Wouldn’t it be nice if beer pong could somehow get easier the more you drink? You know, so you can drink more? [Ty Palowski] has made it so with automated, mind-controlled beer pong. [Ty] started by making a beer pong table that moves the cups back and forth at both ends. An Arduino Nano controls a […]
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Wokwi has created a new Skull CTF that allows those integrated to engage in mind-bending hardware puzzles, from $20. The Skull is a Capture the Flag (CTF) riddle that invites you to explore the internals of the AVR architecture and is now available to purchase directly from the Crowd Supply website with free shipping throughout
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For some reason, when slot machines went digital, they lost their best feature — the handle. Who wants to push a button on a slot machine, anyway? Might as well just play video poker. [John Bradnam] seems to agree, and has built an open-source three-color matrix slot machine complete with handle. In this case, you’ll be
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A few decades ago you might have been satisfied with a crude wireframe flight simulator or driving a race car with the WASD keys. Today, gamers expect more realism, and [600,000 milliliters] is no different. At first, he upgraded his race car driving chair and put on VR goggles. But watching the world whiz by
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Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components and a wire long enough for the bands that the radio will receive. That’s good enough for AM radio, anyway, but you’ll need to try this DIY FM receiver if you want to listen to something more
FM RADIO FROM SCRATCH USING AN ARDUINO Continue Reading
Like many modern smart home gadgets, Belkin’s Wemo brand of smart plugs has a tendency to phone home every time you turn on a lamp. [Gigawatts] wasn’t having it, so they figured out how to flash the device with OpenWRT and replicated its original functionality with a web interface. Unfortunately this stopped working after awhile,
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Useless machines are generally built as a fun pastime, as they do nothing of value by their very definition. The most popular type generally involves a self-cancelling switch. However, there’s plenty of other useless machines to build, and we think [Jeffery’s] build is particularly creative. The build consists of an XY gantry that moves a standard
MOUSE-CONTROLLED MOUSE CONTROLLER IS SILLY, BUT COULD BE USEFUL Continue Reading
Applause is greatly revered as a symbol of warmth and adoration from a crowd. TV shows that film in front of a live audience often cue their audiences to clap in order to generate the desired auditory atmosphere. Of course, you don’t have to rely on squishy humans to do all the work. [Dillon] built
A CLAP-ACTIVATED MACHINE FOR ALL YOUR APPLAUSE NEEDS Continue Reading
The band Kraftwerk hit the music scene with its unique electronic sound in the 70s in Germany, opening the door for the electronic music revolution of the following decade. If you’re not familiar with the band, they often had songs with a technology theme as well, and thanks to modern microcontroller technology it’s possible to replicate
HE’S THE OPERATOR OF HIS POCKET ARDUINO Continue Reading
Buying tools is all well and good, but it doesn’t suit the ethos of Youtube channel [Workshop From Scratch]. Building what you need is much more the go, and that’s demonstrated ably with this home-built electric workshop crane. The crane is put together in a straightforward manner using basic steelworking techniques. Plates and bars are machined
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