The Neuros set top box, called Link, is a disc-less computer running Ubuntu. Neuros encourages hacking as well as discovering new methods to utilize the unit, as can be seen in their most current post describing exactly how to get a Wiimote to work with it. The results are quite …
the latest version of the Arduino software allows you to use more than two servos at a time. curious inventor has posted a demo showing exactly how to run 4 servos from a keyboard input. The code should likewise work just fine on Arduino clones, like the Roboduino pictured above. …
[kero905] sent in this project he’s working on. It is an open source hardware converter to connect Wii controllers through USB. It uses an Arduino for its brains. It is still in development, the only controllers that work are the nunchuck and the classic. He notes that there are enough …
TinkerKit is a collection of 20 different sensors and 10 actuators. It’s meant to make prototyping of physical computing devices much quicker/easier. The devices plug into a Sensor Hub Arduino shield. There is also a similar hub board that can emulate a keyboard; it translates sensor input directly to key …
[Kasey] as well as [Guyzmo] have been working for the past couple of years on a side job that lets them screen contamination utilizing a network of sensors. They’ve just decided to make the job open source, both hardware as well as software. The details of the system are offered …
We like old screen technology, like Nixie tubes, however they’re frequently difficult to work with since they need higher voltages than digital logic. Vacuum florescent screens (VFD) autumn into this category. While not necessarily “old”, they are ending up being far less typical than LCDs. The primary benefit of a …
Microchip’s new 23K256 is a serially interfaced 32 kilobyte SRAM memory chip, offered in 8 pin DIP as well as 8 pin SO packages. SRAM, like EEPROM, is a data storage medium. data kept in SRAM is lost without constant power, however it’s truly quick as well as there’s no …
A team of three PhD students constructed this ‘multi-mallet automatic drumming instrument (Madi)‘. Their Expressive Machines musical Instruments site is dedicated to building instruments like this and they recently showed their work at the first annual Guthman musical instrument Competition. A ‘low-stakes X Prize’ for musical instruments. 25 applicants were …
The very first annual Guthman musical instrument competition shown to be a extremely fascinating location to be as hacked musical instruments competed for $10,000 in prizes. 60 people used as well as 25 were selected to show off their hacked together, strange, as well as whimsical instruments. There were all …
Ah, CSI. What other television show might present digital forensics with such two-bit dialogue? It’s time when once again to put on your hacker hats – a red fedora, we assumption – as well as tell us the worst hacker dialogue you’ve seen in movies or TV. We’ve seen a ton …