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Microcontroller Hacks |
 | Electric Organ Hacked into an 8-Bit Synthesizer
This innovative Swedish engineer converted an old electric organ into an 8-bit synthesizer which can play fantastic renditions of your favorite NES theme songs. For modern 8-bit music, check out this collection.
With all the original tone... |
 | How to: Shoot Bullets Through a Propeller!
World War 1 biplanes utilized mechanical interrupter gears for strafing with a machine gun though the propellers. Cut to the 21st century when the same task has been achieved using a microcontroller-based solution. The idea is to time the firing... |
 | Stunning Illuminated POV LED Clock
Persistence of Vision (POV) flashes LEDs at certain moments as it spins, thus creating the "clock" above. The PCB blades are spun around using a PC cooling fan to creat this POV clock. The animation effect is thanks to illuminated LEDs which are... |
 | DIY Fiber Optic Fabric using RGB LEDs
By weaving fiber optic strands as if they were yarn, this team of DIYers created a fiber optic "fabric" of sorts which features a few dozen RGB LEDs and reacts to the outside world via Twitter. Currently, they're raising funds to launch a company... |
 | Cornell's Top Microcontroller Projects 2010
The students of Cornell have posted their year end microcontroller projects for us to admire. Some projects involve creating commercially available products, but a few definitely stood out from the crowd. With a budget of $75, the students... |
 | Superb 256 LED Graduation Cap
Don't be one of the thousands of "regular" students at graduation! Put hundreds of LEDs on your graduation cap and stream messages across it! All the cool kids are doing it, afterall. The grad in the video above setup a matrix of 16x16 white... |
 | RGB Computer Controlled LED Bottle Wall
What is it about the combination of color and light which makes us automatically drawn to it ? Quite appropriately the video demo of Alex Beim’s LED bottle wall project is without sound. It’s all visual illumination as we watch 253... |
 | Make a Laser Matrix Projector for the iPhone
The Concept
The idea is to add some kind of projector capability to a cell phone (e.g. iPhone) that isn't too complex or expensive. Instead of using an expensive mini projector, I decided to use lasers instead to any bitmap font using a matrix of... |
