Amazing! Andreas Jakl posted a cool N95 hack that uses the built-in accelerometer, Python, Bluetooth, and a microcontroller to control the movement of a remote control car: Now we wanted to take the acceleration sensor of a mobile phone to the next level and use it to control something literally “bigger” than an application that […]
You can use the Quality of Service (QoS) feature on many routers to optimize your internet connection for devices and services that are most important to you. Adam at Lifehacker put together a quick walkthrough for tuning the QoS settings on our favorite router firmware, the open-source DD-WRT. Your internet connection is an indispensable part […]
From HackedGadgets: James Brown, Shawn Ironmonger, Michael Moninski and Dan Moore from Purdue University put together quite the gambling machine. They made a Smart RFID Poker Table that could keep track of where chips where placed on the table… “Our project aims to simplify the poker playing experience by providing each player at the table […]
Roger Pellegrini writes: Wanted to send you a note about a second video I did, also starring the wind-up toy robot and synths [featured in the first Robotmakers vid], but with some content that could be of interest to Makers. Back in the mid-1980’s, I dug a couple of first generation laserdisc players out of […]
Tom Hoffman has posted some quick and easy instructions for running Sugar (“essentially a virtual XO”) on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. If you don’t have a giant screen, check out these instructions for tips on using a lower resolution (you’ll need to do something like vi `which sugar-emulator` to edit the startup script). This might hold […]
Bumped into this while poking around YouTube. An exemplary build of a Trimet BEAMbot, as covered in my BEAM projects in MAKE Volume 06. The near-perfect symmetry of the construction (often overlooked by some builders) leads to a really smooth, consistent motion. The builder used 1000 uF caps and the FLED (Flashing LED) variant of […]
Paul McGuinness sent us a howto for installing Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC. For the most part, the install is fairly straightforward, but there are a few performance tweaks that are different from a typical desktop system. The big one is that you want to disable the access time feature (noatime parameter in fstab) […]
