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Catch neighborhood speeders with your webcam43 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 day ago: [John] is keeping the neighborhood safe by keeping an eye out for speeders. Well, he’s really … more →

Tags: Python, Speed, Webcam

Building your own eye in the sky22 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 4 days ago: His goal of one post a week for a year has past, but [Dino] keeps bringing his skills to bear on new … more →

Tags: toy hacks, Helicopter, Radio Controlled, RC, Wireless Camera

Automatic airplane tracking; what radar-systems engineers do for kicks14 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 4 weeks ago: [G. Eric Rogers] is a radar-systems engineer who just happens to live within sight of the aircraft a … more →

Tags: airplane, Arduino, radar, Tracking, video experimenter

Watch a shop tour through the screen of an oscilloscope7 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 month ago: [Alan] posted a video tour of his electronics shop, but you’ll be viewing it through the green … more →

Tags: tool-hacks, oscilloscope, composite, lm1881, ramp voltage

RCA Capacitive Electronic Disk25 comments

Jeremy Cook wrote 1 month ago: Although not a hack in the sense that it was made by a large corporation, check out this capacitive … more →

Tags: RCA, Capacitive Electronic Disk, CED

MIT Students take Tetris to a grand scale26 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 month ago: Careful, this hack might foster doubts about the level of fun you’re having at you own Compute … more →

Tags: Building, Grid, MIT, tetris, window

Stop Motion Animation Creation4 comments

Jeremy Cook wrote 1 month ago: Stop Motion Animation has always been interesting to me since I “discovered” that one co … more →

Tags: digital cameras hacks, Misc Hacks, Animation, camera, env2, Photography, pvc, Stop-Motion

Visible Kitteh project keeps mice out of the house25 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 1 month ago: [Aaron] and his wife have a wonderful cat that likes to contribute to the household by bringing fiel … more →

Tags: android hacks, Cat Door, harr cascades, Object Recognition, opencv

Conway's Game of Life in HD8 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 month ago: We’re going to have to take [Mike's] word for it that he built Conway’s Game of Life wit … more →

Tags: microcontrollers, FPGA, conway's game of life, papilio, Spartan-6, Papilio Plus

Experimenting with 8-bit graphics6 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 month ago: [Vinod] has done a lot of work with microcontrollers, but this is his first try at displaying graphi … more →

Tags: microcontrollers, AVR, Composite Video, atmega32, PAL

V-Synch detector lets you use 3D shutter glasses on Linux systems14 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 2 months ago: This circuit is how [John Tsiombikas] makes his cheap 3D shutter glasses work with a Linux machine. … more →

Tags: 3D, shutter glasses, V sync

Digital gaming table made with no smoke, just a mirror11 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 2 months ago: The concept of having a digital gaming table got stuck in [RobotGuy's] mind over the weekend and he … more →

Tags: Gaming, Mirror, Projector, Table

Burning plasma screen with breathtaking beauty28 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 2 months ago: At some point you’ve got to resign yourself to the fact that the TV you’ve been trying t … more →

Tags: HDTV, High Voltage, Plasma, Transformer

ATmega324 acts as a GPU for homebrew computer22 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 2 months ago: [Quinn Dunki's] homebrew computer project is moving up another evolutionary rung. She needs a more v … more →

Tags: atmega324, Veronica, VGA

Snake-the-Planet makes a game board out of your surroundings17 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 months ago: It’s Friday night and these guys are driving around town looking for a good spot to play a hea … more →

Tags: camera, Projector, snake

Microsoft shows off their transparent 3D desktop prototype44 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 months ago: We think most would agree that the Microsoft Kinect is a miraculous piece of hardware. The affordabl … more →

Tags: 3D, Microsoft, Tablet, kinect, depth camera

Projector calibration on uneven surfaces made easy18 comments

Mike Nathan wrote 3 months ago: If you are thinking of building your own flight/racing sim setup at home, you might want to check th … more →

Tags: arduino hacks, Projector, Video, Calibration, johnny chung lee

Up your FPGA game by learning from this LCD control prototype10 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 months ago: [Cesar] recently got a PSP display up and running with his FPGA development board. That’s a ni … more →

Tags: microcontrollers, FPGA, LCD, PSP, TFT, LQ043T3DX02, sharp

Retro hardware mash-up spouts archaic geekery15 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 months ago: This delightful little box is something only a hacker could love. It uses some second-hand hardware … more →

Tags: Arduino, CRT, TV-out, buckminster fuller


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