Hey all!This is another project log to update the latest developments of OWL (Just in case you forgot, we call it OWL because, well, Open Indirect Ophthalmoscope, OIO).So, since the last time I made a log, we’ve been working on--making an elegant GUI...
7/29/2013: As I stated; been working on the cabinet for the Mirror universe project. I bought a couple of "project" Bally Star Treks from a fellow pinball collector out of Shertz a few years ago. These have been setting in storage for a while... and...
With FLED we are trying to make a visualization platform, somewhere all our apps and monitoring tools can send data and where we can then use that data to make interesting visualizations.As such we need to be able to accept data from a variety of sources...
This entire project is a little bit of an odd bird. In terms of electronic sophistication, it’s not too different than any of the other homebrew computers you might see on Hackaday. This isn’t a project that will just sit on my workbench until I die...
Compared to the 8080, the Z80, the 6809, 6502, and all the other 8-bit microprocessors used in boxxen of yore, the CPU I’m using for this project - the Motorola 68000 is both extremely powerful and extraordinarily complex. The power comes from a huge...
Quick story. I brought this computer to the Vintage Computer Festival 9.1 last year to show Bil, Dave, and all the other cool people at the event. At the time, I was freerunning the processor, watching the blinkenlight count up. Great stuff, and proof...
Simultaneously designing top-down and bottom-up until your designs meet in the middle to produce a functional result. →InsertImageThat sounds like a horrible idea.→InsertImageFor this project, this was the only design strategy that made sense,...
When we started this project, we didn't actually know how we were going to finance it, or where we were even going to get some components -- but we set the wheel in motion and struck luck!→InsertImageWe had sent out a few sponsor emails to local companies...
Now that we have a car and a motor, we need to fill in the gaps. First off is coupling the motor to the original transmission of the car.→InsertImageIn machine shop class I replicated the spline pattern found in the pump motor -- first on the lathe.→InsertImageThen...
I designed my PCB in my favorite software - Diptrace. The motor footprint from switec's datasheet was missing a few key dimensions. It took a bit of measuring with a caliper and calculating hole sizes, but I was able to get all the dimensions correct...
While the PCB's were being built, I turned my attention to the pointer issue. The switec motor's have a 1mm shaft. A good pointer has to be a press fit on the shaft, but not so tight that the mild steel motor shaft is bent while pressing the pointer...
Uploaded video number 4 to Youtube, showing both SPI Multiplexing with a TI Bus Switch, and also implementing Asychronous SRAM (128K x 16). Next up, power supply!
Greetings hackers,As you might have notices, we pushed a few changes recently. The biggest one is that we have a brand new homepage. Instead of listing all the projects; we now show a combination of featured, newest, recently updated and skullmaster...
This week’s Hacklet is all about lasers, which have been shining a monochromatic light for hackers since 1960. The first working laser was demonstrated by [Theodore Maiman], who was a hacker / maker himself, having learned circuits in his father’s home...
This week’s Hacklet is all about Hackaday.io projects which use MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface for the uninitiated. MIDI was designed from the ground up as an open communications standard for musical instruments. Nearly every major instrument...