The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has a write up for ETech’s Make fest – Roughly 1,000 people showed up for this year’s Emerging Technology Conference (ETech), and Calit2 at UC San Diego was well represented during the conference’s show-and-tell session on March 28 at the Grand Hyatt on the San Diego waterfront. […]
Normally when you view a web page, your computer’s browsing software makes a connection to the destination server, downloads the page’s data, and displays it for you. This would normally be the preferred way of doing things, but occasionally you’ll find yourself on a work or school connection that disallows you from connecting to certain […]
myztikal47 has posted a complete warranty-voiding HOWTO on disassembling and reassembling your T-Mobile Dash over at Howard Forums. (The photo shown here is from the FCC OET web site) – Link Related: FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Page on the HTC Excalibur – Link (PDF with teardown photos)
Dutch design house Demakersvan created a very clever wind powered outdoor lamp — An outside lamp drawn from our home surroundings. The gently sweeping Dutch windmills were actually perfect generators of their own. With that in mind, we made this lamp. With every breeze it stores energy, enough to enjoy every summerevening untill forever. Contemporary […]
Here are some examples of using a high powered laser to make some fake-ish 3D printing objects using sugar – Link. The settings were 60% power and 80% speed (Epilog 35W) – place a 2mm layer of sugar, laser, lower bay one click, repeat. It’s also nice on some fruit.
The nice thing about console platforms is that they tend to get better with age, at least from a hacker’s perspective. Discount prices, reverse engineered hardware, a mature development community, and still-available components make the slightly-aged console an armchair game programmer’s best friend. Before you retire your GameCube to the basement closet, take a stab […]
Riad has everything you need to make your own Mooninites (Gerber files, schematics and layout). He writes — By now everyone’s heard about the 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare. Unfortunately, as far as I know, no one has put any thought into mass producing more of these guys. Well, no more. Thom, a now-buddy of mine […]
