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 […]
cryptonoid writes – First thing i did was flash dd-wrt firmware on it. Since FONera router has gpio pins i decided to use one of those pins to control AC loads or turn a switch ON/OFF remotely. There’s a similar/better way of controlling AC loads – check out dd-wrt wiki. However, i only had one […]
Ruel Oquindo writes about his DIY preamp for under $100 – $100 DIY preamp – Link.
The updated version of the Wii Internet Channel web browser that was released in April has a feature that will allow you to “auto-hide” the navigation bar. It’s not enabled by default, but with a quick change to the settings you’ll get back some of that precious TV real-estate. Here’s how: go to the start […]
