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24 items tagged "entertainment"

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• September 03, 2010
• 11:51

  EEVblog dissects a kindle 3

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Dave] over at the EEVblog did a review of the kindle 3 recently, but never got to the good stuff, the guts.  He is now rectifying this with a full video dissection of the eReader. Full of details on how to open it up as well as specifics on the internals, this is a fun [...]
• August 28, 2010
• 9:00

  Tube preamp with a dazzling wood case

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  It’s been a while since we’ve looked in on the world of vacuum tube audio equipment. [Bruce] just finished documenting a tube preamp he built. He actually made a couple of these with slightly different cases but they use the same circuit design. We found his discussion of common errors made when tying into ground quite [...]
• August 24, 2010
• 13:24

  Adventures in Consumer Electronics Control (CEC)

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Valkyrie-MT] was frustrated by the inability to control TrueHD audio volume from his computer. That’s because digital audio passes through the cable to the receiver where the volume adjustments are done. This meant that his RF computer remote was no good because the receiver uses an IR remote. He set out to find a way [...]
• August 22, 2010
• 12:08

  Giving an IR transmitter some strength

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Jkx] was using a Thomson VS360U video transmitter to make a wireless connection between a cable box and his television. The system using an RF remote, but relies on an IR transmitter to communicate between the base station and the cable box. He found the IR module that comes with the device is under-powered and [...]
• 8:34

  Laminar water jet explained

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Dave] has put together this laminar water jet, mainly from PVC and drinking straws. There isn’t a project page, but he does go into a little depth explaining how it works. The water enters at the bottom and is slowed down by a series of sponges, then forced through a column of drinking straws. It [...]
• August 13, 2010
• 6:49

  Cybraphon, rocks hard to the mood of the internet

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Start off with a beat, wood sticks on cigar boxes will do. Add some chimes as accent, a Farfisa organ or record player for a voice, several other instruments for harmony and dissonance, and you’re still just on the tip of the iceberg for understanding Cybraphon. Not only is this antique wardrobe completely autonomous, playing [...]
• August 04, 2010
• 10:00

  Racing game uses a physical race track and vehicle

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Racer is a racing video game with a very real element. The player sits in an arcade-style console; wheel, pedals, shifter, and television display. But in what must be an homage to Tron the game taking place is very real. You can see the track above, designed in CAD and cut from cardboard, which is [...]
• August 03, 2010
• 13:09

  Robot boxing with wrist watches

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  The classic injection molded plastic Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots has been upgraded to use motion control. The project uses four TI Chronos watches, one on each wrist of both players. In the video after the break we get a good look at the guts of the base unit. We’re quite impressed with the quality [...]
• August 02, 2010
• 9:00

  Hardware hack 3D, software still needed

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  If you’re on the fence about 3D TV and related technologies [Anton B.] might be able to help you decide. No, he’s not going to shove pamphlets in your face and explain why its the wave of the future. Rather, by showing the hack-ability (its a word) of 3D shutter glasses. A simple bridge of [...]
• July 22, 2010
• 18:24

  All that’s needed is a retro paintjob, miniMAME

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Tim's] miniMAME‘s construction follows the “light and cheap” approach, using foam core board and hot glue. Sure it won’t last a nuclear attack, but at least it’s light enough to carry to a friend’s house. With a removable netbook at the core, CCFLs, speakers, trackball, and mini arcade fighting stick, the project completely surpassed our [...]
• 11:54

  Making mobile audio work at home

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Nikita] made a great find while cleaning out his garage: a set of audio amplifiers from a 1986 Volvo. After a bit of testing, he dislodged a stuck relay and set out to use these amps for a home audio system. He grabbed some left over brackets from his TV mount and used them as [...]
• July 08, 2010
• 12:20

  Stylin’ HMD

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Watch out, these sunglasses are actually a head mounted display. [Staffan] says he’s wanted dataglasses since ’95, but whats currently out there makes the user look ridiculous, and we have to agree. While his forum posts are a little lacking in detail, he’s promised us more info soon. And for now lets us know at [...]
• July 06, 2010
• 11:00

  Mini racing cabinet

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Here’s another small arcade cabinet. This time around it’s the racing simulator Daytona USA. [Pocket_lucho's] cabinet work has been featured before and he did some fine work with the control interface on this build. The wheel is from the controller of an RC car and the gear lever from a heavily used toy. He fashioned [...]
• June 14, 2010
• 12:00

  Distance measurement input device

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Larry] put a different spin on a television remote control. He used an Arduino and an IR receiver to learn the codes from the factory remote. Now that he can use an IR LED to playback these signals he worked on an alternative to pressing buttons as the input. The ultrasonic range finder seen above [...]
• May 30, 2010
• 13:30

  Child-sized cocktail cabinets

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Sam Seide] dropped us a line about his new arcade creation. We loved his Punch-Out build that used a punch dummy as a game controller. This time around he’s made some mini-cocktail style MAME cabinets. He removed the screen from a netbook and placed it face-up underneath the acrylic bezel. There are controls on either [...]
• May 14, 2010
• 10:00

  Electromechanical game: Running with the bulls

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [vime0 =http://vimeo.com/11700747] We’ve been watching the progress of this build for a while on Flickr. It looks like they’ve finally completed the electromechanical game, Running with the bulls. Based off of the event by the same name, you have to keep your guy from being trampled by the bulls as the charge.  The entire bull [...]
• May 11, 2010
• 12:00

  Maze solving

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Mitchel Humpherys] and his fellow developers didn’t just develop a maze-solving algorithm, they also built a ping-pong ball maze platform that is computer controlled. Using a webcam the computer picks up the high-contrast maze by peering down from above, calculates the solution, and moves the ping-pong ball to the goal using two different tilt servos [...]
• April 23, 2010
• 13:40

  Driving the car without going anywhere

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  This video game controller is a factory fresh VW. Much like the racing simulator from earlier in the week, the video game data is being displayed on the instrument panel. This takes us to a much higher level now because control for the game is taken from the car’s CANbus using and ODB-II connector. If [...]
• April 22, 2010
• 10:00

  Build a foam machine

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Spice up your next house party with this diy foam machine. [Stephen Martin] posted his PDF plans for version 1 and version 2 of the device. It seems the deciding factor on the machine is the type of fabric screen used to create the suds from a bubble bath liquid. This is the reason he’s [...]
• April 16, 2010
• 10:00

  Coin-op pays out when you win

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  The days of plugging coins into a stand up arcade game are sadly dwindling. [Dirk] figured out a way to prolong the nostalgia by incorporating currency back into the experience in a useful way. He rebuilt the video game Raiden to pay out a prize when you win the game. Now it takes a coin [...]
• April 09, 2010
• 9:10

  Strobe array for dance parties

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Check out this slick strobe array for dance parties. Controlled by a DMX512 interface, only a small modification was necessary to get the strobes working. If you’ve played with a small commercial strobe light, you’ll know there’s a potentiometer to control the strobe speed. He simply soldered a relay after the pot. This allows him [...]
• March 29, 2010
• 17:00

  Add USB playback to some European LG televisions

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  Here’s a pretty simple hack to enable playback from a USB drive on LG televisions. It only works on European hardware, the LH, LF, and some LU models. The hack consists of downgrading the firmware to version 3.15, then navigating through some service menus. It’s not quite as hardcore as the Samsung firmware hacking, but the [...]
• March 24, 2010
• 12:09

  Update: Samsung TV firmware hacking

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  [Erdem] sent us an update on his work with the SamyGO project. You may remember this Samsung TV firmware hacking initiative from our post back in October. Since then many more TV models have been added to the compatible list. They have also worked out a way to defeat the AES encryption and RSA signature [...]
• March 17, 2010
• 7:25

  Bill Paxton pinball

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  Tags:  home entertainment hacks  

  No, your eyes do not deceive you, you are looking at a [Bill Paxton] pinball machine. [Ben Heck], commonly known for his portable gaming system modifications has finally finished his pinball machine build. We’ve had our eye on it ever since [Jeri Ellsworth] challenged him to see who got theirs done first. As you can see, he’s [...]