The latest Forbes has a robot round up, 7 robots that will change your life, along with 25 of the greatest moments in robot history. There’s also a profile of our friends at iRobot, at the end of the article it seems like we can expect a robot lawnmower from iRobot soon, huh – “One […]
Dan writes – “Who said you can’t use MacOS9 because you have an Intel Mac? It is completely possible with a little bit of tinkering, and a really cool universal application called Sheep Shaver… a full speed ‘Classic’ emulator for Windows, Linux, and Intel based Macs, that runs older MacOS’s at shockingly full speed!” [via] […]
Wil @ Engadget has a good how-to on setting running network wiring around your home/biz – “Wherever you call home, it probably didn’t come wired up for that most precious of home utilities: internet access. Sometimes wireless networking can only take you so far. Guerrilla network wiring might sound a little strong, but sometimes it […]
Spark Fun Electronics, one of our favorite Maker-electronics spots on the web has some new goodies… The HMC6352 – an all in one compass solution, new cameras for the GM862 cellular modules, the E700 camera breakout board (pictured here), hemostats and a igitally controlled 2A switch. – Link.
Silas shows you how to add LEDs that light up when the buttons are pressed on a NES controller, nice update to a retro pad – “So I’ve noticed that there’s “a lot” of people, talking about how they would add LED’s to their NES pads, that lights when a button is pressed. Sadly noone […]
Max writes – “Here’s a DIY on how to make a G-meter for you car and measure how many Gs your car can handle. We will use an accelerometer chip from Dimension Engineering and CUBLOC CB220 module from Comfile to cut down our hardware development to near a minute.” – Link.
Sciprog shows you how to make a USB powered power amplifier for your PC – “I was looking for simple solution how to increase the output of my integrated sound card of my PC. I don’t know why, but the sound level of it decreased so I can’t normally listen with my headphones. So this […]
