Ask the readers: what’s the best hackable web phone? 11/20/2007 It’s not a simple decision, choosing on your next mobile device. There are a lot of different models with various...
Hamster-powered night light 11/19/2007 Here’s a little howto on building a low-RPM generator from scratch. I assume that not all of you have extra...
MD5 collision demonstration 11/18/2007 MD5, the cryptographic hash function that’s often used to verify that files have not been tampered with, has been broken...
Faking constants in Actionscript 2.0 11/17/2007 Most people get around Actionscript 2.0’s lack of constant variables by just naming member variables in all capital letters and...
HOWTO – Fix a “Red Ring of Death” Xbox 360 11/16/2007 The photo above is taken from a Wikipedia entry titled Xbox 360 Technical Problems, which describes a hardware failure issue...
HOWTO: using tabbed bookmarks in Safari and Firefox 11/15/2007 A friend of mine was commenting today on a common scenario that a lot of us run into. When you’re...
Microcontroller design final projects from Cornell University 11/14/2007 Bruce Land writes: Students at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a microcontroller project,. This...
Sculpty Earth: topographic globe with dynamic weather in Second Life 11/13/2007 New World Notes posted an interview with Zora Spoonhammer, a Second Life hacker who created an enormous in-world earth model,...
OLPC telepresence robot 11/12/2007 Instructables hosted an iRobot Create competition a little while ago, and one of the third place winners was Damon Kohler’s...
Lego Autopilot 11/11/2007 Chris Anderson came up with a kid-hackable UAV, the GeoCrawler 2, using an RC aircraft and a Lego NXT: Features:...
