Overview I wanted a simple remote that could be used to easily control the volume and mute the TV when the phone rings. I have replaced all of my remotes with a single Harmony 880 control which works great, but I wanted something a bit more cool to compliment it. Building the retro remote was fun and simple since the mini remote that I used was very easy
Laserlight has made a new Dual Laser Light Saber, you may remember the single version from last year. “The smooth light growing retracting effect when used seperately. Cool Works as either two separate sabers or one dual blade saber.” Thanks Steve.
Kosta Grammatis is a CSU Undergraduate who has been working on an air balloon project for the past two years. The balloon has just had its first flight and all was well. Presentation Video Launch information “I’ve been working on a research project for the last two years, “The Balloon Project” it’s a system I designed from the ground up to take air samples autonomously, collect data, and do it
Treehuggers, this is a post that you may want to skip. Bill Shackelford has come up with an interesting way of dealing with spam. Spamtrap receives spam, prints the email and immediately shreds the paper. Of course in this case everything that comes to that email address is spam but I could see getting some satisfaction if I could send all of my manually deleted emails to a device like
The Retractable Alarm Clock is one of the Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects. Colleen Carey and Vincent Zou have made a product that has a concept that could be marketable. I am not much of a morning person and the snooze button is always handy, this could work for people like me. 🙂 “The Retractable Alarm Clock is the next generation alarm clock that combines both active alarm feature
Yes you can run your Apple TV system on your PC! Video after the jump.
For this hack you don’t even have to crack open the Apple TV box. Video after the jump. “We can now boot an unmodified and unopened AppleTV from an external USB hard drive. We’re running the same modified OS as in my last video, but this time it’s on an external USB hard drive with a modified partition type and one small file change.”
