Ambient Devices is now offering access to their datacasting chipset (you could use it to add auto-time set, weather and other net data via radio to your device)… We’ve included Ambient in our “What is Open source hardware” article. It’s $995, and the schematics / layout for the DATA-W1 reference implementation, as well as the […]
Wow, here’s an amazingly accurate replicate of an iPhone, handmade from metal and wood… Link.
Here’s an hack that takes on the challenge of burning a visible image into a CD-R. Data on a CD, or any optical media, is stored as a sequence of pits of varying lengths. To be precise, a 1 is represented by the change from pit to no-pit or the change from no-pit to pit, […]
racketboy has a great roundup of NES console options. These include Nintendo Entertainment System work-alikes. You should be able to plug most of your old 8-bit game cartridges right into one of these and be up and running right away: I received a friendly email the other day asking what NES clone I would recommend. […]
Some of the iPhone Dev Team, an international team of folks working on hacking the iPhone, are here at Chaos Communications Camp 2007 and they’ve got an NES emulator and Terminal among other things running on an iPhone. – Link
I’ve been a big fan of the Mini-ITX systems, using them in the past as silent, dual-purpose, storage and wireless router servers as well as a set-top media system for playing back transcoded DVDs. So I’m pretty excited to see the positive reviews that are starting to pop up for VIA’s new Pico-ITX motherboard, which […]
People are always asking me if you can really tell that much from a component datasheet (if you’re not an electrical engineer). Greg Lipscomb shows how to figure out what a chip can do by reasoning through a datasheet’s pin-out diagram and schematics. Here he uses the datasheet for the Maxim Max756 DC/DC step-up converter […]
