jetlib.sec » Tags » paul

[Paul] is at it again with some kinect controlled fire poofers. You may remember [Paul's] previous shenanigans with the gigantic hand made hydraulic flame-sailed pirate ship.  This time he is building a small flame poofer (possibly a series of poofers) for SOAK, a regional (unaffiliated) Burning Man style festival in Oregon. Any one who remembers [...]

Tags:  fire atiny kinect paul oregon dance-fx pirate-ship man-style kinect hacks  

If you’ve been thinking of adding some tactile controls and readouts for your flight simulators this guide should give you the motivation to get started with the project. [Paul] explains how to build controls and connect them to the simulator data. He makes it look easy, and thanks the interface examples in his code it [...]

Tags:  tactile simulator flight paul flight-simulators interface-examples tactile-controls peripherals hacks  

As far as battery technology goes, Lithium Polymer cells are the bee’s knees. They’re powerful enough to handle very demanding applications and come in a multitude of sizes for any conceivable application. There’s a problem with LiPos, though – they have the tendency to explode when charged incorrectly. Luckily, [Paul] sent in a great tutorial on [...]

Tags:  lipo circuit tutorial paul lithium-polymer conceivable-application lipos news  

[Paul] was looking to spice up his holiday decorations this year, so he picked up some GE Color Effects lights and started hacking away. We’ve already seen how hacker-friendly these LED bulbs are, which is why [Paul] decided to give them a try. His ultimate goal was to synchronize several sets of lights from one [...]

Tags:  color colornode led paul led-bulbs holiday-decorations hacker arduino hacks  

[Paul] a.k.a. [VoidFraction] put up the source and documentation for his sculptures made with laser cut polygons. For computing his triangles, [Paul] developed LcAgl, an algorithm that transforms a 3D model into the AutoCAD file needed to cut a whole bunch of triangles and connectors. This file was shot over to a laser cutter and [...]

Tags:  playstation file laser paul laser-cutter 3d-model triangles cnc hacks  

What has two wheels, is made from five different bikes, and can carry all of your stuff for miles and miles on end? [Paul Blue’s] DIY Lastenrad, that’s what. (Google Translation) A Lastenrad is a cargo bike where the load sits in front of the rider rather than being towed behind. [Paul] wanted one for [...]

Tags:  cargo bike lastenrad paul-blue paul cargo-bike google two-wheels transportation hacks  

Relief is here from long compile times when developing firmware for your Arduino project. [Paul] was puzzled by the fact that every file used in a sketch is fully recompiled every time you hit upload–even if that file didn’t change. To make things more confusing, this behavior isn’t consistent across all Arduino compatible hardware. The [...]

Tags:  lead arduino process paul compatible-hardware firmware hacks  

[Paul] really wanted to know what his brain was thinking. No, really. He is aware of all the thoughts that come and go, but he wanted to know what was going on in his brain below his conscious thought stream. Armed with a MindFlex headset and a Teensy, he set out to decode what really [...]

Tags:  brain sight mindflex paul thought-stream watches medical hacks  

The 2011 Burning Man festival starts in just a few short days, and with that we have an excellent mutant vehicle accessory that no insane desert dweller should be without. An Arduino powered fire cannon sequencer! [Paul] was asked by Lostmachine’s [Andy] to spice up the flame effects on their Priate Ship mutant vehicle and [...]

Tags:  burning ship man andy paul burning-man-festival fire-cannon flame-effects arduino hacks  

All EL wire drivers use a resonator circuit to supply power to the EL wire. It’s an efficient system, but [Paul] noticed that there was some color change when powering different lengths of wire off of the same driver. He realized that this is because of the changing frequency of the resonator circuit, so the [...]

Tags:  color resonator wire paul efficient-system Hardware  

[Paul] wrote in to share a project he recently helped assemble, a huge rolling light sculpture with a ton of computer-controlled EL wire circuits. The sculpture recently featured as a float at the Starlight Parade held in Portland, Oregon. Working alongside the folks from Hand Eye Supply, [Paul] helped design and build all 114 of [...]

Tags:  wire computer-controlled sculpture paul portland oregon starlight-parade light-sculpture hand-eye misc hacks  

After the electromechanical timer on [Paul Canello's] washing machine broke for the third time he decided he needed to stop repairing it and find a more permanent fix. He decided to build his own microcontroller-based system for washing his clothes (translated). Caution: The image links on [Paul's] page seem to be broken and will unleash a never-ending [...]

Tags:  machine washing timer paul-canello paul microcontroller-based-system electromechanical-timer washing-machine home hacks  

[Paul] has been working on porting over Arduino libraries for use with the Teensy microcontroller platform. This tends to be pretty simple since they both use the same Atmel chip architecture. But once in a while he finds the Arduino libraries are not what they’re cracked up to be. When looking to port over a [...]

Tags:  use precision arduino paul microcontroller-platform frequency-measurement chip-architecture hacks  

[Paul] wrote in to tell us about some interesting Arduino latency issues he helped nail down and fix on the Arduino. It seems that [Michu] was having some problems with controlling his Rainbowduino project we featured earlier this year, and he couldn’t quite figure out why he was experiencing such huge delays when sending and [...]

Tags:  fixing arduino latency paul latency-issues hacks  

[Paul] was pretty sure that he and his family used a lot of electricity throughout the day. Admittedly, he enjoys his creature comforts, but was wiling to try living a little greener. The problem was, he had no idea how much electricity he was using at a given time. While some power companies offer devices [...]

Tags:  electricity power monitor paul creature-comforts power-usage home hacks  

[Paul] Wrote in to tell us about a quick project that might be useful to others out there. He was having some problems with the DC jack on his Yamaha DD35 portable drum kit. Naturally, he did what most of us would do and just broke out the soldering iron and prepared to solder it back in [...]

Tags:  kit yamaha project paul yamaha-dd35 dc-jack drum-kit digital audio hacks  

Hackaday reader [Paul] recently shared a simple hack he put together via our Flickr photostream. It seems that his Magellan GPS unit is pretty finicky when it comes to power supplies. When connected to the Magellan adapter, the GPS unit charged as you would expect. When connected to a PC, it sensed the connection and [...]

Tags:  magellan gps unit paul magellan-gps gps-unit flickr-photostream hacks  

[Paul] wrote in to tell us about this LED driver board he’s been working on with a few friends. The collaborators had been unhappy with the Lumens per Watt ratings (or lack of a rating) on low powered LEDs and set out to find a better solution. They picked up the beefy ASMT-MT00 which houses [...]

Tags:  led board driver paul lumens-per-watt led-driver asmt hacks  

[NeoTenchi] wrote in to share the new game peripheral she built, dubbed the NES Paul. The ultimate goal of the project was to build a NES-styled controller for an upcoming game she is working on, tentatively titled 8-bit Hero. The guitar is constructed primarily from wood, as well as some scrounged bits she had around [...]

Tags:  controller game nes hero paul game-controller new-game musical hacks  

New Project Hosting site [Paul] wrote in to tell us about his brand new hack hosting service, HackHut. Based on WordPress with some modifications, it is definitely worth keeping an eye on as new features emerge. Instructabliss Speaking of project hosting, Instructables are a common source of projects as well as complaints. Instructabliss by [Daid] [...]

Tags:  project hackaday instructabliss paul new-hack instructables hackaday links  

Many of us have these old 8mm family videos lying around and many of us have lamented at the perspective cost to get them converted to digital.  [Paul] came up with a pretty slick way of digitizing them himself. He cracked open an 8mm projector and replaced the drive motor with one he could run [...]

Tags:  family converting film paul 8mm-projector perspective classic hacks  

For Halloween [Paul] wanted to build a Jacob’s Ladder without the peril that working with high voltage might bring. He was inspired by a sequencer board for electroluminescent wire and decided to build a Jacob’s Ladder simulator using the glowing material. What he ended up with is quite convincing. Eight segments of EL wire have been mounted [...]

Tags:  wire halloween ladder jacob paul high-voltage peril arduino hacks  

Sometimes all it takes is one idea. The shape of a cutting board found at a thrift store prompted [Paul] to build a Millenium Falcon doll house. In addition to the strangely shaped cutting board, a ring from a CD spindle and some wood slats divide the internals while PVC fittings complete the cockpit assembly. [...]

Tags:  house doll falcon paul millenium-falcon wood-slats millennium-falcon toy hacks  

[Paul] wanted to have access to renewable energy at his cabin. It’s a relaxing place, nestled in a tall forest that shelters him from the sun and wind. This also means that solar and wind energy aren’t an option. But there is a stream running through the property so he decided to build his own [...]

Tags:  hydropower energy wind paul tall-forest wind-energy renewable-energy green hacks  

Just the other day we were thinking “You know what we need more of around here? Harmonographs!” And our requests were answered when [Paul] sent in his three pendulum harmonograph. For those unaware, it’s a mechanical device that draws Lissajous curves or “really cool circles” to quote some of our staff. [Paul] includes all the [...]

Tags:  pendulum day harmonograph paul lissajous-curves mechanical-device misc hacks  

Did you order that 4-port USB hub because it was almost free but now it’s just sitting in your junk box? Why not turn it into an In System Programmer for AVR chips? [Paul] came up with HUB ISP as an answer to the chicken-or-egg problem we’ve seen with other diy programmers. It uses the [...]

Tags:  system hub usb paul system-programmer egg-problem junk-box peripherals hacks  

[Paul Klemstine] is working on some PC-side software hacks for the IM-ME. We’ve seen a lot of hardware hacks for this device, such as controlling the display, firmware flashing, and using it as a spectrum analyzer, but if you don’t want to alter the device right away you can try [Paul's] collection of hacks. Working [...]

Tags:  im-me device side paul-klemstine paul hardware-hacks software-hacks spectrum-analyzer Wireless hacks  

We feel like trumpets should be sounding. Someone took the overused project of connecting RGB LEDs to a microcontroller and produced something useful. [Paul] created Dr. Boardman’s Color Conundrum which works much like a simple mechanical coin-op game you might find at a carnival. When switched on, a random color is displayed by the ping-pong [...]

Tags:  color conundrum someone dr.-boardman paul ping-pong random-color toy hacks