Gschoppe writes – I have always dabbled in instruments. Over the course of my life, I’ve attempted (with varying success) Piano, Guitar, Banjo, Penny Whistle, Ocarina, Panpipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, Smallpipes, and Didgeridoo (don’t ask, It was late, and I was a bit tipsy). In the process, I have continually hit one major hurdle. I […]
Short, but really interesting article from Popular Science in 1933 discussing what have got to be some of the earliest examples of animatronics – mechanical dinosaurs from the Chicago World’s Fair. – [via] Link.
Hackszine has a great round up of all the iPhone hackery that has begun… Hackers have been hard at work on the iPhone from a couple of angles. The iPhone restore image has been making the rounds, and hackers quickly discovered two disk images in it: one is a small ramdisk image (694-5259-38.dmg) that kickstarts […]
This is interesting, an open source software/hareware autopilot project… – Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system by allowing and encouraging input from the community. The project includes not only the airborne hardware and software, from voltage regulators and GPS receivers to […]
I was thinking today about how a person might go about creating a rich offline web application for devices like the iPhone, where your application may need to run entirely from cache from time to time. In the extreme example, you could imagine an application that stored its data entirely on the client side, and […]
Here’s a robot play in NYC featuring Roombas as actors… 31 DOWN RADIO THEATER PRESENTS: UNIVERSAL ROBOTS June 28–July 7 Loud music, cool air conditioning, humans struggling with the impending doom of ROBOTS taking over the world… what more could you want? 31 Down returns this summer with a hypnotic sound and image collage inspired […]
Ladyada released a USB AVR programmer, only $18 – A simple open-source USB AVR programmer and SPI interface. It is low cost, easy to make, works great with avrdude, is AVRStudio-compatible and tested under Windows and MacOS X. Perfect for students and beginners, or as a backup programmer. The project is based off of the […]
