Making your own PCBs boards is a time consuming task. If I need to make 1 or 2 simple boards I don’t mind spending some time and building a few but if you will ever need more than that you better look at getting them made by a professional PCB manufacturer. This means that drawing a picture of your copper layer in a graphics program and printing it on a
Owen from Hackniac has just finished his latest hack. It is a game called TinyCopter that is built into the very small code space of a Attiny13 and uses a Nokia3310 LCD for the game screen. This tiny game reminds me of a game I used to play on the Apple II where a green screen helicopter would fly around and you just pressed the space bar to make the
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 25 – July 1, 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
Drilling holes in PCBs is one of the most boring tasks I have ever done. Positioning the board isn’t the hard part, pulling the drill press lever up and down at a rate that won’t break the fragile tiny drill bit it the thing to watch. This PCB Hole Driller project will solve this issue by allowing you to simply position the board and hit a foot switch. The system
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
