The concept of function is one of excellent value to lots of sentient beings; one can only envision the philosophical fear experienced by a robot created solely to pass butter. maybe wanting to produce a robot with a lot more reason to exist, [Micah “Chewy” Leibowitz] made a decision to develop this battlebot armed with a…
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hearing aids are expensive little devices, typically costing a few thousand dollars each. They need to be highly integrated to fit in the ear, while still providing signal processing to ensure good audio quality. This diy hearing aid does some intelligent signal processing. It uses an electret to capture audio, then uses a pre-amplifier to increase the…
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Here’s a totally non-invasive hack for a traditional Minolta SLR camera. [Robby] wished to add to the choices offered when it pertains to remote shutter release. He ended up building a cord release add-on that mounts on the hot shoe. He drew a few of his motivation from a similar job we saw back in…
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For all their applications, 3D printers can be finicky machines. From extruder problems, misaligned or missing layers, to finding an overnight print turned into a tangled mess, and that’s all assuming your printer bed is perfectly leveled. [Ricardo de Azambuja’s] new linear delta printer was discouraging him. No matter what he did, it wouldn’t maintain…
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[Anthony Liekens], one of our preferred hackers from Belgium, recently completed this large (and awesome!) flying spaghetti Monster LED display! With so numerous different holidays in December, [Anthony] chose he wanted his household to celebrate a slightly less conventional deity. The body is a massive 4′ by 8′ wooden board that we think [Anthony] cut…
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“Dammit Jim, I’m a hacker, not a musician!”, to paraphrase McCoy Scotty from the original star trip series. Well, a few of us are likewise musicians, some, like me, are likewise hack-musicians, as well as some wouldn’t understand a whole note from a treble clef. however every now as well as then the music you…
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