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hack a day: Scratch-built desk adjust so you may sit or stand
Knowing that this desk was built from scratch is pretty impressive. But the motorized legs that raise and lower the desk to any height really puts the project over the top.
Surprisingly this started off as a computer case project. [Loren] upgraded his ha...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 2:46pm -07:00T (204 words)
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hack a day: 33 Node Beowulf Cluster built with Raspberry Pi
Not only did [Josh Kiepert] build a 33 Node Beowulf Cluster, but he made sure it looks impressive even if you don’t know what it is. That’s thanks to the power distribution PCBs he designed and etched. In addition to injecting power through ...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 12:16pm -07:00T (221 words)
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hack a day: Meet the 2013 LevelOne conference badge
The LevelOne security conference is fast approaching and [charliex] is doing his best to put the finishing touches on this year’s conference badge.
Around the perimeter of the badge is 48 LEDs driven by two LED drivers. This allows for some crazy h...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (168 words)
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hack a day: Scooterputer, the all-in-one scooter computer
We’ve seen a fair share of carputer builds involving a Raspberry Pi in the last few months, but even the power of a Raspi can’t compete with the awesomeness of this Arduino-powered scooterputer.
Like all awesome projects, this build is the pr...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 8:31am -07:00T (264 words)
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hack a day: Electric motorcycle hits the racing circuit
Check out that beefy electric motor hanging out where the swing arm connects to the body of this motorcycle. It’s the muscle that makes this recently completed electric motorcycle ready to race.
[Jackson Edwards] has been hard at work building this...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:01am -07:00T (188 words)
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hack a day: Automated cat feeder and large plastic screws
We’ve seen automated food dispensers for pets, but none that go so far as to build large plastic screws for dispensing kibble.
This isn’t [Mathieu]‘s first automatic cat feeder; an earlier version used a wheel to dispense cat food in ex...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 4:46pm -07:00T (170 words)
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hack a day: Trimethyl Borate lantern built from garbage
This lantern was built from recyclable goods. It’s a bit dangerous when used like the image above, but [The Green Gentleman] does give you a few other options in his build instructions which make for much safer operation.
The lantern enclosure is m...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 2:16pm -07:00T (205 words)
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hack a day: Camera-based touchscreen input via an FPGA
[Chonggang Li] wrote in to share a link to the final project he and [Ran Hu] built for their embedded systems class. It’s called Piano Hero and uses an FPGA to implement a camera-based touch screen system.
All of the hardware used in the project i...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 1:01pm -07:00T (178 words)
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hack a day: Turning a phone into a media center remote
[Kees] wanted a remote for an XBMC audio system. He had a classic T65 Dutch telephone in one of his project boxes and thought this phone with the addition of a Raspberry Pi he could have a functional media remote with classic lines and 70s styling.
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Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (157 words)
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hack a day: Adding LEDs to an engagement ring
Once upon a time, a nerd met a girl. Things happen as they do, and eventually [Ben] wanted to create the be-all, end-all engagement ring. It’s a simple titanium affair with 23 stones around the perimeter. What makes this ring so cool, though, is t...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 9:16am -07:00T (281 words)
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hack a day: UK Hackerspace builds mobile spaceship disaster simulator
A spaceship simulator sounds fun. But a spaceship disaster simulator is pure win. Members of the LHS Bikeshed hackerspace over in the United Kingdom poured their hearts and souls into this build. Now they’re taking the show on the road, letting at...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:46am -07:00T (185 words)
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hack a day: Hackaday Links: Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Laser cutter owners may find this online box design tool which [Jon] built quite useful. It’s got a few more joint options than the Inkscape box design add-on does. Apparently the US Navy has the ability to bring down drones in a flaming pile of las...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 2:31pm -07:00T (56 words)
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hack a day: ATX Raspi is a smart power source for Raspberry Pi
One aspect of the Raspberry Pi that has always challenged us is the power supply. It was a great idea to power the board from a standard micro-USBÂ port because economy of scale makes phone chargers (even in the 1A range necessary for stable operation of ...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 1:16pm -07:00T (56 words)
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hack a day: Wireless microcontroller/PC interface for $3
Sending data from a microcontroller to a PC usually requires some sort of serial connection, either through fiddly on-chip USB, FTDI chips, or expensive radio ICs. [Scott] didn’t want to deal with this when creating a network of wireless temperature...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 10:46am -07:00T (56 words)
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hack a day: Controlling a terminal with Google Voice
For how awesome Google Voice is, we’re surprised we haven’t seen this before. [Steve] is using Google Voice to run commands on just about any Linux box. Google Voice doesn’t have an official API, and existing unofficial APIs weren’...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 8:16am -07:00T (56 words)
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