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hack a day: Ask Hackaday: What are we going to do with the new Kinect?
Yesterday Microsoft announced their new cable box, the Xbox One. Included in the announcement is a vastly improved Kinect sensor. It won’t be available until next Christmas, but now the question is what are we going to do with it?
From what initial...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 5:01pm -07:00T (301 words)
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hack a day: Anti-Tetris project is a study in hand tracking
The game of Anti-Tetris is played by standing in front of a monitor and watch falling Tetris pieces overlaid on a video image of your body. Each hand is used to make pieces disappear so that they don’t stack up to the top of the screen. We don&rsqu...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 2:31pm -07:00T (194 words)
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hack a day: Hackaday Newsletter: Now including “This day in Hackaday Historyâ€
A while back we toyed with the idea of doing a look back on hackaday history. We weren’t sure how often to publish it, or what exactly to publish. Now, we’ve decided that this will be the main part of the Hackaday news letter. You can sign up...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 12:01pm -07:00T (107 words)
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hack a day: Submersible camera snaps pics of ocean going predators
This camera rig uses a Raspberry Pi to send a camera down fifty meters in order to spy on sharks. We got really excited at first thinking that it might be using the camera module from the Raspberry Pi Foundation but that isn’t the case. Do keep rea...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 10:46am -07:00T (177 words)
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hack a day: Adding stereo to monophonic audio
A lot of awesome stuff happened up in [Bruce Land]‘s lab at Cornell this last semester. Three students – [Pat], [Ed], and [Hanna] put in hours of work to come up with a few algorithms that are able to simulate stereo audio with monophonic sou...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 8:16am -07:00T (251 words)
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hack a day: Vine app hack on iPhone makes time-lapse movies
The Vine app is all the rage these days. It lets you shoot six-second videos on your iPhone and easily post them on the Internet. The problem is that [Sean Hodgins] doesn’t find the time limit to be useful for traditional video. But you can cram a...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:01am -07:00T (202 words)
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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.
Each ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:31am -07:00T (157 words)
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