Tic-tac-toe (or “Noughts and Crosses”) is a game simple enough to implement in any computer system: indeed it’s often used in beginner’s programming courses. A more challenging project, and arguably more interesting and useful, is to make some kind of hardware that can play it in real life. [mircemk] built a simple yet elegant machine that can […]
TICO ROBOT PLAYS TIC-TAC-TOE BY DRAWING ON A TINY WHITEBOARD Continue Reading
We’ve seen a great many Arduino synthesizer projects over the years. We love to see a single Arduino bleeping out some monophonic notes. From there, many hackers catch the bug and the sky is truly the limit. [Kevin] is one such hacker who now has an Arduino orchestra capable of playing all seven movements of Gustav
ARDUINO ORCHESTRA PLAYS THE PLANETS SUITE Continue Reading
When your friends are off to the post-apocalyptic Wasteland Festival and present you with a defunct Power Wheels clone toy Jeep to make ready for the festivities, what are you to do? If you happen to be [Victor Frost], soup it up with new electrics and uprated steering, and send it forth into the hideous no-mans
A TOY JEEP FOR AFTER THE APOCALYPSE Continue Reading
There was a time when people like us might own a tube tester and even if you didn’t, you probably knew which drug store had a tube testing machine you could use for free. We aren’t sure that’s a testament to capitalistic ingenuity or an inditement of tube reliability — maybe both. As [Usagi] has
MODERN TUBE TESTER USES ARDUINO Continue Reading
The OLKB-Terminal designed by [Jeff Eberl] doesn’t have a battery, can’t fold up (even if it seems like it could), and is only portable in the sense that you can literally pick it up and move it somewhere else. So arguably it’s not really a cyberdeck per se, but it certainly does look the part. If you
HOME AUTOMATION TERMINAL WITH CYBERPUNK STYLE Continue Reading
JBV Creative has built an artistic Arduino robot that creates paintings by flinging paint to canvas in a similar way to that of the famous painter Jackson Pollock. Rather than painstakingly dipping brush into paint and flinging it onto a canvas similar to Pollock the robot uses a more sweeping style using spoonfuls of paint which are flung
Arduino Flingbot robot flings paint on a canvas to create robotic art Continue Reading
For anyone playing the stock market, and perhaps even more so for those investing in cryptocurrencies, watching the value of your portfolio go up and down can be a stressful experience. If you’d like to have a real-time display of your investments that adds even more stress, [Luis Marx] has got you covered. His latest
BANKSY-LIKE STOCK TRACKER SHREDS YOUR MONEY WHEN THE MARKET’S DOWN Continue Reading
In days of yore when solar panels weren’t dirt cheap, many people (and even large energy companies) used solar trackers to ensure their panels were always physically pointed at the sun to make sure they harvested every watt of energy possible. Since the price of panels has plummeted, though, it’s not economical to install complex
TRACKING MAXIMUM POWER POINT FOR SOLAR EFFICIENCY Continue Reading
Most clocks these days have ditched the round face and instead prefer to tell time through the medium of 7-segment displays. [mihai.cuciuc] is bringing the round face to digital clocks with his time-keeping piece, MakeTime. MakeTime serves two purposes, the first and most obvious one is as a clock. Rather than displaying the time with digits,
UNIQUE CLOCK DOUBLES AS A DEVELOPMENT BOARD Continue Reading
[Applied Procrastination] aka [Simen E. Sørensen] has a simple project to help those of us that struggle with early-morning zombification. By leveraging the backlight optics from a broken LCD monitor, it is possible to create an excellent diffused light source to simulate daylight, before your chosen waking time. The theory is that it is less shocking
BANISH EARLY MORNING ZOMBIFICATION WITH THE ZOM-B-GONE! Continue Reading
