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AN ALIEN-THEMED… CUCKOO CLOCK?

If you are a follower of the sci-fi horror film genre then it is likely that you will be familiar with the Alien series of movies. images of Sigourney Weaver bearing a significant amount of firepower, or of John Hurt’s chest being rent asunder by an emerging creature will be brought to mind, it’s one of […]

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THE 10 best HACKING videos

say goodbye to the rest of your day. here are the top 10 best videos about real hacking. We’ve already covered the absolute worst that hollywood has to offer, twice. Then, we did the best that hollywood could pull off. now we’re enjoying the real thing. Feast your eyes on hacking as it actually happens. […]

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IPHONE managed TV lift

[William] sent in this job where he’s utilizing his iphone to manage his TV lift. He’s made a custom PCB with a pic18f122 microprocessor to interact with the lift. He states it links to the lift controls via a serial port.  You can see a video of it in action after the break. We truly […]

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HACKERSPACE INTRO: MAKE LEHIGH VALLEY

The video trip of Make Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania includes mainly a show-and-tell about the raw materials just waiting to discover their method into members’ projects. The trip starts off outside the storage facility that home the hackerspace in addition to an associated company incubator called Hive 4A. It then moves inside to provide us […]

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HACKADAY LINKS: MONDAY, may 30TH

Huge, completely practical NES game pad replica Students at Dutch TU Delft university just recently developed a significant replica of the original NES controller (Google Translation), which is completely practical as well as can be utilized to play games on a big screen screen they likewise installed. exactly how huge is it, you ask? It’s […]

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HOMEMADE BOCCE balls

For those unfamiliar with it, Bocce ball is an outdoor game played with a set of heavy grapefruit-sized balls. We’ve never really thought of making our own set, but as you can see above, it can be done. These are six Bocce balls produced at home by [Horvitz444]. It seems the commercially available balls have a […]

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HACKADAY LINKS: SUNDAY, APRIL 28TH, 2013

another week has gone by and we hope you’ve been happily hacking away in your underground lairs. If not, here’s some motivation that didn’t rather make it to the front page this week: [Razr] utilized a CFL ballast to replace the mechanical one in his fluorescent tube light fixture. To make the drawers of his workbench a […]

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GOING BACK TO OUR OLD COMMENTING SYSTEM!

On Friday, I revealed we would upgrade our commenting system. It was evaluated over the weekend, as well as eventually I have chose to go back to the wordpress system.  right here are the reasons why: 1. Our old comments never got transitioned over. The intenseDebate system states I can just click a single button […]

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MANUAL focus screen FOR A digital SLR

most modern digital SLR cameras use matte focus screens with their autofocus systems instead of the split circle manual focus screens found in non-digital SLR cameras. Although not factory endorsed, there are replacement manual focus screens which can be very expensive. reader [Jan-Erik Skata] decided to save some money by salvaging the focus screen from […]

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PROTOTYPING THE new office CLOCK

[Damage] was tapped to build a new clock to hang on the wall at the office. He got a hold of some 6.5 inch seven segment displays for the hours and minutes, as well as some 4.5 inch modules for the date and month. rather than jump right in with the large hardware (especially because […]

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