The Bug labs folks launched their community section if their site and SDK. I had a chance to check some of it out last night and will post more later… good stuff… Bug Labs has just unveiled the community section of its website (http://buglabs.net) to the public. Now anyone can download the SDK, develop and […]
The latest Gadget Freak, holiday style! – Give your Christmas lighting a country look and make your Nativity scene more realistic with an electronic flame flicker. This device can be used as a lamp dimmer or a flame flicker simulator, and may be switched on and off with the switch on a lamp. The flicker […]
I read today on Lifehacker about a freeware tool called Linux Reader. It provides you with read access to ext2/ext3 partitions within Windows and has an explorer-like interface that allows you to drag and drop files from a standard Linux partition. What about full read/write access? With a little googling, I found another freeware utility […]
Eric Seifert sent in some information on creating a home brew radio modem using a standard PC sound card, an iPod FM transmitter, and an FM radio. He has his current revision working at 9600 BAUD for distances in the neighborhood of hundreds of feet. The sending side outputs an amplitude encoded data stream to […]
Forbes on the Tranistor’s birthday! – Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world’s first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics […]
The standard optical mouse contains all of the hardware necessary for tracking X/Y movement on a flat surface. With a bit of modification, you can tweak the illumination and focal length of the device to create a compact motion tracking module for your robotics projects. Mac A. Cody has done a really nice job of […]
The Monster and Friends Design Studio released a beta version of an iPhone camcorder app today. The hack’s author, drunknbass, was able to squeeze about 10fps out of the camera when capturing data at a 2 megapixel HD framesize. The current beta will do this for 5 seconds, but the author alludes to a future […]
