Digital Fanatics

Reverse engineering is always an interesting technical challenge. Vincent and Mathieu from France used the AnalysIR equipment. This challenge was not only about understanding the protocols, but learning to generate checksums and how the various frames relate to each other.

The AnalysIR team has published a nice summary of the findings, and the details can be found on github.

Via dangerousprototypes.com.

Here is a quick and dirty article telling you about a quick and dirty solar charger from jmp.no. It is a nice, simplistic hack to create a USB solar charger.

Taking dead bug style electronics construction to new heights, The Clock project is a piece of art appreciable not only by engineers.

The project is the creation of Gislain Benoit and took three years to design. He describes the project as this.

…it has been hand crafted. The thousands of parts that compose it are soldered together in a 3-dimensional structure. There is no electronic board involved. The parts are linked to hold themselves and reveal the complexity of the circuit through the solid wiring that keeps them together which gives a visually astonishing result. The symmetry and density of its parts and interconnections has been kept uniform throughout the circuit. Every single part that composes the clock has its purpose. If you would decide to take out a single part of the circuit the clock won’t operate properly anymore.