Wow, VMS just turned 30 and it (still) runs all sorts of important things… – Gareth Williams, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Minor Planet Center since 1990, has been tracking the 400,000 orbits of known asteroids and comets in the solar system using a cluster of 12 VAXes, from offices on the Harvard […]
AlphaA writes – Okay. So, this isn’t my most impressive project. But, it’s so simple and silly I believe others could have fun with the idea, just as I have. I have found something to do with unused USB ports. I call it U-S-Blink and they are quick, easy and cheap to make. This is […]
A lot of people use TOR as a sort of anonymity and encryption magic bullet, but that’s really not what it’s designed for. Your packets are encrypted and routed through various TOR nodes, each node only knowing about the node on either side of it and unaware of the full routing path, until finally it […]
Here’s a nifty electronic tic-tac-toe machine made with RGB LEDs and two microcontrollers (the AVR Mega16 and Mega8). Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe with RGB LEDs – [via] Link
Here’s a guide on modifying extremely cheap servos to rotate continuously. These servos can be used as drive motors for small robots etc. The guide can also be used for different types of servos too – Link.
David Fowler of uC Hobby writes: Randall converted an Arduino into AVR chip programming hardware for use with AVRDude. The project programs AVR tiny13 and other tiny AVR chips using an Arduino. He provides code and instructions to implement the Atmel AVR910 In System Programming protocol. Arduino AVR In System Programmer (ISP) – Link
Gijs writes – Here’s my spinning beach ball of death and loading PCB synced to a Gameboy classic. It’s part of my camera sequencer project… Spinning beach ball of death – Link.
