The Motivation: Over the past couple of years, there has been a movement for music instrument companies to release “toy synths”, such as the Teenage Engineering OP-Z and Korg Volca Series. These toy synths are generally much smaller, cheaper,...
Watch the video to see process making the project: Step 1: Design the Case MDF I use MDF wood 3mm to make the case. Firstly, the case is design in Corel Draw (see attachment file for the file) Then, using laser cnc laser machine to cut and engrave letter...
The idea was to have a 6502 'super system' that would fit in a shirt pocket. Because I firmly believe that enhances my geek-factor. Besides, it would enable 6502 fun, any time, any place. The esp32 builds on my KIM Uno project of some years ago. That...
In the 1970s and 80s, BYTE magazine had beautiful covers painted by Robert Tinney with surrealistic images mashing up computer technology with other things. I wondered, what if these scenes really existed, and a photographer took pictures of them? So...
1. Overall Information and Links - Full Video - Paper of the Project Published in UIST2020 (for detailed concept and Implementation) https://trackr-media.tangiblemedia.org/publishedmedia/Papers/701-MTAyM/Published/PDF - Project Overview Page https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/hermits/overview/...
For the LEDs I used bi-color LEDs (red and green). This gives more possibilities for interaction with the toy. The buttons I used are repurposed from old arcade and gambling machines. They are mechanically robust and should last long. I took a...
Hardware The maon is based on a toy police siren I found on the street and an esp8266 which was laying around in the office.The siren originally had batteries as a power source, but those leaked and were not functional anymore. A simple switch was used...
ABOUT THE JJRC H37 ELFIEFor those who don't know the toy, the JJRC H37 Elfie is a cheap wifi-controlled FPV quadcopter (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jjrc+h37+elfie). The toy comes with an app for Android and iOS. The way you normally start playing...
Five years ago, I modified a 1998 Furby into a Jorge Luis Borges animatronic. At that time all Furby hacks butchered the original toy, so my approach was to leave intact all the parts and electronics hijacking the audio. That “zen” hack...
This is not the greatest instrument in the world, noThis is just a tribute! When I asked my 9-year-old son who he was going to pick as the subject of his third-grade biography project, he thought about it seriously and answered, "probably either Abraham...
Pi projects are represented by a great variety nowadays. Thus, this great diversity of things to do with Raspberry Pi scales up during such days as Christmas holidays. This happens not only due to the amount of free time that avid makers usually have...
Intro Greetings, people! I’m sure you know that smart house concepts are no longer a novelty, and smart devices take a significant part of our lives. It is mainly made possible by The Internet of things (IoT) networks which connect various electronic...
The project is one in a series of build monitors I have built over the years. This one I am trying to make portable so that when someone breaks the build I can move the monkey on their desk and have it irritate the crap out of them as punishment.I don't...
Step 1....Capture an overall RGB value for the video and use that to help discriminate against "natural" objects. It is far from perfect but seems to do the job for now.No filter so every object detected is visible.With background AVG (top left is avg...
Here's a promo video showing the details of how they work.Here's some potential use cases:night lightmood lampwedding lightsburning man propcandle alternativedorm room lightlearning toymusic festival signChristmas lightsbike lightIf you have any suggestions...