Xbox 360 Chatpad disassembly
Photos of the disassembly of the brand-new Xbox 360 Chatpad, showing the PIC16F883 it contains which makes it ripe for hacking, thanks Steve! Link.
Month: September 2007
Salt water as fuel?
This is interesting, I wonder how much energy he needs to put in to get a burn, it might not be efficient, but sounds like fun (if it really works. Post your thoughts in the comments!) – For obvious reasons, scientists long have thought that salt water couldn’t be burned. So when an Erie man […]
Motorized trailer pushes bicycle
Popular Science 1937 – Link.
PC keyboard to an AVR
Simonetta writes – A simple program demonstrating how to interface a standard PC keyboard to an AVR. In assembler for Tiny11 but adaptable to all AVRs. There are two routines. An interrupt routine that collects the bits sent from the keyboard into a byte, and the routine to parse these bytes into ASCII. PC keyboard […]
Microwulf: A personal, portable Beowulf cluster
Here’s a lower cost way of making a sorta-supercomputer, it reminds me of the computer from Pi… – Microwulf is a personal, portable Beowulf cluster, providing over 26 Gflops of measured performance, for less than $2500. Its dimensions are just 11″ x 12″ x 17″, making it small enough to fit on one’s desktop or […]
10,000 color changing lights
Artist Massimo Silenzio’s 10.000 changing-color light globes at the Circo Massimo in Rome for the Notte Bianca… – [via] Link.
HOW TO – Give your low-end Canon digital camera RAW support
Nathan @ Linux.com has a great how-to on making a cheap Cannon camera better with a firmware mod, he writes – If you have a point-and-click digital camera made by Canon, you may be able to turn on all sorts of features usually reserved for more expensive SLRs. That includes live histograms, depth-of-field calculation, under […]
