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DTG using a stock printer

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 2:30pm MDT by Mike Szczys

Here’s a Direct-to-Garment device that uses a stock printer. [Jeff German] used an Epson R1900 with the stock firmware to get the results seen in the video. His hardware modifications involve adding two buttons to the printer’s circuit board. For DTG beginners this certainly lowers some of the obstacles to getting started. [Jeff] is working [...]
Audible tuner for the blind

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 1:30pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Lain Sharp] modified this guitar tuner so it can be used by his blind friend. In the picture above you can make out a small white project box that houses the additional electronics. Inside is another battery and an ATmega168 providing a connection for an earphone. The AVR chip connects to each LED on the [...]
Now you see me, now you don’t, face detection scripts

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 12:10pm MDT by Jakob Griffith

Straight out of Ghost in the Shell, the Laughing Man makes his appearance in these security camera shots. [William Riggins] wrote us to let us know about his teams Famicam scripts. After taking a screen shot, faces are detected and counted, ‘anonymized’, and the final image is uploaded to Twitter. The process is rather simple, [...]
Hackaday links: June 27, 2010

Posted: June 27th, 2010, 9:27am MDT by Mike Szczys

Precision CRT manufacture Here’s a great video from Tektronix about building a precision cathode ray tube. The tube manufacture method was developed to use in oscilloscopes and we’d guess it dates back to the early 1960′s. [Thanks Bill] Snake on an LED matrix We would have done a full post o this beautifully built LED matrix but [...]