This fun PCB from [Nick Brown] features a miniature railroad implemented with 0805-sized LEDs. With an eye towards designing his own fun interactive PCB badge, the Light-Rail began its journey.
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[kida] has a highly innovative set of 3D-printable, musical fidget toys that play classic video game tunes. Of course there’s the classic Super Mario ditty, but there’s loads more. How they work is pretty nifty, and makes great use of a 3D printer’s strengths.
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Prototyping is a personal affair, with approaches ranging from dead-bug parts on tinplate through stripboard and protoboard, to solderless breadboards and more. Whichever you prefer, a common problem is that they don’t offer much in the way of solid connections to the outside world.
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Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a replacement based on an FPGA. [leonllr] has been developing just such a thing. The project was spawned out of necessity.
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No more scratched CDs! Yaydio! is a portable music player designed for kids, ditching the hassle of CDs in favor of easy-to-use keycards.
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Ever want to get into reverse engineering but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck — [Hash] just dropped a case study in chip glitching that should get you off on the right foot.
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From almost every touchscreen to the buttons on a refrigerator, capactitive touch allows us to interact with countless devices while avoiding the risk of mechanical failure that buttons or switches can experience.
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Don’t go towards the light! Why bother when the light will go towards you? At least that is how things work with hardware hacker Ravi Singh’s latest project called AmbiSense, which is probably the coolest nightlight you have ever seen.
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The Etch A Sketch is a classic children’s toy resembling a picture frame where artwork can be made by turning two knobs attached to a stylus inside the frame.
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Launched in 2003 by the MIT SeaGrant College Program and continuing today through RoboNation (seaperch.org), SeaPerch trains teachers and students to build and navigate their own remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs.
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