Miscellany
RoboFlush
RoboFlush: The Automatic Toilet Flusher is a quick-and-dirty hack to solve a nagging problem with a toilet that requires its handle to be held down for the entire flush cycle. Although this common issue could have been repaired with standard plumbing techniques, an electronic solution was more interesting. [ continue ]
Atari K-9
The Atari K-9 is a case modification and art installation created to pay homage to Joe Grand’s first personal computer, the Atari 400 8-bit home computer, and one of his earliest pieces of software programming. It is a simple, non-intrusive reminder of home computing’s early days and was designed to stay consistent with Atari products of the era. [ continue ]
Circuit Board Night Light
The Circuit Board Night Light was created from six non-functioning DEFCON 14 Badges. [ continue ]
DEFCON 14 Badge
The DEFCON 14 Badge was created for the 2006 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge, which used active electronics and was intended to decrease counterfeiting while still provide intentionally open circuitry to allow attendees to experiment with and modify the badge to their liking, was the first of its kind for DEFCON. Over 6,000 badges were manufactured and were sold out within hours of the convention’s opening. [ continue ]
Color Orb Audio-Synchronized Lamp
The Color Orb is an audio-synchronized lamp that uses three LEDs (red, green, and blue) to create a spectacular combination of randomized colors that pulse brighter and dimmer in response to the pitch and rhythm of music or ambient sound. [ continue ]