Lights Off for 2.0!
- September
- 25
DISCLAIMER: I take no credit for this, I found the source code on the internet, compiled it, made a few changes and included the 1.1.4 Puzzles file, the new one was broken horribly, resulting in numerous un-playable levels. All credit goes to Adam Betts and Lucas Newman for creating this (and a little to [...]
iPhoto last 12 months issue - displays 12
- September
- 25
All your pictures ARE in one library, you can see them all at once when you click on the word Library at the top of the left hand column.
iPhoto realizes that you would probably like to create albums to store your pictures in, albums with names that you create, and so for that reason, iPhoto [...]
Google Gadget that monitors Arduino sensor data
- September
- 25
Matthew Karas sent us a hack for creating an iGoogle homepage interface for physical measurement devices. Using an Arduino and a python script, he found a clever way to send real-time sensor data to a Google Gadget, and it doesn’t even require having a web server.
I managed to hack up an arduino to upload data [...]
Plotting streaming data in real-time with Gnuplot
- September
- 23
Our friend Thanassis Tsiodras, who you may remember as the creator of the , wrote in to tell us about a handy way to plot real-time data using standard unix tools.
For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on European Space Agency (ESA) projects - writing rather complex code generators. In the ESA project [...]
WiFi robot
- September
- 23
Jon Bennett created a nifty wireless telepresence bot out of a thrift store RC car, a Linksys WRT54GL router running the Open-WRT Linux firmware, a network camera, and a microcontroller. He’s built two variations: one controlled by a PIC microprocessor, and the other controlled by an Arduino. You can use whichever processor you [...]
Cross-browser rounded vector corners
- August
- 20
As a web developer, I’ve been patiently waiting for the designer community to finally decide that rounded corners and drop shadows are out of style. I’ve been waiting since about 1999 so, uh, you know, any day now guys. I’ll just be waiting here in web developer hell trying to construct a cubic igloo.
There are [...]
Beagle Board - ultra tiny, 2-Watt Linux system
- August
- 20
Hackszine pal Patti Schiendelman tipped me off to the Beagle Board, a spartan little embedded platform, perfect for all things hackable. It’s based on the TI OMAP3 processor, which is packaged with 128MB of DDR RAM and 256MB of NAND Flash all on the single chip in the center of the board.
Instead of including things [...]
Olympic proxy - how to watch location restricted content
- August
- 20
It sounds like I’m not the only one bummed out about the NBC/Microsoft/Silverlight version of the olympics. Hackszine reader No Dust writes:
How do you view the Olympics on the Internet? NBCOLYMPICS.COM only shows popular games in the U.S., and missed many good games. I went to other international web-sites in [...]
Wii DVD player
- August
- 20
Team Twiizers is at it again, releasing a Wii port of the MPlayer media player. If you’ve already added the homebrew channel, you just need to download an install a couple of files to get things working.
You can read more details about the port at HackMii and WiiBrew. There’s also a convenient instructable to hold [...]
Korg Kaossilator 4-bar loop hack
- August
- 20
I apologize if this is a bit of a niche hack, but I’ve had my eye on Korg’s little pocket synthesizer and then David Battino showed off some impressive audio samples on the digital media blog that he was able to create with a hidden Kaossilator feature:
What loosened my credit card was a secret hack [...]
