In this latest adafruit tutorial, Limor shows you how to create a “pager scanner” that allows you to feed incoming pager network data to a Windows computer over a serial port. It looks super easy to do and fun to see what you can still find on these data networks. Also check out her earlier […]
WAY back in the day, in the early ’90s, my Hypercard programming partner, Peter Sugarman, published a concept piece in Mondo 2000, in my “Street Tech” column, on “keyboard chaps,” a two-piece split keyboard you could strap onto your thighs so you could type just as soon as twiddle your fingers. I’ve seen several attempts […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, farnea posted: 12 hard disk heads oscillating and controlled by a chromatic and tunable keyboard.
Tinkerlog posted great instructions on how to create your own arcade controller and set it up with your favorite ROM. For all you emulation lovers who need that extra level of finesse, this will work with USB and MAME. Tinkerlog writes: HID stands for Human Interface Device class. Common devices of this class are keyboards, […]
Alan Parekh, of HackedGadgets, writes Daniel Eindhoven sent in his latest creation, this is one killer looking coil gun! “Fully semi-automatic, up to 14 shots. Capable of delivering over 18J kinetic energy, and speeds up to 110km/h! (42 gram projectiles). It’s a single stage gun, using a 8800uF(4×2200) capacitor bank with max 400v (704J). Max […]
Another day, another couple of cool, wacky vids from Fatman and Circuit Girl. In the first vid, Jerri has George laughing his butt off over her ridiculous flipdown clock wrist watch. Tres chic, it ain’t! In the second video, Jeri explains EDM, electrical discharge machining, a technique that came up recently on Make: Talk. She […]
Building on the original MintyBoost USB charger kit, this Instructables how-to will walk you through the steps of adding a Lithium Polymer battery pack and small solar cell. The extra capacity and added convenience of solar make this modification a must have for off-grid mobility.
