August 21, 2007

Case Light - ATX Power Supply LED Power Indication
Computer Hacks

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Bill from DSE GLOBAL has created a tool called the Case Light that will ensure you don’t forget to remove power from your motherboard before you work in the case. Modern motherboards are still live when your computer is shut down and some don’t have any LED indication of the lurking power… Read More “In the picture you can see a modified ATX extension cord that reroutes two ATX signal

Morse Code Translated to Text and Speech
Complex Hacks

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So you think that text to speech is cool? What about Morse Code to Text to Speech! This is a great example of the ingenuity found in the Cornell University ECE 476 Microcontroller Design Final Projects. “To implement our Morse Code system, we had to use both hardware and software. Since the Morse Code audio was that of a 750 Hz sine wave, we had to build a Schmidt Trigger