There are so many WYSIWYG editors for html forms, it’s about time someone put together a decent web version of the Vi editor. JSVI is written in Javascript and seems to be fairly cross-browser compatible. With a few tweaks to your code, you can now make any textarea behave exactly like Vi. How cool is […]
Sebastian Tomczak has been playing around with controlling VGA output from an Arduino. Using Max/MSP to process audio and send data to the Arduino and a standard VGA output to send sync data to the monitor, he’s been able to put together some cool video effects. In these examples, i am simply using three pins […]
There are products available that will overlay flight data into a flight camera’s video stream, but here’s a clever and simple hack to do it on the cheap(er). To provide in-video flight data for a first person view aircraft, just build a mini flight instrument panel and position it in front of the camera. One […]
Berlin hacker Julius von Bismarck invented and patented the Image Fulgurator, a device so awesome that it can remotely insert images into other people’s photos. You aim the device at the same subject that another person is photographing, and when they snap a photo the resulting image will be manipulated with a separate, overlayed photo. […]
You may have dug the videos of past DEFCON conferences that we posted back in May, but there’s a whole other infosec conference, Shmoocon, which is held in D.C. every February. ShmooCon is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & […]
I’ve been using Google Docs more and more, especially for collaborative work, both at Dorkbot DC and Make: Books. At first, I did so reluctantly, but I’ve become a real convert. So I was thrilled when we (Make: Books) published Google Apps Hacks. I’m learning all sorts of useful and fun stuff from this book. […]
When Philipp Lenssen started writing Google Apps Hacks, we made up our minds that we’d develop the book in Google Docs. A while back, Philipp wrote up Part I of the story of how we made the book. From Writing a Book in Google Docs: Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing […]
