[Eric] was charged with the task of setting up the train to welcome people on the porch. The train had been in the family for a long time, so he didn’t want to customize the train itself. Luckily, it has an IR port. He recorded the IR signal from the remote and used a home…
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The Formica job was our preferred presentation at 25C3. The goal is to develop open source swarm robots as cheaply as possible. The team ended up building 25 robots in an assembly line fashion. With sufficient lead time, the cost might get as low as £15 each. Each bot has two direct drive cellphone vibration…
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Google has today announced the first-ever Pixel Watch, a wearable that borrows some of the technology from Fitbit and puts it behind a paywall. But there might be enough here even for those who don’t want to spend the extra money. The new Pixel Watch, which was originally previewed at Google I/O in May, will…
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In lots of parts of the world, living in a trailer has gained a social stigma. We’re talking about a rectangular building placed on three wheels and towed to your preferred plot of land. It’s going to take a lot to break that social stigma, but this is a pretty sweet attempt. PassivDom is an…
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one of the problems with extruder-based 3D printing is that it can be extremely challenging to print objects that have voids in them. You just should have something to deposit the soft material on up until it has a possibility to harden. [Matt] discovered a service which ought to work for any type of extruder-based…
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The target release date may be over five months out, however the Ubuntu team is already pushing the very first alphas of Jaunty Jackalope out the door. The new release is not for the weak as well as is meant solely for people who want to vet bugs as well as contribute to the project.…
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[les robots] had a defective Eye-Fi card on his hands and when a replacement was sent, he was told to destroy the original. What better way to ‘destroy’ something than opening the case? The Eye-Fi is an SD card with a builtin WiFi radio so it can upload images while remaining in camera. One version…
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I’ve been getting a load mail on the tip line stating “You should make the iPod picture do video”. The iPod Linux team pulled this off already. one more one that comes up from time-to-time is “You should let me plug my PSP into my iPod so I can utilize all of that storage space”.…
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Here’s a truly quick video which takes a different method to comprehending the Fourier series than we’re utilized to. If you’re a routine visitor we’re sure you’ve heard of the Fourier series (often discussed as FFT or quick Fourier Transform), however there’s a great possibility you understand bit about it. The series enables you to…
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The Remote Exploit advancement team has just revealed BackTrack 4 Beta. BackTrack is a Linux based LiveCD meant for security testing as well as we’ve been watching the job since the extremely early days. They state this new beta is both steady as well as usable. They’ve moved towards behaving like an actual distribution: it’s…
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