The hackers in your neighborhood 12/01/2007 Google recently added a collaboration feature to the “My Maps” area of Google Maps. Similar to the collaborative document editing...
Aleutia E1: 8-watt Linux box 11/30/2007 After so many years of successively bigger, faster, hotter, less reliable, power hungry computer hardware, I’m really tickled to see...
Hacking the Tassimo single-serve coffee machine 11/29/2007 If you like coffee and a little cryptanalysis in the morning, here’s a really interesting hack-in-progress: figuring out the coding...
RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor 11/28/2007 Amazing! Andreas Jakl posted a cool N95 hack that uses the built-in accelerometer, Python, Bluetooth, and a microcontroller to control...
HOWTO run the XO laptop emulator on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 11/27/2007 Tom Hoffman has posted some quick and easy instructions for running Sugar (“essentially a virtual XO”) on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon....
Recovering a dead external hard drive 11/25/2007 What do you do when good hard drives go bad? Tell me if this sounds familiar. You spend a year...
Turn your soundcard into an oscilloscope 11/24/2007 There are a couple decent software packages available for using your soundcard as an oscilloscope. Using the line-in or mic-in...
Wifi range extender: 5 bars for 50 cents 11/23/2007 With just a wire, a wood screw, and a drinking straw you can go MacGyver on your PC’s WiFi and...
Wiimote controlled Aibo 11/22/2007 What works well for a gaming input device also appears to be a useful tool for human robot interaction. University...
Peephole fisheye lens 11/21/2007 Dave Nance used an ordinary door peephole fitted to a lens cap to produce some whimsical looking images like the...
