This battery tech sounds sweet: Juicing up your cell phone or iPod may take on a whole new meaning in the future. Researchers at Saint Louis University in Missouri have developed a fuel cell battery that runs on virtually any sugar source — from soft drinks to tree sap — and has the potential to […]
If any makers know about this OSH dev tool, post up in the comments — The PLAICE is a powerful open source in-circuit development tool that combines the features of: FLASH Programmer + Emulator + High Speed Multi-Channel Logic Analyzer …. All Into One Device! flash-plaice » home – [via] Link.
Until version 4.1, MySQL tables were encoded with the latin1 character set. By default, the character set is now utf8. This is a good thing in terms of non-latin character support, but if you’re upgrading from an older database you may run into a lot of character encoding problems. I’ve recently migrated several older databases […]
Good news from the Windows Vista Team: Today we’re publishing at the Microsoft Download Center a recommended final compatibility update for users of Windows Vista and the Apple iPod; this same update will be automatically available via Windows Update on Tuesday 22 May. The release is for users worldwide and works with the latest version […]
Rgbphil made a great clock-like project, check out the video! – …maybe holoclock is a little bit inaccurate….it does use holographic dispersion film on the front to give a bit of depth. Basicaly this instructable is an update to my previous Minidot located here. and re-using a lot of code and circuitry from my Microdot […]
Fans of Jesse Vig’s GeoGreeting (profiled here for Valentine’s Day) might want to check back in to send a Mother’s Day greeting on Sunday. Jesse wrote in to let us know that somebody found a building with a really cool flower design, so I added a temporary flower emoticon in honor of Mother’s Day. A […]
David is doing a lot of great work with open source hardware telephony, check out the embedded Asterisk he’s working on… – The IP04 is a Four Port Embedded IP PBX that runs Asterisk. The hardware design is 100% open. I just built the first IP04 prototype (really built, as in soldered), and would like […]
