Techgadgetz sells all sorts of things like cheap cell phone jammers, but what really caught my eye was this JTAG programmer for satellites — do people really hack their sat dishes with these? It unlocks free channels? Post up in he comments – A Jtag is simply a device which communicates with your satellite receiver […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Isobot posted up 3 awesome bots, an airsoft Roomba, a laser roomba and mouse controlled spider bot! Link.
I’m running Ubuntu on a Dell with Intel integrated graphics, the Intel GMA 950. Traditionally, integrated graphics have been left out of the eye candy fun, but this recent chipset is actually pretty good. I’ve run Vista on this Dell, and the Aero effects work great, so I was pleased to find instructions on the […]
Here’s a sweet line following robot, thanks Liane! For the holidays, my local grocery store sold m&m’s candy containers in the shape of a racecar. The containers are painted metal (probably steel), with a thin plastic coating on the inside. A dinky package of plain m&m’s came inside, not peanut, as the yellow-color driver suggests. […]
PlotKit is a slick javascript library that allows you to easily generate line, bar, and pie charts with a few lines of javascript code. It supports rendering to both Canvas and SVG, so you can use it to add charting to your application and still be able to support a fair amount of browsers. I’m […]
Here’s how to organize a collection of things using Flickr, in this example an impressive 20 year collection of superballs. Lenore writes – Flickr is a great tool for organizing a collection. You can upload your photos and apply titles, tags and descriptions, which is a sneaky way of cramming a lot of indexed data […]
Ben Heck shows you how to make an Xbox 360, he writes – The making-of How-To for the Xbox 360 laptop will be in three parts. In today’s segment we’ll discuss the parts list, stripping down an Xbox 360 motherboard, and modding / reattaching the DVD and hard drives. The next installment will cover case […]
