HOWTO – make a compiler 02/09/2009 Most hackers can spend their whole careers creating amazing software without ever needing to write a compiler or design a...
Haptic Compass 02/08/2009 You’ve heard of magnetic orientation in migrating birds, the theorized “sixth” sense that allows them to see the earth’s magnetic...
Grow your own fresh air indoors 02/07/2009 It’s no surprise that indoor plants help to reduce carbon dioxide and increase oxygen in the buildings they inhabit, but...
Pure Data – open source audiovisual processing environment 02/06/2009 Pure Data is an open source patch programming language, similar to Max/MSP, written by Miller Puckette. It’s a high-level visual...
FLARToolKit – augmented reality for Flash 02/05/2009 I recall being pretty impressed with this augmented reality demo created by Boffswana last November. The basic idea is that...
Make 3D stereo charts in Excel 02/04/2009 If you make a 3D surface plot in Excel 2007, there’s an extra option in the chart properties that allow...
UTF-8 lets you Tweet funny characters 02/03/2009 Back in the day, the internet ran on ASCII, and we liked it that way. If you couldn’t find it...
Watch commercial-free TV in Front Row with PyeTV 02/03/2009 If you’re a Mac EyeTV user, you can bring your recorded shows into Front Row, commercial-free, with PyeTV and ETVComskip:...
Pseudo-3D video conferencing 02/01/2009 Chris Harrison and Scott E. Hudson of CMU’s Human Computer Interaction Institute developed a technique for simulating a 3D video...
Tetherbot – browse on your laptop through the T-Mobile G1 01/31/2009 Tetherbot is a SOCKS proxy for the T-Mobile G1. Using this tool, you should be able to connect your laptop...
