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Atari K-9

Thursday, Jan 25th, 2007

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 …

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Circuit Board Night Light

Thursday, Nov 9th, 2006

In the spirit of recycling old and/or obsolete electronics to make something new and unique, the Circuit Board Night Light was created from six non-functioning DEFCON 14 Badge circuit boards. Five boards are fastened together with L-shaped corner braces and round-head slotted machine screws to create a base …

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Parallax GPS Receiver Module

Friday, Sep 15th, 2006

The Parallax Global Positioning System (GPS) Receiver Module is a fully integrated, low-cost unit with on-board patch antenna that provides standard, raw NMEA0183 (National Marine Electronics Association) information or specific data, such as current time, date, latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and travel direction/heading, via a serial interface. The Parallax GPS …

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chumby

Friday, Aug 25th, 2006

chumby is an inexpensive, Wi-Fi enabled content delivery device designed to be used around the home to display a set of user-customizable widgets - small Adobe Flash animations that provide real-time information, such as weather, stock quotes, RSS feeds, or pictures. The chumby is architected to be as …

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DEFCON 14 Badge

Friday, Aug 4th, 2006

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 …

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