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October 15, 2019
1:00
[Ben Krasnow] Looks Inside Film Camera Date Stamping
» ‎ Hack a Day

Honestly, we never wondered how those old film cameras used to put the date stamp in the lower right-hand corner of the frame. Luckily, [Ben Krasnow] does not suffer from this deplorable lack of curiosity, and his video teardown of a date-stamping film camera back (embedded below) not only answers the question, but provides a useful lesson in value engineering.

For the likely fair fraction of the audience who has never taken a photo on film before, cheap 35-mm cameras were once a big thing. They were really all one had for family snapshots and the like unless you wanted to invest in single-lens reflex cameras and all the lenses and accessories. They were miles better than earlier cartridge cameras like the 110 or – shudder – Disc film, and the cameras started getting some neat electronic features too. One was the little red-orange date stamp, which from the color we – and [Ben] assumed was some sort of LED pressed up against the film, but it ends up being much cooler than that.

Digging into the back of an old camera, [Ben] found that there’s actually a tiny projector that uses a mirror to fold the optical path between the film and a grain-of-wheat incandescent bulb. An LCD filter sits in the optical path, but because it’s not exactly on the plane of the film, it actually has to project the image onto the film. The incandescent bulb acts as a point source and the mirror makes the optical path long enough that the date stamp image appears sharp on the film. It’s cheap, readily adapted to other cameras, and reliable.

Teardowns like this aren’t fodder for [Ben]’s usual video fare, which tends more toward homemade CT scanners and Apollo-grade electroluminescent displays, but this was informative and interesting, too.

Thanks for the tip, [Jan].

Tags: digital cameras hacks
October 07, 2019
4:00
Make “Wireless” Earbuds Truly Wireless
» ‎ Hack a Day

[Don] bought some off-brand Bluetooth earbuds online that actually sound pretty good. But while it’s true that they don’t require wires for listening to tunes, the little storage/charging box they sleep in definitely has a micro USB port around back. Ergo, they are not truly wireless. So [Don] took it upon himself to finish what the manufacturer started. Because it’s 2019, and words have meaning.

Finally, he had a use for that Qi charger he’s had lying around since the Galaxy S5 era. [Don] pried the earbud case open with a guitar pick and found a nicely laid-out charging circuit board without any black goop.

Once he located ground and Vcc pads, it was just a matter of performing a bit of surgery on the coil’s pins so he could solder wires there instead. Miraculously, the Qi coil fit perfectly inside the bottom of the case and the plastic is thin enough that it doesn’t interfere with the charging.

Want to try it for yourself? [Don]’s done an excellent job of documenting this hack, with clear pictures of every step. Soon you’ll be able to rid yourself of all those pesky USB cables.

Of course, [Don] still has to plug the charging base into the wall. If he ever wanted to add another level of wireless, he could always retrofit the base coil into his laptop.

Tags: digital audio hacks
1:00
PVC Pipe Turned Portable Bluetooth Speaker
» ‎ Hack a Day

We’ve always felt that sections of PVC pipe from the home improvement store are a criminally underutilized construction material, and it looks like [Troy Proffitt] feels the same way. Rather than trying to entirely 3D print the enclosure for his recently completed portable Bluetooth speaker, he combined printed parts with a piece of four inch pipe from the Home Depot.

While using PVC pipe naturally means your final hardware will have a distinctly cylindrical look, it does provide compelling advantages over trying to print the entire thing. For one, printing an enclosure this large would have taken hours or potentially even days. But by limiting the printed parts to accessories like the face plate, handle, and caps, [Troy] reduced that time considerably. Of course, even if you’re not in a rush, it’s worth mentioning that a PVC pipe will be far stronger than anything your desktop FDM printer is likely to squirt out.

[Troy] provides links for all the hardware he used, such as the speakers, tweeters, and the Bluetooth audio board itself. The system is powered by an 1800 mAh 3S RC-style battery pack that he says lasts for hours, though he also links to a wall adapter that can be used if you don’t mind being tethered. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like he has any internal shots of the build, but given the relatively short parts list, we imagine it’s all fairly straightforward inside.

While this is certainly a respectable looking build considering it started life in the plumbing aisle, we have to admit that we’ve seen some portable Bluetooth speakers with fully 3D printed enclosures in the past that looked absolutely phenomenal. The tradeoff seems pretty clear: reuse existing materials to save time, print them if you don’t mind reinventing the wheel occasionally.

Tags: digital audio hacks
October 04, 2019
11:30
Modular Camera Remote Is Highly Capable
» ‎ Hack a Day

Many cameras these days have optional remotes that allow the shutter release to be triggered wirelessly. Despite this, [Foaly] desired more range, and more options for dealing with several cameras at once. As you’d expect, hacking ensued.

[Foaly] uses Silver modules to photograph rocket launches safely.The system goes by the name of Silver, and is modular in nature. Each Silver module packs a transmitter and receiver, and can send and receive trigger orders to any other module in range. This allows a module to be used to trigger a camera, or be used as a remote to control other modules. There’s even a PC interface program that controls modules over USB.

Modules are also capable of sharing configuration changes with other modules in the field, making it easy to control a large battery of cameras without having to manually run around changing settings on each one. Oh, and it can run as a basic intervalometer too.

LoRa is used for wireless communications between modules, giving them excellent range. [Foaly] successfully used the remotes at ranges over 500 meters without any dropouts, capturing some great model rocket takeoffs in the process.

Silver is a highly robust project that should do everything the average photographer could ever possibly need, and probably a good deal more. Firmware and board files are available for those eager to make their own.

We’ve seen several very impressive camera augmentations entered into the 2019 Hackaday Prize, from ultra high-speed LED flash modules to highly flexible automatic trigger systems.

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September 29, 2019
1:01
DIY Thermal Imager Uses DIY Gaussian Blur
» ‎ Hack a Day

Under the right circumstances, Gaussian blurring can make an image seem more clearly defined. [DZL] demonstrates exactly this with a lightweight and compact Gaussian interpolation routine to make the low-resolution thermal sensor data display much better on a small OLED.

[DZL] used an MLX90640 sensor to create a DIY thermal imager with a small OLED display, but since the sensor is relatively low-resolution at 32×24, displaying the data directly looks awfully blocky. Gaussian interpolation to improve the display looks really good, but it turns out that the full Gaussian interpolation isn’t a trivial calculation write on your own. Since [DZL] wanted to implement it on a microcontroller, the lightweight implementation was born. The project page walks through the details of Gaussian interpolation and how some effective shortcuts were made, so be sure to give it a look.

The MLX90640 sensor also makes an appearance in the Open Thermal Camera, one of the entries for the 2019 Hackaday Prize. If you’re interested in thermal imaging, don’t miss this teardown of a thermal imaging camera.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
September 27, 2019
22:00
A Raspberry Pi 4 Video Streaming Backpack
» ‎ Hack a Day

Were you aware that there’s a market for backpack-housed live streaming video systems, and that they can cost as much as $1600? Apparently these things are popular with social media moguls who want to stream themselves living their fabulous lives to people sitting at home watching on YouTube or Twitch. But believing that even slack jawed yokels like us should have access to the same technology, [Speedify Labs] has been working on less expensive DIY alternative based on the Raspberry Pi 4.

Now you’ll note we didn’t use the term “cheap” to describe this build. As detailed here, it’s still going to cost you around $600. You could always swap out the Sony AS-300 camera and Elgato Cam Link capture device with cheaper versions, but the goal of this project was to deliver high quality HD video that’s comparable to what the professional rigs are capable of, so those kinds of concessions were avoided.

Whatever video source your audience and budget are comfortable with, it eventually gets fed into the Raspberry Pi 4 which uses an ffmpeg one-liner to encode the video and ultimately push it out as 720p at 24 FPS, which [Speedify Labs] says seems to be about as good as the Pi can do. The operator is able to start and stop the stream at will using a Circuit Playground Express and a Python script.

Of course, the trick to all of this is getting the video stream uploaded over potentially flaky mobile networks. But as you might have guessed, that’s where [Speedify Labs] gets to flex their eponymous product: a VPN with software channel bonding that allows you to combine multiple Internet connections for higher bandwidth and reliability. With their software, the Pi is able to stream the video through two mobile phones connected to it over USB. As demonstrated in the video below, the setup was able to maintain the stream even as they walked in and out of buildings.

Our very own [Lewin Day] wrote about his experiments with streaming video over 4G on the Raspberry Pi which might be of interest to anyone looking to take their show on the road. Though if you want to get serious it would be worth taking a look at the impressive mobile streaming rig that [Jenny List] saw at the BornHack 2019 hacker camp in Denmark.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
September 06, 2019
13:00
Reading the Water Meter In A Literal Sense With An ESP8266
» ‎ Hack a Day

In our info-obsessed culture, hackers are increasingly interested in ways to quantify the world around them. One popular project is to collect data about their home energy or water consumption to try and identify any trends or potential inefficiencies. For safety and potentially legal reasons, this usually has to be done in a minimally invasive way that doesn’t compromise the metering done by the utility provider. As you might expect, that often leads to some creative methods of data collection.

The latest solution comes courtesy of [Keilin Bickar], who’s using the ESP8266 and a serial TTL camera module to read the characters from the LCD of his water meter. With a 3D printed enclosure that doubles as a light source for the camera, the finished device perches on top of the water meter and sends the current reading to HomeAssistant via MQTT without any permanent wiring or mounting.

Of course, the ESP8266 is not a platform we generally see performing optical character recognition. Some clever programming was required to get the Wemos D1 Mini Lite to reliably read the numbers from the meter without having to push the task to a more computationally powerful device such as a Raspberry Pi. The process starts with a 160×120 JPEG image provided by a VC0706 camera module, which is then processed with the JPEGDecoder library. The top and bottom of the image are discarded, and the center band is isolated into blocks that correspond with the position of each digit on the display.

Within each block, the code checks an array of predetermined points to see if the corresponding pixel is black or not. In theory this allows detecting all the digits between 0 and 9, though [Keilin] says there were still the occasional false readings due to inherent instabilities in the camera and mounting. But with a few iterations to the code and the aid of a Python testing program that allowed him to validate the impact of changes to the algorithm, he was able to greatly improve the detection accuracy. He says it also helps that the nature of the data allows for some basic sanity checks; for example the number only ever goes up, and only by a relatively small amount each time.

This method might not allow the per-second sampling required to pull off the impressive (if slightly creepy) water usage data mining we saw recently, but as long as you’re not after very high resolution data this is an elegant and creative way to pull useful data from your existing utility meter.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
September 04, 2019
22:00
A Teeny Tiny 3D Printed Macro Extension Tube
» ‎ Hack a Day

When you hear the term “extension tube”, you probably think of something fairly long, right? But when [Loudifier] needed an extension tube to do extreme close-ups with a wide-angle lens on a Canon EF-M camera, it needed to be small…really small. The final 3D printed extension provides an adjustable length between 0 and 10 millimeters.

But it’s not just an extension tube, that would be too easy. According to [Loudifier], the ideal extension distance would be somewhere around 3 mm, but unfortunately the mounting bayonet for an EF-M lens is a little over 5 mm. To get around this, the extension tube also adapts to an EF/EF-S lens, which has a shorter mount and allows bringing it in closer than would be physically possible under otherwise.

[Loudifier] says the addition of electrical connections between the camera and the lens (for functions like auto focus) would be ideal, but the logistics of pulling that off are a bit daunting. For now, the most reasonable upgrades on the horizon are the addition of some colored dots on the outside to help align the camera, adapter, and lens. As the STLs and Fusion design file are released under the Creative Commons, perhaps the community will even take on the challenge of adapting it to other lens types.

For the polar opposite of this project, check out the 300 mm long 3D printed extension tube we covered a few weeks back that inspired [Loudifier] to send this project our way.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
8:30
3D-Printed Film Scanner Brings Family Memories Back to Life
» ‎ Hack a Day

There is a treasure trove of history locked away in closets and attics, where old shoeboxes hold reels of movie film shot by amateur cinematographers. They captured children’s first steps, family vacations, and parties where [Uncle Bill] was getting up to his usual antics. Little of what was captured on thousands of miles of 8-mm and Super 8 film is consequential, but giving a family the means to see long lost loved ones again can be a powerful thing indeed.

That was the goal of [Anton Gutscher]’s automated 8-mm film scanner. Yes, commercial services exist that will digitize movies, slides, and snapshots, but where’s the challenge in that? And a challenge is what it ended up being. Aside from designing and printing something like 27 custom parts, [Anton] also had a custom PCB fabricated for the control electronics. Film handling is done with a stepper motor that moves one frame into the scanner at a time for scanning and cropping. An LCD display allows the archivist to move the cropping window around manually, and individual images are strung together with ffmpeg running on the embedded Raspberry Pi. There’s a brief clip of film from a 1976 trip to Singapore in the video below; we find the quality of the digitized film remarkably good.

Hats off to [Anton] for stepping up as the family historian with this build. We’ve seen ad hoc 8-mm digitizers before, but few this polished looking. We’ve also featured other archival attempts before, like this high-speed slide scanner.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
August 30, 2019
11:30
FiberGrid: An Inexpensive Optical Sensor Framework
» ‎ Hack a Day

When building robots, or indeed other complex mechanical systems, it’s often the case that more and more limit switches, light gates and sensors are amassed as the project evolves. Each addition brings more IO pin usage, cost, potentially new interfacing requirements and accompanying microcontrollers or ADCs. If you don’t have much electronics experience, that’s not ideal. With this in mind, for a Hackaday prize entry [rand3289] is working on FiberGrid, a clever shortcut for interfacing multiple sensors without complex hardware. It doesn’t completely solve the problems above, but it aims to be a cheap, foolproof way to easily add sensors with minimal hardware needed.

The idea is simple: make your sensors from light gates using fiber optics, feed the ends of the plastic fibers into a grid, then film the grid with a camera. After calibrating the software, built with OpenCV, you can “sample” the sensors through a neat abstraction layer. This approach is easier and cheaper than you might think and makes it very easy to add new sensors.

Naturally, it’s not fantastic for sample rates, unless you want to splash out on a fancy high-framerate camera, and even then you likely have to rely on an OS being able to process the frames in time. It’s also not very compact, but fortunately you can connect quite a few sensors to one camera – up to 216 in [rand3289]’s prototype.

Of course, this type of setup is mostly suited to binary sensors/switches where the light path is either blocked or not, but other uses can be devised. For example, rotation sensors made with polarising filters. We’ve even written about optical flex sensors before.
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Tags: digital cameras hacks
August 10, 2019
7:01
660 FPS Raspberry Pi Video Captures The Moment in Extreme Slo-Mo
» ‎ Hack a Day

Filming in slow-motion has long become a standard feature on the higher end of the smartphone spectrum, and can turn the most trivial physical activity into a majestic action shot to share on social media. It also unveils some little wonders of nature that are otherwise hidden to our eyes: the formation of a lightning flash during a thunderstorm, a hummingbird flapping its wings, or an avocado reaching that perfect moment of ripeness. Altogether, it’s a fun way of recording videos, and as [Robert Elder] shows, something you can do with a few dollars worth of Raspberry Pi equipment at a whopping rate of 660 FPS, if you can live with some limitations.

Taking the classic 24 FPS, this will turn a one-second video into a nearly half-minute long slo-mo-fest. To achieve such a frame rate in the first place, [Robert] uses [Hermann-SW]’s modified version of raspiraw to get raw image data straight from the camera sensor to the Pi’s memory, leaving all the heavy lifting of processing it into an actual video for after all the frames are retrieved. RAM size is of course one limiting factor for recording length, but memory bandwidth is the bigger problem, restricting the resolution to 64×640 pixels on the cheaper $6 camera model he uses. Yes, sixty-four pixels height — but hey, look at that super wide-screen aspect ratio!

While you won’t get the highest quality out of this, it’s still an exciting and inexpensive way to play around with slow motion. You can always step up your game though, and have a look at this DIY high-speed camera instead. And well, here’s one mounted on a lawnmower blade destroying anything but a printer.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
August 06, 2019
16:00
Expensive Sony Lens Repair Reveals Shims & Shifts
» ‎ Hack a Day

The photographic hire company Lensrentals had a $2k Sony FE 135mm f1.8 GM camera lens returned with a problem: it was having issues focusing. So, they decided to do the obvious thing and take it apart. It’s a fascinating insight into some of the engineering that goes into a high-end camera lens.

That is perhaps a rather scary thing to do, because this is a very new lens that doesn’t even have a service manual yet. That’s akin to rechipping a Ferrari when you’ve never even opened the hood before.

One of the interesting things inside is the presence of a number of shims that adjust the placement between the groups of lens elements. It seems that however good their manufacturing tolerances are, sometimes you just have to put a shim or two in there to align things.

The focus motor moving back and forth. Lensrentals.com, 2019.
There is also a tantalizing glimpse of the focus mechanism, which slides one of the element groups back and forwards to focus the lens. And again, there are some manual adjustments that are made with screws to keep this group of lens elements aligned.

Unfortunately, Lensrentals didn’t go all-in with the teardown: they stopped when they found the problem, in which a single element had shifted, throwing off the performance of the entire lens. That’s a pity, as camera lenses are a major driver of miniature electric motor innovation, needing as they do to move large groups of elements quickly and very accurately to focus. There is an excellent view of the aperture element though, and it is possible to see how the lens uses twelve metal leaves to create an almost perfectly circular aperture.

This article is well worth a read if you would rather not tear apart your own expensive camera lenses.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
August 03, 2019
13:00
High Performance Stereo Computer Vision for the Raspberry Pi
» ‎ Hack a Day

Up until now, running any kind of computer vision system on the Raspberry Pi has been rather underwhelming, even with the addition of products such as the Movidius Neural Compute Stick. Looking to improve on the performance situation while still enjoying the benefits of the Raspberry Pi community, [Brandon] and his team have been working on Luxonis DepthAI. The project uses a carrier board to mate a Myriad X VPU and a suite of cameras to the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, and the performance gains so far have been very promising.

So how does it work? Twin grayscale cameras allow the system to perceive depth, or distance, which is used to produce a “heat map”; ideal for tasks such as obstacle avoidance. At the same time, the high-resolution color camera can be used for object detection and tracking. According to [Brandon], bypassing the Pi’s CPU and sending all processed data via USB gives a roughly 5x performance boost, enabling the full potential of the main Intel Myriad X chip to be unleashed.

For detecting standard objects like people or faces, it will be fairly easy to get up and running with software such as OpenVino, which is already quite mature on the Raspberry Pi. We’re curious about how the system will handle custom models, but no doubt [Brandon’s] team will help improve this situation for the future.

The project is very much in an active state of development, which is exactly what we’d expect for an entry into the 2019 Hackaday Prize. Right now the cameras aren’t necessarily ideal, for example the depth sensors are a bit too close together to be very effective, but the team is still fine tuning their hardware selection. Ultimately the goal is to make a device that helps bikers avoid dangerous collisions, and we’ve very interested to watch the project evolve.

The video after the break shows the stereoscopic heat map in action. The hand is displayed as a warm yellow as it’s relatively close compared to the blue background. We’ve covered the combination Raspberry Pi and the Movidius USB stick in the past, but the stereo vision performance improvements Luxonis DepthAI really takes it to another level.

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Tags: digital cameras hacks
July 28, 2019
13:00
Take Control of your DSLR with PiXPi
» ‎ Hack a Day

If you’ve ever tried to take a picture of a fast moving object, you know how important timing is. You might only have one chance, and if you hit the shutter a bit too early or too late, the shot could be ruined. Past a certain point, no human camera operator can react quickly enough. Which is exactly why [Krzysztof Krześlak] created PiXPi.

In the past we’ve seen high-speed flashes designed to “freeze time” by illuminating the scene at the precise moment, and while PiXPi can technically do that, it also offers a few alternate methods of capturing that perfect moment. The idea here is to give the photographer the best chance of getting the shot they’re after by offering them as many tools as possible.

Essentially, PiXPi is a microcontroller that allows you to orchestrate your DSLR’s trigger, external flashes, and various other sensors and devices using an easy to use graphical programming interface from your smartphone. So for example, you could program the PiXPi to trigger your camera when it detected a loud enough noise.

But the device also allows you to be a bit more proactive. Rather than sitting back and waiting for a signal to fire off the camera, the PiXPi can directly take control of the action. As an example, [Krzysztof] has created an electronically triggered valve which can release a drop of liquid on command. Using PiXPi, the photographer can quickly put together a routine that triggers a drop, waits the few milliseconds it takes for it to hit the target, and then snaps a picture.

The goal of the 2019 Hackaday Prize is to develop a product fit for production, and naturally a huge part of that is having a well thought-out design. But if you’re ultimately looking to sell said product, it’s also very important to keep the needs of the end user in mind. To that end, we think [Krzysztof] has done a great job by not only making the system very flexible, but keeping it easy to use.

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Tags: digital cameras hacks
June 27, 2019
4:00
The Digital Polaroid SX-70
» ‎ Hack a Day

What do you do if you own an iconic and unusual camera from decades past? Do you love it and cherish it, buy small quantities of its expensive remanufactured film and take arty photographs? Or do you rip it apart and remake it as a modern-day digital camera in a retro enclosure? If you’re [Joshua Gross], you do the latter.

The Polaroid SX-70 is an iconic emblem of 1970s consumer technology chic. A true design classic, it’s a single-lens reflex design using a Polaroid instant film cartridge, and its party trick is that it’s a folding camera which collapses down to roughly the size of a pack of 1970s cigars. It was an expensive luxury camera when it was launched in 1972, and today it commands high prices as a collector’s item.

[Joshua]’s build is therefore likely to cause weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among vintage camera enthusiasts, but what exactly has he done? In the first instance, he’s performed a teardown of the SX-70 which should be of interest to many readers in itself. He’s removed the mirror and lens, mounted a Raspberry Pi camera behind the lens mount, and a small LCD monitor where the mirror would be.

A new plastic lens in the original lens housing completes the optics, and the electronics come courtesy of a Pi Zero, battery, and USB hub in the space where the Polaroid film cartridge would otherwise be. Some new graphics and a fresh leather cover complete the build, giving what we’d say is a very tidy electronic Polaroid. On the software side there is a filter to correct for fisheye distortion, and the final photos have a slightly Lomographic quality from the plastic lens.

We like what he’s created with his SX-70 even if we can’t help wincing that he did it to an SX-70 in the first place. Maybe it’s less controversial when someone gives the Pi treatment to a more mundane Polaroid camera.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
June 08, 2019
1:00
C++ Reverbs From A Matlab Design
» ‎ Hack a Day

The guitar ‘Toing’ sound from the ’70s was epic, and for the first time listener it was enough to get a bunch of people hooked to the likes of Aerosmith. Reverb units were all the rage back then, and for his DSP class project, [nebk] creates a reverb filter using Matlab and ports it to C++.

Digital reverb was introduced around the 1960s by Manfred Schroeder and Ben Logan. The system consists of essentially all pass filters that simply add a delay element to the input signal and by clubbing a bunch together and then feeding them to a mixer. The output is then that echoing ‘toing’ that made the ’80s love the guitar so much. [Nebk]’s take on it enlists the help of the Raspberry Pi and C++ to implement the very same thing.

In his writeup, [nebk] goes through the explaining the essentials of a filter implementation in the digital domain and how the cascaded delay units accumulate the delay to become a better sounding system. He also goes on to add an FIR low pass filter to cut off the ringing which was consequent of adding a feedback loop. [nebk] uses Matlab’s filter generation tool for the LP filter which he includes the code for. After testing the design in Simulink, he moves to writing the whole thing in C++ complete with the filter classes that allows reading of audio files and then spitting out ‘reverbed’ audio files out.

The best thing about this project is the fact that [nebk] creates filter class templates for others to play with. It allows those who are playing/working with Matlab to transition to the C++ side with a learning curve that is not as steep as the Himalayas. The project has a lot to learn from and is great for beginners to get their feet wet. The code is available on [GitHub] for those who want to give it a shot and if you are just interested in audio effects on the cheap, be sure to check out the Ikea Reverb Plate that is big and looks awesome.

Tags: digital audio hacks
May 31, 2019
8:00
Flex PCB Saves Lens From The Junk Pile
» ‎ Hack a Day

There’s a piece of tech that many of us own, but very few of us have dissected. This is strange, given our community’s propensity for wielding the screwdriver, but how many of you have taken apart a camera lens. Even though many of us have a decent camera, almost none of us will have taken a lens to pieces because let’s face it, camera lenses are expensive!

[Anthony Kouttron] has taken that particular plunge though, because in cleaning his Olympus lens he tore its internal ribbon cable from the camera connector to the PCB. Modern lenses are not merely optics in a metal tube, their autofocus systems are masterpieces of miniaturised electronics that penetrate the entire assembly.

In normal circumstances this would turn the lens from a valued photographic accessory into so much junk, but his solution was to take the bold path of re-creating the torn cable in KiCad and have it made as a flexible PCB, and to carefully solder it back on to both connector and autofocus PCB. We applaud both the quality of his work, and thank him for the unusual glimpse into a modern lens system.

Lens repairs may be thin on the ground here, but we’ve had another in 2015 with this Nikon aperture fix.

Tags: digital cameras hacks
May 10, 2019
1:00
Barn Door Tracker Needs No Special Tools
» ‎ Hack a Day

If you want to take a long exposure photograph, you need a tripod to hold your camera steady. But a tripod won’t help when the ground it’s standing on is moving. That’s exactly the problem [Emvilza] ran into when he wanted to take minutes or hours long photographs of the night sky. His solution was to build a barn door tracker, which he carefully documented in both English and Spanish.

Barn door trackers, also known as scotch mounts have been used by photographers for many years to cancel out the rotation of the earth. This causes stars to appear frozen in the sky and allows for photographs of very dim celestial objects. These trackers range from simple hand-cranked affairs to complex mechanical creations. [Emvilza] decided to have a go at designing and building his own tracker, using only basic tools, as he didn’t have access to a CNC or 3D printer.

The tracker itself is built from wood, with metal hardware. [Emvilza] spent a ton of time designing the tracker using SketchUp. The carefully drawn plans ensured everything would fit together and operate correctly.

One of the toughest parts was accurately bending a threaded rod enough to make it work with the tracker, but not bind the drive system. The mount’s motion comes from a threaded rod. The rod is driven by a stepper motor. Control and sensing is handled by an ATmega328 programmed using the Arduino toolchain. [Emvilza] learned Eagle and designed a PCB. Rather than etch a board, he simply built the circuit on perfboard, following his layout and traces.

The end result is a tracker that looks and performs great — just check out the images on [Emvilza’s] site to see some examples. Not only that, [Emvilza’s] well written documentation will help anyone looking to build a tracker in the future!

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April 21, 2019
22:00
A High-Speed Slide Scanner Build
» ‎ Hack a Day

Photographic slides were popular in the middle part of the 20th century, but are long forgotten now. If you’ve found a handful in a dusty attic, you might consider sending them away to be digitized professionally, or using a flatbed scanner at home. [Bryan Howard] found himself with over 200,000 slides, however, so that just wouldn’t do. Instead, he endeavored to build an automated scanner of his own.

Like many similar projects, [Bryan] started with an existing slide projector as a base. This means that all the difficult work of slide transport is already taken care of. The projector has then been upgraded with an LED light source and other tweaks befitting its new role. An Arduino Pro Micro runs the show, firing off the camera to image each slide before loading the next one into place. The DSLR responsible for imaging is then hooked up to a PC so the incoming images can be checked while the machine is in operation.

Preliminary tests are promising, with the scanner successfully capturing several slides in a row. [Bryan] estimates that, with a capture time of between 1 and 2 seconds per slide, it should take somewhere between 2-5 days to image the entire collection.

We wish [Bryan] the best of luck with the project, and look forward to seeing the final results. We’ve seen similar work before, too. Video after the break.

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April 18, 2019
1:01
Bone Conducting Headphones Built Into Eye Glasses
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There are times when being seen to listen to music through headphones might get you into trouble. For these moments, reach for a handy solution: bone conduction speakers that discreetly pipe the music to your eardrums through the bone of your skull. [Samuel] wanted just such a covert music listening device, so created his own in a set of 3D-printed glasses.

He first tried using an Adafruit bone-conducting transducer but found that to be too bulky. What you see here is a smaller module that [Samuel] found on AliExpress (search for bone conduction module). The GD-02 is much smaller and thus more suitable for hiding in the arm of a pair of glasses. For the rest of the electronics he used a PCB and battery from a donated set of broken Bluetooth headphones, a space for which he was able to conceal easily in the 3D-printed frame of the glasses. The battery is in one arm and the board in the other, and he says the wiring was extremely fiddly.

The result is a surprisingly svelte set of specs that you might not immediately think concealed some electronics. His choice of bright yellow filament might give the game away, but overall he’s done a great job. This certainly isn’t the first bone conduction project we’ve shown you, some of the others have used motors instead of bone conduction transducers.

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March 31, 2019
7:00
Squeezebox Comes To The ESP
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Streaming music may now come from somewhere in the cloud to an app on your phone and be sent to the client built in to almost every entertainment device you own, but there was a time when the bleeding edge lay in dedicated streaming device that connected to your existing …read more

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March 19, 2019
7:00
The CD Is 40, The CD Is Dead
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The Compact Disc is 40 years old, and for those of us who remember its introduction it still has that sparkle of a high-tech item even as it slides into oblivion at the hands of streaming music services.

If we could define a moment at which consumers moved from analogue …read more

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March 16, 2019
7:00
A Soap Film Photography How-To
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Blowing bubbles is a pastime enjoyed by young and old alike. The pleasant motion and swirling colors of the bubbles can be remarkably relaxing. With the right tools and techniques, it’s possible to take striking photos of these soap film phenomena, and that’s exactly what [Eric] and [Travis] did.

After …read more

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March 13, 2019
16:00
3D Scanning Via DIY Photogrammetry
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For those with 3D printers, taking a 3D model and spitting out a physical object is so routine as to be blasé. The reverse is something a little different. There are many ways to create a digital 3D model of a physical object, of varying complexity. [Eric Strebel] favors photogrammetry, …read more

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March 04, 2019
1:00
Adding Real Lenses To An Instant Camera
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The Instax SQ6 and Fujifilm’s entire range of instant cameras are fun little boxes that produce instant photos. It’s a polaroid that’s not Polaroid, and like most instant cameras, the lenses are just one or two pieces of plastic. A lens transplant is in order, and that’s exactly what [Kevin] …read more

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February 25, 2019
19:00
Visual Magnetic Fields
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If you need help visualizing magnetic fields, these slow-motion video captures should educate or captivate you. Flux lines are difficult to describe in words, because magnet shape and strength play a part. It might thus be difficult to visualize what is happening with a conical magnet, for a person used …read more

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February 14, 2019
22:00
Python Script Sends Each Speaker Its Own Sound File
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When it comes to audio, the number of speakers you want is usually governed by the number of tracks or channels your signal has. One for mono, two for stereo, four for quadrophonic, five or more for surround sound and so on. But all of those speakers are essentially playing different tracks from a “single” audio signal. What if you wanted a single audio device to play eight different songs simultaneously, with each song being piped to its own speaker? That’s the job [Devon Bray] was tasked with by interdisciplinary artist [Sara Dittrich] for one of her “Giant Talking Ear” …read more

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February 01, 2019
10:01
Those Voices in Your Head Might be Lasers
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What if I told you that you can get rid of your headphones and still listen to music privately, just by shooting lasers at your ears?

The trick here is something called the photoacoustic effect. When certain materials absorb light — or any electromagnetic radiation — that is either pulsed or modulated in intensity, the material will give off a sound. Sometimes not much of a sound, but a sound. This effect is useful for spectroscopy, biomedical imaging, and the study of photosynthesis. MIT researchers are using this effect to beam sound directly into people’s ears. It could lead to …read more

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January 22, 2019
11:30
Raspberry Pi Jukebox Hits All the Right Notes
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We (and by extension, you) have seen the Raspberry Pi crammed into nearly every piece of gear imaginable. Putting one inside a game console is to popular it’s bordering on a meme, and putting them into old stereos and other pieces of consumer electronics isn’t far behind. It’s always interesting to see how hackers graft the modern Raspberry Pi into the original hardware, but we’ll admit it can get a bit repetitive. So how about somebody scratch building an enclosure for their jukebox project?

[ComfortablyNumb] took the road less traveled when he created this very nice wooden Raspberry Pi enclosure …read more

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January 15, 2019
16:00
Particle Paves Way For LTE Selfies
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From cars to refrigerators, it seems as if every new piece of tech is connected to the Internet. For better or for worse, we’re deep into the “Internet of Things”. But what about your camera? No, not the camera in your smartphone; that one’s already connected to the Internet and selling your secrets to the highest bidder. Don’t you think your trusty DSLR could be improved by an infusion of Wide Area Networking?

Regardless of what you’re answer to that question might be, [Thomas Kittredge] decided his life would be improved by making his beloved Canon EOS Rebel T6 an …read more

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January 05, 2019
22:00
Super Simple Sensor Makes DSLR Camera Motion Sensitive
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Do you have a need to photographically document the doings of warm-blooded animals? If so, a game camera from the nearest hunting supplier is probably your best bet. But if you don’t need the value-added features such as a weather-resistant housing that can be chained to a tree, this DIY motion trigger for a DSLR is a quick and easy build, and probably loads more fun.

The BOM on [Jeremy S Cook]’s build is extremely short – just a PIR sensor and an optoisolator, with a battery, a plug for the camera’s remote jack, and a 3D-printed bracket. The PIR …read more

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December 04, 2018
13:00
High-End Headphones Get Flexible Boom Upgrade
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It seems a reasonable assumption that anyone who’d be willing to spend a few hundred dollars on a pair of headphones is probably the type of person who has a passion for high quality audio. That, or they work for the government. We’re fairly sure [Daniel Harari] falls into that former category though, given how much thought he gave to adding a decent microphone to his Sennheiser HD650 headphones.

Not happy with the results he got from microphones clipped to his shirt or mounted on a stand, [Daniel] realized what he really wanted was a sensitive boom microphone. This would …read more

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November 21, 2018
10:01
Supercon: Alex Hornstein’s Adventures In Hacking The Lightfield
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We are all familiar with the idea of a hologram, either from the monochromatic laser holographic images you’ll find on your bank card or from fictional depictions such as Princes Leia’s distress message from Star Wars. And we’ve probably read about how the laser holograms work with a split beam of coherent light recombined to fall upon a photographic plate. They require no special glasses or headsets and possess both stereoscopic and spatial 3D rendering, in that you can view both the 3D Princess Leia and your bank’s logo or whatever is on your card as 3D objects from …read more

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November 19, 2018
13:00
A 3D Printed Kinematic Camera Mount
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[Enginoor] is on a quest. He wants to get into the world of 3D printing, but isn’t content to run off little toys and trinkets. If he’s going to print something, he wants it to be something practical and ideally be something he couldn’t have made quickly and easily with more traditional methods. Accordingly, he’s come out the gate with a fairly strong showing: a magnetic Maxwell kinematic coupling camera mount.

If you only recognized some of those terms, don’t feel bad. Named for its creator James Clerk Maxwell who came up with the design in 1871, the Maxwell kinematic …read more

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November 13, 2018
11:30
ESP8266 Wi-Fi Instant Camera is a Simple Shooter
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If a camera that combines the immediate gratification of a Polaroid with cloud hosting sounds like something that tickles your fancy, look no farther than this ESP-powered point and shoot camera created by [Martin Fasani]. There’s no screen or complicated configuration on this camera; just press the button and the raw picture pops up on the online gallery. Somehow it’s simultaneously one of the most simplistic and complex implementations of the classic “instant camera” concept, and we love it.

The electronics in the camera itself, which [Martin] calls the FS2, is quite simple. At the core, it’s nothing more than …read more

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October 25, 2018
1:00
10,000-Year-Old Camera Lens Takes Striking Pictures
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The first photograph was taken sometime in the early 1800s, and through almost two centuries of development we’ve advanced through black-and-white, the video camera, and even high-speed cameras that can take thousands of frames per second. [Mathieu Stern] took a step back from all of the technological progress of the past two hundred years, though, and found a lens for his camera hidden in the glacial ice of Iceland.

Ice in this part of the world has been purified over the course of 10,000 years, and [Mathieu] realized that with this purity the ice could be formed into a workable …read more

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October 06, 2018
1:00
A Graphic Equaliser The Analogue Way
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There was a time when any hi-fi worth its salt had a little row of sliders on its front panel, a graphic equalizer. On a hi-fi these arrays of variable gain notch filters were little more than a fancy version of a tone control, but in professional audio and PA systems they are used with many more bands to precisely equalise a venue and remove any unwanted resonances.

On modern hi-fi the task is performed in software, but [Grant Giesbrecht] wanted an analogue equalizer more in the scheme of those fancy tone controls than the professional devices. His …read more

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September 19, 2018
13:00
Voice Controlled Stereo Balance With ESP8266
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A stereo setup assumes that the listener is physically located between the speakers, that’s how it can deliver sound equally from both sides. It’s also why the receiver has a “Balance” adjustment, so the listener can virtually move the center point of the audio by changing the relative volume of the speakers. You should set your speaker balance so that your normal sitting location is centered, but of course you might not always be in that same position every time you listen to music or watch something.

[Vije Miller] writes in with his unique solution to the problem of the …read more

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September 15, 2018
10:00
Camera Uses Algorithms Instead of Lenses
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A normal camera uses a lens to bend light so that it hits a sensor. A pinhole camera doesn’t have a lens, but the tiny hole serves the same function. Now two researchers from the University of Utah. have used software to recreate images from scattered unfocused light. The quality isn’t great, but there’s no lens — not even a pinhole — involved. You can see a video, below.

The camera has a sensor on the edge of a piece of a transparent window. The images could resolve .1 line-pairs/mm at a distance of 150 mm and had a depth …read more

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September 12, 2018
8:00
Gorgeous Omnidirectional 3D Printed Speaker
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With all due respect to the hackers and makers out there that provide us with all these awesome projects to salivate over, a good deal of them tend to prioritize functionality over aesthetics. Which isn’t a bad thing necessarily, and arguably better than the alternative. But for many people there’s a certain connotation around DIY, an impression that the final product is often a little rough around the edges. It’s usually cheaper, maybe even objectively better, but rarely more attractive.

Which makes builds like this absolutely beautiful 3D printed Bluetooth speaker by [Ahmsville] especially impressive. Not only did he engineer …read more

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August 27, 2018
16:00
Making A Vintage 1990s Sound Board Do Rapid Fire Silently
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Sometimes a mix of old and new is better than either the old or new alone. That’s what [Brad Carter] learned when he was given an old 1990s sound board with a noisy SCSI drive in it. In case you don’t know what a sound board is, think of a bunch of buttons laid out in front of you, each of which plays a different sound effect. It’s one way that radio DJ’s and podcasters intersperse their patter with doorbells and car crash sounds.

Before getting the sound board, [Brad] used a modern touchscreen table but it wasn’t responsive enough …read more

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August 22, 2018
19:00
Cross-Correlation Makes Quick Work Of Ads
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Once relegated to the proverbial Linux loving Firefox user, ad blocking has moved into public view among increased awareness of privacy and the mechanisms of advertising on the internet. At the annual family gathering, when That Relative asks how to setup their new laptop, we struggle through a dissertation on the value of ad blockers and convince them to install one. But what about mediums besides the internet? Decades ago Tivo gave us one button to jump through recorded TV. How about the radio? If available, satellite radio may be free of The Hated Advertisement. But terrestrial radio and online …read more

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August 21, 2018
22:00
Hardware Store White Balance Reference
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We live in a time in which taking pictures is preposterously easy: take out your phone (assuming it wasn’t already in your hands), point it at something, and tap the screen. The camera hardware and software in even basic smartphones today is good enough that you don’t need to give it much more thought than that to get decent pictures. But what if you want to do better than just decent?

Ideally you’d take photos lit by high temperature lights, but failing that, you might need to compensate by adjusting the white balance during post-processing. But to accurately adjust white …read more

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August 20, 2018
11:30
Rewinding Live Radio
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Even though it’s now a forgotten afterthought in the history of broadcasting technology, we often forget how innovative the TiVo was. All this set-top box did was connect a hard drive to a cable box, but the power was incredible: you could pause live TV. You could record shows. You could rewind TV. It was an incredible capability, that no one had ever seen before. Of course, between Amazon and Netflix and YouTube, no one watches TV anymore, and all those platforms have a pause button, but the TiVO was awesome.

There is one bit of broadcasting that still exists. …read more

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August 19, 2018
22:01
The Engineering Of An Ultrasonic Phased Array
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Ultrasonic phased arrays are one of the wonders of the moment, with videos of small items being levitated by them shared far and wide. We’ve all seen them and some of us have even wondered about building them, but what about the practical considerations? Just how would you drive a large array of ultrasonic transducers, and how would you maintain a consistent phase relationship between their outputs? It’s a problem [Niklas Fauth] has been grappling with over the three iterations so far of his ultrasonic phased array project, and you can follow his progress on the latest build.

The arrays …read more

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August 18, 2018
10:01
An Achievable Underwater Camera
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We are surrounded by sensors for all forms of environmental measurement, and a casual browse through an electronics catalogue can see an experimenter tooled up with the whole array for a relatively small outlay. When the environment in question is not the still air of your bench but the turbulence, sand, grit, and mud of a sea floor, that pile of sensors becomes rather useless. [Ellie T] has been addressing this problem as part of the study of hypoxia in marine life, and part of her solution is to create an underwater camera by encasing a Raspberry Pi Zero W …read more

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August 13, 2018
10:01
Dawn of the First Digital Camera
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Technology vanishes. It either succeeds and becomes ubiquitous or fails. For example, there was a time when networking and multimedia were computer buzzwords. Now they are just how computers work. On the other hand, when was the last time you thought about using a CueCat barcode reader to scan an advertisement? Then there are the things that have their time and vanish, like pagers. It is hard to decide which category digital cameras fall into. They are being absorbed into our phones and disappearing as a separate category for most consumers. But have you ever wondered about the first digital …read more

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August 09, 2018
7:01
The VU Meter and How It Got That Way
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Given its appearance in one form or another in all but the cheapest audio gear produced in the last 70 years or so, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the ubiquitous VU meter is just one of those electronic add-ons that’s more a result of marketing than engineering. After all, the seemingly arbitrary scale and the vague “volume units” label makes it seem like something a manufacturer would slap on a device just to make it look good. And while that no doubt happens, it turns out that the concept of a VU meter and its execution has some serious …read more

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August 04, 2018
10:00
Feast Your Eyeballs On This Mechanical Eyeball
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Most of us, if we have bought a single board computer with the capability to support a camera, will have succumbed to temptation and shelled out for that peripheral in the hope that we can coax our new toy into having sight. We’ll have played with the command line tool and taken a few random images of our bench, but then what? There is so much possibility in a camera that our colleague [Steven Dufresne] wanted to explore with his Raspberry Pi, so he built a motorised eyeball mount with which to do so.

Pan & tilt mounts using RC …read more

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August 02, 2018
1:00
Shell Script Synthesizer Knocks Your SoX Off
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Sound eXchange, or SoX, the “Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation” has been around for as long as the Linux kernel, and in case you’re not familiar with it, is a command line tool to play, record, edit, generate, and process audio files. [porkostomus] was especially interested about the generating part, and wrote a little shell script that utilizes SoX’s built-in synthesizer to compose 8-bit style music.

The script comes with a simple yet straightforward user interface to record the lead and bass parts into a text file, and play them back later on. Notes from C2 to C5 are …read more

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July 30, 2018
8:31
A Stereo Tube Amp For Less Than $5
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Many of us have aspirations of owning a tube amp. Regardless of the debate on whether or not tube audio is nicer to listen to, or even if you can hear the difference at all, they’re gorgeous to look at. However, the price of buying one to find out if it floats your boat is often too high to justify a purchase.

[The Post Apocalyptic Inventor] has built a stereo tube amplifier in the style of the Fallout video games. The idea came when he realised that the TK 125 tape recorder manufactured by Grundig was still using tube audio …read more

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July 27, 2018
7:01
The Hot and Cold of Balanced Audio
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A few summers of my misspent youth found me working at an outdoor concert venue on the local crew. The local crew helps the show’s technicians — don’t call them roadies; they hate that — put up the show. You unpack the trucks, put up the lights, fly the sound system, help run the show, and put it all back in the trucks at the end. It was grueling work, but a lot of fun, and I got to meet people with names like “Mister Dog Vomit.”

One of the things I most remember about the load-in process was running …read more

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July 18, 2018
8:30
Transforming A Bookshelf Speaker Into A Portable Boombox
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There’s a lot of fun to be had in modernizing an old boombox but what about turning one of those ubiquitous shelf speakers into a portable boombox, complete with a handle for carrying? That’s what [GreatScott] did when a friend gave him a just such a shelf speaker.

These days you’d very likely use your phone as the audio source so he included a 20 watt stereo class D amplifier which could be disconnected at the throw of a switch if not needed. To power the amplifier he used 16 18650 lithium-ion batteries which were leftover from previous projects. He …read more

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July 17, 2018
4:00
Freak Out Your Smartphone with Ultrasound
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There’s a school of thought that says complexity has an inversely proportional relation to reliability. In other words, the smarter you try to make something, the more likely it is to end up failing for a dumb reason. As a totally random example: you’re trying to write up a post for a popular hacking blog, all the while yelling repeatedly for your Echo Dot to turn on the fan sitting three feet away from you. It’s plugged into a WeMo Smart Plug, so you can’t even reach over and turn it on manually. You just keep repeating the same thing …read more

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July 09, 2018
16:00
Vintage Headphones Bluetooth Conversion Goes The Extra Mile
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[KaZjjW] wanted to retrofit a pair of nicely styled vintage headphones to be able to play wirelessly over Bluetooth. In principle this is an easy task: simply stick a Bluetooth audio receiver on the line-in, add a battery, and you’re all set. However, [KaZjjW] wanted to keep the aesthetic changes to the headphones at an absolute minimum, retaining the existing casing and volume control, whilst cramming the electronics entirely inside and out of sight.

With the inherent space constraints inside the cups of the headphones, this proved to be quite a challenge. The existing volume potentiometer which hung half outside …read more

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July 06, 2018
4:00
An Optical Mouse Sensor For Robotic Vision
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Readers with long memories will remember the days when mice and other similar pointing devices relied upon a hard rubber ball in contact with your desk or other surface, that transmitted any motion to a pair of toothed-wheel rotation sensors. Since the later half of the 1990s though, your rodent has been ever significantly more likely to rely upon an optical sensor taking the form of a small CCD camera connected to motion sensing electronics. These cameras are intriguing components with applications outside pointing devices, as is shown by [FoxIS] who has used one for robot vision.

The robot in …read more

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June 21, 2018
13:00
Simple Camera Slider Adds a Dimension or Two to Your Shots
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Camera sliders are a popular build, and properly executed they can make for impressive shots for both time-lapse sequences or real-time action. But they seem best suited for long shots, as dollying a camera in a straight line just moves subjects close to the camera through the frame.

This slider with both pan and tilt axes can make moving close-ups a lot easier. With his extremely detailed build log, [Dejan Nedalkovski] shows how he went about building his with only the simplest of materials and tools. The linear rail is simply a couple of pieces of copper pipe supported by …read more

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June 08, 2018
22:00
A Fully Open Source Raspberry Pi Synthesizer
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Have you ever seen something and instantly knew it was something you wanted, even though you weren’t aware it existed a few seconds ago? That’s how we felt when we received a tip about Zynthian, a fully open source (hardware and software) synthesizer. You can buy the kit online directly from the developers, or build your own from scratch using their documentation and source code. With a multitude of filters, effects, engines, and essentially unlimited upgrade potential, they’re calling it a “Swiss Army Knife of Synthesis”. We’re inclined to agree.

At the most basic level, the Zynthian is a Raspberry …read more

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4:00
Who Said Thermal Cameras Weren’t Accessible To The Masses?
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Thermal cameras hold an enduring fascination as well as being a useful tool for the engineer. After all, who wouldn’t want to point one at random things around the bench, laughing with glee at finding things warmer or colder than expected? But they’ve always been so expensive, and a lot of the efforts that have sought to provide one for little outlay have been rather disappointing.

This has not deterred [Offer] though, who has made an extremely professional-looking thermal camera using an M5Stack ESP32-based computer module and an AMG8833 thermal sensor array module in a 3D-printed case that copies …read more

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June 06, 2018
19:00
Stars Looking A Bit Dim? Throw Some Math At Them.
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As the cost of high-resolution images sensors gets lower, and the availability of small and cheap single board computers skyrockets, we are starting to see more astrophotography projects than ever before. When you can put a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero and a decent webcam outside in a box to take autonomous pictures of the sky all night, why not give it a shot? But in doing so, many hackers are recognizing a fact well-known to traditional telescope jockeys: seeing a few stars is easy, seeing a lot of stars is another story entirely.

The problem is that stars are fairly …read more

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May 19, 2018
10:01
People with Dementia can DRESS Smarter
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People with dementia have trouble with some of the things we take for granted, including dressing themselves. It can be a remarkably difficult task involving skills like balance, pattern recognition inside of other patterns, ordering, gross motor skill, and dexterity to name a few. Just because something is common, doesn’t mean it is easy. The good folks at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, Arizona State University, and MGH Institute of Health Professions talked with a caregiver focus group to find a way for patients to regain their privacy and replace frustration with independence.

Although this is in the context …read more

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May 16, 2018
22:00
Arduino Star Tracker Raises the Bar
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Proving that astrophotography doesn’t have to break the bank, [Gerald Gattringer] has recently documented his DIY “barn door” style star tracker which is built almost entirely from scratch. Short of the Arduino and stepper motor, all the components were either made by hand or are standard hardware store finds.

The build starts with three aluminum plates which [Gerald] cut by hand with an angle grinder. He then drilled all the necessary screw holes and a rectangular opening for the threaded rod to pass through. He even used epoxy to mount a nut to the bottom plate which would eventually attach …read more

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May 11, 2018
19:00
Impossibly Huge Depth of Focus in Microscope Photographs
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Sometimes, less is more. Sometimes, more is more. There is a type of person who believes that if enough photos of the same subject are taken, one of them will shine above the rest as a gleaming example of what is possible with a phone camera and a steady hand. Other people know how to frame a picture before hitting the shutter button. In some cases, the best method may be snapping a handful of photos to get one good one, not by chance, but by design.

[The Thought Emporium]’s video, also below the break, is about getting crisp pictures …read more

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April 24, 2018
4:00
Heat Seeking Robot and Camera Tear Down
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[Marco Reps] found an HT02 thermal imaging camera in his mailbox. He found the resolution was fine for looking at big objects but worthless for examining circuit boards. So he decided to just tear it into pieces — an urge we totally understand.

Inside was a thermopile sensor that was easy to reverse engineer. So [Marco] decided to rework a Raspberry Pi robot to use the camera and turn it into a heat seeker.

The camera is relatively inexpensive compared to other similar devices and apparently uses a cheaper sensor type. However, the sensor itself was easy to use. [Marco] …read more

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April 15, 2018
4:01
Shutter Bug Goes Extreme with Scratch-Built Film Camera
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Should a camera build start with a sand mold and molten aluminum? That’s the route [CroppedCamera] took with this thoroughly impressive camera project.

When we think of cameras these days, chances are we picture the ones that live inside the phones in our pockets. They’re the go-to image capture devices for most of us, but even for the more photographically advanced among us, when a more capable camera is called for, it’s usually an off-the-shelf DSLR from Canon, Nikon, or the like. Where do hand-built cameras fall in today’s photography world? They’re a great way to add a film option …read more

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March 28, 2018
19:00
Improving Controls For A Camera Slider Kit
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We’ve all gone through it. You buy a kit or even an assembled consumer item, and it’s either not quite right or it’s only a part of what you need. Either you do a fix, or you add to it. In [Jeremy S. Cook’s] case, he’d been working for a while with a camera slider kit which came with just the slider. He’d added a motor and limit switches but turning it on/off and reversing direction were still done by manipulating alligator clips. Now he’s put together some far better, and more professional-looking controls.

He started by replacing the DC …read more

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January 03, 2013
6:01
An absurdly clever thermal imaging camera
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Thermal imaging cameras, cameras able to measure the temperature of an object while taking a picture, are amazingly expensive. For the price of a new car, you can pick up one of these infrared cameras and check out where the drafts are in your house. [Max Justicz] thought he could do better than even professional-level thermal [...]
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January 01, 2013
19:33
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #38
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 38. Written in Hebrew.
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19:33
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #38
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 38. Written in Hebrew.
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December 31, 2012
13:00
Ice record single needs six hours in the deep freeze before you can listen
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This delightful marketing ploy requires the listener to fabricate their own record out of ice. The band Shout Out Louds wanted to make a splash with their newest single. So they figured out how to make a playable record out of ice. The main problem with this is the grooves start to degrade immediately when [...]
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December 29, 2012
7:01
Bluetooth hack for Serioux Panda speakers
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[Bogdan] received this set of Serioux Panda speakers as a gift. I turns out that they sound very good and he decided to make them more useful to him by converting them to work as Bluetooth speakers. To begin with he bought the cheapest A2DP device he could find. This is the protocol that identifies [...]
Tags: panda serioux bluetooth bogdan hack digital audio hacks
December 26, 2012
9:01
Raspberry Pi used as a Squeezebox server
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[Jacken] loves his lossless audio and because of that he’s long been a fan of Squeezebox. It makes streaming the high-bitrate files possible. But after Logitech acquired the company he feels they’ve made some choices which has driven the platform into the ground. But there is hope. He figured out how to use a Raspberry [...]
Tags: raspberry squeezebox server lossless-audio bitrate digital audio hacks
December 25, 2012
5:01
Portable audio rig that turned out great
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[Michael] wanted a stereo that he could use outside, be it at the beach, beside the pool, or while tailgating. He decided to build this boom box himself, and didn’t cut any corners when it came to a professional looking finish. Because of the locale in which he plans to use the stereo he went [...]
Tags: rig stereo portable michael boom-box pool digital audio hacks
December 17, 2012
12:01
Update: Touch Tunes Jukebox universal remote
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[Reza] continues his work with the remote control protocol for a Touch Tunes Jukebox. This time around he had a universal remote PCB fabricated and wrote code to skip to the next track. Regular readers will remember that he started by making an Arduino transmit all possible remote codes to give him free credits. This [...]
Tags: jukebox touch tunes touch-tunes control-protocol arduino digital audio hacks
December 14, 2012
7:37
DSLR trick lets you change focus after taking the picture
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Here’s two photographic takes on the same subject, each with a different depth of focus. [Chaos Collective] came up with a way to make interactive still images that allow a user to adjust the depth of focus by clicking on different objects in the image. This was inspired by the Lytro camera which uses an array [...]
Tags: depth focus dslr depth-of-focus still-images chaos digital cameras hacks
December 12, 2012
4:24
Digital IR Theremin
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This Digital IR Theremin creates tones based on the distance of an object from its IR sensor. There’s no microcontroller here, since the project is part of an Introduction to Digital Electronics course. Instead, it uses a handful of comparators, transistors, AND gates, and a 555 timer to make noise. The comparators are connected to create [...]
Tags: digital distance theremin digital-electronics-course introduction-to-digital-electronics digital-ir musical hacks
December 06, 2012
4:00
Earning free credits on a jukebox with an Arduino
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Not since the great jukebox war of 2007 has anyone been as dangerous as a drunken friend with a wallet full of one dollar bills. Now whenever [Reza] goes out to the pub, he can play tracks on the TouchTune jukebox for free. TouchTune jukeboxes are basically a computer with a touch screen monitor connected [...]
Tags: jukebox touchtune earning drunken-friend arduino dollar-bills digital audio hacks

December 02, 2012
14:31
[Audio] Issues Surrounding Cryptography, Digital Authentication, and Digital Cash
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Authors: Bruce Schneier
Tags: cryptography
Event: DEFCON 3

Tags: digital audio cryptography bruce-schneier digital-authentication

November 28, 2012
11:01
Internet radio occupies an 80-year-old radio case
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[Florian Amrhein] made use of some old hardware to build his own internet radio in a 1930′s radio case. The original hardware is a tube-amplified radio which he picked up on eBay. There’s tons of room in there once he removed the original electronics and that’s a good thing because he crammed a lot of [...]
Tags: internet case radio florian-amrhein radio-case ebay old-radio digital audio hacks
8:01
Headphone light show
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Seriously, nothing says ‘Look at me!’ like these headphones. [Yardley Dobon] added a rainbow of colored electroluminescent wire to his headphones and made them pulse to the music. The video after the break shows the headphones bumping to the tunes. This is one of two versions of the project, the other runs the EL wire [...]
Tags: show headphone wire electroluminescent-wire headphones two-versions digital audio hacks

November 27, 2012
0:00
Vuln: Advanced Digital Broadcast Digital Satellite TV Platform Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
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Advanced Digital Broadcast Digital Satellite TV Platform Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Tags: digital broadcast advanced advanced-digital-broadcast digital-satellite-tv tv-platform

November 26, 2012
8:00
[local exploits] - Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional 1.x (Direct Retn)
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[local exploits] - Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional 1.x (Direct Retn)
Tags: digital aviosoft player tv-player digital-tv exploits

November 25, 2012
15:36
Flash controller works with point and shoot cameras
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Needless to say, there’s a world of difference between the expensive DSLR cameras professional photographers use and the point-and-shoot models carried by commoners. One such difference is the ability to use slave flashes – a second flash set off to the side of the subject for better illumination. Most of these slave flash units are [...]
Tags: flash slave difference point-and-shoot-cameras controller-works professional-photographers digital cameras hacks

4:11
Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional 1.x Proof Of Concept
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Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional version 1.x suffers form a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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4:11
Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional 1.x Proof Of Concept
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Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional version 1.x suffers form a buffer overflow vulnerability.
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4:11
Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional 1.x Proof Of Concept
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Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional version 1.x suffers form a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Tags: digital aviosoft player buffer-overflow-vulnerability proof-of-concept tv-player

November 23, 2012
10:01
A pair of briefcase boombox builds
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Here are two different briefcase speaker projects. [Dale] built the offering on the right back in high school and the upgraded version 2.0 more recently. He was inspired to send in a tip for the projects after seeing yesterday’s suitcase full of tunes. The first version uses a pair of speakers pulled out of a [...]
Tags: version briefcase pair dale speaker-projects boombox digital audio hacks
8:01
Wireless speaker made using Arduinos and 2.4 GHz tranceivers
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[Texane] picked up a 2.4 GHz transmitter/receiver pair for transmitting sensor data wirelessly. After using them in a project he wanted to try pushing them a bit to see what the limits are when it comes to higher bandwidths. He ended up building a wireless speaker that transmits audio at about 90 KB/s. That link [...]
Tags: Wireless speaker ghz receiver-pair wireless-speaker sensor-data digital audio hacks
November 22, 2012
15:01
A suitcase full of tunes
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Take the party with you by building your own boomcase. It’s an amplifier and set of speakers built into luggage. It uses an audio jack to connect to your favorite music player, and with a bit of added protection — like grills for those speakers — it could still be gently used to transport your [...]
Tags: party boomcase suitcase music-player favorite-music grills digital audio hacks
November 19, 2012
11:08
Optimizing your electronics projects with a camera
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What do you do when you have a microcontroller you’re trying to optimize? One method is using a debugger, but for AVRs and such that’s not a very common technique. For lower-level electronics projects, it’s nearly impossible, even. [Cnlohr] built a small Minecraft server that listens to in-game redstone circuits, but the performance of his real-world [...]
Tags: camera microcontroller optimizing level-electronics electronics-projects redstone digital cameras hacks
November 17, 2012
10:00
Making an overhead camera gantry, take 2
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Last week we saw [Todd]‘s solution to getting a tripod out-of-the-way when filming a few DIY videos. It’s an overhead camera gantry that allows him to move a camera around his garage workshop without a tripod getting in the way. This weekend, he’s back with a new and improved version. It’s a vast improvement over [...]
Tags: gantry camera overhead todd overhead-camera garage-workshop digital cameras hacks
November 10, 2012
11:25
Upgrading a voice recorder with a hex editor
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[Alex] just bought a really nice TEAC VR-20 audio recorder, a very capable recorder perfect for recording your thoughts or just making concert bootlegs. This model was recently replaced by the Tascam DR-08 audio recorder. It’s essentially the same thing, but the Tascam unit can record at 96kHz, whereas the TEAC can only record at [...]
Tags: tascam recorder teac alex hex-editor concert-bootlegs audio-recorder digital audio hacks
4:01
Nikon WU-1a WiFi dongle hacking
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Here’s a pretty tricky piece of consumer electronics reverse engineering. [Joe Fitz] came across the Nikon WU-1a. It’s a dongle that plugs into a Nikon D3200 camera, producing a WiFi connection which can be picked up and controlled from a smart phone. The app shows you the current image from the viewfinder, allows you to [...]
Tags: nikon dongle wifi joe-fitz smart-phone viewfinder digital cameras hacks
November 09, 2012
8:01
Camera gantry rides on garage door tracks
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For as many garage and workshop videos we feature here on Hackaday, we’re surprised we haven’t seen this sooner. [Todd] makes a bunch of videos in his garage shop, but using a tripod is a pain; he’s always tripping over his camera setup and it is just generally in the way all the time. His solution was [...]
Tags: gantry garage camera todd camera-setup garage-shop hackaday digital cameras hacks
November 05, 2012
12:01
Collection of Nixie bar graphs bump to the beat
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This VU meter uses Nixie tubes as the display. There are a total of fourteen IN-13 bar graph tubes that map out the audio spectrum. The build uses purely hardware for the display; no microcontroller processing, or dedicated VU-meter chips were used. Input begins with a dual Op-Amp along with a pair of potentiometers which [...]
Tags: bar display nixie nixie-tubes audio-spectrum bar-graph digital audio hacks
November 01, 2012
10:31
One-button audiobook player made from a Raspberry Pi
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[Michael Clemens] was looking for gifts for his Grandmother’s 90th Birthday. She is visually impaired and loves to be able to listen to audiobooks. The problem is that she doesn’t really get the hang of using electronics. He made things easy by building her a one-button audiobook player. The Raspberry Pi board is a perfect [...]
Tags: raspberry audiobook player michael-clemens 90th-birthday digital audio hacks
9:31
Hacking an old radar gun to interface with a laptop
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[Gregory Charvat] decided to see what he could do with this old Police radar gun. It is an X-band device that broadcasts continuous waves and measures the Doppler shift as they echo back. He cracked it open to see if he could interface the output with a computer. After a little poking around he’s able to get [...]
Tags: gun interface radar gregory-charvat doppler-shift police-radar radar-gun digital audio hacks

5:12
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #37
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 37. Written in Hebrew.
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5:12
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #37
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 37. Written in Hebrew.
Tags: digital whisper electronic electronic-magazine hebrew

October 26, 2012
12:01
AM Chiptunes played by a modified antenna analyzer
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Believe it or not, this VK5JST aerial analyzer kit is going to rickroll you. [Erich] wanted to see if he could use the device in a different way. His adventure led him to use it to feed different tones to an AM radio, producing the all too familiar [Rick Astley] offering. There’s a fair bit of math that [...]
Tags: antenna analyzer chiptunes rick-astley erich antenna-analyzer math digital audio hacks
5:00
Gyrocam keeps the horizon level even when the camera isn’t
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[Derek] likes to get a little bit of drivers-eye footage when racing his motorcycle, but there’s an inherent problem with mounting a camera to a moving and tilting platform. When he leans into turns, the camera can’t keep the horizon level. Cinematography and electronics go well together. so [Derek] built a horizon-stabilized camera mount for motorcycle videography. The [...]
Tags: horizon camera level derek cinematography motorcycle digital cameras hacks
October 23, 2012
4:01
Traffic camera countermeasure
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Don’t get us wrong, we drive very carefully as it’s the most dangerous thing we do on a regular basis. But even a careful driver can get caught by bad traffic and a red light camera. These are devices that monitor intersections. If you get caught in the middle when the light goes red they [...]
Tags: traffic countermeasure camera don red-light-camera bad-traffic careful-driver digital cameras hacks
October 10, 2012
11:01
Papercraft flash reflector
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We never use the flash on our point-and-shoot. It has a way of washing out every image we take. But [Joey] has a different solution to the problem. He shows us how to make a papercraft flash reflector that will still light up your subject without washing out everything in the foreground. [Joey] is perfectly [...]
Tags: reflector papercraft flash joey foreground digital cameras hacks

October 01, 2012
4:11
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #36
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 36. Written in Hebrew.
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4:11
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #36
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 36. Written in Hebrew.
Tags: digital whisper electronic electronic-magazine hebrew

September 27, 2012
12:01
How to add audio in to the Sony NEX-5 line of DSLR cameras
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[Tynan] loves his Sony NEX-5 camera but he’s fed up with not being able to choose any external microphone when recording video. Recently he set out to remedy that, and managed to add an audio in jack without modify the camera itself. The real trick here is to modify how a microphone accessory connects to [...]
Tags: camera sony microphone external-microphone nex dslr-cameras digital cameras hacks
September 26, 2012
7:44
Roll your own parabolic microphone
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Parabolic microphones are used to listen in from a distance. You see them on the sidelines of NFL football games, but they’re part of the standard issue in detective and spy novels. Now you can build your own parabolic microphone by following this example. The one component that may be hard to find is the [...]
Tags: parabolic microphone roll nfl-football-games parabolic-microphone spy-novels digital audio hacks
September 25, 2012
5:01
Making your anime papercraft move to the music
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This anime character is dancing to the music thanks to some animatronic tricks which [Scott Harden] put together. She dances perfectly, exhibiting different arm and head movements at just the right time. The secret to the synchronization is actually in the right channel of the audio being played. The character in question is from an [...]
Tags: character anime music scott-harden anime-character dancing-to-the-music music-thanks digital audio hacks

September 17, 2012
14:00
[web applications] - Digital Age SQL Injection Vulnerability
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[web applications] - Digital Age SQL Injection Vulnerability
Tags: digital web age web-applications vulnerability

September 16, 2012
2:22
Digital Age SQL Injection
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Digital Age based sites suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Note that this finding houses site-specific data.
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2:22
Digital Age SQL Injection
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Digital Age based sites suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Note that this finding houses site-specific data.
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2:22
Digital Age SQL Injection
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Digital Age based sites suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Note that this finding houses site-specific data.
Tags: digital sql age vulnerability-note

September 14, 2012
21:45
[Video] Digital Identity and the Ghost in the Machine
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Authors: Max Kilger
Tags: identity management
Event: Chaos Communication Congress 22th (22C3) 2005
Abstract: The demarcation line that used to separate your digital identity from your real world physical identity is rapidly disappearing. More seriously, it is permanently changing the way in which the world sees you and you see yourself. Social identity lies at the very core of our existence as human beings. Without identity we are lost both in the physical and virtual world. Before the coming of the digital revolution, most people struggled to create a single, permanent identity that stayed with them for the remainder of their lives. Digital technology has changed that way of life forever. People are now given digital identities by governmental, business and military organizations, sometimes with their knowledge but often without them knowing. People have also begun to weave multiple digital identities for themselves - using digital technology they can now create their own alternative identities that they can wear and shed like skins for their own personal purposes. In this lecture I will discuss how the digital identities that we create for ourselves and those that others create or us affect both our image of ourselves, our own psychological makeup and well-being as well as how it affects how others see and deal with us.
Tags: digital world identity max-kilger chaos-communication-congress demarcation-line
21:45
[Slides] Digital Identity and the Ghost in the Machine
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Authors: Max Kilger
Tags: identity management
Event: Chaos Communication Congress 22th (22C3) 2005
Abstract: The demarcation line that used to separate your digital identity from your real world physical identity is rapidly disappearing. More seriously, it is permanently changing the way in which the world sees you and you see yourself. Social identity lies at the very core of our existence as human beings. Without identity we are lost both in the physical and virtual world. Before the coming of the digital revolution, most people struggled to create a single, permanent identity that stayed with them for the remainder of their lives. Digital technology has changed that way of life forever. People are now given digital identities by governmental, business and military organizations, sometimes with their knowledge but often without them knowing. People have also begun to weave multiple digital identities for themselves - using digital technology they can now create their own alternative identities that they can wear and shed like skins for their own personal purposes. In this lecture I will discuss how the digital identities that we create for ourselves and those that others create or us affect both our image of ourselves, our own psychological makeup and well-being as well as how it affects how others see and deal with us.
Tags: digital world identity max-kilger chaos-communication-congress demarcation-line
15:24
[Paper] Digital Identity and the Ghost in the Machine
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Authors: Max Kilger
Tags: identity management
Event: Chaos Communication Congress 22th (22C3) 2005
Abstract: The demarcation line that used to separate your digital identity from your real world physical identity is rapidly disappearing. More seriously, it is permanently changing the way in which the world sees you and you see yourself. Social identity lies at the very core of our existence as human beings. Without identity we are lost both in the physical and virtual world. Before the coming of the digital revolution, most people struggled to create a single, permanent identity that stayed with them for the remainder of their lives. Digital technology has changed that way of life forever. People are now given digital identities by governmental, business and military organizations, sometimes with their knowledge but often without them knowing. People have also begun to weave multiple digital identities for themselves - using digital technology they can now create their own alternative identities that they can wear and shed like skins for their own personal purposes. In this lecture I will discuss how the digital identities that we create for ourselves and those that others create or us affect both our image of ourselves, our own psychological makeup and well-being as well as how it affects how others see and deal with us.
Tags: digital world identity max-kilger chaos-communication-congress demarcation-line
15:24
[Audio] Digital Identity and the Ghost in the Machine
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Authors: Max Kilger
Tags: identity management
Event: Chaos Communication Congress 22th (22C3) 2005
Abstract: The demarcation line that used to separate your digital identity from your real world physical identity is rapidly disappearing. More seriously, it is permanently changing the way in which the world sees you and you see yourself. Social identity lies at the very core of our existence as human beings. Without identity we are lost both in the physical and virtual world. Before the coming of the digital revolution, most people struggled to create a single, permanent identity that stayed with them for the remainder of their lives. Digital technology has changed that way of life forever. People are now given digital identities by governmental, business and military organizations, sometimes with their knowledge but often without them knowing. People have also begun to weave multiple digital identities for themselves - using digital technology they can now create their own alternative identities that they can wear and shed like skins for their own personal purposes. In this lecture I will discuss how the digital identities that we create for ourselves and those that others create or us affect both our image of ourselves, our own psychological makeup and well-being as well as how it affects how others see and deal with us.
Tags: digital world identity max-kilger chaos-communication-congress demarcation-line

September 13, 2012
5:01
Ugly upgrade keeps the tunes playing longer
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[Sam] picked up a Sansa Clip audio player to listen to some tunes while working on projects. He liked the fact that he could run the Rockbox alternative firmware on the device, but thought the 15 hour battery life needed some improving. He swapped out the stock cell with a larger Lithium cell for a [...]
Tags: ugly sansa cell sam lithium-cell sansa-clip audio-player digital audio hacks
September 11, 2012
9:07
Binoculars as a zoom lens
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It may seem trivial at first, but the effect [Dan] gets when using binoculars as a telephoto lens is surprising. The images are well in focus with great colors. This technique not only brings your subject mater closer but also provides a depth-of-focus feature not normally available on simple cameras or camera phones. The proof [...]
Tags: lens binoculars effect dan subject-mater depth-of-focus focus-feature digital cameras hacks

September 03, 2012
2:22
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #35
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 35. Written in Hebrew.
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2:22
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #35
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 35. Written in Hebrew.
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August 31, 2012
12:30
Taking moving time-lapse images over days at a time
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It’s neat to watch these lilies open and close during the time-lapse movie. But what makes it even better is to see the camera slowly move during the time-lapse event. It’s thanks to a special dolly which the photographers built for this purpose. The system is based on two curved and inclined pipes which make [...]
Tags: movie camera time time-lapse-images time-lapse-movie moving-time digital cameras hacks
8:31
A laser audio transmitter
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Here’s a way of transmitting audio that makes it virtually impossible for someone else to listen in. Instead of sending radio waves bouncing all over creation, this uses the focused light of a laser to transmit audio. In the image above you can see the silver cylinder which houses the laser diode. It is focusing [...]
Tags: laser way transmitter radio-waves audio-transmitter laser-diode digital audio hacks
August 29, 2012
15:01
Party photo printer built around a Raspberry Pi
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We think [Brian Delacruz] latched on to a good idea with this photo printer project. Instead of building a big photo booth for his party he developed a Raspberry Pi based WiFi photo printer. Right now it’s a prototype that lacks the kind of polish necessary to make a true user-friendly device. But the idea [...]
Tags: printer photo party brian-delacruz true-user photo-booth photo-printer digital cameras hacks
8:09
Camera dollies hacked together by stop motion filmmakers
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A little bit of technology goes a long way when it comes to stop motion animation. In this case it’s a trio of simple camera dollies built during production of a short film called The Maker. A Dolly is a method of mounting the camera so that it can be moved smoothly during a shot. Of [...]
Tags: motion camera stop dolly camera-dollies motion-animation stop-motion digital cameras hacks
August 21, 2012
13:30
Portable light box for small photography needs
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[Paulo] needed to photograph small objects on the go. Since you can’t always depend on ambient lighting conditions he built a battery operated light box which is easy to take along on his travels. We’ve featured portable light tents before, but they still tend to be a bit too bulky for his tastes. He chose [...]
Tags: photography box portable paulo lighting-conditions tents tastes digital cameras hacks
August 17, 2012
11:30
Femto-photography: Taking pictures of bullets made of light
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Femto-photography is a term that derives its name from the metric scale’s prefix for one-quadrillionth. When combined with photography this division of time is small enough to see groups of light photons moving. The effect is jaw-dropping. The image seen above shows a ‘light bullet’ travelling through a water-filled soda bottle. It’s part of [Ramesh Raskar's] [...]
Tags: femto-photography name term ramesh-raskar soda-bottle light-photons digital cameras hacks
August 16, 2012
13:01
Raspberry Pi wedded to a DSLR
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This is a Raspberry Pi outfitted in a DSLR battery grip. [Dave H] was very interested in the idea of combining a single-board computer with a high-end camera. The size and cost of such a computer was prohibitive until the RPi came along. He managed to fit the board into the broken battery grip he [...]
Tags: raspberry battery dslr dave single-board-computer digital cameras hacks
August 13, 2012
16:01
Convert a speaker to a battery-powered amplifying party box
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[Matt the Gamer] loved his pair of Minimus 7 bookshelf speakers. That is until a tragic hacking accident burned out the driver and left him with a speaker-shaped paper weight. But the defunct audio hardware has been given new life as a single portable powered speaker. Now he can grab it and go, knowing that [...]
Tags: party speaker convert matt bookshelf-speakers audio-hardware gamer digital audio hacks
August 09, 2012
12:04
Sound-o-Light: simple and interesting DIY speakers
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This is a great project for a slow afternoon, or a beginners introduction to DIY. [William] shows off a really simple speaker project that results in a light show as well as a decent enclosure. He’s using a PVC elbow to mount the speakers. They’re just glued in place. Below that, a section of clear [...]
Tags: sound-o diy project william pvc-elbow diy-speakers speaker-project digital audio hacks
August 03, 2012
15:01
Dual PIR photo trigger by crossing the streams
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Motion sensing can be quite effective when taking photographs of wildlife. But how can one be sure that the motion was at the center of the frame? A PIR sensor picks up motion in its entire viewing range. It’s not really something that can be aimed. But if you use two PIR sensors you can [...]
Tags: photo pir motion pir-sensors pir-sensor streams digital cameras hacks
August 02, 2012
13:01
Building an isolation booth for your home recording studio
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[Brattonwvu] wanted to lay down some tracks with as high an audio quality as possible. To help get rid of the noise pollution of the everyday world he built this isolation booth in his attic. The project started off with a trip to the home store for some 2×4 stock and OSB to use as [...]
Tags: booth isolation home home-recording-studio isolation-booth noise-pollution digital audio hacks
9:01
Digital zoetrope uses 18 LCD displays
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[Jasper] sent in a project he, [Quinten], and [Mr. Stock] have been working on for a while. It’s called the Pristitrope and brings the classic 19th centrury paper-based animation device into the 21st century with 18 LCD displays. The lazy suzan portion of the build was fabricated out of plywood cut on a CNC router and [...]
Tags: lcd digital zoetrope mr.-stock jasper cnc-router lcd-displays classic hacks
9:01
Digital zoetrope uses 18 LCD displays
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[Jasper] sent in a project he, [Quinten], and [Mr. Stock] have been working on for a while. It’s called the Pristitrope and brings the classic 19th centrury paper-based animation device into the 21st century with 18 LCD displays. The lazy suzan portion of the build was fabricated out of plywood cut on a CNC router and [...]
Tags: lcd digital zoetrope mr.-stock jasper cnc-router lcd-displays classic hacks
August 01, 2012
14:01
Never miss a roadside photo-op with an easy camera hack.
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When you’re driving for days on the highway, you see some interesting things. If you’re like me, you usually don’t have the time to get your camera out and snap a picture. Especially if it is just a goofy looking car, or an interesting tree or something. This hack will make it really easy to [...]
Tags: roadside camera highway easy-camera interesting-things hack digital cameras hacks
12:01
Digital TV converter reverse engineering
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Back when broadcast television was first switching over from analog to digital most people needed to get a converter box to watch DTV broadcasts. Remember that abomination that was “HD-Ready”? Those TVs could display an HD signal, but didn’t actually have a digital tuner in them. Nowadays all TVs come with one, so [Craig] found [...]
Tags: digital converter reverse craig dtv-broadcasts hd-ready analog-to-digital home entertainment hacks

5:22
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #34
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 34. Written in Hebrew.
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5:22
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #34
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 34. Written in Hebrew.
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July 31, 2012
13:01
Reworking the electronics for better computer speaker audio
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[Michael Chen] liked the sound he was getting out of these Corsair SP2200 computer speakers, with one big exception. They were giving off some unpleasant crackling sounds. He figured this might be as easy as replacing a faulty potentiometer, but soon found out the fix was going to be more complicated than that. All said [...]
Tags: reworking speaker computer michael-chen computer-speakers computer-speaker potentiometer digital audio hacks
9:01
Developing a better way to control 10,000 LEDs
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The SoundPuddle project drives thousands of LEDs based on audio input. The team is working on a replacing the controller for this wire-filled setup with something more robust. They took the mess seen above to the Apogaea Festival and were plagued by loose wires and unreliable communications due to noise and interference. The aim of [...]
Tags: way soundpuddle leds loose-wires audio-input interference digital audio hacks

July 29, 2012
7:44
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #33
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 33. Written in Hebrew.
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7:44
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #33
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 33. Written in Hebrew.
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July 25, 2012
13:01
New cameras learning old lens tricks
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[Michael H] tipped us off about this guide to using view camera lens parts with DSLR cameras and lenses. We weren’t familiar with the term ‘view camera’ but we certainly recognize the accordion-like bellows that define that type of camera. The idea is that modern cameras with their fixed lenses miss out on some types [...]
Tags: lens view camera michael view-camera camera-lens bellows digital cameras hacks
11:01
Adding Bluetooth audio playback to a Toyota Matrix
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In this project [Ryan] shows how he added Bluetooth audio to the stock stereo of his Toyota Matrix. The work he did with his add-on hardware is quite good. And the installation was surprisingly easy. For example, the dashboard bezel which is hanging in the foreground of this picture simply pulls off without the need [...]
Tags: matrix toyota bluetooth ryan toyota-matrix audio-playback stock-stereo digital audio hacks
July 24, 2012
14:47
Simple light painting bar build
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[SkyWodd] took the easy route when it came time to build this light painting bar. But he was still met with great success. Thanks to his well-documented work you should be able to throw this together for yourself in about an hour. The idea here is to build a full-color display that will draw a [...]
Tags: painting bar simple light-painting success-thanks digital cameras hacks
July 18, 2012
5:01
DMG Lib: Digital Mechanism and Gear Library
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Reader, [klemens], suggested DMG Lib to us when we posted about a similar site. DMG-Lib is an amazing source of information. It’s primary downside is that a great portion of the text is in a language other than English, though in some ways this is a plus. Latin, Italian, German, and many other languages held the position [...]
Tags: digital lib dmg library-reader language-other-than-english downside misc hacks
July 17, 2012
12:01
High speed photography controller built to catch water droplets
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One high-speed photography controller to rule them all. If you’re looking to photograph droplets of water splashing on a still reservoir this is the ticket. But if you’re not, it still offers an incredible amount of flexibility for other high-speed needs. Inside you’ll find an Arduino Mega, which has plenty of room to bend to [...]
Tags: photography controller water high-speed-photography droplets-of-water water-droplets digital cameras hacks
10:01
Optical fiber twin-flash adapter
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[Marcell] has always been turned off by the price tag of commercially available double flash adapters. He decided to see what kind of performance he could get out of a flash adapter which he built himself. The raw materials used should seem quite familiar. The optical fibers act as a conduit to redirect the light [...]
Tags: optical fiber adapter optical-fibers flash-adapters double-flash digital cameras hacks
July 13, 2012
5:01
Laser light painting includes camera control
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This laser light painting setup can even control the camera. But it probably will not work with your average point-and-shoot. The exposure time used is somewhere around 2 seconds long, a feature which is hard to find on anything but DSLR cameras. The setup relies on a red laser diode to do the painting. When [...]
Tags: painting camera laser light-painting dslr-cameras camera-control digital cameras hacks
July 03, 2012
15:02
Ti Chronos watch controls Raspberry Pi
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[Mike Field] was working on interfacing his TI Chronos eZ430 watch with the Raspberry Pi. As things were going pretty well, he took a side-trip from his intended hack and implemented watch-based control for an RPi audio player. It really comes as no surprise that this is possible, and even easy. After all, the RPi [...]
Tags: raspberry rpi chronos mike-field side-trip audio-player digital audio hacks
8:02
Noise pollution tit for tat uses the Baha Boys as a weapon
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Here [Matthew Br] explains the situation he’s in with the neighbors that share this wall of his apartment. When they listen to music they like it loud and so he gets to ‘enjoy’ the experience as well. But he can’t ignore it any longer, and has decided to use a sound volume detector to blast [...]
Tags: tit pollution noise matthew-br noise-pollution sound-volume neighbors digital audio hacks
July 02, 2012
15:06
Decoding RF link using a PC soundcard
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[Ray] wanted to use a microcontroller to send signals to some wireless power outlets. Instead of tapping into the buttons on the remote control he is using an RF board to mimic the signals. There are two hurdles to overcome with this method. The first is to make sure your RF module operates on the [...]
Tags: link decoding soundcard ray rf-board rf-module rf-link digital audio hacks
June 27, 2012
9:01
Chiptune player uses preprocessed .MOD files
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[Kayvon] just finished building this chiptune player based on a PIC microcontroller. The hardware really couldn’t be any simpler. He chose to use a PIC18F2685 just because it’s big enough to store the music files directly and it let him get away with not using an external EEPROM for that purpose. The output pins feed a [...]
Tags: chiptune pic player external-eeprom pic-microcontroller mod-files digital audio hacks
June 25, 2012
12:01
Building a boombox where tools are meant to go
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[Danman1453] is ready to face the rest of his summer thanks to this toolbox boombox he built for outside use. It’s always nice to have some tunes when laboring at those not-so-fun jobs (we’ve got some windows that need re-glazing and you can bet we’re not doing that in silence). But if you can’t really hear it [...]
Tags: boombox rest danman summer-thanks silence digital audio hacks
June 22, 2012
4:01
Safe-Sync protects your camera from older high-voltage flash modules
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Since we’re not high-end camera aficionados it was a surprise to us that the hot shoe that allows a camera to interface with a flash module has changed rather dramatically over the years. Apparently the interface used to be mchanical-electrical in that the camera would use mechanical means to connect two electrodes from the hot shoe. It didn’t matter [...]
Tags: shoe interface camera flash-modules flash-module hot-shoe digital cameras hacks
June 21, 2012
12:01
Head-mounted memory catcher
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A picture’s worth a thousand words so what is a hat that can take 360 degree pictures worth? Just make sure you put it on whenever leaving the house and capturing that next memorable moment will be just one click of a button away. [Mikeasaurus] recently put together this… special… headgear. He used film-based disposable [...]
Tags: memory head-mounted catcher memorable-moment click-of-a-button digital cameras hacks

June 16, 2012
9:52
Plump Digital CMS SQL Injection
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Plump Digital CMS suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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9:52
Plump Digital CMS SQL Injection
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Recent Files

Plump Digital CMS suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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9:52
Plump Digital CMS SQL Injection
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Misc. Files

Plump Digital CMS suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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June 06, 2012
5:00
Outdoor stereo helps your neighbors learn to issue noise complaints
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Backyard parties are going to rock over at [Effin_dead_again's] house. That’s because he just finished building this outdoor stereo. It carries its own power supply so you can take it on the road with you, and we don’t think you’ll have trouble hearing it with the 240 Watt amplifier hidden inside. He shared the equipment details [...]
Tags: noise outdoor stereo watt-amplifier backyard-parties noise-complaints digital audio hacks
June 05, 2012
5:01
Simple power adapter thumbs its nose at proprietary connectors
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[Mike Worth] wanted to use his camera for some time-lapse photography. Since it’s used to take many pictures over a long period of time, he doesn’t want to deal with batteries running low. But there’s no standard power jack on the side; instead the official charger consists of an adapter that is inserted in place [...]
Tags: adapter power simple mike-worth time-lapse-photography power-adapter period-of-time digital cameras hacks
June 04, 2012
13:01
Tunes in the icebox
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A couple of years back [Bryan's] iPod went on the fritz. It wasn’t completely broken, as long as he kept it really cold it still worked. So what was he to do with the crippled device? We’ve all heard of elevator music. [Bryan] decided to invent refrigerator music. First he needed some speakers. A trip [...]
Tags: tunes icebox music bryan elevator-music fritz refrigerator digital audio hacks
11:01
Tracking small changes in video to see someone’s pulse
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[Gil] sent in an awesome paper from this year’s SIGGRAPH. It’s a way to detect subtle changes in a video feed from [Hao-Yu Wu, et al.] at the MIT CS and AI lab and Quanta Research. To get a feel for what this paper is about, check out the video and come back when you pick your [...]
Tags: hao-yu yu-wu video-feed digital cameras hacks

June 03, 2012
0:00
Vuln: Microsoft Windows Digital Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability
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Microsoft Windows Digital Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability
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June 01, 2012
23:12
Digital Whisper Electronic Magainze #32
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 32. Written in Hebrew.
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23:12
Digital Whisper Electronic Magainze #32
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 32. Written in Hebrew.
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May 30, 2012
17:01
Remote shutter module uses LCD screen for setup
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Here’s a full-featured remote shutter project which [Pixel-K] just finished. It seems that he’s interested in taking time-lapse images of the cosmos. Since astrophotography happens outside at night, this presented some special design considerations. He wanted something that he could configure in the dark without zapping his night-vision too much. He also wanted it to [...]
Tags: shutter remote module time-lapse-images design-considerations astrophotography digital cameras hacks

16:52
Ganesha Digital Library 4.0 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection
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Ganesha Digital Library version 4.0 suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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16:52
Ganesha Digital Library 4.0 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection
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Ganesha Digital Library version 4.0 suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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16:52
Ganesha Digital Library 4.0 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Misc. Files

Ganesha Digital Library version 4.0 suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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14:00
[webapps / 0day] - Ganesha Digital Library 4.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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[webapps / 0day] - Ganesha Digital Library 4.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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9:03
OpenCV knows where you’re looking with eye tracking
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[John] has been working on a video-based eye tracking solution using OpenCV, and we’re loving the progress. [John]‘s pupil tracking software can tell anyone exactly where you’re looking and allows for free head movement. The basic idea behind this build is simple; when looking straight ahead a pupil is perfectly circular. When an eye looks [...]
Tags: eye pupil opencv john eye-tracking tracking-software digital cameras hacks
May 29, 2012
6:00
A sample player you can slip in your pocket
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This portable sample player packs quite a punch. [Lee] wanted a nice portable way to take his samples with him, but refused to water-down the features just because it is portable. He set of goal of playing between 3-8 simultaneous notes from a large assortment of stored samples. Sample space was the first design consideration, [...]
Tags: sample player pocket lee simultaneous-notes design-consideration assortment digital audio hacks

May 28, 2012
16:09
Security Vulnerabilities Of Digital Video Broadcast Chipsets
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This is a presentation called Security Vulnerabilities of Digital Video Broadcast Chipsets. It is from a talk given at the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam in 2012.
Tags: digital vulnerabilities security amsterdam digital-video-broadcast hack-in-the-box security-vulnerabilities

16:09
Security Vulnerabilities Of Digital Video Broadcast Chipsets
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Misc. Files

This is a presentation called Security Vulnerabilities of Digital Video Broadcast Chipsets. It is from a talk given at the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam in 2012.
Tags: digital vulnerabilities security amsterdam digital-video-broadcast hack-in-the-box security-vulnerabilities

16:09
Security Threats In Digital Satellite Television
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This is a presentation called Security Threats in the World of Digital Satellite Television. It is from a talk given at the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam in 2012.
Tags: digital security threats amsterdam digital-satellite-television hack-in-the-box security-conference

5:01
The Styharp, an instrument modeled after a pig sty
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This is a first for us. We’ve never heard of an instrument modeled after a pig sty before. The Styharp, built by [Yann Seznec], for [Matthew Herbert] is meant to be a mix between performance and visual art. [Matthew]‘s followed a pig from birth to the plate and made an album from the sounds he [...]
Tags: styharp pig instrument yann-seznec matthew matthew-herbert pig-sty seznec digital audio hacks
May 27, 2012
8:01
Reading wax cylinders with lasers
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From 1902 to 1905, Polish anthropologist [Bronislow Pilsudski] did a series of recordings in Hokkaido japan on wax cylinders. Researchers at the university of Hokkaido have been working on ways to read the cylinders without causing any further damage to the grooves. Their preferred method has been to use reflected laser light. They have a [...]
Tags: wax bronislow anthropologist hokkaido hokkaido-japan university-of-hokkaido wax-cylinders digital audio hacks
May 23, 2012
6:01
[Jeri] builds a c64 bass Keytar
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[Jeri] built this really cool C64 bass Keytar from a commodore64 and a cheap bass guitar. She’s using an FPGA to do the string detection and the key scanning, it then sends everything to the original 8bit sound chips. The reason that she is using a bass guitar is that the commodore sound chip only [...]
Tags: keytar bass jeri sound-chips commodore64 sound-chip digital audio hacks
May 18, 2012
10:01
A new method for adding audio input to a Sansa Clip+
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The Sansa Clip+ is a nice little MP3 player and recorder. But it doesn’t offer an input connector, instead relying on the built-in microphone. [Simon Frank] wanted to extend its functionality so he figured out how to add a standard audio jack for analog input. This is not the first time this has been done, [...]
Tags: clip sansa input simon-frank analog-input input-connector digital audio hacks
May 15, 2012
7:01
3d printing saves the day for time-lapse photography
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Several of us here at Hackaday have discussed how much we’d like to have some tools, like a 3d printer, but just can’t justify the cost. What would we make? Why do we really need one? Why don’t we just bother [Brian Benchoff] who already has one to make us parts instead. That’s usually how [...]
Tags: photography day printing brian-benchoff time-lapse-photography 3d-printer digital cameras hacks
May 11, 2012
15:01
Digital stethoscope can record, playback, and analyzer heart sounds
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It’s somewhat amazing how these rather inexpensive electronics can augment the functionality of a common stethoscope. This digital stethoscope is using audio processing to add the features. A standard chest piece feeds a condenser microphone which is fed through a pretty standard OpAmp circuit which supplies the ADC of an ATmega644. After being digitized, the heart sound [...]
Tags: digital stethoscope heart digital-stethoscope condenser-microphone heart-sound medical hacks

May 07, 2012
13:35
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #31
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 31. Written in Hebrew.
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13:35
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #31
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 31. Written in Hebrew.
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May 06, 2012
8:01
Simple mod to keep your downstairs neighbors from hearing you pound the keys
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[Mesoiam] managed to pick up a Viscount hammer weighted keyboard for pretty cheap. For those who are unfamiliar, Viscount makes keyboards that feel like you’re playing a piano, hammers and all. The only problem with this, as [Mesoiam] discovered, is that even when he’s jamming with headphones in, his friends down stairs can still hear [...]
Tags: mesoiam viscount simple piano-hammers downstairs-neighbors weighted-keyboard digital audio hacks
6:01
Converting a manual camera lens to use motorized zoom and focus
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[Guy] wrote in to share this motorized camera lens project he recently finished. He really loved the zoom lens, but since both zoom and focus are manually controlled, he sometimes had trouble getting both set to the right place in time to take the shot. With modern DSLR cameras which allow video capture, he also [...]
Tags: manual-camera place-in-time camera-lens digital cameras hacks
May 02, 2012
12:01
Surround Sound system controller replacement includes home automation
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[Neoxy] always wanted surround sound for his computer, and one day he managed to get a hold of a dead 5.1 system. Why buy one when you can repair someone’s rubbish, right? That turned out to be easier said than done, but after several false-starts he managed to resurrect the audio system by replacing the microcontroller. We [...]
Tags: surround sound system home-automation system-controller microcontroller digital audio hacks
April 30, 2012
15:01
6 camera face scanning rig
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[Ajeromin] was asked to build something cool for a museum exhibit. He took the challenge, and with his facial capture device, we feel he delivered. The writeup is very short, most of the story is in the annotated images. After deciding he was going to do facial capture and convert it to 3d, he had [...]
Tags: capture camera face museum-exhibit writeup rig digital cameras hacks
13:01
Quick and easy wildlife camera
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This wildlife camera is really easy to put together. You should keep it in mind if you’re ever tying to figure out what’s eating the heads off of all of your tulips. [Revoltlab] put it together, and although there’s one fatal flaw in this particular system, the concept is quite sound. The build uses a [...]
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8:01
Adding a remote shutter to a cheap digital camera
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[Luo] sent in a very easy way to add a remote shutter to just about any Canon Powershot. Even though it’s just a button, battery, and USB cable, we’re sure this would be a great project to teach the younglings about the power of soldering. Some Canon Powershot digicams are impressive beasts with the ability [...]
Tags: shutter canon powershot impressive-beasts cheap-digital-camera button-battery digital cameras hacks
April 27, 2012
11:01
Scanning turntable digitizes objects as 3D models
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This turntable can automatically digitize objects for use in 3D rendering software like Blender3D. [James Dalby] built it using a high-quality DSLR, and some bits and pieces out of his junk box. The turntable itself is a Lazy Susan turned on its head. The base for the spinning model is normally what sits on the [...]
Tags: use scanning digitize susan james-dalby junk-box rendering-software lazy-susan digital cameras hacks

April 26, 2012
0:00
Vuln: HP Printers and Digital Senders Remote Firmware Update Security Bypass Vulnerability
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HP Printers and Digital Senders Remote Firmware Update Security Bypass Vulnerability
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April 25, 2012
4:01
A camera that describes a picture for you
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[Matt]‘s Descriptive Camera looks just like any other point and shoot camera, albeit a little more boxy and homemade-looking. It even works just like the Polaroids of yesteryear – snap a picture and in a few minutes you’ve got a reproduction in your hands. Unlike any other camera before, [Matt]‘s camera doesn’t give you an image. [...]
Tags: descriptive camera picture matt point-and-shoot-camera polaroids yesteryear digital cameras hacks

April 24, 2012
7:40
CMS By Hispanic Digital Network, Inc SQL Injection / Cross Site Scripting
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CMS By Hispanic Digital Network, Inc. suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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7:40
CMS By Hispanic Digital Network, Inc SQL Injection / Cross Site Scripting
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Recent Files

CMS By Hispanic Digital Network, Inc. suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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7:40
CMS By Hispanic Digital Network, Inc SQL Injection / Cross Site Scripting
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Misc. Files

CMS By Hispanic Digital Network, Inc. suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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April 23, 2012
8:01
Sculpting clay with sound
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A group of students at the University of Dundee have created this interesting prototype called Sound Sculpted. The goal was to sculpt clay using sound files drive the sculpting arms. Ideally, you would end up with pieces of art that were unique to each piece of music. As you can see in the video (after [...]
Tags: sculpting sound clay university-of-dundee piece-of-music sound-files digital audio hacks
7:01
Stop Motion Animation Creation
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Stop Motion Animation has always been interesting to me since I “discovered” that one could make animated flip books by drawing each frame a little different. Fast forward 20 years or so, and computer technology has gotten to the point where this sort of thing can be done electronically quite easily and at an incredibly [...]
Tags: stop animation motion animation-creation motion-animation flip-books digital cameras hacks
April 20, 2012
10:01
Building an Arduino Chiptunes project inside an FPGA
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From time to time we find ourselves in the mood for some Chiptunes. You know, the music that accompanied all of the best 8-bit console games? These days there are a lot of projects that use the audio chips of yore to recreate the sounds, but you’re always faced with the issue of sourcing those [...]
Tags: chiptunes arduino time audio-chips fpga digital audio hacks
April 18, 2012
10:01
Fifty dollars to make your car audio Bluetooth compatible
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We’re rather impressed with the work [Aaron] did to add Bluetooth connectivity to his 2008 Honda. He used an aftermarket kit, but rolled in his own revisions to make it look and feel like an original feature. After being disappointed by an expensive docking system he grabbed a Jensen BT360 kit for about $35. It [...]
Tags: kit fifty bluetooth aaron docking-system fifty-dollars jensen digital audio hacks
April 12, 2012
15:01
Autonomous time lapse with a video camera throwie
» ‎ Hack a Day

When [Matt] came across a small video camera made to fit onto a keychain, the first thing that came to mind is a time-lapse video throwie. Like the LED + coin cell battery + magnet we’ve seen we’ve seen before (and deployed…), [Matt]‘s video throwie would be deployed in interesting spots for a few days [...]
Tags: video throwie camera matt coin-cell cell-battery digital cameras hacks
April 11, 2012
14:21
Automated turntable photography
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[Muris] has a friend who is selling items on the internet. This friend wanted a simple way to make rotating images of the products and asked him to help. The result of his labors is this base unit that drives the turn table and controls the camera. The first iteration of the turntable was powered [...]
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April 06, 2012
19:08
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #30
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 30. Written in Hebrew.
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19:08
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #30
» ‎ Packet Storm Security Misc. Files

Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 30. Written in Hebrew.
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April 05, 2012
13:53
Digital speedometer with an arduino
» ‎ Hack a Day

[Martyn] is restoring a 32-year-old Honda motorcycle, so when the ancient speedometer broke last year he thought it was prime time to start of a digital speedometer project. We’re loving the results so far, and would love seeing it on a nicely restored bike. Instead of the relative horror of driving 40 LEDs with a [...]
Tags: digital arduino speedometer digital-speedometer honda-motorcycle transportation hacks
April 04, 2012
13:05
Facial recognition software can tell when you’re frustrated with Xbox Live
» ‎ Hack a Day

Most of us have been faced with the anguish of being shot in the head repeatedly by 12-year-olds. There are also the times when we’re overjoyed by defeating the Mother Brain and making it out of the caverns of Zebes. If we wanted to scientifically quantify how happy, sad, or angry we are while playing video [...]
Tags: facial recognition Software facial-recognition-software mother-brain zebes digital cameras hacks
April 02, 2012
13:01
Old timey UAV cameras
» ‎ Hack a Day

These brave birds are weapons of war. Well, not these actual birds… they’re just models used for this photograph courtesy of a taxidermist. But their living relatives were used to take spy photographs during World War I. [Dr. Julius Neurbronner] didn’t suddenly jump into the field of avian photography. He, like his father before him, [...]
Tags: timey war uav dr.-julius-neurbronner spy-photographs brave-birds weapons-of-war digital cameras hacks
8:01
Building a media player with an MSP430
» ‎ Hack a Day

A media player based on an Arduino and SD card has been done to death several times over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate [Matt]‘s MSP430 audio player. It’s a very nice piece of work that supports a FAT16 file system and only takes up 54 bytes of RAM. To make his dream of [...]
Tags: msp arduino player matt msp430 fat16-file-system digital audio hacks
March 29, 2012
13:01
808 camera hack produces a time-lapse Tic Tac box
» ‎ Hack a Day

It’s not really conceived as a spy cam, but it could be. [Quinn Dunki] built this tiny time-lapse camera project with racing in mind. She’s involved in a group that endurance races clunkers, and part of the fun is sharing the experience of riding around in the old beaters. The module seen above takes a [...]
Tags: tic tac camera quinn-dunki endurance-races time-lapse-camera digital cameras hacks
March 26, 2012
14:30
Digital gaming table made with no smoke, just a mirror
» ‎ Hack a Day

The concept of having a digital gaming table got stuck in [RobotGuy's] mind over the weekend and he managed to whip this up in no time using materials on hand. He already had a ceiling-mounted projector which just happens to reside immediately above the space occupied by his coffee table. By swapping that piece of [...]
Tags: digital table gaming ceiling-mounted-projector digital-gaming gaming-table video hacks
March 21, 2012
10:01
Doppler-effect lets you add gestures to your computer
» ‎ Hack a Day

What if you could add gesture recognition to your computer without making any hardware changes? This research project seeks to use computer microphone and speakers to recognize hand gestures. Audio is played over the speakers, with the input from the microphone processed to detect Doppler shift. In this way it can detect your hand movements [...]
Tags: microphone hand computer doppler-shift doppler-effect gesture-recognition digital audio hacks

March 19, 2012
0:00
Vuln: HP Printers and Digital Senders Remote Firmware Update Security Bypass Vulnerability
» ‎ SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

HP Printers and Digital Senders Remote Firmware Update Security Bypass Vulnerability
Tags: digital senders printers hp-printers digital-senders vulnerability

March 17, 2012
10:57
DIY film projector fits in the palm of your hand
» ‎ Hack a Day

DSLRs aside, the price of digital cameras these days can make it easy to consider just tossing your old one out when it breaks. [Leonidas Tolias] had another idea, and with a few broken cameras he had on hand he constructed a slick little pocket-sized projector. The project started out as a pair of lenses [...]
Tags: diy hand projector film-projector palm-of-your-hand leonidas digital cameras hacks
March 16, 2012
14:22
Automated sky tracking to catch UFOs
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If you were to try to take a picture of a UFO, how would you do it? Sit by the side of a road in Nevada near Area 51? Pie tin on a string? A French team of UFO enthusiasts put together an automated UFO detection device (Google translate) out of a disco light and CCTV [...]
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March 15, 2012
10:01
RFID playlists plus a QR code concept
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Here’s another audio playback hack that uses physical tokens to choose what you’re listening to. It uses Touchatag RFID hardware to control iTunes. The concept is very similar to the standalone Arduino jukebox we saw on Wednesday except this one interfaces with your computer and the tags select entire albums instead of just one song. [...]
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March 14, 2012
16:01
RFID jukebox for the kids
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[Dominik] built a fun musical toy for his daughter [Anna]. It’s a jukebox that lets her play her favorite tunes using RFID tags to select between them. The project is simple, yet robust. The enclosure is a wooden craft box that you can pick up for a couple of bucks. Inside there’s an Arduino with [...]
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14:01
From reference design to USB sound card
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[Entropia] decided to try his hand at rolling is own sound card. He picked out a DAC chip, started his prototyping by studying the reference design from the datasheet, then went through several iterations to arrive at this working model. He chose to base the board around the PCM2706. It’s a digital to analog converter [...]
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March 13, 2012
12:01
Playing MP3s from an FPGA
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Building an audio player is a fun project. It used to be quite a task to do so, but these days the MP3 decoder chips are full-featured which means that if you know how to talk to other chips with a microcontroller you’ve got all the skills needed to pull off the project. But that [...]
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10:01
Controlling a DSLR with a Nintendo DS
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At Hack a Day, we’ve seen dozens of intervalometer builds that open and close a camera shutter remotely. [Luke Skaff] decided to take these builds to the next level by automating a camera’s focus and shutter with a Nintendo DS. [Luke]‘s build is based on the Open Camera Controller project that puts the power of an intervalometer, [...]
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8:01
Avoid shaky camera movements with gyroscopic stabilization
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Right after “no editing whatsoever”, the “shaky camera” is the bane of YouTube viewers the world over. [David] came up with a nice solution to the problem of shaky cameras that uses gyroscopes to even out the bumps of making a great movie. Most cameras attached to moving frames – from the zip-line cameras at NFL [...]
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March 08, 2012
21:42
Hotfile's Digital Locker Service Targeted By Hollywood
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Hotfile's Digital Locker Service Targeted By Hollywood
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March 06, 2012
6:22
Digital Design CMS SQL Injection
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Digital Design CMS suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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March 03, 2012
8:22
Building your own portable 3D camera
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[Steven] needed to come up with a project for the Computer Vision course he was taking, so he decided to try building a portable 3D camera. His goal was to build a Kinect-like 3D scanner, though his solution is better suited for very detailed still scenes, while the Kinect performs shallow, less detailed scans of [...]
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March 01, 2012
13:18
A zoom lens for your webcam
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We need to find the kind of friends that [Dino] has. They seem to drop off all of their older, yet totally awesome, electronics with him once they’re through with the devices. One example of this is the Sony Handycam that came into his possession. He decided to crack it open and repurpose the 20x optical [...]
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February 28, 2012
9:01
Shoulder mount for any camera
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Whatever your reasons may be, if you’re going to be holding a camera for long periods of time this shoulder mount will both steady the image, and help save you some aches and pains. [Kyle Jason] built the rig seen above for just $20 by following this guide. [Knoptop] published the guide about a year [...]
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February 27, 2012
8:01
Make any photo 3D using The Gimp
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Put your face close to the screen and cross your eyes until the two images above become one. You may need to adjust the tilt of your chin to make it happen, but when they come together you’ll see [John Lennon] pop out in 3D. This was made using a 3D rendering script for The [...]
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February 26, 2012
9:37
DIY intervalometer uses a great looking enclosure
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That finished look for your project is all about the enclosure you find to host it. We think [Punge] really did a great job with the case for this DIY intervalometer. The build section of the project page links to the company that makes the enclosures. They’re meant to host round PCBs with several options [...]
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February 24, 2012
11:01
Microcontroller gives you more control of your camera lens
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Here’s one way to get more control of your camera lenses. [Vladimir] built an Arduino-based pass-through ring (translated) which intercepts automatic lens controls. It’s meant for use with the Canon EOS lenses which have their own electronics allowing control of things like focus and zoom. It seems like part of the motivation here was to uses the [...]
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February 14, 2012
8:05
Tears from your lonely heart will activate a comforting tune
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If you’re forever alone we’d guess you’ve long since stopped crying about it. But if you’re still prone to shed a tear on a dateless Valentine’s day this project’s for you. [Mikeasaurus] spruced up this pillow to play a tune when it senses your lonely soul. It’s got a moisture sensor which triggers an audio [...]
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February 05, 2012
15:44
Improving headphones by voiding warranties
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[Dan] had been wanting a pair of Bluetooth headphones for quite a while. Most of the reviews for wireless headphones in the $50-$80 range complained of tinny sound and dropped bass. Nevertheless, he stumbled upon a $20 pair of headphones with similar reviews and realized that he could switch out the driver and make a decent [...]
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February 01, 2012
13:41
Earning a merit badge with a pinewood derby photo finish
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As a boy scout properly acculturated into the DIY philosophy, [Adam] really wanted to get his hands on the new Inventing merit badge. The merit badge required solving a problem, so of course a pinewood derby instant replay system was the obvious solution. After thinking through a few solution paths like a radio-controlled camera that follows the cars, [...]
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10:41
Lens adapter from a plastic soda bottle
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This lens adapter makes a lot of sense if you’re looking to interface with cameras that don’t have an in-built mounting option. It uses the cap and threaded neck from a soda bottle (translated) to make the lens adjustable and removable. In the past we’ve seen this hack using a lens cap with a hole drilled in [...]
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January 27, 2012
14:29
DSLR performance measured with audio editing software
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[Jaroslav's] camera didn’t have a feature to measure the speed of its response in different modes so he figured out his own method. Using the microphone on his webcam he recorded the sound made by the mirror and shutter movements, then used Audacity to analyze the camera’s performance. When you get right down to it, [...]
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January 25, 2012
14:33
Rotary phone-light-amp could be filed under bizarre
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[Samimy's] latest project is a little strange, but one man’s weird is another man’s wonderful so we’re not about to start criticizing his work. Nope, we’re here to praise the fact that his rotary phone turned reading light and audio amp is very well constructed. He started by removing the phone housing. Those old enough [...]
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January 19, 2012
11:57
NES controller cannibalized for MP3 player enclosure
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We know some folks are very upset by the scrapping on vintage hardware, so let’s all observe a moment of silence for this NES controller. Now that that’s behind us we can live vicariously through [Burger King Diamond's] project. He polished up the NES controller and repurposed it as an enclosure for a portable MP3 [...]
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4:01
Reusing an old pacemaker as a flash timer
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Most people use pacemakers to, you know, keep their heart pumping at a steady rhythm. [David Prutchi] on the other hand has found a pretty novel use for some of the old pacemakers he has in his collection. We really had no idea that pacemakers had uses outside the world of medicine, but [David] has [...]
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January 18, 2012
10:00
Bugtraq: Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Digital Media Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Digital Media Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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8:51
Cisco Security Advisory 20120118-dmm
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Cisco Security Advisory - Cisco Digital Media Manager contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to elevate privileges and obtain full access to the affected system. Cisco Show and Share is not directly affected by this vulnerability. However, because Cisco Show and Share relies on Cisco Digital Media Manager for authentication services, attackers who compromise the Cisco Digital Media Manager may gain full access to Cisco Show and Share. Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability.
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8:51
Cisco Security Advisory 20120118-dmm
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Cisco Security Advisory - Cisco Digital Media Manager contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to elevate privileges and obtain full access to the affected system. Cisco Show and Share is not directly affected by this vulnerability. However, because Cisco Show and Share relies on Cisco Digital Media Manager for authentication services, attackers who compromise the Cisco Digital Media Manager may gain full access to Cisco Show and Share. Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability.
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8:51
Cisco Security Advisory 20120118-dmm
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Cisco Security Advisory - Cisco Digital Media Manager contains a vulnerability that may allow a remote, authenticated attacker to elevate privileges and obtain full access to the affected system. Cisco Show and Share is not directly affected by this vulnerability. However, because Cisco Show and Share relies on Cisco Digital Media Manager for authentication services, attackers who compromise the Cisco Digital Media Manager may gain full access to Cisco Show and Share. Cisco has released free software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability.
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Vuln: Cisco Digital Media Manager (CVE-2012-0329) Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Cisco Digital Media Manager (CVE-2012-0329) Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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January 17, 2012
8:41
Adding sound to Children’s Museum exhibits
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Believe it or not, the local Children’s Museum staff was happy that [Bill Porter] left this mess of wires and equipment in one of their offices. It makes up an ambient sound system for a couple of their exhibits. A movie without sound just doesn’t fully entertain, and the same can be said for these [...]
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January 16, 2012
21:33
[Slides] Finding Digital Evidence in Physical Memory
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Authors: Mariusz Burdach
Tags: forensic
Event: Black Hat Federal 2006

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11:36
$3 adds sweet tunes to your project
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It’s a fun time to design your own MP3 player, lovingly adding in features to a meticulously crafted user interface. But sometimes you just want a quick and cheap way to add music to a project. [Jeff Ledger] will show you how to do just that using some knock-off hardware from overseas. Instead of a [...]
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January 13, 2012
13:59
Laser-triggered camera rig update: 2011 version
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[Fotoopa] keeps churning out new iterations of his laser-triggered camera rig. This is his latest, which he calls the 2011 setup. Regular readers will remember that we just covered a different version back in November; that one was the 2010 rendition. It had two DSLR cameras offset by 90 degrees with mirrors to face forward. [...]
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0:00
Vuln: Advanced Digital Broadcast Digital Satellite TV Platform Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
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Advanced Digital Broadcast Digital Satellite TV Platform Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
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January 11, 2012
10:01
Microcontroller based audio volume level compressor
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In an effort listen to his music on shuffle without the need to touch the volume knob [Mike] build his own automatic volume leveling hardware. He knows what you’re thinking right now: there’s software to do that for you. But building the feature in hardware is a great stepping off point for a project. He [...]
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January 09, 2012
15:25
Build an intervalometer with these simple fabrication techniques
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[L] just finished building this intervalometer and his verbose documentation of the project has a little bit of everything. The fabrication uses common prototyping materials, and simple skills that are easy to master even for the beginner. The hardware is based around an ATmega8 microcontroller. After snooping around the Internet [L] wanted to see if [...]
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14:25
Rainbow Machine livens up any photograph
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[Shameel Arafin, Sean McIntyre, and Reid Bingham] really dig rainbows. Going by the moniker the “RainBroz”, the trio built a portable display that can be used to add cool light painting effects to pictures. The group brings their Rainbow Machine all over the place, including parties, gatherings, and random spots on the street. Anyone is [...]
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January 02, 2012
7:05
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #28
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 28. Written in Hebrew.
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7:05
Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine #28
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Digital Whisper Electronic Magazine issue 28. Written in Hebrew.
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