Here’s a 5 part video series that teaches some of basics in electronics – The first lesson is a basic introduction to what we will cover, care for your lab, and explaining the basic chips and what they do. The first 2 lessons get your hands dirty making two simple circuits that make a light […]
, The Mixa lets you design your own USB blank cassette just like the old mix tapes you used to make your girlfriend/boyfriend in high school. Combining an old audio tape (that most people now use as doorstops) with a USB flash drive, this seems like a good way to get nostalgic with your data. […]
Adam writes in – Even though it’s R/C specific, this forthcoming device from Novak looks like some of the sensors could be useful for a variety of projects. Sentry data logger – Link.
Alex writes – When I first saw Crispin Jones Tengu, I was sure, I must have one. If you don’t know tengu and don’t want to follow the link, it’s a small face, made of LEDs, that reacts to music and sound. It did not take long until I decided to clone this funny little […]
WebDesignerWall has a big list of undocumented Photoshop shortcuts that you might find useful. Most notable are scroll wheel zooming by holding down Cmd+Opt, scroll wheel document panning by holding Cmd (or Cmd+Ctrl to toggle between left/right and up/down) and, my new favorite, moving a selection by holding the spacebar while dragging. The latter lets […]
John Sosoka, CTO of Ugobe, was at Maker Faire Austin showing off Pleo, the company’s robotic dino pet, and answering questions about the bot, especially its hackability. The video interview is rather awash in the ambient noise of a very busy Maker Store, so the transcript on RobotsRule is your best bet. [Photo by Scott […]
If you have a jailbreak’d iPhone, you can update the Maps.app database with tiles from OpenStreetMap. Mikel Maron figured out how to update the Maps sqlite DB and was able to import the street tiles for London. My first idea was to modify the configuration or constant that the Maps App used for constructing Google […]
