Last year, a laptop meltdown resulted in the source code for the drawbot disappearing. Adam recently took the time to rebuild a bunch of it. Now you can download it and check it out! – Link Even more code. Here are the programs that make it work! Drop your bmp into the launchdrawbot program and […]
In a MySQL Conference presentation with the subheading “How to store a hundred billion BLOBs without buying a single disk,” Mark Atwood described a new open source storage engine that he built which allows you to store data in Amazons S3 service using MySQL. It doesn’t (yet) allow you to create any generic table schema […]
Here’s how to control your Mac with an Arduino board, so… you could do stuff like have iTunes start up and play music when you walk in the door… Massimo writes – A while ago I wrote a small app that would execute AppleScript commands depending on the data send from an Arduino board connected […]
Jake made an stunning Steampunk computer mouse! Though the eccentric Professor William C. Ravenscroft remains stingy on details of his “Telecalculograph”, he has recently allowed photography of the device with which its user controls it. These images, as well as speculation upon their contents follows: One holds the device in a manner similar to the […]
This one goes out to all the women and men of solder nation – if you do electronics you likely have a little sponge you wet with water to clean off the soldering tip as you burn away. But water and electronics rarely end well, I’ve spilled water before from a glass or bottle on […]
The Unofficial Google Translate API is a combination javascript library and php service that allows you to do AJAX-style language translation. The PHP script serves as proxy to Google’s Translate utility, passing data to and from Google on behalf of the javascript code. Unofficial Google Translate API –Link. Inspired by Philipp Lenssen’s Google Translate API […]
Huh, this is interesting a preview of an existing e-ink reader (ebooks) that can use a 3G modem… drazvan writes – I have just managed to “convince” my Vodafone Smartmodem (a 3G/HSDPA wireless modem on Vodafone Romania) to talk to the iLiad via USB serial (the usbserial module – see the other thread in this […]
