Catch this article over at ha.ckers.org regarding an easy way to bypass most anonymizing proxies (such as Tor) and figure out the true origin IP of a web surfer. Plugins such as Java or Flash can be written to make a socket call back to the server. Since the plugin isn’t making a normal HTTP […]
Critter and Guitari have released their boards… …We are releasing all PCB schematic and layout files, including Gerber files for everything in the Critter Boards category. All designs are done in Cadsoft’s Eagle layout program — a free version of this program is available. This good news comes with some bad. For a variety of […]
David writes: Bernard shows us how to use an use an accelerometer as a mouse. This project uses a MEMS X/Y accelerometer, a PIC microcontroller and a old mouse. He also describes a trick for powering the new mouse with the unused RS232 serial control lines. This is a great idea. My optical mouse is […]
dailyApps shows you how to install Apple’s new Mac OS X (Leopard) on a PC… Well its been only a day since the Mac OSX Leopard was released officially by Apple and the hackers have managed to create a patched DVD that everyone like you and me can use to install Leopard on PC’s without […]
FlockBots, created back in 2005, were the product of the Evolutionary Computation Laboratory at George Mason University. The concept was to create an open-hardware reference platform for small, sub $800 robots that could be used in education and swarm research. I was noticing this afternoon that the project’s wiki doesn’t seem like it’s been updated […]
FlockBots, created back in 2005, were the product of the Evolutionary Computation Laboratory at George Mason University. The concept was to create an open-hardware reference platform for small, sub $800 robots that could be used in education and swarm research. I was noticing this afternoon that the project’s wiki doesn’t seem like it’s been updated […]
Steve writes – The Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush plays two minute pop song clips to help kids count down an appropriate length of tooth brushing time. Suspecting that this used a transducer to conduct the sound through the bristles and into the jaw (bone conductance) I wanted to both know for sure and see how […]
