If you need to install X11 on a new Mac you can’t download or use the old one that Apple has on their site, you need to find it from the System install DVDs – mine was on disc 1 / System / Installation / Packages / X11User.pkg. It would be better if it was […]
Spark Fun Electronics has some new stuff that is causing a paycheck diversion… (As always – MAKE isn’t affiliated with them in any way, I just like their stuff). This is the new alternative to MP3 decoding. The VS1000 is a super-slick IC from VLSI that decodes Ogg Vorbis encoded music files. It’s open source […]
For a lot of of Linux devotees, gaming has always been the reason for keeping an extra Windows machine, so it’s pretty interesting to see this barrier crumbling. Hackszine reader Michael Becker writes: I’d love for you guys to talk some about using Linux as an alternative to Vista. Personally I’ll be using Linux with […]
Matt writes in – Here is a 47 sec. clip of my latest bot I call Infra-Tank due to the fact that it is controlled with my infrared stereo remote controller. This is a custom design/build, but is based on the parallax boe-bot. The tank tread kit is from tamiya and the aluminum plate chassis […]
Ivanjs writes – If you’ve got a dual channel oscilloscope handy (got mine for $49 on ebay), you can create some amazing imagery using the X-Y mode setting and/or ADD setting). All you have to do is feed a separate signal (like a sine wave and a triangle wave for example) into each of the […]
Justin sent in some photos from his electro etching for a computer case using just salt water, it looks kind of like bacon, sweet metal bacon – Link. Related: Saltwater etch process – Link.
Congrats to all the winners from this year’s FIRST robotic competition! After six weeks of strategy and sweat, a coalition of high school teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada took the top prize at the FIRST Robotics competition, otherwise known as the “Superbowl of Smarts.” Bobcat Robotics from South Windsor, Connecticut, Highrollers from Las Vegas, […]
