Makefan writes – This page provides information on how to hack your MyBook World Edition, so as you can improve performance and add new features. MyBook is powered by ARM9 microprocessor, it has 32MB of SDRAM and boots from internal hard drive. The system partition has 2.8GB (only 260 MB is occupied). This means that […]
Here’s your chance to win a BUG module with this contest from PopSci and BUG labs… We’re excited to announce that we’re launching a special PopSci.com contest with Bug Labs, the folks behind BUG, the open, modular consumer-electronics hardware and Web-services platform that you can use like Legos to build practically any gadget you can […]
I’m playing around with a Pleo, a robotic dinosaur – there’s a new “behavior” that you can put on a SD card and it will sing holiday songs (see HD video above!). The holiday Pleo file is a file called PLEO.URF – I renamed it to zip and then after decompressing it a .CPGZ file […]
Mike @ Radar has a good review comparing the OLPC and Amazon’s Kindle… different devices, but Mike as you’d expect (O’Reilly/Safari) is looking at these for reading books… Both the Kindle and OLPC can browse the Web. However, the Kindle was designed to browse Amazon’s library of content to purchase. The OLPC has a Firefox […]
Neuros has a logo / idea so you can tell which devices are DRM free. “Unlocked”. Maybe they could also include URL on the device where you can download the open firmware, schematics, source etc… We’ll do our best to do that and will continue to try and keep our little store stock with open […]
Check out MAKE Flickr photo pool member Trevor’s MAME cocktail cabinet build photos, nice work! – Link. Related: Homemade MAME arcade cocktail-style machine – Link.
Dan writes – An endoscope is a thin viewing device, suitable for being poked into places where the human eye cannot, and possibly should not, otherwise see. Since it’s likely to be dark… in there, endoscopes usually have some sort of illumination device built in. The more sophisticated kinds of endoscope shoot light out of […]
