219 Results for "toy"

Ceremony Button
Log from Unity Candle
The control for the couple was made out of a simple wooden box, like the sort found at craft stores. It was painted flat beige, and A. drew on a lovely design in the style of wedding and invitations. The box will serve as a memento for the couple afterwards,...

Paint!
Log from Airscrew Driven RC Boat
This project log has been an awfully long time in coming, since I was waiting for the boat to get painted. I asked one of the friendly maintenance guys at our office park to spray the boat with "anything waterproof left in the gun after a job", but he...

FIXED :) I2C and RST pin voltage too low
Log from Multichannel Audio DSP Field Mixer Recorder
OK !!! hooray !!! Fixed the I2C communication for the CS4385 DAC using my trusty state of the art volt meter :)I had used a pullup resistor to try to make to reset pin high that was too large. not enough voltage to pass threshold on Reset pin to power...

632 Reasons
Log from Ivan the Teambuilt Robot
632 people are now following this project! I had no idea there was such a following as I have been kind of living in a bubble the past few years. Well it's time to make up for lost time. I'm breathing new life in this project by repurposing Ivan to become...

Getting Started: My Dream
Log from NanoEgg Music Synthesizer
Ever since I completed Rhythm Core Alpha 2, I've been wanting to create a more powerful synthesizer. Rhythm Core Alpha was limited by what the Nintendo sound hardware could do, I know I can do much better! So let's build the dream synthesizer! Any synth...

Data RAM parity
Log from AMBAP: A Modest Bitslice Architecture Proposal
In Memory arrays for relay toy^Wcomputer I suggested that parity would be an important feature. It will help evaluate the actual data retention time of the whole array, and detect run-time storage errors.Parity is just a XOR of all the bits, stored in...

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Log from Dejlig line
On Thursday I printed the first models of the soap dish plastic tray, and the 3D printing revealed that the top ribs were too sharp. They would "shave" a wet soap bar and create a lot of buildup and waste. I redesigned it that very same evening, and...

Early keyboard prototype
Log from PolyMod 2: modular digital synthesizer
The other day I stumbled across this project for a modular keyboard design (modular in the general sense, not as in modular synthesis): https://hackaday.io/project/6737-modular-synthesizer-controller-keyboard-caseIt inspired me to keep thinking...

Remote control a robot by code lines
Log from CNC machine hackings 2020: Direct extruder
Physical computing is a good way to spark interest in coding. While manipulating bits and bytes is what code is written for, a change from "0" to "1" in RAM isn't that noticeable as a change from 0V to 5V on a GPIO with a piece of electronics being attached...

Made a thing of >1 parts [and a demo video]
Log from Minamil 2dc: a minimal CNC mill
Made the leap from making parts to making a thing made of parts. differential from CNC milled gears and parts At this point a major obstacle to getting enough info up here for you to build your own toy CNC mill is playing with it myself. And making a...

PDF decoding in javascript
Log from PDF Merge
Lions traditionally used ghostscript to convert a PDF to images. It's now considered pretty germane. For a pure browser program, the internet recommends PDF.js https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js A few chatgpt prompts can create a quick demo...

Software Architecture
Log from Vintage Toy Synthesiser
(Original post date: 12/02/16)Over the past couple of weeks I have been dipping in and out of various parts of my project - developing the MIDI I/O interface, as well as starting to implement my audio synthesis engine design into a working entity...

Patch Manager Application and Sound Demos
Log from Vintage Toy Synthesiser
At the start of this project I wasn't planning on having any kind of sound/patch storage or management within the vintage toy synthesiser, however as the project progressed I was more and more finding the need to quickly save and recall patches for both...

Breadboarding and Code
Log from Smart SmartyKat Toy
I prototyped the proposed schematic on a breadboad for testing. This way I was able to test the code as I wrote it. The code is below with a few notes following explaining some parts of the code. It is fully commented so that when in a few months if...

Initial Ideas
Log from Braille Hop
After understanding the context and defining the scope of interventions, we ideated on several concepts. They are :Concept 1: TaskerTasker, it is a game in which a user needs to perform a certain task within the time limit.Age group: 4+Components- Board...

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