Text to speech holiday carol 12/08/2008 We just finished a holiday “text to sing” program for Yahoo! Messenger where I work, Colle+McVoy, in Minneapolis. Here’s an...
NoKES – Nintendo keyless entry system 12/07/2008 Instructables user action_owl created this fun keyless entry system using a classic NES, an Arduino, Processing, and a spare CD-ROM....
iPhone projector graffiti 12/06/2008 The Zeptotools blog posted this demo of an iPhone application they are hoping to release. I haven’t used the application...
MPTVOutWindow – make the iPhone talk to your TV 12/05/2008 Using the undocumented MPTVOutWindow class and iPod A/V cables, it’s possible to program an iPhone to have television output. What’s...
Quake’s fast inverse square root 12/04/2008 The inverse square root function (1/sqrt(x)) is used heavily during a game engine’s draw loop to normalize vectors into “unit”...
Wii Drum High 12/03/2008 HE Zhao wrote in to tell us about an open source Wii peripheral drum-kit project he’s been working on: I...
Image processing in Mathematica 12/02/2008 A clown fish, diced into 40 pixel squares. Theodore Gray demonstrated some impressive image processing features of Mathematica 7 on...
Hacker Gift Guide: Gift ideas for your favorite geeks 12/02/2008 When I look for gifts for a lot of my friends, the most important thing on my mind is finding...
Reware – hack your old PDA 12/01/2008 The problem with bleeding edge devices is that they quickly become old and irrelevant. Replaced with the latest gizmo, old...
Google Code University – tutorials and course content for CS students 11/30/2008 Google’s Code University is another great “bootstrap education” resource for CS students. I’ve written previously about other free resources for...
