Here’s a fun looking programming language for kids – Efforts to make computer programming accessible to young people began in the late 1970s with the advent of the personal PC, when another programming language with roots at MIT — Logo — allowed young people to draw shapes by steering a turtle around a screen by […]
Colleen and Vincent’s AVR based alarm clock (source included) — Alarm clocks are essential in almost everyone’s daily life. For most of us, we start our day to the sweet noise of our alarms. While some people wake up instantaneously to the first chirp of an alarm, some struggle everyday to get out of the […]
By adjusting a few resource settings with the iPodWizard tool, you can now change your iPod’s font colors: Open iPW, load your firmwire. Go to Layout, scroll down to Font Types. In that list, go down to item 24223, which is the titlebar string. Now look at the z2 tag. It should say 0xFF000000. We’re […]
Bunnie writes – I love looking at PCBs (printed circuit boards) using x-rays. Great for failure analysis. One of the coolest things, I thought, was seeing a PCB tilt in real-time; you get a good sense of the actual spacial relationship between all the layers on a PCB. I took a series of stills today […]
Due to complete – Summer of ’07 — Browsing the web could be like visiting a hip art gallery with this Firefox extension – AddArt is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database. For many, replacing ads with blank space would be enough. AddArt attempts […]
Homemade ‘solder un-spooler’ handy for soldering on big jobs from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Simple Simon – Link.
For laptop users and data center administrators, power consumption is an important issue. Intel recently released a cool, top-like utility called PowerTOP, which can help you track down processes which are consuming the most power on your machine. When your CPU isn’t executing intructions, it enters an idle mode and consumes far less energy. Any […]
