If you go into the Record activity on the XO laptop, you’ll find that you can only record a maximum of 45 seconds of video and audio. But since almost everything in this little green wonder is written in Python, it’s very easy to fix this. Open up the Terminal activity, cd to /usr/share/activities/Record.activity, and […]
Several Rock Band players are dealing with an issue with the Fender’s strummer bar. If your Strat starts going wonky and doesn’t register strums or occasionally double-strums, chances are your problem can be easily solved with a couple of screw drivers. The problem is that the screw which holds the switch in place can come […]
I read today on Lifehacker about a freeware tool called Linux Reader. It provides you with read access to ext2/ext3 partitions within Windows and has an explorer-like interface that allows you to drag and drop files from a standard Linux partition. What about full read/write access? With a little googling, I found another freeware utility […]
Eric Seifert sent in some information on creating a home brew radio modem using a standard PC sound card, an iPod FM transmitter, and an FM radio. He has his current revision working at 9600 BAUD for distances in the neighborhood of hundreds of feet. The sending side outputs an amplitude encoded data stream to […]
The standard optical mouse contains all of the hardware necessary for tracking X/Y movement on a flat surface. With a bit of modification, you can tweak the illumination and focal length of the device to create a compact motion tracking module for your robotics projects. Mac A. Cody has done a really nice job of […]
The Monster and Friends Design Studio released a beta version of an iPhone camcorder app today. The hack’s author, drunknbass, was able to squeeze about 10fps out of the camera when capturing data at a 2 megapixel HD framesize. The current beta will do this for 5 seconds, but the author alludes to a future […]
Looks like it’s possible to install Vista on that tiny little Eee PC. Why? Because you can, of course. Paul O’Brien figured out the trick to this hack. The key is to make the WinSXS directory a junction (Vista’s name for a symbolic link) to an external SD card. This directory takes up about 1.5GB […]
