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Augmenting a cheap Android MID

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 3:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

We’ve been on the prowl for a low-cost Android MID that, you know, works well. We were originally excited by the Eken M001 but early reports about poor battery life, coupled with the fact that it only runs Android 1.6 soured our interest. [Carnivore] didn’t let those things turn him away, instead he modified the [...]
Furniture bots, transform

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

This mechanized table automatically expands from seating for six to seating for twelve. We tried to capture the action with the three images above but don’t miss the transforming goodness in the video after the break. Alas, we’ll never see something like this in real life because it resides on a yacht worthy of Robin [...]
Did that table just move?

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 1:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

A table and chair that can move around by themselves? What’s next, suicide booths, self-replicating robots, and Star Trek styled tablet computers? It seems that [Adam Lassy] is moving in that direction. He took this furniture from Ikea and made some neat modifications to give it mobility. Each of the four legs has wheels on them [...]
USB hub used for In System Programming

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 10:14am MDT by Mike Szczys

Did you order that 4-port USB hub because it was almost free but now it’s just sitting in your junk box? Why not turn it into an In System Programmer for AVR chips? [Paul] came up with HUB ISP as an answer to the chicken-or-egg problem we’ve seen with other diy programmers. It uses the [...]
HaD store update: New stickers, Shirts, New logo

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 7:45am MDT by Caleb Kraft

The Hack a Day store is still going strong. We’re really enjoying the fact that when you buy a Hack a Day item, it was made by one of us. We hope we can keep this up. It makes our merchandise mean so much more, we think. We’ve been getting tons of requests for other [...]
Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition 2010 Day Two Report

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 7:17am MDT by Gerrit Coetzee

Culture Shock II, a robot by the Lawrence Tech team, first caught our eye due to it’s unique drive train. Upon further investigation we found a very well built robot with a ton of unique features. The first thing we noticed about CultureShockII are the giant 36″ wheels. The wheel assemblies are actually unicycles modified to be [...]
Color clock makes telling time impossible

Posted: June 7th, 2010, 7:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

[Bogdan] set out to build the all-too-familiar binary clock. But, he didn’t want to be ordinary, and set the goal of making the clock as hard to read as possible. What he ended up with is a clock that is almost impossible to read correctly. He’s using colors to tell the time. We immediately thought [...]