Custom Game Pad Can Reprogram Itself
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/custom-game-pad-can-reprogram-itself/
In the heat of the moment, gamers live and die by the speed and user-friendliness of their input mechanisms. If you’re team PC, you have two controllers to worry about. Lots of times, players will choose a separate gaming keyboard over the all-purpose 104-banger type.
When [John Silvia]’s beloved Fang …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/custom-game-pad-can-reprogram-itself/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/custom-game-pad-can-reprogram-itself/
In the heat of the moment, gamers live and die by the speed and user-friendliness of their input mechanisms. If you’re team PC, you have two controllers to worry about. Lots of times, players will choose a separate gaming keyboard over the all-purpose 104-banger type.
When [John Silvia]’s beloved Fang …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/custom-game-pad-can-reprogram-itself/)
OpenLeg – The Open Source Robot Leg
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/openleg-the-open-source-robot-leg/
There’s an old saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but how about doing so with an open source leg? Well, your robots might do so at least, thanks to OpenLeg, a new open source project for building robot legs. Created by [Joey Byrnes], this started out as a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/openleg-the-open-source-robot-leg/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/openleg-the-open-source-robot-leg/
There’s an old saying about standing on the shoulders of giants, but how about doing so with an open source leg? Well, your robots might do so at least, thanks to OpenLeg, a new open source project for building robot legs. Created by [Joey Byrnes], this started out as a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/openleg-the-open-source-robot-leg/)
[Mr. Carlson] Fixes a Fridge
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/mr-carlson-fixes-a-fridge/
A dead refrigerator is an occurrence determined to frustrate any homeowner. First there’s the discovery of hundreds of dollars in spoiled food, and then the cost of a repair call and the delay of the inevitable wait for parts. It’s clear to see why a hacker like [Mr. Carlson] would …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/mr-carlson-fixes-a-fridge/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/mr-carlson-fixes-a-fridge/
A dead refrigerator is an occurrence determined to frustrate any homeowner. First there’s the discovery of hundreds of dollars in spoiled food, and then the cost of a repair call and the delay of the inevitable wait for parts. It’s clear to see why a hacker like [Mr. Carlson] would …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/mr-carlson-fixes-a-fridge/)
Can You Read Me the Time?
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/can-you-read-me-the-time/
If you’re like the average clock user, you’ve probably gotten annoyed at reading analog clocks before. Typically, the solution is just to use a digital timepiece, but [sjm4306] has opted to make a small word clock that you can carry with you wherever you go to remind you of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/can-you-read-me-the-time/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/can-you-read-me-the-time/
If you’re like the average clock user, you’ve probably gotten annoyed at reading analog clocks before. Typically, the solution is just to use a digital timepiece, but [sjm4306] has opted to make a small word clock that you can carry with you wherever you go to remind you of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/can-you-read-me-the-time/)
Larger-Than-Life Game of Operation is the Future of Healthcare
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/larger-than-life-game-of-operation-is-the-future-of-healthcare/
It’s hard to beat the warm memories of Hasbro’s Operation, a game that boils down the fine art of surgery to removing farcically named plastic bones and organs. Just in case you can’t conjure up the memory, the game board looks just like this huge version of it, but normally …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/larger-than-life-game-of-operation-is-the-future-of-healthcare/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/larger-than-life-game-of-operation-is-the-future-of-healthcare/
It’s hard to beat the warm memories of Hasbro’s Operation, a game that boils down the fine art of surgery to removing farcically named plastic bones and organs. Just in case you can’t conjure up the memory, the game board looks just like this huge version of it, but normally …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/larger-than-life-game-of-operation-is-the-future-of-healthcare/)
Intelligent Control For That Cheap Diesel Heater
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/intelligent-control-for-that-cheap-diesel-heater/
If you own a caravan or a boat, you’ll know that keeping it warm can present something of a struggle. Open-flame gas heaters carry a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, while solid fuel stoves are heavy and require safe flues. The prospect of a diesel heater then is enticing, bringing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/intelligent-control-for-that-cheap-diesel-heater/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/intelligent-control-for-that-cheap-diesel-heater/
If you own a caravan or a boat, you’ll know that keeping it warm can present something of a struggle. Open-flame gas heaters carry a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, while solid fuel stoves are heavy and require safe flues. The prospect of a diesel heater then is enticing, bringing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/intelligent-control-for-that-cheap-diesel-heater/)
IoT Safe Keeps Latchkey Kids’ Phones on Lockdown
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/iot-safe-keeps-latchkey-kids-phones-on-lockdown/
Phones are pretty great. Used as telephones, they can save us from bad situations and let us communicate while roaming freely, for the most part. Used as computers, they often become time-sucking black holes that can twist our sense of self and reality. Assuming they pick up when you call, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/iot-safe-keeps-latchkey-kids-phones-on-lockdown/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/iot-safe-keeps-latchkey-kids-phones-on-lockdown/
Phones are pretty great. Used as telephones, they can save us from bad situations and let us communicate while roaming freely, for the most part. Used as computers, they often become time-sucking black holes that can twist our sense of self and reality. Assuming they pick up when you call, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/21/iot-safe-keeps-latchkey-kids-phones-on-lockdown/)
A Hard Rocking Arduino Visualization Shield
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/a-hard-rocking-arduino-visualization-shield/
Over the summer [ElectroSmash] put the finishing touches on the Arduino Audio Meter, a shield for the Arduino Uno that visualizes various aspects of an incoming audio signal on a set of four 8×8 LED dot matrices. Obsentisibly it’s for use on a guitar pedalboard, but thanks to the incredible …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/a-hard-rocking-arduino-visualization-shield/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/a-hard-rocking-arduino-visualization-shield/
Over the summer [ElectroSmash] put the finishing touches on the Arduino Audio Meter, a shield for the Arduino Uno that visualizes various aspects of an incoming audio signal on a set of four 8×8 LED dot matrices. Obsentisibly it’s for use on a guitar pedalboard, but thanks to the incredible …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/a-hard-rocking-arduino-visualization-shield/)
An Arduino Enhances This 7400 CPU
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/an-arduino-enhances-this-7400-cpu/
How quickly could you make an entire computer from 74 series logic, from scratch? [Richard Grafton had only 30 days until the UK’s Retro Computer Festival and set out to design and build his Cambridge-1 computer in that time. The result is a machine spread across several breadboards, with neatly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/an-arduino-enhances-this-7400-cpu/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/an-arduino-enhances-this-7400-cpu/
How quickly could you make an entire computer from 74 series logic, from scratch? [Richard Grafton had only 30 days until the UK’s Retro Computer Festival and set out to design and build his Cambridge-1 computer in that time. The result is a machine spread across several breadboards, with neatly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/an-arduino-enhances-this-7400-cpu/)
BeagleBone Deep Learning Video Demo
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/beaglebone-deep-learning-video-demo/
BeagleBoard often gets eclipsed by Raspberry Pi. Where the Pi focuses on ease-of-use, the BeagleBone generally has more power for hardcore applications. With machine learning AI all the rage now, BeagleBoard now has the BeagleBone AI, a board with specific features aimed at machine learning. A recent video (see below) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/beaglebone-deep-learning-video-demo/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/beaglebone-deep-learning-video-demo/
BeagleBoard often gets eclipsed by Raspberry Pi. Where the Pi focuses on ease-of-use, the BeagleBone generally has more power for hardcore applications. With machine learning AI all the rage now, BeagleBoard now has the BeagleBone AI, a board with specific features aimed at machine learning. A recent video (see below) …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/beaglebone-deep-learning-video-demo/)
Watch Legged Robot Run Circles Around Its Bigger Brethren
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/watch-legged-robot-run-circles-around-its-bigger-brethren/
[Ben Katz] posted about bringing the Mini Cheetah (center, above) robot to the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) held in Montréal, where it shared the floor with others for a workshop focusing on real-world deployment of legged robots. Those of you who haven’t been keeping up with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/watch-legged-robot-run-circles-around-its-bigger-brethren/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/watch-legged-robot-run-circles-around-its-bigger-brethren/
[Ben Katz] posted about bringing the Mini Cheetah (center, above) robot to the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) held in Montréal, where it shared the floor with others for a workshop focusing on real-world deployment of legged robots. Those of you who haven’t been keeping up with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/watch-legged-robot-run-circles-around-its-bigger-brethren/)
Getting the Heat On with A Thermal Camera
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/getting-the-heat-on-with-a-thermal-camera/
Need a quick way to tell your temperature before work tomorrow? Student maker [The Marpe] recently fashioned a sleek home-use thermal camera that even looks like a point and shoot. It works as an Android hardware add-on by integrating the readings from a MLX90640 far-infrared (FIR) thermal sensor with a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/getting-the-heat-on-with-a-thermal-camera/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/getting-the-heat-on-with-a-thermal-camera/
Need a quick way to tell your temperature before work tomorrow? Student maker [The Marpe] recently fashioned a sleek home-use thermal camera that even looks like a point and shoot. It works as an Android hardware add-on by integrating the readings from a MLX90640 far-infrared (FIR) thermal sensor with a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/getting-the-heat-on-with-a-thermal-camera/)
Hackaday Links: September 22, 2019
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2019/
Of all the stories we’d expect to hit our little corner of the world, we never thought that the seedy doings of a now-deceased accused pedophile billionaire would have impacted the intellectual home of the open-source software movement. But it did, and this week Richard Stallman resigned from the Computer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2019/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2019/
Of all the stories we’d expect to hit our little corner of the world, we never thought that the seedy doings of a now-deceased accused pedophile billionaire would have impacted the intellectual home of the open-source software movement. But it did, and this week Richard Stallman resigned from the Computer …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/hackaday-links-september-22-2019/)
Control Lighting Effects Without Programming
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/control-lighting-effects-without-programming/
Working in a theater or night club often requires a specialized set of technical skills that you might not instantly think about. Sure, the audio system needs to be set up and managed but the lighting system is often actively managed as well. For simple setups, this is usually not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/control-lighting-effects-without-programming/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/control-lighting-effects-without-programming/
Working in a theater or night club often requires a specialized set of technical skills that you might not instantly think about. Sure, the audio system needs to be set up and managed but the lighting system is often actively managed as well. For simple setups, this is usually not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/control-lighting-effects-without-programming/)
The Miniware TS100 As A USB-C Soldering Iron
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/the-miniware-ts100-as-a-usb-c-soldering-iron/
Many readers will be familiar with the Miniware TS100 soldering iron, a lightweight temperature-controlled iron that is giving significantly more expensive soldering tools a run for their money. There is another model in the range, the TS80, which though it uses different tips than its sibling has the main distinguishing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/the-miniware-ts100-as-a-usb-c-soldering-iron/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/the-miniware-ts100-as-a-usb-c-soldering-iron/
Many readers will be familiar with the Miniware TS100 soldering iron, a lightweight temperature-controlled iron that is giving significantly more expensive soldering tools a run for their money. There is another model in the range, the TS80, which though it uses different tips than its sibling has the main distinguishing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/22/the-miniware-ts100-as-a-usb-c-soldering-iron/)
Windows 3.1 Screensavers, Now On Twitter
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/windows-3-1-screensavers-now-on-twitter/
Back in the early dawn of the GUI age, cathode ray tubes were the dominant display technology for the personal computer. In order to avoid burn-in of static display elements, screensavers were devised to help prevent this problem. Out of love for the software of yesteryear, [Greg Kennedy] has put …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/windows-3-1-screensavers-now-on-twitter/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/windows-3-1-screensavers-now-on-twitter/
Back in the early dawn of the GUI age, cathode ray tubes were the dominant display technology for the personal computer. In order to avoid burn-in of static display elements, screensavers were devised to help prevent this problem. Out of love for the software of yesteryear, [Greg Kennedy] has put …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/windows-3-1-screensavers-now-on-twitter/)
Speeding Up Drawing To MCU-Connected Serial Displays
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/speeding-up-drawing-to-mcu-connected-serial-displays/
Writing image data to serially connected (SPI/I2C) displays from a microcontroller is easy enough these days, courtesy of standards defined by the MIPI Alliance, yet there are some gotchas in it which may catch someone using it unaware. [Larry Bank] wrote up a good summary of how one can get …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/speeding-up-drawing-to-mcu-connected-serial-displays/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/speeding-up-drawing-to-mcu-connected-serial-displays/
Writing image data to serially connected (SPI/I2C) displays from a microcontroller is easy enough these days, courtesy of standards defined by the MIPI Alliance, yet there are some gotchas in it which may catch someone using it unaware. [Larry Bank] wrote up a good summary of how one can get …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/speeding-up-drawing-to-mcu-connected-serial-displays/)
FIDO2: The Dream Of Password-Free Authentication On The WWW
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/fido2-the-dream-of-password-free-authentication-on-the-www/
Of all the things which are annoying about the modern World Wide Web, the need to create and remember countless passwords is on the top of most people’s lists. From dozens of passwords for everything from social media sites to shopping, company, and productivity-related platforms like Github, a large part …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/fido2-the-dream-of-password-free-authentication-on-the-www/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/fido2-the-dream-of-password-free-authentication-on-the-www/
Of all the things which are annoying about the modern World Wide Web, the need to create and remember countless passwords is on the top of most people’s lists. From dozens of passwords for everything from social media sites to shopping, company, and productivity-related platforms like Github, a large part …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/fido2-the-dream-of-password-free-authentication-on-the-www/)
Punch Through Switches Gears, Shucks Beans
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/punch-through-switches-gears-shucks-beans/
Do you own a LightBlue Bean or Bean+ from Punch Through? If you don’t have one now, you probably never will, as the company has recently announced they’re no longer selling or supporting the Bluetooth Low Energy microcontrollers. The company says that after selling more than 100,000 Bean devices, the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/punch-through-switches-gears-shucks-beans/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/punch-through-switches-gears-shucks-beans/
Do you own a LightBlue Bean or Bean+ from Punch Through? If you don’t have one now, you probably never will, as the company has recently announced they’re no longer selling or supporting the Bluetooth Low Energy microcontrollers. The company says that after selling more than 100,000 Bean devices, the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/punch-through-switches-gears-shucks-beans/)
High-Speed PCB Design Hack Chat with Bil Herd
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/high-speed-pcb-design-hack-chat-with-bil-herd/
Join us on Wednesday, September 25 at noon Pacific for the High-Speed PCB Design Hack Chat with Bil Herd!
Printed circuits have become so commoditized that we seldom think much about design details. EDA software makes it easy to forget about the subtleties and nuances that make themselves painfully obvious …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/high-speed-pcb-design-hack-chat-with-bil-herd/)
https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/high-speed-pcb-design-hack-chat-with-bil-herd/
Join us on Wednesday, September 25 at noon Pacific for the High-Speed PCB Design Hack Chat with Bil Herd!
Printed circuits have become so commoditized that we seldom think much about design details. EDA software makes it easy to forget about the subtleties and nuances that make themselves painfully obvious …read more (https://hackaday.com/2019/09/23/high-speed-pcb-design-hack-chat-with-bil-herd/)