[Roo] seems to believe we’ve been neglecting the NSLU2 or “slug”. It’s true we have spent a great deal of time fawning over the Linksys WRT54G instead. The slug is absolutely deserving of interest though. It is a little network appliance with two USB ports that you are meant to connect disk drives to for…
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many of us have Ethernet in our homes today. The real backbones of the Internet though, use no wires at all. Optical fibers carry pulses of light across the land, under the sea, and if you’re lucky, best to your door. [Sven Brauch] chose to create an optical link. He didn’t have any fiber handy, but…
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This hack has got to be every gamer’s dream. someone actually took the time to dig through the binary file of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and fix the errors that made it an abomination of a title for the Atari 2600. This is quite a feat in numerous ways. first off, you need to know the game…
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Pasteler0 wished to develop an outside manage system for Winamp. utilizing the COM-port plugin he was able to cable up 4 manage buttons directly to his serial port. The software application likewise supports a 15 button mode. The switches are mounted in a remove plastic floppy disk box as well as linked to the computer…
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C++ has been rapidly modernizing itself over the last few years. starting with the introduction of C++11, the language has made a big step ahead as well as things have altered under the hood. To the typical Arduino user, a few of this is irrelevant, perhaps many of it, however the language still provides us…
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With the recent statement that the only controls for the Ipod shuffle will be on the headphones, lots of were let down. [James] has come to the rescue, showing that you can just solder new ear buds on the end of the wires. though this may not be the best solution, particularly if your cord…
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The Sony Bravia series of HDTVs are a fantastic piece of kit; they’re nice screens that usually have sufficient inputs for the craziest house theatre setups. These TVs likewise run Linux, however up until now we haven’t seen anything that capitalizes on the truth these screens are wall-mounted Linux boxen. [Sam] sent in an exploit…
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searching for much more ways to enhance his 3D printer, [JJ] chose to make it wireless. He got his hands on some $10 Bluetooth modules and figured this would be just the thing to make the link with his laptop. They came as surface mount modules, so the first thing he had to do was…
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One thing we learned by viewing [Alton Brown] on all of those good Eats episodes is that a multitasker is way better than a unitasker. [Joost] is thinking along the same lines by taking a fantastic tool and adding a helpful function to it. His software project turns a USB Saleae Logic Analyzer into a signal…
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Christmas may be over, however the holiday hacks keep rolling in, such as this incredible interactive Mega Tree game Display! [Lior] likes setting up light shows every year (just inspect out last year’s incredible White Christmas screen with music!), however taking them down just… well… sucks! So this year he decided to make a completely…
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