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Steampunk sequencer

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 4:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

[Moritz Wolpert] built this gem of Victorian hardware by hand. It is a sequencer and features beautiful detail work as shown in its MySpace gallery. Other than that we don’t know a lot about it. You can also take a look at [Moritz's] main page, but prepare to be annoyed by the hideous web-styling that [...]
Hacker finds better use for a Windows machine

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 3:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

[Patrick Becker] had an ancient PC on his hands with a blown PSU. He converted this into a stylish home for his Betta splendens. The aquarium itself is fashioned from a piece for construction glass block with the top cut off. This allows for a window that looks through the tank and shows off the motherboard [...]
doomBox: Classic keys meet tiny screen

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 2:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

The doomBox is a dedicated gaming rig for lovers of ID Software’s classic title. [JJ] built this from an old Kodak DC290 camera that had a broken lens. Since this runs the Digita OS, he was able to use the Doom port that already exists. But the camera’s factory buttons were not well suited as [...]
Phone/webapp written in ploy to appear more popular

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 1:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

That title’s not really fair to [Evan], but he did write a cellphone tetris game that causes your handset to automatically telephone him if you win. He’s using two applications that we’re not very familiar with, Twilio and Tornado. The former handles control input from the cellphone via their simple API. The latter is a [...]
BatchPCB Pays You

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 11:48am MST by Devlin Thyne

SparkFun’s BatchPCB has been a well-known service to get your PCBs fabbed, and now it is sporting a new feature. It has just come out of its downtime chrysalis with the ability to pay you for making your designs. If you have designed a PCB and want people to pay you to use it, BatchPCB [...]
Biped walks with eight servos

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 7:37am MST by Mike Szczys

This tiny biped shows a lot of coordination in its movements. As you can see, eight servo motors account for the locomotion with an ATmega8 as the brains of the operation. Posts for the first and second generation of this little guy feature several videos. We gather that a spreadsheet is being used to tweak [...]