This is a project that allows me to take pictures at any (reasonable) interval. This allows the photographer to create time lapse movies with a digital slr. This is an arduino-based project that should work for any nikon camera with an IR port. Best of all it only cost $17!
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Hackintosh one month review: Hp mini 1000
I have had my little hackintosh for almost exactly a month now. I saw how the wired editors soured on the idea of their tiny notebooks, and I figured I would check in to share my experience.
CD robot V 2.0! Adding serial control to an old scsi cd duplicator.
My newest project involves reincarnating a very old (1998) cd duplicating robot. It is a DTP-1000 that was originally SCSI only. Due to the fates smiling down upon me I was able to pick it up on ebay for $11. I bought it intending to put an arduino in the place of the control board …
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Lethal Pneumatic Ping Pong Ball Gun.
The project that really took center stage was his ping-pong ball gun. You can think of this as a variation on a potato cannon, however his is built to run on compressed air, and it runs on much tighter tolerances. It runs off of a compressed air line and a standard wall outlet. After firing a few “dry” rounds, he proceeded to shoot off a few (ok a LOT) of ping pong balls filled with water. These things might not weight a lot, but they are moving FAST. A sheet of drywall was no match for them, and even particle board failed spectacularly when faced by a 1″ sphere of water.
Hackintosh HP Mini 1000! OS X 10.5.8
hackintosh explained A hackintosh is a computer that started its life as a pc and had had osx massaged onto it. This has been made possible by apple’s move to intel based machines. If a machine has a similar enough hardware profile to existing apple hardware, then it is generally possible. who should do this? …
Hackintosh pre post – reclaiming screen real estate
Two days ago I got an HP mini 1030 netbook (1000 family) and have been working on putting the mac OS 10.5.8 on it. It seems like it ought to be the simplest thing, but there are a lot of different versions of firmware hardware and software out there that make finding the right install …
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Gmail Pop email refresher – UPDATE – now smaller and easier!
If you are wondering what we are talking about, click here to read the back story. Then come here and do it the easier way So I took my own advice and tried to find a way to send mail from the command line. This way the mail.app doesn’t keep flicking to the forefront every …
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Increase the frequency that Gmail checks your POP mail account
if you have Gmail set up to check your pop accounts they don’t let you set the polling frequency anywhere. This can be bad because it makes you go to the settings page to be able to hit the refresh button on each one of your accounts! This explains how you can fix that.
“Arduino Powered” CD Changing Robot
This is an arduino powered cd changing robot. It uses vacuum to pick up and move cds from stack to computer and back again. This was set up to automate some cd ripping I have been putting off for a while.
Honda CL350 – loves to rev! maybe a bit too much.
So it has been over 2 years since I started my project motorcycle. It’s a 71 honda cl350. I bought it in boxes and slowly put it together with the help of a friend over the last 2 years. Last weekend I actually got to go out and ride the damn thing! I have to …
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