If you like Twitter you need to have a look at this permanent Twitter Feed machine which allows your Tweet to go direct to a Thermal Printer. “Thermal Tweeter is hacked together from a SparkFun thermal printer and the web platform internet development board. No computers are used to query twitter or run the printer, this is a 100% stand-alone Twitter appliance.”
We have featured Labyrinth game hacks in the past but this Android Labyrinth Game is the biggest one I have ever seen. The game is controlled by a person tilting an Android tablet which directly controls the movement of the huge game board. The ball appears to be a bowling ball and by the looks of it the game is actually quite hard to master. I wonder where this game
Many PIC microcontrollers have built in touch pad capability. The PIC 16F1937 for example has 16 inputs for the capacitance module. These allow for a simple and inexpensive way to add buttons to your project without adding physical switches. Nice thing about these switches is that they will not fail after a certain number of uses like a physical switch will. Our friend Giorgos Lazaridis from PCB Heaven has designed
If you need to make a quick schematic and you are on the go DrawSCH might be just the ticket to get the job done. One thing they need to work on is their URL, the product name is something that can be remembered but the URL is not so good. “DrawSCH is able to create schematics online for free,You don’t need to install the software. Just open your browser.
Ben Heck has a pretty cool job hacking things together on his Ben Heck Show which is sponsored by Element 14. I just heard is that a full second year of episodes has been green lighted so stay tuned for a bunch of new episodes! I hope that Ben is enjoying the builds as much as it looks, I hope that time line pressure doesn’t burn him out… In this
With electronic parts getting less and less hobby friendly there will come a time when you can’t get a part in a through hole DIP format. Our friend Dave from the EEVBlog has a new 3 axis accelerometer that he is playing with. The issue is that it is a LGA surface mount chip these chips only have pads on the underside which makes it a pain to work with
The prize this week is a cable tester which will make sure your home made cables are working correctly. This contest will run for one week (June 18 – 24, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject,
