Raspberry Pi Balloon Goes Too High, Goes Boom, But Survives
Some people like to get high on a Wednesday afternoon. [Kevin Hubbard] of Black Mesa Labs likes to get really high. Even higher than intended: last month, he flew a helium balloon powered by a...
View ArticleSimple Photo Flash Trigger for Water Balloon Photography
There have been countless projects to make custom photo flash trigger circuits. Usually the circuits react to sound, triggering the camera flash at the moment a certain sound is triggered. That type...
View ArticleGlowing Balloon Blimps
Looking for a neat decoration for your next soirée? How about floating fleet of glowing balloon blimps? [Kensho Miyoshi] — an avid reader of Hack a Day — needed an art installation project in Tokyo,...
View ArticleMy first robot: A simple demo to get kids excited about robotics
[Will] from Revolt Lab needed a project to get the summer campers he supervises interested in electronics, but when your audience is 5 years old, your subject matter had better be simple, yet...
View ArticleHackaday links: August 22, 2010
EL back-lit keyboard A couple bucks worth of EL wire gives a nice green glow to [Mark Shasha’s] T400 Elite. Hopefully [Jeri Ellsworth] has some time to pull those how-to videos together so that we can...
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