Have you ever wondered where all those digital goods that weren’t of high enough quality to make the final cut go? I think we’ve found it. Arend deGruyter-Helfer developed the following image of a pile of Facebook gifts. Obviously there isn’t a real place you can go to find the Facebook Gifts wasteland, but if there was, I’d imagine that this is how that world would look. It’s a piece of digital art that I think would do extremely well as a poster.

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[drj113]  posts his cool word clock. After seeing a similar clock on an industrial design website, he set out to make his own version. He made custom pcbs with the toner-etch method. The front is a solid piece of copper clad board and the light shines through the etched areas. It’s powered by a PIC microcontroller and uses approximately 120 ultra bright LEDs. [drj113] has all of the circuit board diagrams, silkscreens, etch negatives, and code on the intructable so you can build your own.

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Clocks made from blinking LEDs always make for fun projects. [Earthshine] built a clock that displays time abstractly using an 8×8 RGB LED matrix. The video embedded after the break illustrates how to read the time but here’s the gist of it: One LED is illuminated in the outside box of LEDs and moved in a clockwise motion to approximate seconds. Inside of this, there are four quadrants; upper left indicates hour-tens digit, upper right hour-ones, lower left minute-tens, and lower right minute-ones. This certainly makes for an interesting conversation piece!
There is no schematic and no code available…

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[Reza] sent in his mood rock. Unlike other “mood” devices, instead of showing what mood you’re in, it shows what mood the internets are in. Two ShiftBrite modules are controlled by an AVR ATmega8 which then connects to a computer via USB. The assembly is placed inside of a piece of alabaster.
USB communications are controlled by the ATmega8 running V-USB (formerly AVR-USB) firmware. [Reza] wrote some code to control the colors from the web using Perl and AJAX. Head over to the web interface to set the colors yourself. We’d love it if a live webcam was added…

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[Costis] managed to dump a copy of the boot ROM for the Nintendo Super Game Boy. This small piece of code (256 bytes) writes a graphic to the display at boot time as it loads the ROM on the game cartridge. He was able to dump the code by finding the exact point at which the device locks down the boot ROM. Just as that point approached he overclocked the device causing it operate so fast it couldn’t write the lockout bits into the register. Once past that single point of security, he executes a code that writes the…

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For every motorcycle enthusiast, it is indeed very taxing tomaintain bikes as good as new ‘ its engine running and all itsother parts functioning. We know for a fact that it’s not onlyfor the sake of transportation but also for a littlesatisfaction of our vanity ‘ seeing everyone admire us, atop anexcellent piece of machine. Like any road going vehicle, amotorcycle’s performance is based on the smooth running ofthousands of parts, large and small. It is a nuisance indeed tofind some faulty parts on a vehicle and prevent owners fromenjoying its full use. Broken parts on a motorcycle can spell…

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