Carnegie Mellon wins DARPA’s urban robot race
Congrats to Red Whittaker and his team! In 2004 none of the robot driven cars made it to the finish line, but this year 6 of the 11 did – Link.
Technology
Cross-domain, cross-frame Javascript
Because of the cross domain security restrictions in most Javascript implementations, it’s normally impossible for one HTML document to communicate with another frame, popup, or iframe unless the two pages are served from the same domain. James Burke came up with a clever solution to this problem, allowing bidirectional communication between a parent window and […]
Get Rid of the Glass Dock in Leopard
Jackilyn Hoxworth figured out how to revert the dock in Leopard back to something more familiar: Type this into terminal to get the no glass dock. defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock I haven’t yet upgraded, but the new design elements seem to be pretty attractive. When you spend all day in front […]
Verizon TOS updated; still behind the times
(image generated with HAHA FUNNY PICTURES). James Kendrick has posted his take on Verizon’s new terms of service (TOS). After recently settling claims about their unusual definition of the word “unlimited”, they are up to some annoying tricks: Verizon has posted their new TOS and sure enough they have cleared up what limits they may […]
Make a Joule Thief – Weekend Projects Video Podcast
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as “dead” […]
Make a Joule Thief – Weekend Project PDFcast
You’re going to need a white or blue LED that is rated for 3 volts, a 1K resistor, a 2N 3904 NPN transistor, a toroid, two pieces of wire and a battery. You might even be able to scavenge this stuff out of your junk pile of electronics… you have a junk pile of electronics […]
Dalek builder’s manual
Wanna build a Dalek? Project Dalek has a really well-done Dalek Builder’s Workshop Manual that you can download, but to get it, you have to join the Project Dalek Forums first (which is free). The Project Dalek website also has a great gallery of Daleks built by Project members. Project Dalek – Link Related: Dalek […]