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The possibilites of this are pretty cool.

I know there's some other ucontroller folks here... Have you guys checked out the Parallax Propeller chips? I've seen them advertised for a while, but being an happily building AVR guy I didn't immediately 'get' what they're all about figured I'd just stay with AVR's. Until the other day...

Having built a nixie clock and generally interested in tubes and vintage electronics, I've often thought of doing this. I'd also look into a VU project using Magic Eye tubes.

Seen this? Amazing, and it freaks me out a bit... Via Slashdot. There's a spot in the video where a guy walking nearby tries to kick it over, and it regains it's balance and keeps going. Hook this thing up with the moth brain or rat brain computer system and we're on our way to Skynet...

What happened? Seems like this place has died.

Man it's been dead in here for a while now. Here's my upodated list of electronic based art links to check out and perhaps inspire some mods or projects... Here we go: This site has some cool stuff, but the layout is pretty odd... Click the 'How do you find anything here' link for a...

I always thought Lupo cases are over-rated and not worth the phenomenal price tags they offer. I used to "bash" these cases over at Treehugger.com. One week ago, a friend of mine bought one of these cases and he came over to brag. I was blown away. I was blown away by its mechanism and...

Coincidence or static foul play? Experts apparently cannot determine a solution. Just the kind of ambiguous fault that ESD is famous for.

Was organizing my favorites and figured it's been a while since I posted the last bunch, so here's my current list of cool net time wasters :cool: Link This site has some cool stuff, but the layout is pretty odd... Click the 'How do you find anything here' link for a list of his...

Pretty neat project using a cheapo network print server allows I/O control... Linky Found via HackAday

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In a musician's forum we were discussing how it seems that most new gear is more flash and less substance. I was doing some research and discovered that that the very first digital reverb device, the EMT 250 created in 1975, is almost considered the ultimate reverb. More info here. You'd...

So I got an old 1950's tube 'PocketScope' for just shipping cost from someone cleaning house. It's the perfect size for a vector display project... I've played around with vector displays before, but my trusty HP180A scope is simply too big and I need it for benchwork, so I never really...

Just noticed that all the [H]obby forums got moved to GenMay, requiring a subscription... :confused: Hopfully this area is considered 'tech' enough to stay here. I seem to recall that the electronics subforum was originally in the hobby section... Nothing against GM, but from what I've...

Got a couple of additions to the junk inventory this weekend, a dead Dell Insprion 1100 and a defunct HP Laserjet 4. The touchpad in the laptop and the VFD board in the printer caught my eye, so I decided to see if I could get them to be friends... The only chip I'm using on the...

Posted this in the modding section, but belongs here as well... I missed the news that Google bought out @Last Software (makers of SketchUp), but apparently they did and now they are offering a free version. News Link Download Link Some good modding libraries and examples for SketchUp

Kindof graphics related, but SketchUp is a really useful tool for visualizing and designing case mods, so I thought I'd post it here... I missed the news that Google bought out @Last Software (makers of SketchUp), but apparently they did and now they are offering a free version. News Link...

Stumbled on this page about an Open Frame Digital Clock... I like how the components are used for both structure and operation. The Numitron display used is also pretty cool.

Instructables Just stumbled across this site, seems to be a great archive of how-to projects. I've seen some of the projects listed at Hackaday or Make etc, but I've never seen them archived like this in one spot. Worth checking out for project ideas. EDIT - Bonus link: Surplus...

Good for some time killing, found page of links for Weird Art. Some pretty wild electronic and mechanical 'art'. This site has some cool stuff, but the layout is pretty odd... Click the 'How do you find anything here' link for a list of his electronic works. The Wooden Mirror is amazing...

$19.99 1.5" color lcd over at SparkFun for the microcontroller crowd. I'm going to have to get one to play with! [edit] They are also the home of the orginal Rotary Cell Phone

Making an AVR microcontroller project programmed in Bascom Basic. One day I'll get around to programming in C, but for now Bascom is just so easy to use! Anyway, I am trying to translate some line drawing algorithm code written in C for use with Basic. Normally I can infer what the intent of...

From the Inq I don't get caught up in game releases, but this title certainly has plenty of notarity. I believe it when I see it. I remember when Duke 3D came out, fun as hell.

Meet Colossus: I named the project Colossus for a couple reasons. #1, Colossus was the name of the first programmable digital computer (reference ) and this is my first 'mod'. Also, Colossus was the name of the infamous computer in the 70's sci-fi movie of the same name (reference) that...

Looking to build a shift register / counting chain using only relays for a potential mod. I'm going for the old school em (electromechanical) clickity thing. Probably some incandescent indicators rather than all high tech leds. Maybe a nixie tube if I feel fancy. Circuit will be pulse fed...

From MSNBC of all places DRM aside, I worry that audio fidelity will take a back seat to marketing in the future. There could be a day when all music is purchased electronically in a compressed format... Think them money grubbin' riaa folks are going to spring for all the bandwidth...

From the Inq Not a fan of Creative or EAX, but thought it newsworthy.

While reading this poll regarding the amount of storage people have, I got curious how many people here have a backup plan in place, and if so what media they use... [edit] If you use more than one method, please vote the primary method that contains the largest volume of data.

I've Googled a bit, but still not clear on this... Running P4 3.2C HT enabled i875 on XP Pro SP1. If an app is maxxing out one virtual proc and the other is indicating minimal usage (ie 100% + 2%), and task mgr displays ~50% proc usage, does that mean only 50% real usage? I am wasting 50%...

System: P4 3.2c / i875 / 1G 3200 If I've got HT enabled and Task Mgr shows CPU Util @ 50% with 1 virtual processor maxxed out and the other pretty much free, does that mean that in reality the cpu is being fully utilized or is it really only running 50% ? I imagine this is a result of how...

I understand the fax service in Win 2003 has been improved to allow the sending of faxes from any workstation. Has anybody here used this? Just curious because I'm putting together a new server and trying to decide between 2k & 2k3. Right now we're using Winfax Pro, and although it works...

Just curious about the tech differences between win2k workstation and server... I know that std 2k is limited to 10 connections, but beyond that are the 'engines' really that different or is it just a matter of setup and configuration?

I'm curious to take the Linux plunge to see how nix works and performs as a fileserver in a multi-user environment. I done a small bit of Googling, and so far RedHat and SuSe server editions appear to be relatively user-friendly. What distro do you guys recommend that strikes a good balance...

Just curious. I'm starting plans for a new file/print server (nothing fancy, no server apps). Primarily storage though it will home several Paradox DB's that will be accessed by about 25 users. SCSI Raid5 disks. Considering that access time and stability will be the leading requirements...

Started pulling my hair out this morning... We have Office XP & 2003 on XP boxen at work. Everything ran fine yesterday, this morning all my users start complaining about Word & Excel hanging at startup and slow file loading times. Scanned for viruses and trojans but was clean. Searched the...

)I thought I saw a thread about this not too long ago, but search is fubared and I didn't see any relative threads a few pages deep... Anyway, my wife would like to play some lan games over our home network. She doesn't have a lot of gaming experience, so I'm looking for some coop games, as...