FILMING LIGHT REFLECTING OFF OBJECTS
With high-speed cameras you’re able to see bullets passing through objects, explosions in process, and other high-speed phenomena. Rarely, though, are you able to see what happens when light shines on an object without hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. A group of researchers at The university of British Columbia are doing just …
TEARDROP CAMPER COMBINES SIMPLICITY, STYLE, and function
They needed a place to stay on road trips and at music festivals. This teardrop camper certainly fits the bill. and it’s got a look that will make you proud to unfold yourself into the parking lot every morning. Starting from a flat frame the camper skeleton was built up using plywood sides and cross …
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THE LASER GUIDED wheelchair
using a scanning laser similar to those used in industrial safety systems, a new wheelchair developed by Sweden’s Luleå university of technology allows those who are visually impaired to drive it without assistance. A motorist is given haptic feedback as a navigation aid, reportedly similar to using a cane. Although something like this is good …
ADDING A DEBUGGER TO A TEENSY 3.5/3.6
The Teensy is a powerful ARM-based advancement board with tons of features that can do fun stuff with USB as well. like many dev boards, it utilizes a less powerful processor as an interface. Teensy designer [Paul Stoffregen] added a debug header to enable direct SWD JTAG gain access to to the primary chip, however the interface …
OPEN source FIRMWARE FOR HOVERBOARDS
2015 was two years ago, as well as to the surprise of many, we really had hoverboards at the time. Of course, these weren’t Back to the Future-style hovering skateboards; they were crappy two-wheeled balancing scooters that experienced a few battery explosions as well as were ultimately banned from domestic flights by some carriers. But oh boy, there …
HACKADAY prize ENTRY: breathe YOUR TROUBLES AWAY
Navy SEALs as well as other extremely trained special forces operators all understand a simple, fundamental truth – you’ve got to breathe to live. That seems self-evident, however breathing manage is immensely crucial to being able to do at a high level in stressful situations. however even if you never expect being under fire, you …
COLECO IN SPAT WITH COLECOVISION neighborhood
If you were a kid of the late 1970s or early 1980s, the possibilities are that your number one wish was to own a games console. The one to have was the Atari 2600, notwithstanding that dreadful E.T. game. Of course, there were other consoles during that era. one of these also-ran products came from …
BUSINESS CARD draws [CH00F]’S logo
[ch00f] is at it again, expanding the horizons of the art of PCB business cards. this one draws his logo on any computer over a USB port. The physical design of the card is heavily inspired by [Frank Zhao]’s card; both use an ATtiny85 and the V-USB package to handle the USB protocol and communications. …
APPLE MAGSAFE PROTOCOL HACKING
[Ken Shirriff] was interested in how the Apple MagSafe works. specifically he wanted to know what controlled the LED on the connector itself so he tore one open to see what is inside. There’s a chip present and he didn’t waste time figuring out how the MagSafe communication protocol works. The DS2413 chip he found …
3D printing SOME wonderful music
If you don’t mind ending up with oddly shaped 3D printed parts you can get your printer to sing to you. The display shown above is doing just that. The Lulzbot is being driven particularly to create a specific frequency of noise with its stepper motors. The results of a few different tunes are what’s …