I just got my new make magazine volume 8, cool cover aey? ...
Here’s a cool DIY for ya if you have an XBOX 360 via engadget
Recent Xbox 360 updates have allowed the system to spit out resolutions up to 1080p, and with the new HD DVD add-on drive there’s more reason than ever to use a high quality VGA signal instead of the more ...
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Cool little video on induction heater…
I used a PLL driver an H-bridge from my solid-state Tesla coil. The H-bridge is connected to the primary of a ferrite transformer with a 0,66uF capacitor in series. ...
Here’s a video of upcoming boe-bot hacks from Garrett using a Parallax Boe-Bot platform and CUBLOC CB220.as brain. This little creature has couple of cool looking features such as a tail, antennas, and eyes that can be remote-controlled via a regular TV remote-control. HO ...
Here’s a cool oxygen sensor simulator via hackaday for those of you who need to build some custom control system for your turbo, nitrous, super-charged engines. I used to have a car that I put a turbo-charger on it. Well, I had this really crude fuel oxygen control man ...
Here’s a cool DIY on how to control a DC motor using your serial port via Make.
Westsw shows you how to control the speed of a small DC motor with nothing but the serial port on your computer, a single MOSFET, and DOS commands… ...
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Here’s our new boe-bot kit we got yesterday, it looks really cool. You can do some neat stuff like
make a infrared sensors so the boe-bot detects objects and uses couple servos to run the wheels.
We are going to start hacking it a little… ...
I’ve always wanted to mess with UcLinux (Micro-C Linux), which is basically linux for embedded applications.
Here’s where you can buy one for like $210, which is a pretty good deal I’ve seen lately…
The iPod Linux I guess runs UcLinux…
Well I am gon ...
Here’s a cool viper robot kit for under 100 bucks, which is a pretty good deal for a microcontroller robot.
Hmmm…I wonder if Saelig will send me a sample…similar to the Parallax Boe-Bot (Garrett just got one
of these, it’s tight! We are gonna hack it th ...
Here’s a POV kit for $17 you can get from make.
I always wondered at these POVs, that they are really cool, but it wasn’t until Garrett showed me that it was
pretty easy to make…It’s almost magical, I am starting to fall in loove with povs… well, we ...
