• WiiMote + iPhone Update
Using a Wii remote as the controller for iPhone games? Brilliant! We’ve been waiting to see some creative usage of this pairing since we covered it back in August. [ZodTTD] is the person who ported MAME over to the iPhone. Now he’s added support for the Wii remote in Mame4iPhone via the BTstack project. BTstack [...]
• Bulbdial clock kit released
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has just released a Bulbdial clock kit. This has come a long way since their first prototype, featuring three PCBs to carry the 72 charlieplexed LEDs. For accuracy they’ve included an optional header for a ChronoDot precision RTC.
With a great looking face and laser-cut acrylic case available, this may soon adorn [...]

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• Verizon users shout “I am root!”
Droid has been rooted. It was only a matter of time but we do like to celebrate this sort of thing. Why? Because if you pay for it you should own it. This will probably spark a flame war about licensing agreements and such in the comments but answer this: if it breaks, who pays [...]
• Robot hands you your ass at beer pong
Guess who built this contraption? You’re right, college students. But as much as we like to make fun, the subject of Beer Pong is our addition, not theirs. The device uses an air stream that can be directed along two axis to control and sort ping-pong balls.
Unlike the lethal ping-pong ball launcher, the goal here [...]

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Want text to speech for your iPhone? Well, download the Dragon Dictation app for free Here! This app works very well , but do note that your contact NAMES will be transmitted to the creators so that they can attempt to increase voice support for those names. This may make the app bad to some of you so I thought I’d mention it. Be sure to grab it before it’s too late. Enjoy!

• Fully-automatic crossbow
We received an excited email from [Noah] regarding a gentleman who works with crossbows and crossbow pistols. Begrudgingly, we took a look and what we saw made our day. [TheDuckman666] must have an insatiable love for all things crossbow. His webpage has details and pictures covering seven different models that he built. His YouTube channel [...]
• Creating wooden enclosures
[Matthias] built a wooden enclosure for his keyboard. He’s used to using a Commodore 64 keyboard and decided he didn’t need the num pad found on modern keyboards.
It’s not the finished product that interests us, but the methods he used to create such a nice looking enclosure. From the wooden binary adder he produced we [...]

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I find all aspects of space to be interesting. It’s such a mysterious place after all and exploring it would be awesome. Those who are interested in astronomy or are curious about NASA will love this free deal then — watch When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions Season 1 for Free! Use have to use the coupon code BLASTOFF to make it free though. This is a stream / video on demand. Be sure to have an up-to-date flash player for the best performance. Enjoy!

• Simple liquid dispenser for auto-cocktails
[Qdot] came up with a simple way to dosing out liquids to use in his Bartris project. As you can see above, flexible tubing is connected to some inverted bottles that house the liquid. A chopstick is attached to a board on one end, and via string to a servo on the other. When the [...]
• Hackaday Links: December 7 2009
Ah the beauty of watching molten solder pull SMD components into place. Yeah, we’ve seen it before, but for some reason it never gets old.

The glory days of wardriving are certainly behind us but if you’re still hunting in certain areas for access points you can leave the laptop at home. A homebrew program called [...]

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• Nunk on Droise
Nunk on Droise is an art installation where noise is made depending on how drunk you are. In a configuration that could be called a cthoilet, the sensors shown above are alcohol sensors. Though we initially thought this would be testing urine, the description states that it tests the breath of the participant. Unfortunately there [...]

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• Nunk on Droise
Nunk on Droise is an art installation where noise is made depending on how drunk you are. In a configuration that could be called a cthoilet, the sensors shown above are alcohol sensors. Though we initially thought this would be testing urine, the description states that it tests the breath of the participant. Unfortunately there [...]

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This program is widely used and is popular for tweaking, as well as fixing, performance-related issues. One thing to note is that this deal is not in English. You’ll need to sign up Here for the key (it will be emailed to you) and then download the program Here. Signing up for the key is absolutely easy despite the page being in a different language so no worries there. Unfortunately, if you have Windows 7 then you’ll be out of luck. 2009 does not support this, but 2010 DOES. You will need to tweak 2009 to run on Windows 7 via the compatibility tab under properties. Want to know all the features packed into this program? Read the rest of this entry »

• Saturday afternoon robot cooking
What happens when you combine an IR tracking PS3 Eyetoy, and a high-resolution projector? If you answered multi-touch display, you’re on the right track. Add a Wii Nunchuck controlled robot, a pinch of Community Core Vision tracking software combined with Processing, and the piece de resistance, a modified Memo TUIO particle system and you get [...]
• Virtual Theremin
[Mojo] has taken a lot of the complex circuitry out of the mix by creating a virtual Theremin. A Theremin is an electronic instrument, usually with two antennas, that senses the proximity of the player’s hands to the instrument and responds accordingly.
This design, called the AirDeck, uses a Wii remote as an IR sensor and [...]

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