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MEGASHIELD FOR ARDUINO MEGA

The people over at NKC electronics didn’t squander any type of time with this one. They sent in the MEGA shield for the Arduino MEGA. We just published the story of the Arduino MEGA yesterday, to ensure that was quite fast.

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AUTONOMOUS storage tank TERRORIZING school

As a senior style job for ECE4007,  [Nate], [An], [Chris], as well as [Wink] developed an autonomous toy tank. It is utilizing a Panasonic IR movement sensor to discover targets, then when it’s dealing with the target it switches to visual movement tracking with it’s web cam. If it can get close enough, it will […]

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CAMERA ADAPTER FOR A MICROSCOPE

[Steve] really has a great microscope setup in his lab now that he built a video cam adapter for his stereo microscope. The image above shows the magnified view of the circuit board on the LCD screen behind it. This lets him work without needing to be in position to look through the eye pieces. […]

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GENERATING PINK noise

[Miceuz] just completed his very first surface install electronics project. It’s a pink noise generator that is utilized for testing audio equipment (scroll down that link for the English version of his writeup). Pink noise is somewhere in between red noise as well as white noise. Didn’t recognize there were much more colors than just white […]

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HARD DRIVE speaker IPOD DOCK

This looks like someone enjoyed the Obsolete technology Band, and had to have one of their own. It appears to be a dock, driving several different sizes of old hard drives. While the concept isn’t new, we thought they did a respectable job of putting the whole display together. It could be fun to have […]

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FISSION 3D game ENGINE FOR WII HOMEBREW

[PunMaster] wrote in to tell us that he has just released the first public demo of FiSSION Project. It’s a homebrew 3D game engine for the Wii. He’s hoping it will make development much easier for other people that want to get into the Wii hacking scene. The project was originally spun out of similar […]

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QUICK ROBOTIC BASE FOR NETBOOK

This is a terrific example of how marketing ought to be done. TeleToyland and RoboRealm(currently down) have teamed up together to show you how to build a quick and easy robot base for your netbook. The build process is fairly in depth, including part numbers and links to various places to purchase them. They are […]

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HORRIBLY challenging electric GUITAR KEYBOARD

Gutarist, hacker, as well as mustache enthusiast [David Neevel] brought together method as well lots of pieces of hardware in buy to utilize his electric guitar as a computer keyboard. So let’s dig into the home of cards he developed for the project. It starts off with the guitar which has been fitted with an […]

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ERROR: LP0 ON ????

You don’t requirement elegant ICs as well as DACs to develop a noise card for a PC. As [serdef]’s develop over on hackaday.io shows, all you truly requirement is a lot of resistors. [serdef] developed a clone of a noise card released for PC in the 80s, however with a few improvements. This mess of […]

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LASER ETCHING AN iphone 5

CrashBangLabs in Regina recently got their hands on a laser cutter. The full Spectrum cutter was donated by a local company, who were upgrading to a larger machine. With no laser cutting experience, [Brett] chose that his first project would be laser engraving his iphone 5. This is a bit of an ambitious first project, because the […]

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