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hackaday.com » Hack a Day - 16 hours ago
Our fascination with multitouch is fairly well known, but it expands even further to cover all sorts of man machine interaction. Embedded above is a tech demo of g-speak, a spatial operating environment. The user …
Also tagged: 3d, gui, interface, minority report, 2d, multitouch, interaction, cintiq, misc hacks, g speak
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Auduino software synthhackaday.com » Hack a Day - 18 hours ago Tinker.it has published plans for building a software synthesizer using an Arduino. The Auduino uses granular synthesis to create a truly unique sound. The grain is constructed from two triangle waves. Each one has … Also tagged: synthesizer, pots, arduino, matrixsynth, digital audio hacks, home entertainment hacks, tinker it, auduino |
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Stribe 1 kits availablehackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 17, 2008 We first spotted the Stribe music controller at Maker Faire. [Josh Boughey] has since refined the controller’s design so that it can be constructed in a modular fashion and it’s being sold in kit form by Curious … Also tagged: music, news, led, maker faire, max msp, maxmsp, arduino, stribe, digital audio hacks, curious inventor, spectra symbol, josh boughey, softpot |
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Scratch inputhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 17, 2008 Scratch input allows us to use solid surfaces as an input devices by capturing the sounds they produce. Using a stethoscope and a high pass filter, they capture the unique sounds of specific gestures. Custom software … Also tagged: news, scratch, passive input, audio input |
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Overhauling LED marqueeshackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 17, 2008 In a previous job, [sprite_tm] was responsible for wrangling many different LED text ad marquees. The hardware was fairly simple and he always figured they could be pushed much further with a little work. He recently … Also tagged: led, avr, matrix, sprite tm, pwm, atmega88, misc hacks, led matrix |
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Failing hard drive soundshackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 17, 2008 Not all hard drives fail the same way. DataCent, a data recovery service based in Canada, has an impressive archive of failing hard drive sounds. If you’re ever in doubt about whether your hard drive needs help, this … Also tagged: hard drive, hard drive recovery |
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Full fabric soft switcheshackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 17, 2008 When we created our backpack strap WiFi detector for Engadget, we embedded soft switches to control the device. They used two sheets of aluminum foil separated by a layer of foam with holes punched in it. [Plusea] has … Also tagged: mouse, daily, fabric, wearable, scroll wheel, wearable hacks, conductive fabric, plusea, soft switch, conductive thread |
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Gift card electronicshackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 11, 2008 Gift-giving season is upon us, and it’s time for people to start panicking about what to give to their friends and families. Gift cards have gained in popularity over the years, as companies count on people to forget … Also tagged: news, electronics, shopping, christmas, holiday, target, best buy, gift cards |
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Weasure, a scale that weighs and measureshackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 9, 2008 [John Peterson] created this postal scale device for a Renesas design contest. The Weasure not only calculates the package’s total weight but the dimensions as well. He built it using a SKP16C62P evaluation board that … Also tagged: led, lcd, postage, scale, dev kit, parcel, pwm, misc hacks, digiweigh, weasure, postal scale |
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Official Arduino ethernet shieldhackaday.com » Hack a Day - Nov 6, 2008 Arduino has just released an official ethernet shield. It’s based on the same WizNet W5100 chip that was used in the tiny ethernet board we covered earlier. The W5100 handles the full IP stack and can do TCP or UDP … Also tagged: news, ip, sd, ethernet, shield, arduino, misc hacks, w5100, wiznet, arduino shield, ethernet shield |