IPOD video recap
My 5G iPod arrived yesterday. We previously talked about automatically converting downloaded TV to iPod video. I had found [mike]’s comment odd since it said the iPod doesn’t support Videora’s H.264. odd because I followed Videora’s conversion guide and that’s the setting they used. Well, it’s true. I was successful using the “SP/320×240/768KbpsStereo/128Kbps” setting Mike …
FIRST look AT ABC: basic connections
[Alberto Piganti], aka [pighixxx] has been making circuit diagram art for a few years now, and has just come out with a book that’s available on Kickstarter. He sent us a copy to review, and we spent an hour or so with a refreshing beverage and a binder full of beautiful circuit diagrams. It doesn’t …
THIS GPS LOGGER IS SO SMALL…
exactly how little is it? two things ought to provide you a great sense of scale, the SD card slot on the lower right, as well as the slide switch on the upper left. This minuscule module is an all-in-one GPS logger which [J3tstream] built. Main system manage is offered by a Teens 2.0 board. If you …
FINALLY, AN ANIMATED GIF LIGHT PAINTER
Light painting, or taking a photo of a moving RGB LED strip with a extremely long exposure, is the application du jour of Arduinos, photography, as well as bright, glowey, vibrant things. Hackaday alumnus [Phil Burgess] has come up with the very best tutorial for light painting we’ve seen. It’s such a great setup, it can be …
SELF-CONTAINED TIME-LAPSE RIG BRAVES aspects FROM THIRTY FEET
point of view is a bit difficult to grasp in this image, however all of this hardware is mounted thirty feet above the ground. This time-lapse photography box makes utilize of the sun as well as a Raspberry Pi to file the goings on. The rig is one of three that were developed by [Patty Chuck] to …
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GAME young boy CARTRIDGE EMULATOR uses STM32
game young boys may be old tech, but they still offer challenges to modern hackers. [Dhole] has come up with a cartridge emulator which uses an STMicroelectronics STM32F4 discovery board to do all the work. until now, many flash cartridges used programmable logic devices, either CPLDs or FPGAs to deal with the high-speed logic requirements. …
BUILDING A pick and place WITH 3D printed parts
For the last few months, [HeliumFrog] has been building a SCARA bot to serve as the basis for a pick and place machine. somewhat amazingly, this is the first robot of its kind to be printed on a 3D printer. A SCARA-type robot is an articulated arm perfectly suited for transferring components from tubes and reels …
THE PERILS OF affordable MIDI ADAPTERS
[Arvydas] just recently purchased a rock Band 3 Wii keyboard believing it would be an outstanding as well as extremely low-cost (£9.99) MIDI controller. The keyboard has a appropriate DIN-5 MIDI out port, so theoretically the only thing needed to plug this into a computer is a USB to MIDI adapter. Unlike the keyboard, the …
THE small APPLE IIE THAT RUNS ON C.H.I.P.
[Cupcakus]’s small Apple IIe should certainly be a contender for the smallest computer running an Apple II emulator. We’d discussed it a few months ago in a links post when it had been posted to a forum along with a few videos of it in action, but now popular YouTube channel, [Tested], has released a …
MAKE A PLOTTER OUT OF RULERS
Instructables individual [lingib] made a creative as well as low-cost pen arm plotter that utilizes plastic rulers for arms. An inspiring sight for any individual without a lot of robot parts lying around, The electronics are straightforward, with an Arduino UNO as well as a pair of simple motorists to manage NEMA17 stepper motors linked …