John writes in – I picked up some of these Point of Sale Touchscreen Systems on the cheap, so I set one up to boot into PBSKids.Org in a captive Firefox window (full screen, no menus). The kids are 3 years old, and 18 months old, and they love to click around. PBS Kids.Org is […]
Ben shows you how to decode IR signals using a guitar and a WAV editor – Link.
Scott writes in – This article shows how to mod your Nintendo DS Lite so that you can overclock it or underclock it any time you want, even in the middle of a game. It’s great for adjusting the difficulty level of your games or getting extra CPU cycles for homebrew apps. It’s a completely […]
There was a nice post on TUAW today about making your Xbox360 and Mac play nice together. The guide includes information on using your Mac as a router to share your internet connection with the game console, using Xbox360 accessories with your Mac, and streaming media from the Mac to the Xbox360 using the $20 […]
Alphonse, Adam, Jon, and Dan made a Nintendo Wiimote controlled robot arm – Video of a MiniMover 5 robot arm controlled by a Nintendo Wiimote. The arm and control algorithm was our semester project in an Electromechanical design class in the University of Michigan’s Mechanical Engineering department. The MiniMover 5 is an educational robot from […]
C@PPER writes – I needed a simple way to add pan and tilt capability to my LabCam from a remote location using a web page interface. Two RC servos and an ATmega16 was the solution. This project is fairly simple in nature, and was completed in less than a week. The two servos are attached […]
Normally when you view a web page, your computer’s browsing software makes a connection to the destination server, downloads the page’s data, and displays it for you. This would normally be the preferred way of doing things, but occasionally you’ll find yourself on a work or school connection that disallows you from connecting to certain […]
