Do try this at home
Okay this one is a kind of experiment. In the UK, at least in the region I reside currently, there are these things called ‘car boot sales’. They’re sort of like garage sales but centralised, and hundreds of people turn up to sell old junk. Sometimes this junk can inspire weird and wonderful hacking projects…
This hack was created for my ITP class Intro to Fabrication. In another class, Basic Analog Circuits, we’ve recently been covering the 555 timer. One of my favourite ridiculous ways to use the 555 timer is in an Atari Punk Console – basically a weird noise machine. Two 555 chips are used to generate interfering […]
The Work (in progress) The Inspiration The inspiration for this project came from another project I did a while ago, on a different continent, with far less electronics understanding than I have now. In short, I needed to light up and make “interactive” a sign, with no access to wall power. The result was A Hand […]
TL;DR: I took apart some CD drives and turned them into a very terrible etch-a-sketch type thing. In the future I hope to give control over to a computer so as to have a robot minion very terrible CNC drawing machine. Code for the project is here.