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Didgeridoo, now does real time video

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 4:38pm MDT by Jakob Griffith

Some of you may remember when we introduced you to [Kyle's] Electronically Modified Didgeridoo. Those same members will have their hearts warmed knowing he’s still playing and advancing on his Didgeridoo, now including real time video processing. There isn’t too many details aside from it being controlled by an ATMega168 and an unknown analog switching [...]
Floppy disk augmented reality is a head-scratcher

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 3:30pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Iain Gildea] tipped us off about a drill-powered coffee grinder he made but it was the floppy-disc augmented reality display a few paragraphs down that caught our attention. He’s taken 36 white floppy discs, sprayed one side black, then mounted them each with a center pivot into a 6×6 grid. Through a convoluted system of [...]
Die bloodsuckers – pew pew

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 2:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

In a bid to combat malaria, Intellectual Ventures is developing a method of killing mosquitoes with lasers. The system is called a Photonic Fence and identifies the beasties by the frequency of their wing flapping (hey, that’s exactly how we know when they’re dive-bombing our heads). Once locked-on, it’s death to the filthy blood-suckers. This story [...]
XBMC hiding in an SNES controller

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:49pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Here’s another SNES controller converted to house a USB system. The one we saw last time used a kit as an adapter for the controller but this version uses a home-built PCB and an ATmega8 microcontroller with the latest revision of an open source adapter for NES and SNES controllers. As you can see after [...]
All terrain Roomba

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 11:48am MDT by Mike Szczys

This little rover gets around on rough terrain pretty well. [Dean Segovis] built it using parts from a Roomba. The Roomba uses wheels in conjunction with gearboxes that handle a lot of the dirty work in getting this prototype going. [Dean] grabbed four of them, as well as the motor controller board and batter, and [...]
Massive no-touch physically-interfaced display

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 8:30am MDT by Caleb Kraft

[Daniel] wrote in to show us the project his group has been working on. It is a massive display wall consisting of 28 projectors and 30 computers. With a resolution of 7168×3072, viewing a 13.3 gigapixel image is a treat. That treat is made even stronger by the fact that navigating the image is done [...]
1-Wire LAN with an LCD

Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 7:10am MDT by Jakob Griffith

[Viktor], one of our favorite avid hackers, has been playing around with 1-wire systems all this month. What started out as a MicroLAN Fonera has turned into an iButton interface, to a 1-wire powered hub, and finally a 1-wire character driven LCD. Anyone looking at 1-wire systems or OWFS could surely benefit from his testing. However, [...]