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HACKADAY LINKS: SUNDAY, JULY 7TH, 2013

IR manage for your house movie theater doesn’t have to look ugly. [Rhys Goodwin] put his IR blasters inside his audio equipment. Steam powered windshield wiper. requirement we state more? An assembled version of the FaceDancer is now offered for purchase. This is a man-in-the-middle USB tool established by [Travis Goodspeed]. When [S.A.] sent us…
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August 14, 2022 0

A genuine HACKER’S IDE

We don’t utilize a GUI IDE, however if we did, it would a lot of definitely be something along the lines of [Martin]’s embedded-IDE project. We’ve always felt that a lot of IDEs are just elegant wrappers around all the tools that we utilize anyway: Makefiles, diff, git, ctags, as well as an editor. [Martin]’s…
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August 12, 2022 0

HACKADAY prize ENTRY: THE FPGA COMMODORE

The history of Commodore 8-bit computers ends with a fantastically powerful, revolutionary, as well as extraordinarily collectible device. The Commodore 65 was the poultry lip’ last-ditch effort to capture every last bit out of the tradition of the Commodore 64. Basically, it was a rework of a 10-year-old design, adding advanced features from the Amiga, however…
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August 11, 2022 0

VGA MESSAGE BOARD displays SMS WITHOUT A computer

[Achu Wilson’s] latest creation is a VGA message board which is written to via SMS text messages. This doesn’t sound too interesting at first, until you find out he’s doing this with a microcontroller rather than a PC. all of the complexity is in the code that drives the VGA. He managed to do it…
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August 11, 2022 0

GEIGER COUNTER tells YOU IF YOUR DISHES ARE RADIOACTIVE

[Henrik] really turned out a nice little Geiger counter board based on a chilly war age Geiger tube. It works in much the same way as other projects along the same lines. It does run on batteries if needed, which is no small feat since the tube wants high voltage to operate correctly. as well as…
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August 7, 2022 0

GO big OR GO HOME: A TABLECLOTH TOUCHPAD

Phone screens keep getting bigger. computer screens keep getting bigger. Why not a large trackpad to use as a mouse? [MaddyMaxey] had that thought and with a few components and some sewing skills created a trackpad in a tablecloth. The electronics in this project are ideal off the shelf. A Flora board for the brains…
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August 6, 2022 0

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT reverse ENGINEERING, 1970S style

We are utilized to stories about reverse engineering integrated circuits, in these pages. Some interesting exposés of traditional chips have been created by people such as the ever-hard-working [Ken Shirriff]. You may believe that this method would be something new, confined only to those thinking about the workings of now-obsolete silicon. however the tricks of…
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August 5, 2022 0

72 hours TO style YOUR idea

The very first difficulty of the 2017 Hackaday prize closes on this coming Monday morning. You have about 72 hours hours to submit your entry. The challenge, called style Your Concept, is truly about a plan. Seeing a job with depends greatly on your capability to foresee where the pain points are. will you get half method…
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August 5, 2022 0

THE many unexpected game OF SIMON YOU’VE EVERY PLAYED

how does one take a game of Simon and make it incredibly awesome? The people at the North street Labs — a Hackerspace in Portsmouth, Virginia — have found the secret and it’s all in the execution. They turned this chair-desk into a coin-operated Simon game that hides a substantial surprise. We expect you ought…
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August 4, 2022 0

TURNING AN ARDUINO into A USB KEYBOARD

The newly released Arduino Leonardo has a few very interesting features, many notably the ability to act as a USB keyboard and mouse thanks to the new ATmega 32U4 microcontroller. This feature isn’t exclusive to the Leonoardo, as [Michael] discusses in a build he sent in – the lowly Arduino Uno can also serve as a…
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August 4, 2022 0