Natetrue writes – The idea seems simple enough. I want to be able to use my PC from the comfort and safety of my iPhone. I got to thinking about it, and it seemed that modifying VNC was the best option. It already has the remote framebuffer thing down pat and I just had to […]
I’ve only been to Burningman once and I couldn’t help but look at things as electronics projects and kits – one of projects “playaflies” consisted of LEDs inside ping pong balls and then attached to wires/PVC pipe, at night when attached to a bicycle they take on the movement of the rider as they move […]
Rich Willis put a Mac Mini in an abandoned Macintosh cube acrylic enclosure, nice mod. Bonus points for the laser keyboard – Link.
Gadgetfreak has an explosive DIY oxygen-propane cannon – When Ed Nauman fires his oxygen-propane cannon, anybody within range of the shock wave will definitely see stars. It’s been known to shatter windows 30 ft to the rear! Propane is mixed with oxygen under control of a PIC microcontroller, in a barrel made from a 330 […]
Here’s a universal hardware control program through serial (COM) ports. It frees your hardware’s MCU from number coversion codes for serial communication, and also can be used as a pulse counter, generator or a timer, using control bits – Link.
Every wirehead knows about breadboards, prototyping board, circuit design software, and other tools for circuit designing, but what about Lifesavers, SweeTarts, and Twix components on a graham cracker substrate? It takes the “differently wired” high domes over at Evil Mad Scientist Labs to dream up the idea of modeling circuits out of candy snacks. Models […]
Steve Anderson wrote in about an underused feature of our favorite open source video player, VLC. I discovered yesterday that the wonderful VLC media player has the ability not only to mount a DVD directory that’s been ripped to the hard drive, but also to play a .iso image of a DVD. Seeing as I’ve […]
