Month: July 2005

“Hello World” is the first program one usually writes when learning a new programming language. This collection includes 196 Hello World programs in many more-or-less well known programming languages, plus some human languages. [via] Link.

Creating a print quality comic is easy. Getting the final product printed and sold is a bit more difficult. That’s something this document will attempt to describe. The site has a lot of information on the actual specifics of not only making comics but the monetary metrics if you’re thinking of making comics your livelihood. Link.

“The people over at Treehugger have found an amazing little article on how to build a 17ft – 3kW+ output Wind Turbine. Apparently this is the latest project of OtherPower.com and the site has a variety of other engergy saving/producing projects including a Homebrew Maytag Gas Battery charger.” [via] Link.

I found this freaking cool package yesterday called tleds which blink’s the keyboard LED’s when there’s ethernet traffic. It blinks the Num lock for traffic down, and the Scroll lock for traffic up. Anyhow, I like this thing a whole lot… but I thought… what about the resources! This package is taking a whole like .03% of my CPU at least! So I needed a hardware solution… Link.

So DIY home projectors are nothing new. For years people have been trying to make their own projectors due to the high cost of real LCD projectors. So what makes this guide practical? Simply put, the theory behind projection coupled with the breakdown of costs for each main component of the projector. We let you decide what components are right for you, but give you a fully functional example. Link.

Oh my! Another LEGO creation! Well, this Turing machine is not entirely mechanical… I used the RCX to store the transition table. Since the symbols are bar codes read with a light detector, it would have been very difficult to continue with a physical mechanism. [via] Link.

More NES mods…how cool it would be to have a DVD player made out of a Nintendo. So I got bored and made one. This is a 100% working DVD player. No gimmicks, no fakes, just a true 100% functional DVD, video CD, and mp3 CD player. The DVD tray slides out of the game compartment all on its own (pushes the door up and everything) and is angled just right so that the door even closes when the tray is sucked back in to the player Link.