Google Announces Pixel watch With Fitbit Built-In
Google has today announced the first-ever Pixel Watch, a wearable that borrows some of the technology from Fitbit and puts it behind a paywall. But there might be enough here even for those who don’t want to spend the extra money. The new Pixel Watch, which was originally previewed at Google I/O in May, will …
CAN YOU build AN E-INK display FROM SCRATCH?
modern displays are fascinating little things. In particular, the E-Ink displays employed in modern E-books achieve mesmerising paper like contrast with excellent standby power consumption. Many of us at some point have had a go at experimenting with diy displays, but been discouraged by the miniature scales involved. Driving them is hard enough, but building your own? …
COLOR NTSC video directly FROM AN AVR CHIP
We’ve seen composite video out from AVR chips lots of times before. but we can’t remember coming across one that managed to produce a color signal. This project does just that, producing a color video signal from an ATmega168 without using external integrated circuits. [CNLohr] is seen here showing off his accomplishment. You’ll remember him from the …
NINTENDO 64 CRAMMED into A NES
[Matthew] sent us this Nintendo 64 stuffed into an NES. He did a great job really, everything looks great as well as tidy. the presentation is respectable with only the game ports visible on the front to tell you its not stock. The accent lighting on the side vents is not overpowering. overall this was …
MAKERBOT shows OFF 3D SCANNER
We’ve stated our piece over Makerbot as well as their interpretation of what open source means, however the truth stays if you’re sourcing a 3D printer for a high institution shop class or a hackerspace, you truly can’t do much much better than a Makerbot Replicator. obviously Makerbot is looking to broaden their 3D style …
30’S style REGENERATIVE RECEIVER
[Des] sent in this really cool writeup on building a Regenerative receiver using VFDs. Regenerative receivers are generally short wave radio receivers that use positive feedback to a lot more finely tune the signal. though they can be built with modern components, [Des] wanted to try to make something that not only looked like it …
SMARTPHONE managed LABYRINTH
This entire job might have been done as an app, drawing the labyrinth as well as sphere virtually on the screen. however that wouldn’t have been almost as fun as what [Matt] accomplished. He developed a bit Labyrinth which responds to the accelerometer in his phone. Take a close look at that handset. It’s not …
CONDENSER MICROPHONE building
browsing around today, this job caught our eye. mainly because of the visual similarity to, well, personal massagers. As it turns out, it’s a house made studio condenser microphone. We would generally prefer to link directly to his personal page, that has a somewhat more in dept compose up, however it has popups as well …
MASSIVE ETCH A SKETCH FROM TV screen
[Jeri] put together an absolutely enormous Etch A Sketch for The FatMan and Circuit girl show. She had removed the DLP chip from an HD rear projection TV and chose to repurpose the 52inch screen. The movement mechanism uses pulleys from screen doors with nylon lines. The two sets of lines are fed in a …
FPGA EMULATES NES CART; PROTOTYPE SO CYBERPUNK
By now, most of us have had some experience getting ROMs from traditional video games to run on new hardware. Whether that’s just on a personal computer with the keyboard as a controller, or if it’s a more fine-tuned RetrioPie in a custom-built cabinet, it has ended up being fairly mainstream. What isn’t mainstream, however, is …