MCE Blaster Translates TTL For Modern(ish) Monitors VGA isn’t much used anymore, but it’s not hard to get a hold of monitors with that input. How about the older standards like EGA, CGA, or MDA? Well, it’s …read more #hacking #projects image
Folding Lamp Becomes A Tasty Reverb Tank If you’re a musician and you want a reverb effect, there are lots of ways to go about it. You can use software plugins, all kinds of rack-mount effects, or …read more #hacking #projects image
Pi Zero Powers A Little Indoor Rover Not every robot has to be big. Sometimes, you can build something fun that’s better sized for exploring your tabletop rather than the wastelands of Mars. To that end, [philosiraptor] …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Rubik’s Cube That Solves Itself If you’re really good, it’s possible to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 10 seconds. For the rest of us, though, it can be an exceedingly tedious task. For that …read more #hacking #projects image
Building A DIY Ryzen-Based PC! This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have designed your own Ryzen-based mini PC? Whilst …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Xenon Lamp for Spectroscopy Before a spectrometer can do any useful work, it needs to be calibrated to identify wavelengths correctly. This is usually done by detecting several characteristic peaks or dips in a …read more #hacking #projects image
Supercon 2025: Streaming Live While we’d love to have you all join us in Pasadena, the next best thing is to connect up to the festivities through the magic of the Internet. As always, …read more #hacking #projects image
DIY Pinball Machine Uses Every Skill Pinball machines have something for everyone. They’re engaging, fast-paced games available in a variety of sizes and difficulties, and legend has it that they can be played even while deaf …read more #hacking #projects image
Simple Device Can Freeze Wi-Fi Camera Feeds Wi-Fi cameras are everywhere these days, with wireless networking making surveillance systems easier to deploy than ever. [CiferTech] has been recently developing the RF Clown—a tool that can block transmissions …read more #hacking #projects image
Volumetric Display Takes a Straight Forward (and Backward) Approach There’s something delightfully sci-fi about any kind of volumetric display. Sure, you know it’s not really a hologram, and Princess Leia isn’t about to pop out and tell you you’re …read more #hacking #projects image