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AppleTV Perl plugin

AppleTV Perl plugin

Phil @ Make writes: Erica has a special treat for Perl folks with Apple TVs! On Sunday, with a hundred better things to do but no incentive to do them, I put together an Apple TV plug-in that allows you to run any Perl script you place into a folder in your home directory. (/Users/frontrow/perlbin). […]

The  drum machine

The $5 drum machine

MedCosm writes – I thought it would be a neat to build a toy that records and plays back beats like a simple drum machine. For those who are musically inclined, it provides endless hours of entertainment and even has practical purposes in learning and practicing music. Even better if it used less than $5 […]

HOW TO: Coding a Statistical Spellcheck

HOW TO: Coding a Statistical Spellcheck

Have you ever been curious about how some applications, such as MS Word or Google, can return spelling suggestions so quickly and accurately? Chances are, they are using a fairly straightforward probabilistic model, trained on a sample dictionary of common words and phrases, to determine when a word has been misspelled and to suggest the […]

Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ

Hauptwerk virtual pipe organ

This is pretty rad, play the pipe organ – and with MIDI! …Hauptwerk version 2, the pioneering virtual organ system that can bring the experience and sound of playing any pipe organ from anywhere in the world within the reach of almost anyone with a home computer and MIDI keyboard or MIDI sequencer, with incredible […]

AVR based ethernet weather station

AVR based ethernet weather station

Here’s how to make an AVR based weather station with a built in web server. For temperate a LM335 is used and a Motorola/Freescale MPX4115A for air pressure – [via] Link. Related: Davis Vantage Pro 2 Wireless Weather Station – Link. Remote weather station – Link. Make your own internet connected weather station – Link. […]