Add Bluetooth Sound to a Boombox [Video]
These days most of the audio we want to hear is on our mobile devices. If you have an older boombox with a few parts and some time you can create Bluetooth connectivity as long as the boombox is design...
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
Cyber Security and IT support for Small Business
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Qube robots use well-designed laser-cut acrylic
These robot cubes, called BOXZ, use an interesting interlocking part design to mount and protect the parts within. But to really make them pop you need to color and apply your own papercraft skins. The actual hardware is quite simple. They’ve used an Arduino, along with motor driver and Bluetooth shields, to control a set [...]
Hackaday Links: Sept 15, 2012
Very tiny keyboard The idea behind the iControlPad2 is pretty simple – just take the slide-out keyboard from a phone, discard the phone part, add two analog sticks and a D-pad, and put Bluetooth in it. It makes for a very small keyboard perfect for controlling a Raspi, a home media server, or even a phone [...]
RC car upgraded to Bluetooth control
[Chet] is showing off the Bluetooth controller upgrade for this RC car. The donor vehicle is a rather inexpensive Porche which he purchased to make sure he didn’t start hacking up his more expensive toys. He took a bit different route than the IOIO RC truck we saw earlier in the week, but the concept [...]
IOIO controller replacement for an RC truck
This RC truck can be controlled with the tip of your thumb or the tilt of a wrist. That’s thanks to the IOIO which was inserted in place of the toy’s original controller. [Exanko] made the hardware changes in order to use his Android phone as the controller. The white circle is a software joystick [...]
Bits and Pieces Robotic Arm
[V0R73X], who is 17 has been working on a project, to build A robotic arm. This project started out as a challenge put forward from one of his school teachers to build a robotic arm for $200. [VoR73X] accepted, and the challenge began. He came up with a robotic arm that can be controlled from his mobile phone and [...]
Hack an Old Computer Mouse Into a Wireless Bluetooth Mouse [Retro]
If you're nostalgic for the feel and design of mice from the 1980s and 1990s you can swap the motherboard and other internal parts from an inexpensive modern Bluetooth mouse to make a retro wireless mou...