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iPad teardown
Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 4:13pm MDT by Jakob Griffith
Its been quite a while since we’ve featured something from iFixit. But when we saw they had torn apart the next greatest Apple product, the iPad – released today, and how everyone on our team loves it, we thought why not also let our user base enjoy the destruction informative teardown as well. In both the [...]
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Touch screen for graphing calculator
Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 2:12pm MDT by Mike Szczys
[Owen] got down and dirty by adding a touchscreen to his TI-84 graphing calculator. The dirty part is the z80 assembly code he wrote to use the linkport as a UART (assembly always makes us feel queasy). Once that was working he implemented some commands using an Arduino and then hooked up an Nintendo DS [...]
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HDD power tools: the sander
Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 1:12pm MDT by Mike Szczys
At first we thought this looked hastily thrown together and quite possible useless. Then we watched the video, embedded after the break, and realized it is quite a handy bench sander. [Mhkabir] opened up an older hard drive, removed the read head, and added a piece of carefully cut sand paper. When you hook it [...]
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Clock sans-microcontroller
Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 12:11pm MDT by Mike Szczys
This clock requires no microcontroller. It’s actually a digital logic counter that functions as a timepiece. [BlackCow] used six decade counters to track seconds, minutes, and hours. The output is displayed on four 7-segment digits using BCD-7-segment decoders that you can learn about in our binary encoded decimal post. The actual timekeeping is done by [...]