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Modern recordings on wax cylinder
Posted: June 1st, 2010, 1:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys
If you thought you’d never have a chance to release your hit single on the wax cylinder think again. A band obsessed with the Victorian era did just that, having a DIY’er produce the cylinders for them. The story was covered by the BBC and includes a lousy attempt to build a phonograph to play [...]
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Stomp box synthesizer
Posted: June 1st, 2010, 12:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys
[Brian McNamara] fed the output of his guitar pedal back into its input creating a looped synthesizer. He started with an effects pedal he made but now we think he’s ended up with an electronic stomp box. Check out the results in the video after the break. Now he needs to make the knobs foot-friendly so [...]
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JTAG programming over a network
Posted: June 1st, 2010, 10:00am MDT by Mike Szczys
[Matt Evans] was running up against the common programming gotcha caused by disappearing parallel ports. For years he had used a JTAG parallel cable when working with FPGAs but recently realized he no longer owned any machines with that interface available. Instead of shelling out $50 for a USB programmer he a programming interface from [...]
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iRobot gets awesome exploding rope thingy
Posted: June 1st, 2010, 9:00am MDT by Caleb Kraft
The iRobot Warrior 710 is shown here touting a new toy called an APOBS or Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System. The system is comprised of an explosive rope pulled by a rocket. We know that sounds pretty awesome, and you can see in the video that it is, in fact, pretty awesome. We don’t condone violence, [...]
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Switchmode LED flashlight upgrade
Posted: June 1st, 2010, 7:42am MDT by Caleb Kraft
When [Neelandan]‘s cheap flashlight’s internal rechargeable battery died, he scrounged for a replacement. Ultimately, the brightness of the light suffered with his new battery, taken from an old cell phone since he had dropped the voltage a bit. Upon inspection he saw that he would have to swap the individual resistors for each lamp to [...]