Robert Kwiatkowski designs and deploys data logging systems for Condition Based Maintenance on aircraft carriers. To improve the fuel efficiency of his thirsty truck, he’s doing data logging via the OBDII port using this simple interface, a laptop computer and Windmill, a data acquisition application… Link.
Spark Fun has a few new items of interest, if you dig on electronics… Color 24-Bit LCD 4.3″ PSP 480×272. Looks like some SFE fans found this device before we could even get it noted on the home page! This is an original 24-bit color LCD from Sharp. Does it look familiar? It’s the same […]
VoIPong is a VoIP network sniffer that allows you to capture and record any VoIP call that crosses your network. From the VoIPong home page: VoIPong is a utility which detects all Voice Over IP calls on a pipeline, and for those which are G711 encoded, dumps actual conversation to seperate wave files. It supports […]
The thing about Firefox under Linux is that its form widgets look a little nasty. Thankfully, Osmo Salomaa created some nice replacement widgets that really clean up the interface, and fatsheep over at ubuntu forums put together a quick script for installing/uninstalling the patch. It’s a big improvement, unless you’re into the whole super-aliased, shadow-casting […]
Gapminder is an interactive utility for examining world statistics. It’s extremely cool if you’re curious about things like the relationship between income and life expectancy or carbon emissions and internet use. There is a scrubber for adjusting the date, so you can see how the data points have changed over time. I wonder if internet […]
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the live web. Here are a few spoiler tips: Use Google Reader (keyboard commands make browsing faster) Use “all items view” to […]
ipod|mp4|mov|hd-appletv|3gp|3g2|pdf|itunes This weekend, learn how to hack your brain by making Mitch Altman’s Brain Machine! It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps sounds into your ears to make your brain waves sync up into beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves! Mitch invents cool things that make the world a better place. He’s well known […]
