Mac OS X Hints uncovers a cool feature in Tiger that allows you to turn your landscape display into a portrait layout: If you go into the Displays preference panel, you will see a new drop down called “Rotate.” This will rotate the image on your display a number of diffrent ways: 90, 180, or […]
Roomba adds a new workshop bot to their line up, last week they announced a pet version too… – “The same size and shape as the iRobot Roomba® Vacuuming Robot, iRobot Dirt Dog features an oversized, bagless debris bin that is approximately 40 percent larger than Roomba’s bin. The robot also features two counter-rotating bristle […]
Our pals at Design News have a new “Gadget Freak” on building your own velocity monitor for paintballs – “Looking to paint the town red (or his buddies at any rate), Nathan Loden devised this simple device to detect if the paintballs are traveling at a safe speed (less than 300 ft/sec). Consisting of sensor […]
Max is still kickin it, he writes – “Okay you’ve built the digital thermometer but you ran out of ideas and didn’t know what to do with it. Well if you wanted to, you could add a Lantronix XPORT ethernet serial device to the serial channel and monitor temperature remotely over the ethernet. Now I […]
Atarien writes “What would have happened if technology had progressed faster than design? What would a 1980’s PC look like with with current hardware? The mod built had been displayed in the exhibition as if it would be a new piece of hardware of PC Expo 1981, with fakes ads, tradeshow table etc. The French […]
MAKE pal John Maushammer (who reverse engineered the firmware in all three Pure Digital disposable cameras and figured out how to connect them to home computers) sent in this amazing pong watch! He writes – “I loved the idea behind the Pong Clock and I’ve wanted to make my own watch for a while now… […]
Ben built a simple sensor that counts the number of revolutions his pet hedgehog’s wheel goes through, and then automatically blogs about it each day – Link to blog & photos.
