The Hacker’s bench needs your help, they want to interface with these LCDs… These look like the Nokia LCDs we’ve covered here (links in the comment) – so lend a hand and they’ll send you some… So, quite some time ago I won a box of LCD displays on an ebay auction. Turns out there […]
Ronald writes – The oscilloscope is still one of the most important measurement tools of the electronic engineer. With the advent of the often very reasonably priced USB scopes, such an instrument is now within reach of every body. Twenty five years ago that was quite a different story. A (good) oscilloscope was then a […]
Here’s a USB servo controller of controlling up to 16 servos! The API is provided and according to the maker who sent this in, many open source projects have already been released… Link.
The OpenTracker project now has kits! – The OpenTracker is an APRS unit that transmits data via amateur radio Packet. Usually the OpenTracker is connected to the microphone input of a radio (generally a 2-meter handheld or mobile.) Data from a GPS receiver gets encoded and transmitted in APRS format, and in many parts of […]
Cheap solution for keeping the cable clutter down @ the computer desk… Link.
If you use Windows Terminal Services for remote desktop access, it’s common to run into this nasty error message from time to time: The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections. The error refers to the maximum 2 remote connections that are allowed to a Windows 2000 server (or up… XP only […]
My friend Thomas Edwards, who’s the alpha geek behind Dorkbot DC, has put up a new project wiki for his (and presumably other techno-artist’s) work in what he calls Phy2Phy, or “Physical Interactions over IP.” This YouTube vid shows progress-to-date on his “Touch” project, which allows two people to touch each other over a Net […]
