If you have a Baofeng UV5R Ham Radio and want to get the most out of it have a look at the reverse engineering work Lior Elazary has done with his. The radio is very powerful as it is but when hacked, the sky is the limit on what you can do with it. Lior has many pages of information and code that he has used to hack this
  These RGB Pixels look like they are fun to work with since they are so versatile. Tobias Floery is having some fun building an RGB Pixel Clock using a string of them. You can see the 3 parts of the project linked to below. Tobias is using a real time clock connected to an Arduino to keep accurate time, he found a good library for controlling the LED
You may have seen shrunk coins before but you may not have seen the technology that goes behind making them. Thanks to Aud1073cH for sending in the video above that The Geek Group made showing how they make the coins that they sell as a fund raiser item. If you are interested in purchasing other coins such as the Canadian Toonie (pictured below) have a look at this site
Not that burning tracks into wood is anything new but this video shows the process and results very nicely. Makes me want to get a few MOTs connected to a large variac and have fun. I think this would be a great seller at a farmers market type setting where people can see the creative art being made in front of their eyes. Melanie Hoff is using a 15,000
This Wind Tunnel Computer looks like a piece of high tech hardware from a testing laboratory but under the black paint is MDF and a window box fan! This configuration was designed for optimal cooling of the computer components that you can see in the center of the two outer angled boxes. “I used an anemometer (velocity/airspeed meter) for testing, as well as different fans and basic shapes made
If you are one of the people that think tube audio is superior to modern audio amplifiers you might want to have a look at this Valve Headphone Amplifier based on the ECC88. The ECC88 looks to be an inexpensive tube that can be used for a variety of purposes. One thing to note with this design is that there is high voltages present in the circuit so please
Tom from Damage Designs has Hacked his Futaba 10C Radio to accept a Spektrum DSM Module. Turns out these were not designed to function together but with a bit of effort Tom got them to work just fine. The actual protocol seems to be the same between the Futaba Transmitter and the Spektrum DSM2 Module but the sequence of commands is not consistent.Â
