In an attempt to ensure that all of his digits survive the 4th of July, forum member morehpperliter has devised a simple but elegant replacement to the time-honored tradition of “light the fuse and run like hell!” Using an Arduino and a bit of code know-how, you too can keep yourself out of the emergency room this 4th of July. Or you can continue shooting Roman Candles at your friends and hoping for the best…whichever works for you.
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Hack-a-Day
- Access controller demo
- Ponoko launches subscription manufacturing
- Real life Gears of War Lancer for zombie fighting
- Gears embedded in business cards
- Bus Pirate firmware update (v.0c), JTAG and more
- Nintendo 64 crammed into a NES
- Using VFDs as amplifiers
- Hackit: Netbook haters?
- MIDI drums for Guitar Hero and Rock Band
- Roborama 2008b
Folding @ Home
- Donor Question: Why do certain servers go down more easily?
- Collection Server (CS) overhaul
- Overuse of fah-web.stanford.edu web pages
- UPDATE: Main AS back up, but stats, etc will take some time
- Main AS down. We're looking into it.
- Culprit found in NV core v 1.15 issues for certain hardware?
- Forum down -- we are talking with the hosting company
- Folding@home/PS3 wins "gold" award at the Good Design Award competition
- PS3 server 171.64.65.83 reset, PS3 clients looking better
- Planned outage for 171.64.65.xx network, November 5 at 7am to 8:30am
Make:
- Steampunk sewing machine and steapunk show in Phoenix
- Only a few hours left to enter our CYBER MONDAY contest (and also get 10% off our robot kits)
- Free Art and Technology, Tokyo style
- YETI walker robot
- Greener toilets, healthier lives
- Mousey the BeetleBot?
- DIY non-explosive root beer
- The tones of ancient stones
- Nautical bleep wheel
- Welcome to CYBER MONDAY on MAKE