Cool Hardware #

• LTP-305G/HR 5x7 LED Matrix displays & Driver, article on (Hackaday)

  

  also see the redot project for a modern clone

• Core Memory Shield for Arduino by Jussi Kilpelainen on Tindie

  

• A somewhat ridiculous precision voltage source

  turns out placing 900 resistors does not get you banned from SMD assembly service after all 😇 pic.twitter.com/3iu3zL5TLi

  — Marco Reps (@MarcoReps) December 31, 2020

  Backup of the above tweet on archive.org

• List of nixie tube types: https://justanotherelectronicsblog.com/?p=228

• DIY Particle Detector

  

• Williams Tube (Wikipedia)

• Slow Motion optical illusion picture frame kit on Tindie

• USB-C PD Breadboard programmable PSU

  

• Ottercast (Hackaday) - a Chomecast audio clone

  

• PinJig Soldering tool - failed kickstarter

• A “Breathing PC”

• Sensel Force Haptic Touchpad

• Furbymin Theremin SOA DC27 by Harbinger LTD

  

• Implementing a CPU Using 555 Timers and Logic Synthesis (Hackaday)

  

• Also 555 related, there’s this Atari Punk Console made using vacuum tubes

• And This project which uses 555’s to drive RGB Leds in interesting patterns - No μC!

• Mercuray Arc Valve

• Delay-Line Memory

• 21 Segment Displays

• DIY “Blackhole 6000” warm air generator (German)

• Ashlyn Black’s Linear Feedback Shift Register board

• The “WiFi Cactus”

• Also see this PCIe -> 12x mPCIE carrier board

• 7-color E-ink screens

• Rope Core Drum Machine

• ISA over TPM

• The Analog Thing analog computer

• The Razer Hydra, Peregrine Glove, & Tobii Eye Tracker - 3 products that really bring you right back to 2012.