Todbot (author of Roomba Hacking) has a review of the iRobot Create Robot, he writes – At the 2007 CES iRobot announced a robot explicitly designed for hobbyist and educational robotics experimenters called the iRobot Create. The iRobot Create is now shipping and iRobot kindly sent me one to review and verify it’s applicability to […]
Using Google’s Spreadsheet API, you can create a simple CMS for your website extremely easily. It’s as simple as making a new sheet with key/value pairs for any fields you want dynamically populated. You can then access the data from javascript via the JSON API. Any updates to the spreadsheet will be immediately reflected in […]
Windell writes – MAKEKits wrote up an article on Instructables about assembling and reprogramming our little LED Micro-Readerboards. They suggest assembling the project with a socket so that you can take the microcontroller off and reprogram it in an external programmer. Another way to build it with a socket is how we’re demonstrating here, in […]
David @ uCHobby writes in – Here’s how to build a simple TTL to RS232 adaptor for your microcontroller projects. You should be able to scrounge all the parts you need or buy them at your local Radio Shack. In this article I explain how the adaptor works and provide many links to more information […]
Raph writes – This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces. At the moment, temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure can be measured, logged and graphed. USBTenki: USB Temperature sensors and more – Link.
Someone really really examined the Windows Vista DVD and found these three guys, who are they? – Link.
JanusVM is an open source VMware image that combines Ubuntu, Tor, dns-proxy-tor, Squid, Privoxy, and openvpn all into a convenient little package. Just load up the appliance in VMware and make a VPN connection to the virtual machine’s IP. Once you’ve connected, all of your traffic (including DNS) will be localy encrypted and anonymized over […]
