If you’re a del.icio.us power user and you use Windows Mobile, you’ve probably missed the del.icio.us plugin that’s available in desktop browsers like IE and Firefox. Dale Lane took this problem as a challenge and coded a nice little Pocket IE plugin that adds a del.icio.us submittal form to the browser’s menu. This is not […]
Today is our last day at New York City FIRST Robotics Competition, thousands of kids, parents, mentors and teachers were on site for the competition and the career fair. There are a few competitions, the FIRST LEGO league is designed for young people ages 9-14, it uses uses the LEGO MindStorms System to provide creative […]
Following Poromenos’ nifty “Hello World!” function, Jan Krueger posted a great explanation for why it works along with a general method for producing a trigonometric function for _any_ string you like: The magic behind Poromenos’s function is the Fourier theorem: any “mostly” continuous and periodic function can be expressed as a sum of sines and […]
Nathan Harrington amended the GNOME Desktop Manager to include keystroke dynamics in the user verification process. When the user enters their username, the timings between key press events are measured and compared against a stored pattern. The theory is that there is a significant difference in timings for words typed by different individuals, so the […]
DVICE, SCIFI.COM & MAKE are having a “Make a Cylon” contest – Cylons Tricia Helfer (Number Six) and Grace Park (Boomer) will judge – you can build a physical Cylon any way you wish but we also have a Cylon version of the open source hardware kit called the miniPOV – used to spell words […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr user Lewinski used the motor from a CD player in his symmetrical solar-powered bot. Hmmm . . . wonder how it could work with an actual CD incorporated as well. Related: Super-symmetrical Symet In the Maker store: Solarbotics Solarcell_A
Mick West from Cowboy Programming posted a two part series to his blog titled Practical Fluid Dynamics. Originally written for Game Developer Magazine, it covers a number of clever (and down-to-earth) techniques for simulating the movement of fluids in games and other software environments where real-time speed and visual authenticity matter most. Special attention is […]
