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Finally, a keyboard for the iPhone

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 5:29pm MDT by Jakob Griffith

We can’t say we’ve had problems typing on our iPhones here at HackaDay, must be the elfin fingers, but for [Ben Kurtz] it was a real pain. The obvious solution is to carry around an Arduino, 9 volt battery, iPhone breakout board, a ps2 keyboard, and of course the iPhone itself. Well, maybe it could [...]
Snega2usb preorder now available

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 3:21pm MDT by Gerrit Coetzee

We’ve been watching the development of the snega2usb since it’s debut on Hackaday. Now it’s grown up and is ready to be manufactured. In the low quality video above [Matthias] shows some of the latest high quality additions to the board. It now has a case, shiny new firmware, production made PCB, and game pad ports. The snega2usb is shipping [...]
Online chip reference trims the fat

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 1:25pm MDT by Phil Burgess

Quick: which pins are used for I2C on an ATmega168 microcontroller? If you’re a true alpha geek you probably already know the answer. For the rest of us, ChipDB is the greatest thing since the resistor color code cheat sheet. It’s an online database of component pinouts: common Atmel microcontrollers, the peripheral ICs sold by SparkFun, and [...]
Add a key-fob opener to your door

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 12:30pm MDT by Mike Szczys

It seems like creating an automatic dorm room door opener is a rite-of-geek-passage each fall. [Adam], a student at Vassar, passed with flying colors by creating this clean setup. We’ve got video, more pictures, and a description after the break. Above we see the device mounted on the inside of the door. The larger box houses [...]
Dell mini9 tablet

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 11:00am MDT by Caleb Kraft

[Rob928] has done a fantastic job converting his Dell mini9 into a tablet. He has done several updates, such as an SSD hard drive and touchscreen. The final product looks quite nice. From a few feet away, we wouldn’t have noticed that it was a home made one. We’ve seen several tablet conversions before from [...]
It has blades: Dyson’s little white lie

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 9:45am MDT by Mike Szczys

‘There’s a sucker born every minute” -P.T. Barnum This morning we’ve been having a heated discussion at the Hack a Day offices (read: legion of doom) over Dyson’s new offering, a “bladeless fan”. At first this seemed extremely exciting, but how is the air being moved? We were hoping for a device operating via ionic wind [...]
DASH: clever construction and resilience in robotics

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 9:03am MDT by Mike Szczys

Behold the Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod (DASH). The video above was presented at the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. In it we see the toils of a team from UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab. They’ve developed a robot propulsion system that mimics some of the best aspects of cockroaches and other insect [...]
LED Pocket Watch

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 8:00am MDT by James Munns

Today, it is not difficult to find all kinds of watches with LED displays. After [Paul]’s grandfather, a master horologist and pocket watch collector, passed away, he decided to retrofit a broken watch left to him with a custom LED face. Starting from scratch, he designed a PCB complete with 133 (hand soldered) LEDs, room [...]
CNC router on the way

Posted: October 14th, 2009, 7:21am MDT by Jakob Griffith

We love CNC hacks, so when [Jonny] sent in his nearly complete CNC router we were ecstatic. There are only a couple of posts thus far, and it takes some digging, but its pretty easy to understand his mindset and overall plan while making the CNC. It currently has full 3 axis movement and he [...]