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  • Using A MIDI Controller Keyboard And A Hack To Type…Words

    Hackaday’s got an interesting article up about using a MIDI controller keyboard as a typing input device.  This is a very different way to type called ASETNIOP which is a newer system of chorded typing.  ASETNIOP was originally developed for touchscreen devices, and is a system of typing where your fingers never have to leave…

  • DIY Screen-Printed PCB Manufacturing Is Slightly Crazy

    If MacGyver were to manufacture his own PCBs, this is definitely how he would do it.  We’re talking hairdryers, ovens, a garden hose, a pile of bricks, a couple of UV bulbs, a piece of glass, a makeshift hazmat suit and some chemicals.  The DIY spirit is alive and well in this vid! The printed circuit boards made…

  • LCD Hack With Monochrome Hitachi Screen & Papilio

    Gadget Factory forum user Alex received a junked old Hitachi screen from his buddy and decided to see if he could get it up and running. The screen is one of those older monochrome, low-resolution (256 x 128) green LCDs and is missing a controller chip. On the back of the display there are eight…

  • Arduino Powered Cat Feeder Feeds Cats, Has Lasers

    We’ve got a cool video here to ease your Friday boredom and hopefully ignite some creative sparks! This one is all about hooking your pets up with some hacker-style technology, in this case cats. According to project creator Andres Leon, this is an “Arduino-based laser controlled wireless automatic cat food dispenser.” Yes, that’s a mouthful,…

  • Master’s Projects From Cornell: Gaze Tracking & FPGA Face Tracking

    Happy Friday! We’ve got some fresh Master’s projects from Cornell University’s electronics school to share with you today. We’ll get right into it: This first project is by Master’s students Anil Ram Viswanathan and Zelan Xiao, who have created a head-mounted eyeball gaze tracker, for lack of a better term. The hardware consists of two…

  • 8-Channel Homebrew GPS Receiver On FPGA

    Andrew Holme has created a totally made-from-scratch GPS receiver that can track up to eight satellites, all powered by FPGA. Andrew’s creation has been in the cooker since early 2011, and he has been refining it ever since. Pictured above is the front-end, first mixer and IF amplifier of an experimental GPS receiver. The leftmost…

  • Jeri Ellsworth shows off homemade touch controller – Papilio spotted in video!

    The incredible Jeri Ellsworth just uploaded another Youtube video, this time she makes a touchpad from scratch! Its very good information to tuck in the back of your mind in case you ever need to hack up a touchpad. The best part is there is a Papilio running the demo that she put together. 🙂

  • Voelker’s spartcam displaying on LCD screen !

    Voelker is at it again! He just doesn’t stop making progress and adding new features to his breakthrough of getting a cheap $10 camera working with the Papilio. Lately he got his camera displaying on a 2.4 LCD screen and he’s able to get a real time full resolution view of the processed image: “i…