Wikipedia periodically publishes full data dumps of the encyclopedia’s content. If you wanted to make your own copy of the Wikipedia site for offline viewing, you’d typically convert and import that content into MySQL using MediaWiki’s importDump.php utility. The initial import process can take over a day. Building the indexes for searching articles takes even […]
There’s a new DIY self balancing transpo in town… a student-made DIY Segway… project details and more here – Link.
Pete Warden wrote in about his completion of the IE port of the GoogleHotKeys (formerly PeteSearch) browser plugin. In addition to the blog posts covering the port I’ve also put together a public wiki with full documentation on creating your own Internet Explorer extensions, and there’s the full source code for the completed plugin for […]
Here’s a work-in-progress, from a guy who’s building a mini UAV, using a Blade CX2 R/C helicopter and the awesome Parallax Propeller Chip. He writes of the build: The CX2 controller has 4 potentiometers into which I spliced a breadboard. A Parallax Propeller (prop chip) is used to read the control stick voltages through a […]
Out of the box, Windows Mobile devices can only play WMV files. Formats like Flash video or Quicktime are not supported. Using the open source media player TCPMP and some Pocket IE tweaks, however, you can view the FLV video content available on several popular video sites like YouTube and Google Video, right on your […]
WSJ on the effort to combat some of the annoying things out there about technology (my FM hack was in there)… – Attention loud cellphone talkers, overzealous horn honkers, inconsiderate cab drivers and other everyday pests. Your days may be numbered. Thanks to the falling cost of microcontroller chips and the lure of easy online […]
Our buds over at Robot Magazine have an online exclusive, with lots of photos, of the forthcoming new VEX Robotics Design System, dubbed the Revell VEXPlorer. As you probably know, the VEX system, first sold by Radio Shack, was sold to Revell Monogram. The Robot mag piece has details about the content, pics of the […]
