Lifehacker’s Adam Pash put together a nice overview for using CDHK, the firmware enhancement toolkit for consumer-grade Canon point and shoot cameras. With CHDK and a compatible Canon device, you can capture images in RAW format, display live RGB histograms while shooting, and even write custom UBASIC scripts to take time-lapse photos or capture lightning […]
Another semester’s worth of cool microcontroller projects has come to a close at Cornell University and Bruce Land sent us the results for the Spring 2008 ECE 4760 course: Students in ECE 4760 at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a project using Atmel Mega32 microcontrollers. Over 30 projects this […]
I wasn’t able to make it to last years DEFCON hacker/security conference, and DEFCON 16 isn’t until later this summer. As you can imagine, I’ve been a little impatient for a good ol’ info-security paranoia fix. Thankfully, it looks like a ton of videos from past conferences have been posted to the DEFCON site. This […]
When I created the “Hackers in Your Neighborhood” map last December, I wasn’t sure what the response would be. I was really happy to see it end up being really positive, with lots of hackers and organizations adding their marker to the map. I was just peeking in on its progress today and it looks […]
I haven’t done any coding in Flex yet, but I came across this howto today that illustrates how simple it is to pull in a Flash SWF that has an embedded font and use it within the Flex application. Embedding the bold, italic, and bold-italic sets for a font allows you to use the standard […]
Peter van der Graaf did a little analysis of the URLs that are generated by the Google Analytics Javascript API and put together a very useful tutorial for building Analytics-enabled applications without the use of Javascript. When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an […]
There’s a fascinating article by Gary Wolf in this month’s Wired titled “Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm” about using software to help optimize an individuals memorization process. We’re all familiar with the notion that memorizing facts takes persistence, time and repetition. What isn’t so obvious is that there’s an […]
