The Internet tubes have been chock full of AppleTV hacks this last week. This weekend, I’ll be collecting links and posting everything on the subject I can find, hopefully recapping at least a portion of all the cool things that are happening with this new platform. If you’ve got a good AppleTV hack that hasn’t […]
Check out Jean-Louis Naudin’s DIY UFO – a coanda effect flying saucer you can make yourself! The GFS-UAV, propelled by an electric engine, uses the Coanda effect to take off vertically, fly, hover and land vertically ( VTOL ). There is no big rotor like on an helicopter and the flight is very stable and […]
Here’s another one of our kits, now documented on Instructables. The Game of Life Boards are a scalable platform for cellular automata visualizations. Each board contains 16 LEDs in a 4×4 grid, a microcontroller, and a communications and power distribution network. With the available firmware, they execute Conway’s Game of Life. Boards can act alone, […]
Nate True makes these lucid dreaming kits (or you can just make your own) – he sent me out one and I’ll strap it to my head to see what happens. The things I do for our fringe themed issue and posts this month… cre.ations.net – Creation: Face-mounted Lucid Dreaming Mask – Link.
I’m a big fan of open wireless access points. As long as my neighbors are respectful, I’ve got more downstream bandwidth than I really need most of the time. That said, I can understand the frustration with having a persistant freeloader, so I can really appreciate this hack which allows you to send a “knock […]
Qibo made a nice AVR based USB SD card reader (doh, note – you need to register to view the projects on AVR Freaks) – his project is for studying USB interface and MassStorage protocol. Perhaps, because I should not using AVR device which has no extended bus, or should not using SD card as […]
(screenshot from James Kendrick’s blog entry) I had this problems a couple of years ago when Verizon upgraded southern Rhode Island from 1xRTT to 1xEV-DO. I would constantly bounce between 1xRTT and 1xEV-DO, and couldn’t maintain a stable connection, so the service became useless and I canceled (I was out of contract at the time). […]
