The Environmental Risk Assessment Rover (ERAR-AT) is a mobile, solar powered, GPS enabled, networked video installation that accumulates and aggregates environmental threats and risks faced by populations in its immediate vicinity. The project presents an assessment of the calculated threat by projecting a 14-tiered threat level indicator (similar to the US Homeland Security Threat level […]
Toni Westbrook authored a new C64 game called Shredz64, bringing the best game of all time to the best computing platform of all time: You can use the real Guitar Hero controller using the PSX64 PS2-to-DB9 converter which Toni also created. This takes the game controller input and maps it to the appropriate up, down, […]
A USB-based twelve-button event controller (probably repurposed from a game controller). The site is in German, so there’s not much more about it. USB-Interface [via]
Cory at Boing Boing points us to this piece on OLPC News about overclocking the XO laptop. OLPC XO Hacks: Overclocking an XO Laptop Geode LX 700 CPU
Yes, I know, anything can be used as a USB Flash drive case. And yes, you’d want to keep eraser crumbs out of the USB port. I like it anyway. Pink Eraser USB Flash Drive
BATMAN (Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking) is a routing protocol designed for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. When you run BATMAN on routers in an ad-hoc network, the nodes in the network constantly send out little broadcast packets that are picked up and re-broadcast by nearby machines. Rather than have each node develop a formal […]
The “Di.Di.Di.” (which stands for Device Digital Distorition) by Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza is a custom made instrument built from 10 recording circuits taken from old toys and hacked to distort their sound. 20 touch sensors on the instrument control the sounds the piece emits so that it records its own sounds and those from […]
