Monthly Archives: December 2010

Interfacing an HD44780 LCD Screen – The Beginnings of the Car Audio System

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Edd

Following my previous post Programming the Arduino in Pure C, I have had time over the Xmas holdiays to do some more experimentation. Setting the Scene First lets look at what I am aiming to do. I hate taking CDs … Continue reading →

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Basic template for multithread client-server GUI

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Sav

Below is included Java source code for a simple GUI that launches a local-hosted server and any number of clients run on separate threads and displays the client-side and server-side output in two text areas, including text sent client to server and vice … Continue reading →

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The Video (part 3)

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Mex

This is the third post in the series, the first and second are elsewhere. In preparation for the next hack night I have been playing around with multiple angle videos. I created short set of images using motion with three … Continue reading →

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Programming the Arduino in Pure C.

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Edd

For hack #2, I started looking at how I could program an Arduino; an affordable hobby development board which uses an Atmega AVR microcontroller. More information here. We add a twist by not using the Arduino IDE and instead using … Continue reading →

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LCD Now Playing Screen

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Tris

For Hack Night #2, I wanted to create a “Now Playing” LCD display to integrate with the lpHack music server that we worked on at Hack Night #1. The resulting project is another real Can’t Hack team effort as it … Continue reading →

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Webcam Infrared LED Hack

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Tris

At the Can’t Hack, Won’t Hack nights so far, we have had a good number of successful hacks, most of which are documented on this blog.  At Hack Night #2 however, we had one not quite so successful hack – … Continue reading →

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The Video (part2)

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Mex

So the plan for this weeks hack session was to get an all new video of the hacking this time with multiple points of view! Unfortunately I was not able to get this to work during the actual event. However … Continue reading →

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