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Working with the AT90USBKey

Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 12:13pm MDT by Mike Szczys

The Genearic HID tool is meant as an easy way to create your own human interface devices. The project has the added benefit of showing us how to hack the hardware on the AT90USBKey developement board. The AVR-based device, which we saw used to make an SNES cartridge reader, comes in at just over $30 [...]
Live fire Half-life

Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 10:39am MDT by Mike Szczys

We don’t know how we missed this when it first came out, but there is a hack out there that combines a .22 caliber pistol with the video game Half-life. Simple is best and that motto is in use here. A wall was built down range to use as a projection screen. Accelerometers mounted on [...]
Giant LED matrix

Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 9:00am MDT by Caleb Kraft

We all love blinky lights. What we love even more than blinky lights is a very detailed tutorial with great photos. [Richard Kline] has written this fantastic tutorial on how to build a large 5×7 LED matrix and control it with a PIC processor. The bulk of the body is a foam insulation board, covered [...]
iPhone 4 teardown

Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 8:00am MDT by Jakob Griffith

iFixit traveled all the way to Japan to bring you this iPhone 4 teardown, only to be shipped the device unexpectedly two days early! We were surprised that the A4 processor (its naked body displayed for the world this past April) contained within the iPhone 4 had 512MB of ram, compared to the 256MB of [...]
Another take on a bicycle built for two

Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 7:00am MDT by Mike Szczys

We normally advocate wearing a helmet when biking in case you get hit by a car. In this case the guy on the bottom of this double-decker bicycle should wear a helmet to avoid a boot to the head. When we started watching the video after the break we thought that [James] had just built [...]