Branden writes – Robothon is an annual event sponsored by the Seattle Robotics Society that is designed by and for hobby roboticists and Makers of all types. It is held every year at the Seattle Center, just north of Downtown. Robothon is completely free to everyone. Vendors will be on hand with Microcontrollers, BEAM robot […]
Lars writes – his article is about the robot: SickSack that Aske Olsson and I created for DTU RoboCup 2007, which is an annual competition for autonomous mobile robots held by Automation at the Technical University of Denmark. SickSack snake robot The robot consists of nine cars connected with eight Futaba servos controlled by a […]
jasonharper writes – This hack will allow user-written software to be run on a JuiceBox media player toy. It works by tricking the built-in picture viewer application to run code contained in a .JBP picture file that starts with a specific 8-byte sequence. Normal operation of the JuiceBox is not affected, other than the 1-out-of-18-quintillion […]
Azog writes – We probably saved about $50, but spent about four hours. I don’t know if you can measure it this way, but it’s a helluva lot more satisfying to hack up your own case. Off-the-shelf case modding has become so mainstream, people don’t even need to pick up a real tool, so there’s […]
ThinkGeek is now carrying the Hydra console game development kit, $199 – Remember the simpler computer days of yore when it was actually possible to hook your Commodore 64 to an old TV set and immerse yourself in coding? Now you can relive those memories by creating your own classic 8-Bit style games with the […]
Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight web application platform. It’s built on top of Mono, the open source .Net project. What’s unbelievably cool is that a group of Mono hackers spent the better part of last month heads-down, creating a substantial portion of the Silverlight implementation from scratch: The past 21 days […]
Bob writes – The Arduino board is an inexpensive, open-source microcontroller board. The development environment is also open-source and freely downloadable. The Arduino board is sold in the United States by sparkfun.com. Shields are extension boards that can combine with the Arduino main board to extend it’s capabilities. That gets us to the main point […]
