If you are looking to pimp your ride you might want to consider adding a Capacitive Touch Sensor controlled Footwell and Glove Box LED Lightning.The code for the ATTiny85 is available so you can have a head start instead of having to figure out everything from the ground up. I think some of the [...]
I really like to automate everything around me. Adafruit has featured this cool Automated Curtain system which uses an Arduino to handle the control. You can also carry out this idea to bring an innovative change for your house by hiding this arduino based system somewhere behind your curtains. Via: Adafruit “I built a controller [...]
If you were alive in the late 90s, you probably remember this iconic commercial for the Jetta: My goal for this next project is to make that happen in real life.Well…just the windshield wiper part. After a whole slew of hurried projects, I decided to take a step back and make something a little more complicated that I can [...]
As masters of technology, our desks are often cluttered with odds and ends. We have cables spewing out of every nook, and our computer ports full. The last thing we really want is more stuff getting in the way or buried under piles of technical documentation when adding something like a USB hub. That is [...]
[RandomTask] has posted a nice tutorial on how to use a FTDI serial to usb converter, and a couple analog to digital converters to make a simple software oscilloscope. Using a “Universal Serial to USB converter” and one of many FTDI break out boards, he first reprograms the chip using FTDI’s programming software to put [...]
External reports always latch onto the $25 pricepoint, but the Foundation have always made it VERY clear that there are two models, the Model A being $25, the Model B at $35.That journalists of all stripes are incapable of telling a straight story but have to sensationalise at all costs is sad but true. The [...]
In case you were asleep at the wheel, here are our top stories of the week. Our most popular post was one that shows you how to make your own ‘personal assistant’ using Wolfram Alpha, text to speech software, and the phone network.It still won’t get your coffee though.You’ll just have to do that yourself. [...]
Want to be a bit closer to a super hero? Here are some useful yet interesting tricks to use a magnetic ring for some of your daily routines. Some of these useful tricks are discussed by Mikey Sklar from Holy Scrap who has mastered the use of his. “Magnet rings are useful for more than [...]
[bunnie] is up to his old tricks again. He successfully implemented a man-in-the-middle attack on HDCP-secured connections to overlay video in any HDMI video stream. There’s a bonus, too: his hack doesn’t use the HDCP master-key. In fact, it doesn’t violate the DMCA at all. HDCP is the awful encryption scheme that goes into HDMI-compatable [...]
In the hopes of getting a heads up on when the aurora borealis will be visible from his back yard, [Alex] built a magnetometer to measure disruptions in Earth’s magnetic field. The build is extremely simple, too. It’s amazing what you can build with a few components and a trip to the dollar store. The design or [...]
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