DIY Segway
There’s a new DIY self balancing transpo in town… a student-made DIY Segway… project details and more here – Link.
Month: August 2007
Coding plugins for Internet Explorer
Pete Warden wrote in about his completion of the IE port of the GoogleHotKeys (formerly PeteSearch) browser plugin. In addition to the blog posts covering the port I’ve also put together a public wiki with full documentation on creating your own Internet Explorer extensions, and there’s the full source code for the completed plugin for […]
Mini UAV using Parallax Propeller chip
Here’s a work-in-progress, from a guy who’s building a mini UAV, using a Blade CX2 R/C helicopter and the awesome Parallax Propeller Chip. He writes of the build: The CX2 controller has 4 potentiometers into which I spliced a breadboard. A Parallax Propeller (prop chip) is used to read the control stick voltages through a […]
1,700 arcade manuals
Jason Scott posted a collection of 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format, he writes – If you were saying to yourself “Now, where can I browse over 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format?”, your prayers were just answered. This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by […]
Paper Mache Doll
Maize of Maize’s Diary made this beautiful paper mache doll using vintage paper pattern tissue! Link.
Matryoshkus – Russian dolls
These are great! bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte figures – Link.
Design Patterns for Starting a Hacker Space
I’m sitting in C4’s presentation room watching Jens and Lars give an awesome presentation about the design patterns for developing a hacker spaces. Download it now if you’re interested in creative communities. – PDF Link C4 has been in their current space since 1999 and it’s version 3.5 for them. They’ve been through a lot […]