During their weekly Take Apart Tuesday, the fine folks at the Crash Space hackerspace in LA were planning to convert an old printer into a pen plotter, by disabling the original electronics and hooking directly to the stepper motors that controlled the print head.
A simple and useful hack – Sebastian posted his steps for using an old guitar volume pedal as a general purpose potentiometer/foot control with Arduino. Using a Max/MSP patch, he converted the data to MIDI control channel messages on his computer. More infos over at little-scale.
One my students, Danny Geiger, has a Sorenson videophone for communicating using sign language, and it’s designed to sit on top of your TV. The problem is that it doesn’t work work well with flat screens, so he made a laser-cut stand to support it. He provides the Illustrator file to make your own, which […]
Sunlight Labs, known for opening America’s government, had a problem when they recently moved facilities. Creating new keys for team members was becoming costly, so they figured out an alternative method of providing secure access using a WRT54GL, easily sourced components, and a trusty copy of Make: Electronics.
In a proud tradition of hackable badges at hacker conferences, the fancy folks behind QuahogCon 2010 have designed a really cool looking conference badge. They’ve blurred out some of the key information to help prevent people like you and me (yes, I will be attending!) from getting a head start with writing code for the […]
If you’re curious about the latest ROM floating around for the Nexus One, it’s from Modaco and it features Flash 10.1 and the HTC Sense UI. If you’re still reading this and haven’t started downloading the ROM, here’s a preview video to pass the time while you wait for an official release.
Forum user thetanktheory built this Glove Mouse to help improve his FPS game skills.
