HACKADAY LINKS: FEBRUARY 22, 2013


Playstation π

Yeah, it’s one more house made Raspberry Pi case, however [Gabriel]’s small Playstation 3.14 is the bee’s knees. The enclosure was when a metal gift box originally meant for gift cards. With a few whacks of a Dremel, the world lastly has a new PS3 that runs Linux.

Up there with The trick Life of Machines

[Mattias] sent in a suggestion about a truly great TV show airing in Sweden. It’s called Mekatronik, as well as it’s essentially the fascinating parts of Mythbusters where [Jamie] as well as [Adam] develop random great stuff. It’s a Swedish language program, so if anybody would like to make some subs for the episodes, we’ll be much more than pleased to link to it again.

Web-based software application defined radio

The amateur radio club at University of Twente in the Netherlands came up with something truly cool: a web-based software application defined radio.  So what, you ask? It’s just streaming audio or something over the Internet? Nope. You can really manage this SDR over the web.

We’re deeply sorry for turning the hardware turn to slag. Really, we are.

Junk box Tesla coil

[JJ] whipped up a homemade Tesla coil out of junk he had lying around. Basically, it’s a piece of PVC pipe, a tennis ball, as well as aluminum foil. even the transformer was pulled from a long-forgotten project. [JJ] is getting some truly great arcs, so we’ll phone call this a win.

Time circuits active

[Danilo] was invited to a costume celebration with a film theme. He desired something Back to the Future-is, so he whipped up a flux capacitor (translation). It’s based on a PIC12F675, with the microcontroller running a bit of code that flashes the LEDs just like the movie. now on to the hoverboard project…

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