Hackaday Links: February 28th, 2013

Hackaday Links: February 28th, 2013

Xbox 360 control for a toy heli [Jason] leveraged the IR control libraries for Arduino to use an Xbox 360 controller to fly his Syma S107G helicopter . Windows 7 running on Raspberry Pi Why, oh god why? Well, the guys at Shackspace got their hands on a laser cutter that can only be driven with a Windows program. Their solution was to run Win7 on RPi as a virtual machine . Twin-servos for your third hand After growing tired of constantly flipping over the substrate being held with a third hand [Nidal] came up with a better way. He mounted his third hand on two servo motors so that it can be positioned with a joystick. Depopulating SMD resistors If you’ve ever tried to remove small surface mount resistors or capacitors with an iron you know it can be tricky. Take a look at the technique that [Scott] uses to remove the components . Photographing the die of MSP430, Z80, PIC, a...

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