sketchyphysics – Sketchup
SketchyPhysics is a plugin for Sketchup – It combines a simple and easy to use interface with the power of a fast and accurate physics library, thanks Noah – Link.
Technology
HOW TO – Make a DIY PS2 Guitar Hero controller
Teebee918 writes – So this is my second instructable, thanx for clicking on it! It is not fully true what the title claims, you do need some materials of course (in fact a lot), I just wanted to emphasize that I had no guitar or anything at the beginning, so it’s not a “how to […]
Relay computer two
Jon writes – Why on earth build a relay computer when there are already computers over a hundred thousand times faster? Well, for two reasons: to prove that silicon is not magic and because I want to. The simple relay adder was built using free NOS relays sometime in 2005, but my goal was to […]
Make your own multitouch displays and software apps
Multitouch display technology has been gaining a lot of visibility recently, both with Microsoft’s Surface interactive tabletop displays and the iPhone’s slick gesture-based interface. Ignoring some of the particulars, the guts behind this technology is relatively simple, and you can make you own multitouch interactive display for little over the cost of a projector (the […]
iPhone update!
Here’s the first iPhone update – just plunk your iPhone in the dock, start iTunes and have it check for an update in the iPhone panel… So far it says “bug fixes”. No new apps, nothing. My guess is that it’s the fix for the Safari security issue that was/is being revealed at BlackHat-Defcon. Update: […]
Excel Hacks, Second Edition is out!
The second edition of Excel Hacks is out now, and it’s our biggest hacks books yet, with over 130 hacks covering many versions of Excel: Excel 2004 for the Mac, as well as Excel XP, 2003, and 2007. David and Raina Hawley’s new edition provides a resourceful, roll-up-your-sleeves guide that gives you nonobvious solutions to […]
Mike’s Ambient device
Mike took an old desk lamp and recycled into an ambient device, fetching weather information from Internet via an ATmega168 micro controller and Ethernet chip – Link.