getting started with AVR microprocessors on the cheap

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The Real Elliot has a great Instructable on getting started with AVR microprocessors on the cheap (also check out the comments for more links/tips)...

"Microprocessors are so cheap these days. If only there were a way to program them up just as cheaply...

*wavy dream-sequence lines*

In this instructable, find out how to build up a complete AVR microprocessor toolchain: compiler, programmer software, programmer hardware, and some simple demos to get your feet wet.

From there, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to world domination.

The endpoint is not quite as swanky as Atmel's suite, but it's gonna run you about $150 less and take only a little more work to get it set up.

This instructable is based on the Atmel ATtiny 2313 chip, mostly because it's one of the smaller chips (in size) while still being beefy enough to do most anything. And at $3 a pop (non-bulk), they don't break the bank.

That said, most of the steps are applicable across the AVR family, so you'll be able to re-use most everything when your programming needs outgrow the ATtiny and you reach for the $8-$12 ATmegas." - Link.

Related:

  • Build a $19 AVR Butterfly MP3 player - Link.
  • Getting started with 8 bit AVR microcontrollers - Link.
  • AVR Robots (photos) - Link.
  • Open source Atmel AVR microcontroller kits... - Link.
  • Atmel AVR Butterfly 4 - Link.
  • POV (Persistence of vision) using AVR - Link.
  • Learning kit with multiple microcontroller support - Link.
  • Arduino, the Basic Stamp killer? - Link.
  • More AVR projects @ MAKE - Link.
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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 08:20 AM
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HOW TO - Make a home-made sun jar

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cre8tor writes - "[How to make] a solar-powered LED lighted cookie jar reminiscent of the Sun Jar disigned by Tobias Wong.

Components:

  • Ikea glass jar (AUD$3.00)
  • Solar garden light (AUD$10.00)
  • rechargeable battery (AA size)
  • Blu-tack
  • Tracing paper
Tools:
  • Screwdriver
  • Utility Knife"
HOW TO - Make a home-made sun jar - Link.

Solar projects @ MAKE:

  • Building a solar generator - Link.
  • $6 Solar fan - Link.
  • Solar Powered Jack-O-Lantern - Link.
  • Robotic solar powered sunflower - Link.
  • Make a Solar Engine - Link.
  • Homemade solar powered boombox - Link.
  • Solar cells- Link.
  • Make a solar cell in your kitchen- Link.
  • HOW TO - Build your own solar cell- Link.
  • More solar projects @ MAKE! - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 07:19 AM
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HOW TO - Add a 40gb drive to a Zune

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This is interesting, iPodmods shows you how to crack open Microsoft's new Zune and add a 40/60/80 GB drive (it ships with a 30gb drive) - only the 40gb one fits back in the case... [via] - Link.

Some other thoughts-- I'm not sure what happens when you plug in a Zune drive in to a PC, it might mount, it might not (not sure yet) - the thing you don't see in many of the Zune reviews and not on the Zune packaging (that I know of) is that the Zune, with a 30gb drive cannot be used as a hard drive at (called "disk mode" usually) unlike every other music player.

Pictured here, Zune guts from Bunnie...

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 20, 2006 02:11 AM
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November 19, 2006

Carl & Jerry - Adventure in electronics- The Tele-Tattletale

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In the 50's and 60's John T. Frye, W9EGV / Popular Electronics published a series of fiction stories called "The Carl and Jerry stories" - In each story the pair acquired new skills, got their ham radio licenses and used their knowledge of electronics to get out of a jam or solve a mystery - there isn't a complete collection of all the stories that I know of, but there are some scans / text online. The stories are entertaining, fun and I can imagine how many engineers, scientists and Makers got their start from reading these wonderful tales - about & index.

In this story, Jerry built a long range sensor device, and also uses it to scare some kids from smoking...

"...I'm calibrating the temperature-reporting unit of our Tele-Tattletale," Jerry explained with a teasing grin on his round face.

...opening the lid of the deep-freeze and lifting out a small wooden box with flat sides and rounded ends. The sides had large numbers painted on them, and one end was painted blue while the other was red. "This it is. I've been reading a lot about telemetering-or measuring at a distance-in connection with the satellites," he explained as he gathered up the equipment and started back into the laboratory; "so I decided we ought to get a little experience with that sort of thing-even though we have to do it in a pretty crude way; "This little box," he continued, "can be placed anywhere so that its small, self-contained transmitter is within range of that transceiver on the bench. We can determine four things by listening to the sig- nals from the Tele-Tattletale: (1) the temperature of the interior of the box; (2) the amount of light falling on both the red and blue endS; (3) if it is resting on side 1, 2, 3, or 4; and (4), what sounds are to be heard in its vicinity."

"Interesting, if true," Carl said doubt- fully.

"It's true and really rather simple," Jerry insisted, as he removed some screws and took off one side of the box. "I use the spiral bi-metal unit out of an advertising thermometer to turn this easily working variable resistor. The resistor determines the frequency of a transistorized oscillator. I've calibrated the oscillator's frequency as a function of the surrounding temperature; so I know from the note it puts out how warm the box is. Photocells are mounted behind the openings in each end of the box. The resistance of each cell depends on the amount of light falling on it, and the cells are connected in twin oscillator circuits so that their varying resistances separately control the frequen- cies of the oscillators. By noting the frequencies of these oscillators, I can tell how much light is falling on either end of the box." " - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 19, 2006 05:02 PM
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Kitskitskits

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Kits kits kits! - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 19, 2006 12:02 AM
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November 17, 2006

HOW TO - Vehicular 5V power

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With this you can make your own car-to-usb charger... Scott writes - "Users of our VFD-420 serial display frequently use it in automotive applications. Unfortunately, designing a bullet-proof 5-volt regulated power supply for use in the harsh vehicular power environment can be difficult.

An article in the June 1999 issue of Nuts & Volts magazine tackled this very problem. Here, reprinted with their permission, is the circuit from that article. " - Link.

If you're interested in powering other devices via USB (5V) check out the MintyBoost (another new item in the MAKE store)...

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Make your own iPod battery-pack and recharger! Build your own MintyBoost: a small & simple (but very powerful and very MAKE-like) USB charger for your iPod (or other mp3 player), camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge.

The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries fit into an Altoids gum tin, and will run your iPod for hours, 2.5x more than you'd get from a 9V USB charger! You can use rechargable batteries too.

Some soldering is necessary, but even if you've never soldered before it should be pretty easy. Tested with iPod nano/mini/photo/video/shuffle, Blackberry, iPaq, LuxPro Tangent, Rio Carbon, Samsung T809 and more.

Batteries and tin not included. If you live in an area that doesn't have Altoids gum, you can buy a tin (including the gum) from us. Get one now!

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 17, 2006 06:09 PM
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Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electronics (free ebook)

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Copyleft electronics ebook FEEE - Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, based on material originally written by T.R. Kuphaldt and various co-authors [via] - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 17, 2006 05:09 PM
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November 16, 2006

The MAKE Open Source MP3 Player @ the Holiday Gadget Guide

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MAKE is contributing a few posts to the Holiday Gadget Guide for FM, we thought we'd be different and show kits and things you can build yourself... The first, is our MP3 player - Wouldn't it be great to actually own your music player? Like really own it? Building it from the ground up and being able to always improve it? Well, we're trying to do that with the MAKE open source MP3 player...

"In 2001, artist and designer Raphael Abrams went looking for a new challenge. After some long and careful consideration, he came upon the idea of designing and building his own open source mp3 player kit. His criteria? First, it had to be easy to build. Second, it had to be open sourced. Finally, and most importantly, it had to be more than just a handheld device -- it had to connect easily to many interfaces, everything from simple button pushing to parallel ports to very powerful serial modes.

It took several iterations, but eventually, he came up with the Daisy, an easy-to-build, pocket-sized mp3 player. Daisy's audio quality is as good as an iPod, can access 65,000 tracks, play 48khz WAV files as well as mp3s, and unlike an iPod, you can change the battery.

But the really Big Idea behind the Daisy is the ease with which it interfaces with so many devices. It is the perfect MP3 kit for Makers, for it easily integrates with kiosks, displays, art installations, or just about anything else the maker community can dream up." - Link, info & MAKE store.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 16, 2006 10:55 PM
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HOW TO - Make a vintage remote TV-B-Gone case mod

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Windell writes - "Turn off that television in classic style! Here we show you how to hack a TV-B-Gone into the case of a vintage television remote control, such that the original on/off button instead activates the TV-B-Gone. We also modify the power supply so that it runs off of a regular 9 V battery, instead of a set of lithium coin cells." - Link & photos.

We sell the TV-B-Gone in the MAKE store and this isn't the only project you can do with it, auto-repeat in a hat and increasing the range are just a few...

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TV-B-Gone - 20 IR LEDs + 9V = 90 ft range! - Link.

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Tv-B-Gone hat - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 16, 2006 08:44 PM
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Sony Reader Internals 2.0 (pics!)

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Lint writes - "Hi, I took apart my wonderful Sony Reader for the world to see. Might be interesting to some of you Makers out there." - Link.

Related:

  • MAKE on the new Sony PRS-500 e-ink/ebook reader - Link.
  • Sony responds to our Sony Reader questions - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 16, 2006 03:50 PM
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Electricity around the world: everything about plugs, sockets, voltages, converters, etc.

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Everything you need to know about electricity around the world... -

"There is no standard mains voltage throughout the world and also the frequency, i.e. the number of times the current changes direction per second, is not everywhere the same. Moreover, plug shapes, plug holes, plug sizes and sockets are also different in many countries. Those seemingly unimportant differences, however, have some unpleasant consequences.

Most appliances bought overseas simply cannot be connected to the wall outlets at home. There are only two ways to solve this problem: you just cut off the original plug and replace it with the one that is standard in your country, or you buy an unhandy and ugly adapter.

While it is easy to buy a plug adapter or a new "local" plug for your "foreign" appliances, in many cases this only solves half the problem, because it doesn't help with the possible voltage disparity. A 120-volt electrical appliance designed for use in North America or Japan will provide a nice fireworks display - complete with sparks and smoke - if plugged into a European socket." - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 16, 2006 02:43 PM
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DIY Wacom Cintiq tablet (Homemade LCD drawing tablet)

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Here's an 18 part step-by-step on making your own drawing tablet with LCD under it (Like the Wacom Cintiq tablet) Drew writes -

"This is hybrid screen/graphics tablet which makes me drool. The price however makes me weep, £2000ish for the 20" version. They also do a thing called the PL at 17" for a more reasonable £500ish. Occasionally they appear on the site in their bargain basement ex-demo section. Still hard for me to justify though.

Then I had one of those "spang" moments. None of the tech involved is new and all is readily available second hand, it's just a matter of putting it together. My Wacom at work will happily operate with the stylus off the surface, after that it's just an LCD screen, right? Anyhow where's the fun in just buying something?

Experiment - what depth does a tablet work to? Stack of paper says 9mm before accuracy starts to suffer noticeably. An LCD with an EL film backlight has to be thinner than that.

So here's the challenge, What is the least amount of money I can build a Cintiq style device for?" [via] - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Nov 16, 2006 11:08 AM
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