[Windell] was stoked enough to send us [Jay]'s sweet hack on [Windell]'s Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories Peggy 2. 0 kit. [Jay] added serial input and hacked quartz composer on his mac to light up all 625 LEDs with live motion video.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.09 at 17:56
Martin Fussen tipped us off to PlaceSpotting, a user-contributed geo quiz map mashup. The idea is to create puzzles for your friends to solve by picking an obscure landmark and supplying them with a few hints.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.07.07 at 23:24
Mark just wasn't satisfied with 3D glasses on his SGI machine, so he adapted them to work with any video card with a VESA-compliant stereo port - Now in all, it's not too complicated what I do here.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.07.07 at 15:40
In this instructable I will show you a very simple method to bypass the website blocker knows as Bess. Also this was posted for educational purposes only, I am not to be held responcible for any inappropriate usage of this information or the files that I provided.
Via Instructables | Posted on 2008.07.07 at 13:12
Hah! This is awesome, Slashdot has a quick blurb on the the first Commodore 64 LAN party!
The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.07.07 at 11:23
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week:
Soft Guitars Glow in the Dark Robot Pillow HOW TO - Multicolored Gocco Prints Cowboy Cookies Recipe Etsy's July How-To Month .
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.07.06 at 15:31
When Apple pushed their most recent security update, the first thing we checked was whether the ARDAgent issue was fixed. It's not. This vulnerability lets anyone execute code as a privileged user and versions of this attack have already been found in the wild.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.05 at 20:27
[Jeff] has been playing around with Parallax's Propeller chip. He's used it to adapt an NES controller to the to the Commodore 64. In this latest iteration though, he's added a Memsic 2125 dual axis accelerometer to the end of a whiffle ball bat and used that to provide Wii style controller input.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.05 at 19:59
Traditionally, a web spider system is tasked with connecting to a server, pulling down the HTML document, scanning the document for anchor links to other HTTP URLs and repeating the same process on all of the discovered URLs.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.07.05 at 15:07
You might remember [Janne]'s IKEA cluster. Now he's got a couple of dream rigs in mind, so he started doing 3D renderings of them. Helmer 2 is designed to contain 24 video cards attached to six motherboards with quad core CPUs.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.05 at 06:51