Check out Ed Piskor’s comics & stories – if you like old school hacking this is best comic series! WIZZYWIG VOLUME 1: PHREAK – THIS 116 PAGE GRAPHIC NOVEL TELLS THE TALE OF HACKER AND PHONE PHREAK KEVIN “BOINGTHUMP†PHENICLE, AS HE BEGINS HIS FASCINATING CAREER WITH THE EASIEST ACCESSIBLE COMPUTER OF THE 1970S: THE […]
We’ve previously covered the student projects that come out of Cornell’s microcontroller design courses, and I’m always excited to see what’s released each semester. Bruce Land wrote in today with an update on the Fall 2008 FPGA projects: During the last 5 weeks of the fall semester in ECE576, Advanced Microcontroller Design, students at Cornell […]
Surprise! A classic pull-toy phone that really works. By Frank E. Yost…. I remember making pretend phone calls on my Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone when I was 7 or 8, and wondering if it was possible to turn it into a real phone. That question stayed with me, and when I saw a Chatter Telephone and […]
What do you do if the Wii Fit games aren’t intense enough for you? You build your own exercise gaming system, of course: wondered about a way to get fitter, work out without having to go running outside (although that is very healthy). I didn’t think the Wii balance board would do the trick, as […]
A genetic algorithm provides a simple way to search for an approximately optimal solution for an otherwise difficult and complex problem. By simulating the process of evolution, random mutation, breeding and selective pressure, a program can evolve a solution to a problem. Seth Just wrote in with a simple and customizable genetic algorithm written in […]
Using the undocumented MPTVOutWindow class, Steven Troughton-Smith was able to update his iPhone Doom port to enable TV-out and on screen controller support. Doom on the iPhone on a TV is a pretty big deal to start with, but the bigger story here is that in addition to the TV-out features, he was able to […]
We just finished a holiday “text to sing” program for Yahoo! Messenger where I work, Colle+McVoy, in Minneapolis. Here’s an open source themed maker’s carol for you all. If you want to create text-to-speech music yourself, check out the Festival project. It includes a singing mode which uses XML to describe the pitch and duration […]
