Let me tell you a joke… Customer: Walks in to a phone shop – “My phone was stolen, can you help?”Phone shop: “Great, let me pull up your upgrade options, and by the way, you owe us £150!” True story! If you are reading this, your phone was probably stolen and money was taken from … Read more
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I love my Panasonic Lumix GX85 mirrorless camera, it can do 4K video, has IBIS and the 15mm Leica lens is awesome. Both the lens and camera are small making the whole setup super portable. There is one massive downside though, the camera is lacking the mic input making it a pain to get good audio. You have to use an external recorder and sync the audio and video in post.
This has been on my mind since I bought the camera a couple of years ago. I have searched the web and the external microphones have been mentioned by other people, but nobody actually shared a solution. For some time, I was hesitant to poke around inside the camera, but I’m glad that I eventually did.
It is now possible to use an external mic with the Panasonic Lumix GX80/85 by soldering a microphone jack to the three test pads on the main circuit board of the camera.
I love using my Wacom for work and carry it around on daily basis. Recently the touch stopped working.
As the tablet is 3 years old and out of warranty I decided to disassemble it and peek inside to see if I could mend it myself.
And here is the problem — the USB connector’s sharp edge rubs against the ribbon cable from the touch sensor and with time cuts through the traces on the ribbon cable.
A closer look at the damaged trace with the protective tape removed:
This is a quick and easy 3D print that turns a Nexus 5 phone into a VR device, inspired by google cardboard.
DIY:
STL files on Thingiverse
2x M3 bolts and nuts are required, or just use cable ties.
2x 28mm bi-convex lenses (The lenses can be ordered on ebay for a couple of pounds)
All the latest code and pcb files are available on github, go make!
If you want to get in touch about the kit please tweet @webboggles, otherwise you might find that it takes me a long time to reply to comments here.
UPDATE: assembly instructions
I finally had some free time to make something fun and decided to write a new game for the Attiny85 ssd1306 keychain. I reused the sleep, display and interrupts code from the “Breakout” game I created a while ago.
This time I wanted a more addictive game. The game had to be playable using just the two buttons. I thought a racing game might be a good choice but the landscape screen is more suitable for a side-scroller. So I settled for an obstacle avoiding side scroller. Similar games include the recent Flappy Bird, Nyan Cat and many variations of the Helicopter game.
The flying saucer is propelled with the left button while the right button is used to shoot through force fields. The game gets harder as you play:
I decided to light up the Snow Shades by MakerBot for a party using an Attiny and some LEDs.
Here is a nifty solution designed to populate a google map with geo location markers and infowindow popup boxes.
So if you get a blue screen of death when using a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet on your desktop, the Wacom driver may be to blame. The error message reads DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE 0x0000009f In my case the issue was preceeded by the tablet switching off when I plugged the usb cable in. To fix the issue, … Read more