This is a good direction, the new version of iTunes will allow you to make your own ringtones. There will be ones for sale of course but this is the way it should be… Until it comes out I’m not sure what the restrictions are and how it works on purchased/non-purchased (can you make your […]
Garrett writes in with a request, a DIY RAM checker, anyone ever hear of a DIY version? – Dear Publisher: I have recently found your magazine…its great…and this is from someone who has never done any type of electronic project or task as I read in your magazine. Although I work in the computer industry […]
Jason @ Hackszine writes – If you’ve ever needed to place a VGA monitor further than the standard 6 foot cable allows, you may be familiar with some of these problems: * VGA cables are expensive * Several cables chained together affects signal quality * Running a VGA cable through conduit is pretty difficult You […]
Fire and robots. Robot love. Burnination. I came across a couple of pyro-robot soulmates today. Flameosapien is our familiar buddy, slightly modified with a remote operated flamethrower. The Robosapien V2’s remote was modified with an additional 4 channer transmitter. Gas flow is adjusted by a small servo and ignited with a BBQ lighter. His more […]
This Instructable outlines the process of preparing to get your circuit designs fabbed into professional PCBs. It walks you through, from designing the schematic to preparing the Gerber files to finding a fabber and ordering your job. And yes, they got theirs done in China. We’ll leave the moral, political, and environmental decisions in that […]
A “firefighting” robot which uses the Wiimote as the controller talking to a desktop Linux machine over Bluetooth. Wiimote controlled firefighting robot – Link Related: Wiimote as car accelerometer – Link Wii Loop Machine – Wiimote Beats – Link Wiimote controlled robot arm – Link
Here’s something fun to do with HD-video electronics… – NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently. The cracker is built out of surplus Grass Valley HD video […]
