November 18, 2012

Name the Thing Contest – 211
Contests

    The prize this week is a credit card knife, it has a ton of features to get you out of a jam in a network closet or your next camping trip. This contest will run for one week (November 18 – 23, 2012). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please do not give

POV Wheel Display for a Longboard
Cool Gadgets

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    A ATTiny24 is running the show here. This POV Wheel Display for a Longboard from ch00ftech looks like it took quite a bit of time to put together. Those tiny surface mount parts on the home made board must have taken a steady have to get right! There are more LEDs than microsontroller outputs but instead of using a serial to parallel  chip to do the work the