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Category Archives: hardware
Tom Sgouros demos my Arduino buddies at Maker Faire
Inspired by SocialBomb, a few of us AS220 geeks have started working on a similar project: Arduinos that pair off and get happier the closer they are together. The first iteration of this is the Arduino Buddies, but eventually, we’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged makerfairebayarea2008 makerfaire tomsgouros arduino
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Pondering the stack
I’ve got a lot of interesting stuff queued up, but I lack the time to play around with it. But I promise to get to them soon and blog/twitter/flickr/blip.tv all about them: Chemistry set I’ve been helping out with the … Continue reading
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A hard drive crash with a happy ending
Yesterday afternoon, I returned to my desk to find my Mac frozen. When I rebooted, the hard drive started making horrible noises, so there was no question that my 200GB Hitachi drive had crapped out. Fortunately, Time Machine had my … Continue reading
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Arduino-powered pumpkin
I was planning to make a MiniPOV Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, but I remembered I didn’t have a MiniPOV at home. I placed an order for one to remedy this, but I figured the order wouldn’t get here in time for Halloween, … Continue reading
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Generate the Atari Rainbow Effect
Remember the classic rainbow effect in so many Atari games and demos? I dug around for some information on how to do it, and distilled it into a mini howto on the recently launched Hackszine Blog. So break out your … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, hardware, retro, software
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My First Make Controller Project
I’ve been working on a little piece of code to pull down RSS feeds and display them on a small LCD attached to the controller. It’s pretty basic now; it just looks for stuff inside of <description> tags and pulls … Continue reading
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Help Build and Play a Video Game System This Afternoon (12/6/2006)
I recently picked up an XGameStation Pico, which is a small video game system you can build and program yourself. I’m going to be coming up to AS220 around 2:30pm, and I’ll set up a little work area where I … Continue reading
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Visit the Hacks Booth at the Maker Faire
If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you … Continue reading
OpenSPARC
OpenSPARC Goals: “To significantly increase participation in processor architecture development and application design by making cutting-edge hardware IP freely available.” Getting the obvious Bart Simpson reference out of the way quickly (how long do you figure before they reword that … Continue reading
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My First Soldering Project in Years
I just hacked a PS/2 keyboard plug into my Commodore 64 30-in-1 Direct-to-TV joystick. It’s really easy. Here are the instructions I used, and Here are the pictures I took.
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