RecycledEnclosure
Chris found an old External SCSI drive enclosure and re-purposed it into an embedded development platform complete with power to keep his desk a bit tidier – Link.
Technology
Walking Radar connects physical spaces to SMS messaging
The “Walking Radar” project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. Pretty cool, just don’t try to take this phone through airport security. Walking Radar – [via] Link, video
Terabytes of open-source science data – hosted by Google
Interesting story @ Wired Science about open source science data & Google. I wonder when and if there will be medical open source hardware in there – Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists […]
Bug Labs Store open for open source hardware biz
The Bug Labs Store is now open for open source hardware biz – Link.
OS X on the Asus Eee PC
We’ve posted about installing Ubuntu and Vista on the little Asus Eee PC, so to round things off, here’s a guide for installing Leopard. Using a few tools of the hackintosh trade, Dan from Uneasy Silence was able to get OS X running on the little lappy. So, ever since I got the eeePC I’ve […]
World’s smallest low-speed USB analyzer (works as a USB key recorder too)…
Chinook writes – [Any] idea is dead without a good application for it. So “California Dreamin’†USB virtual peripheral could be a very nice sample of academic research, but hardly anybody is going to build a keyboard or mouse using it. I have been thinking for a while what to do with it as well. […]
As thin as the MacBook Air?
One of my favorite old computers is making the news again–C|Net News.com reports that the Sharp Actius MM10 is most likely the thinnest notebook out there (seems pretty much a tie): Back in the first years of the decade, Sharp released the Muramasas. Measuring 0.54 inch thick, the Actius MM10 Muramasa notebook, which hit shelves […]