phooky

In honor of the successful final mission of the storied Space Shuttle Discovery, we’ve decided at great personal expense to have a last-minute Space Shuttle Discovery** Memorial Hack Fest at NYC Resistor this Saturday, March 12th, from 4:30 to 11…

Travis Goodspeed and others designed a very, very sweet little MSP430-based badge for this year’s HOPE. It allows the OpenAMD project to keep track of where you are and what you’re doing by broadcasting a unique ID. However, we’ve discovered…

Zach needed a parabola in QCAD, so I whipped up a quick script to generate DXF parabolas.  Source inside.

It’s been a while since we had a March Madness post, so here’s a little snippet from this past weekend: a script for processing small pixel fonts for use in 8-bit AVR applications.  Like this: I couldn’t find any free…

I can’t just sit on the sidelines glowering at all the happy coders all month. Here’s my first code snippet for the month: spherify! It’s a simple little python script that uses an image file as a heightmap, maps it…

Before there was Mario Kart, there was Mystery Cart: Shelby found this Atari 2600 cart lodged in the floor under an eighty-pound steel plate at the new Resistor space, completely buried beneath decades of dust and loose electrical wiring. Other…

Charles picked up the robot arm Kurt was getting rid of tonight.  Thanks, Kurt!  It’s beautiful.  We took it apart, and took pictures.

Just before he silently stole away on a secretive mission to distant lands, Ranjit left a hoard of lovely obsolete electronics at the lab.  Among the treasures were a couple of old counting units with 7-segment incandescent displays, sometimes called…

Sometimes you find interesting things in the oddest places. Like a funnel of crashing foam. Or a new Jovian moon.

Light bulb + coat hangers + canvas scrap + percolator + 2 hours = table lamp win.