Looking to try your hand at reading some mag stripe cards? This Card Reader Project has some great information and some code to get you started. "The Magstripe (Track 2) Reader project can be used to view numerics stored a magnetic data card. Although there is no writeback ability, the device is very useful as a card debugger. The treatise will use an LCD character display to relay
Here is a simple hack to convert a simple (cheap) module into your very own opto-isolated TTL to 110 VAC power source. Since it is isolated you can control it with low voltage circuitry and have no worry about electrocution. The other concern when you control high voltage with a low voltage control circuit (a computer parallel port for example) is that a failure could cause high voltage
Looking for a car that will impress the neighbors? Don’t bother with the cars in the local dealership. They have nothing on the Underwater Concept Car by Rinspeed! No camera tricks here, the car can swim with the fishes. "Thirty years after the movie thriller ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ hit the silver screen “sQuba” is the first car that can actually ‘fly’ under water. “Dive it again,
When a Malfunctioning Elmo utters Death Threats what can be done? Seems that there is a small bug in the new Elmo that can plug into a computer to enhance its vocabulary. When the batteries were changed the Elmo toy started to say "Kill James". James is the name of the little boy who plays with the toy! To make it worse he now repeats the phrase… While I
FPGA chips are very powerful, have a look at this FPGA video game implementation that used to require a custom board and complex circuitry to make work. "The original Pac-man arcade game, implemented inside a single Xilinx Spartan-3E chip on a Spartan-3E Starter Kit. None of the extra hardware on the board is used, the chip in the middle implements the complete arcade board of the original game!"
Have a look at this Apple Floppy Amp if you are an Apple fan and would like to hold on to some history. "PARTS – Note that not all are necessary and many can be substituted (e.g., you probably don’t need the $30 volume pot, the one that comes with the amp works pretty well) – Sonic Impact 5066 T-amp – Apple PC 5.25 Floppy Drive – 12V, 2A Power
If you are working on a big job site an ATV is sure to be a great way to get around. But what about you tools? You could strap a small chest to the back of the ATV but sooner or later you will need to go back to your main tool box to grab something. This cross between an ATV and a Tool Box seems to solve that
