Everyone’s favorite DIY Web 2.0 site builder, Ning, just relaunched with new features that make setting up your own social networking site easy as pie. Thanks to Gina’s handy walk-through, I was able to whip up a community site for my own hometown in just about no time at all. The initial features in my […]
Raphael writes – Being able to play NES and SNES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console is great (Thanks Nintendo!), but it’s much more fun to do it with the original controllers. (And some games are much more playable like this). That’s why I decided to design this Nes/Snes controller to USB conversion circuit. Snes/Nes […]
“SeisMac is a Mac OS X application that turns your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs. Version 2.0’s enhancements make SeisMac an even more valuable tool for classroom demonstrations of seismic concepts and techniques.” –Link.
Quick like lightning, Andy from Spark Fun demonstrates a neat solder wicking/soldering technique on this SOIC packaged MAX232 chip – We tried to take some video demonstrating how to use solder wick when SMD soldering. While our video production skills could use some work, we hope we get the point across. Unfortunately the MOV files […]
Jay writes – Here’s a step by step tutorial on how to “refill” laptop batteries by replacing the Li-Ion cells. By purchasing higher capacity cells than your laptop uses normally, you can super-charge your battery life! Jay’s Technical Talk » Refilling laptop batteries! – Link.
This is pretty neat, the prototype was made with a 3D printer too– Neochroma is a mobile phone attachment that puts a big screen into the palm of your hand. The installed base of camera phones has reached 850 million in 2006. 1.5 billion are predicted for 2010 (source: Lyra Research). While billions of shots […]
Via the Hacks Authors’ Blogs feed, we find Jim Bumgardner’s Pipes Picayune & Daily Tube mashup news ticker: Headlines from a BBC RSS feed are fed, via Y! Pipes, to my news ticker, which is implemented in Flash. Click on the spinning newspaper to read the story in full on the original website. This widget […]
