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Stopping a hackerspace from rusting away 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The illutron hackerspace in Copenhagen makes their home on a barge sitting in port. Not only is this awesome, but the members of the hackerspace also worry about corrosion to their beloved fablab. In ...
Making a HP Frequency Counter More Accurate 27 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
[Gerry] built his own high stability timebase add-on for his HP 53131 frequency counter. This project started out after [Gerry] built a rubidium 10 MHz standard for his lab. Upon connecting the standa...
Sony SmartWatch hack lets it tell time with a teapot animation 27 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
This hack turns the Sony SmartWatch into a wristwatch. Functionally it’s not all that impressive. But the journey to get to this point represents quite a bit more. This example features an animated te...
Making S’mores with 50,000 Volts 27 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
[Skyy] sent us a video of him cooking s’mores with an electric arc. He’s using a flyback transformer with a zero voltage switching (ZVS) driver. This produces about 50 kV, which is more than enough to...
Building an ethernet connected RFID reader 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
For the last few years, [Lt_Lemming] was the president of Brisbane’s hackerspace. Until several months ago, access to the local was done using 125KHz RFID tags and an Arduino board with a prototyping ...
[Update] Vladimir’s Robot Guitar 26 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
[Vladimir Demin] is somewhat of a legend for us; in his spare time he’s been mastering the automation of musical instruments. This time he’s back with upgrades to his build and four new videos. [Vladi...
Logging two multimeters at (nearly) the same time 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
It’s pretty common to have at least a couple of meters around to measure different values of a circuit at the same time. Where [Emilio P.G. Ficara] ran into a problem was logging the data from both at...
Reaction time challenge 26 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
We’re not sure where [Bill Porter] finds all of his free time, but we’re glad he’s put it to such good use by building an exhibit piece for the local science museum: Reaction Time Challenge. It’s like...
Hackaday Links: August 25, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
[Adrian] came across a treasure trove of 507 mechanical device designs. It didn’t seem quite right for a Retrotechtacular post, but we wanted to share it as it’s a great place to come up with ideas fo...
The difference between bitcrushers and sample rate reducers 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
If you look around a few electronic music forums, you’ll see a lot of confusion over the difference between a bitcrusher – a filter that reduces the bit depth of an audio signal – and a sample rate re...
