CGA monitors may not be an fantastic technological development these days, but they can normally be found very cheaply. Additionally, they have a DB-9 connector and work off of TTL ranges (0-5VDC) making them ripe
Bagpipes are an instrument at least a millennia old, the most popular of which, in modern times, is the great Highland bagpipe. There are other types of bagpipes, some of which have a bellows rather than requiring
alongside the Commodores, Ataris, Nintendos, and all the other game systems of the 80s, there was a single distinct video game system that stood out from the pack. This was the Vectrex, a console with
[Andreas Schuler] has been playing around with his Rigol DS1022C digital storage oscilloscope. It’s an older model which can capture samples at up to 25MHz, but [Andreas] claims to have quadrupled that using a service
members of theTransistor, a Provo, Utah based Hackerspace, are showing off their entry in the Red Bull development contest. This is an all-in-one energy drink shipment system. It can take a warm can of Red
If you were an engineering student around the end of the 1980s or the start of the 1990s, your destiny a lot of likely lay in writing 8051 firmware for process controllers or becoming a
[Raivis] was given a particular task at his university – find a way to measure how numerous Duplo bricks are stacked together. There are a number of ways to do this, everything from computer vision
What’s the worst thing that could happen if you strapped a chainsaw motor to a tricycle? turns out the worst that happened to [ThisDustin] and his pals is that it turned out hilariously awesome. This
Researchers at Ruhr university of Bochum in Germany have been busy working with RFID and related devices for quite some time now. They call the fruit of their labors Chameleon, a versatile Contactless smart Card Emulator. Contactless
This boxy monstrosity is big for a reason. It lets you play games on the original hardware of fifteen different gaming consoles. That’s right, we said original hardware. one of the main goals of project Unity