Twin Cities Maker – hacker space proposal for Minneapolis/St. Paul 01/11/2009 Are you a maker living in the Twin Cities? Paul Sobczak is putting out a call for area hackers and...
Vanishing point robot guidance 01/11/2009 I came across this video today of a iRobot create robot autonomously navigating a hallway using a standard laptop webcam....
Installing OS X on Eee with unpatched Apple install disks 01/11/2009 We’ve covered creating a hackintosh PC and putting OS X on the Asus Eee before. Making OS X work on...
Windows 7 beta howto – download, activate and dual-boot 01/09/2009 Lifehacker’s Adam Pash wrote a guide for testing the Windows 7 beta on a machine already running XP or Vista....
Evolution of the drink 01/08/2009 Over the holidays Jim Harriman decided to investigate the family tree of alcoholic drinks. To do this, he screen-scraped all...
Evaporation fridge 01/08/2009 This solar refrigerator, invented by Emily Cummins, is a brilliantly simple solution for keeping food cool in a hot, dry...
Use a BlackBerry as a wireless modem in Linux 01/07/2009 If you’re traveling and you can’t find a WiFi connection, it’s handy to be able to route your laptop’s traffic...
Using memcached to rate-limit dictionary attacks 01/07/2009 Earlier this week, there were a number of high profile Twitter account compromises that were made possible using a common...
Make a leaf blower bike 01/07/2009 Chris Williams wanted a small 2-stroke scooter, so he decided to make his own out of a bike and a...
Use Google Maps to view high-res photos 01/07/2009 In order to present a high resolution map of the entire globe inside an ordinary web browser, programs like Google...
