Here are some photos from last night’s robot hacking/fighting event @ Nerd Salon. Thanks go out to the 111 Minna Gallery for the space and Jennifer / Annalee for putting it on…. Oh, special thanks to MikeK. We need to upgrade the firmware to have the bots violate their 3 laws, MikeK happen to have […]
Mike Outmesguine’s Solar-powered Wi-Fi extender in the latest issue of Popular Science – “The promise of Wi-Fi is freedom–the ability to bring your laptop or PDA away from the anchor that is your desk and into your life. With most wireless routers, however, your life had better stop at around 300 feet, and forget about […]
Shaled2010 writes – “This video shows a working magnetic induction projectile launcher. These “rail guns” as they are almost always called (quite often improperly) use Lenz’s Law as the basis for throttling a ferromagnetic projectile from rest to incredible speeds. You see the arc flash in the gun on the right and the target tumble […]
James shows you how to watch TV on a Macbook & a Slingbox – “I decided to make a project out of getting Slingbox setup today. Not knowing for sure if it would work on OSX, I got everything setup using only OSX and Parallels VM running Windows XP. This took about 2 hours to […]
Jeff has an amazing gallery of homemade, modded radios & power supplies – Link.
MAKE pal and Roomba hacker Todbot show you how use the Roomba as a MIDI instrument, maybe we’ll have this running at the Roomba fights – “The Roomba has a piezo beeper that can play tunes. You’ve heard it. And its motors make noise. Why not put them under MIDI control? So here is RoombaMidi: […]
Silicon Graphics filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection today – so now might be a good time to check out this old favorite – How To Turn a $175,000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge [via] – Link.
