Month: September 2005

Solar-Powered Scooter Update

Solar-Powered Scooter Update

Dscf2003 Follow up on the solar powered scooterWith Don approaching 1,000 solar-powered miles (he has 932 and counting), Don’s scooter seems to still be going strong. In fact, it has been five months since Don last had to charge it. In those five months, Don has been driving his scooter almost every day going around 11 miles on the average day. By occasionally giving his scooter a day off, he is able to make sure that his scooter always has a charge. Link.

Interview with Roger Ibars

Interview with Roger Ibars

Sega Controls Panasonic Excellent interview over at Gizmodo – Among certain fetishistic subcultures of the consumer electronics world, there seems to be a common credo: “If it’s not hackable, it’s worthless.” Putting this saying to the test is Roger Ibars, a designer-slash-researcher based in London. Ibars’ work involves hacking into and “modding” vintage console game controllers and other devices such as alarm clocks and calculators. Link.

HOW TO SLAX webconfig

HOW TO SLAX webconfig

Wp Wow, I need to try this – Everything you modify, create or download during a Live-CD session is kept in memory until the computer is rebooted; then it’s all lost. More precisely, it WAS lost until SLAX came out and the new era of portability began… Don’t carry your settings along with you anymore, just remember a secret pass phrase! Link.