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Published: 3 months ago

To this day I have not found a better diy electric bicycle conversion with all the benefits of this one. It doesn't damage or alter the bike itself in any way, it's easily removed or transferred to other bikes, and it costs virtually nothing compared to the commercial kits and hub motors.
Published: June 2014

LiTeRo - Little Telepresence Robot. A cheeseburger-sized 3D printed rover that is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless. Inspired by the hype of consumer mobile telepresense robots of the mid to late 2000s, like RoboDynamics TiLR and WowWee's Rovio, this little pet project can be driven from anywhere in the world with an internet connection; even on your phone!
Published: July 2018

Curated list of questions for sparking enlightening discussions amongst friends. Specifically tailored for VRChat. Questions come from ongoing discussions and experiences with friends mostly in VRChat. You can learn more at the project's GitHub repo.
Published: 8 months ago

Makes images safe to display on the web using common standards OR turn images into accurate retro-inspired pixel art! Now with multiple file batch processing and zip download!
Published: 11 months ago

Browser based tool that generates a sticker bomb texture. Several options available, including sticker density and rotation.
Published: 3 weeks ago

HOARfD, Pronounced HOARD (The 'F' is silent), is a Headless On-demand Automatic Raspberry pi (Floppy) Dumper (dragons hoard treasure → you’re hoarding floppies). Use it on a headless Raspberry Pi to copy the contents of a floppy disk to a flash drive automatically.
Published: 4 months ago

Quickly and safely Copy/Dump the contents of a floppy drive (or several) to a folder without waiting or asking pesky questions.
Published: 4 months ago

Generates HTML for colorizing a string of text by smoothly blending any number of colors. Advanced settings let you choose a blending mode; perfect for preserving brightness.
Published: 5 months ago

This canvas lets you draw 1-bit pixel art for your programs and microcontrollers. Tt returns an array of array of numbers (1/0).
Published: 5 months ago

This tool converts one or more .411 files (used for in-camera previews) from your Sony Mavica camera into images you can preview and download.
Published: 5 months ago

A spectrum analyzer meets a ball with gravity. Make noises to make a ball reach a goal.
Published: 5 months ago

Imagine you just learned how the THX intro was initially produced and you want to recreate it in JavaScript. But you forgot why you wanted to make it in the first place.
Published: 5 months ago

An homage to the late 90s operating system aesthetic; long before the days of rounded corners, translucent shapes, and ads.
Published: 8 months ago

Draw a waveform to find out its Power Factor.
Published: 10 months ago

A screensaver-like page that mimics an old Garry's Mod loading screen as it was downloading and unpacking plugins from a server, but with more silkicons.
Published: 11 months ago

Generate N evenly spaced hues.
Published: 12 months ago

A crude tool that uses your microphone to estimate music BPM
Published: November 2024

Browser based tool that counts the number of colors in an image.
Published: August 2024

Simple compression algorithm that cane be used for compressing a array of strings so you can fit more in your microcontroller. finds the most common words or tokens and replaces them with single characters.
Published: August 2024

Allows you to safely shut down your computer.
Published: August 2024

Once used to calculate Region of Interest in a camera's field of view for a tweak to the EyeTrackVR project.
Published: October 2023

Generate a PostProcess texture for Garry's Mod post processing effefts. This later developed into a Garrys Mod addon called Phys' Texturizer Lab.
Published: June 2023

RGB sliders for color picking. Preview text color over three background colors.
Published: June 2023

This tool generates LUA for building Garry's Mod addons when given a list of files relative to your addon's root directory.
Published: April 2020

A digital circuit without a CPU. Calling this creation a computer is a bit of a stretch since it only does one thing every clock cycle, and that is 'Go to this address.' Nonetheless, it is still able to play games and perform other tasks.
Published: December 2018

A single board computer built around a Motorola 6802 that runs a version of Basic. Line drivers illuminate LEDs for the data and address lines.
Published: July 2018

This started as a weekend project that was going to allow me to open/close my window blinds remotely... It turned into a need to make the Adafruit Trinket control a stepper motor with precision, speed, and (mild) elegance.
Published: April 2017

This Electromechanical Relay Clock uses 67 relays arranged in 21 flip-flop logic circuits. It is in essence a computer that can add, compare, and clear various registers in order to keep track of the time.
Published: July 2015

A robust and feature-rich Arduino-based IP webcam.
Published: March 2015

An Arduino performs analytical temperature measurements with an LM34. This project outputs a remarkably stable temperature readout over serial and/or writes it to an optional LCD.
Published: September 2014

An original, foldable, 3D printable tricopter frame inspired by David Windestål’s RCExplorer tricopter.
Published: March 2014

Pen-plotting for the Hack a Day/Adafruit Trinket Contest in 2013.
Published: November 2013

An impressively large digital clock that measures 3ft x 4ft and utilizes 28 incandescent T6-1/2 tube style light bulbs with one relay accompanying each bulb.
Published: June 2013

An earlt 3D printed quadcopter using simple hardware. Designed in a time before the word drone was common place.
Published: June 2013

Really old block of code I partly crafted as a custom screensaver-like starfield simulator.
Published: January 2013