A few months years back [Wes] shared a job of his on the Hackaday Forums (yes, we do have a forum as well as you should inspect it out). He produced a shifter for some sim racing, greatly improving on any type of system that utilizes a keyboard.
The shifter is constructed out of some scrap wood, a cutting board cut with an H-gate shape, as well as a few arcade microswitches. A giant bolt locks into a few cupboard clasps for every gear position, as well as the set of microswitches linked to a USB game pad tell [Wes’s] online vehicle what gear he should be in.
It’s a fantastic build, however since this is an entry for our Fubarino contest, [Wes] needed to put an easter egg with the Hackaday URL in there somewhere. To solve this problem, [Wes] upgraded the electronics with a Teensy 2.0. When the gears are shifted into 1st, 3rd, 3rd, as well as 7th, the Teensy blinks the URL in Morse as well as opens up a web browser that tons up Hackaday.
Not only is it a fantastic build, it’s likewise a very, extremely subtle easter egg for our preferred website. Demo of the egg below.
This is an entry in the Fubarino Contest. submit your entry before 12/19/13 for a possibility at one of the 20 Fubarino SD boards which Microchip has put up as prizes!