• My Califone Story (Or: Why Teachers Head Count Before Leaving The Classroom)

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    The Califone 1400 Series record players have always held a special place in my heart because they were my first experience with phonographs. This particular model that I've been working on for Project Califone happens to come from the school syste...
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  • How Do Hex Codes Work

    Where does one person's interpretation of a color end and another person's begin? How do we universally define colors displayed on modern screens? What is the equivalent of Pantone for digital documents? In this video, we'll explore how color is d...
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  • How To Read Hexadecimal Numbers

    Hexadecimal notation may look daunting, but with a little know-how and the right perspective, it can become extremely easy to learn how to read hex numbers. In this video, we'll learn how to read hexadecimal numbers, how to count hexadecimal numbe...
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  • Mego 2XL Robot Teardown

    The Mego 2XL Robot is an interesting piece from the very beginning of interactive electronic toys. The 1970s 2XL incorporated little more than a modified 8-track player to provide hours of entertainment on specially-formatted cassette tapes. In th...
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  • How To Train A Custom Wake Word For Google Assistant Using Snowboy

    Following up to my primer on using Snowboy for custom Google Assistant wake words, in this video, I'll walk you through using Snowboy's "Hotword As A Service" to train your own wake words. SHOW NOTES: http://airbornesurfer/how-to-train-a-custom-wa...
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  • How To Use A Custom Wake Word With Google Assistant

    The new voice assistants like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google (itself?) are becoming more and more ubiquitous as we race toward a "Star Trek"-style omnipresent computing interface, but what if you don't like invoking the name of your chosen corpo...
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  • How To Set Up Google Assistant On The Matrix Creator Development Board

    The Matrix Creator is an IoT-centric development board that comes with a wide array of goodies that facilitate hardware development such as an FPGA, various accelerometer and environmental sensors, IR transceivers, and even an 8-microphone array t...
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  • How To Set Up The Google AIY Voice Kit

    AI voice assistants are the latest new hotness to come out of Silicon Valley, but before they were in every electronics department, they were much the exclusive playground of the DIY tinkerer. With kits like Google's AIY line, hackers and makers c...
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  • What Is Electrodermal Activity?

    Skin conductance, galvanic skin response, electrodermal activity: What is the phenomenon that describes how electricity is conducted across human skin? In this video, we'll take a quick look at the history and the mechanism of electrodermal activi...
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  • How To Build An Arduino Love Tester

    I'm a bit of a sucker for retro electronic novelties, and one of the most prolific is the "love tester" device that--in various forms--hearkens back to the early 20th century and the heyday of the penny arcade. These were often an electromechanica...
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  • How To Add A Speaker To A Raspberry Pi

    For Project Rankin to come alive, I needed it to have some level of audio, but I didn't want to plug some USB solution in or even use the on-board mini jack if I could help it, so I figured out a quick hack to get sound from the Raspberry Pi A+ ou...
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  • Fairy Light String Teardown

    Teardown and exploration of how a string of fairy lights/Christmas lights/holiday lights works. Part of the Project Rankin series that intends to build a holiday ornament powered by the AC electricity in a light strand. Watch the complete Project ...
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  • AirborneSurfer Thrifting: Of Fairy Lights and Guitar Strings

    I needed to pick up some fairy lights for a project, so off to the thrift shop! Watch the complete Project Rankin E14LINK Music by Anders Enger Jensen https://www.youtube.com/user/HariboOSX ‍♂️ If you enjoy watching these videos and would like t...
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  • How To Build An Arduino Clock

    Clocks are a rite of passage for hardware hackers, and with this video you can start working on your DIY Clock merit badge using the Arduino platform to build a basic Arduino clock. This project builds on the Arduino Fortune Teller project from th...
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  • How To Build An Arduino Battery Backup Real Time Clock

    In a previous video, we looked at how to build a simple DIY Arduino clock. Unfortunately, if power to the clock is disconnected, the whole thing has to be reset. To solve that problem, we're going to add an Arduino battery backup real time clock m...
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  • Driving LED Displays With Arduino And MAX7219

    The Arduino platform is great for making LEDs blink and driving small displays, but what happens when you need to display more complex information? For Project ColorTyme, I need to drive 6x 14-segment "starburst" style alphanumeric LED displays, b...
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  • How To Set Up A TFT LCD Screen On Arduino With The RA8875

    In a previous video, we looked at how to attach a TFT LCD screen to a Raspberry Pi to build a small-form-factor project. But what if your project doesn't need quite as much horsepower? What if you just need to display shapes and colors on a screen...
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  • How To Build A 5V Buck Converter

    When you're building a project that has multiple modules with different voltage requirements, you may need to build a 5V buck converter. This video walks through the process to build a converter that will take up to 40V input down to 5V at up to 5...
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  • How To Build A Voice Changer

    After studying the Velleman MK171 Voice Changer kit that I assembled in a previous video, I wanted to play around with some elements of the circuit to see if I could customize it. In this video, I'll walk through the circuit schematic and explain ...
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  • Voice Changer Teardown

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  • PlayStation Classic Teardown

    In my quest to hack the PlayStation Classic, I have to first open up the system to see what's inside and what makes it tick. In this video, we'll teardown the PlayStation Classic console and explore its insides, determine the state of its build qu...
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  • How To Install TFT LCD Screens on Raspberry Pi

    In this video, we'll walk through how to install a TFT LCD screen on on a Raspberry Pi for small form factor or portable projects. This screen will form part of the head-mounted display for Project Xyberpunk on element14 Presents. Watch the comple...
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  • How To Build An Arduino Joystick Mouse

    In this video, we'll use the Arduino Leonardo-compatible Adafruit ATmega32u4 Featherboard to build a joystick-style mouse that can be used with any USB-equipped computer. This will be built into Project Xyberpunk to replace the Trackpoint-style mo...
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  • Digital Archaeology: Exploring An Old Hard Drive (Project Xyberpunk)

    As part of Project Xyberpunk for element14 Presents, I wanted to explore the original, stock hard drive from the Xybernaut MAIV wearable computer. In this video, I'll use Linux Mint to explore the contents of the drive, see what kind of software s...
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  • Xybernaut MAIV HMD Teardown (Project Xyberpunk)

    As part of Project Xyberpunk for element14 Presents, I needed to teardown the Xybernaut MAIV wearable computer. In this video, I'll take the Xybernaut MAIV teardown to green boards to find out what kind of processor runs the Xybernaut MAIV as well...
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