Precisewitem from the Hacked Gadgets Forum has put together a nice tutorial on how to perform an LED mod to your Xbox 360 Controller. “SUPPLIES BASICS – Soldering Iron – 15W Can be purchased as a kit from rat shack – 30 AWG Wire Strippers – Not necessary but will help out a lot – Resin Core Solder – Comes in kit if you get it at rat shack –
Congratulation to Daniel D., the winner last week. There will be two winners this week. The first prize this week will be useful to anyone who needs to do presentations. It has a laser pointer, LED light, ball point pen and extendable pointing rod. Chris Rybitski has also donated one of his cool tech keychains which he will send to the second winner. Thanks Chris! This contest will run for
Diodes can be used for temperature sensing. Nick Chernyy used this principle to make a Diode based Fan Controller for his Shuttle PC. “Figuring that I should just go build a more substantial fan controller myself, I promptly went to the lab to look for a thermistor. Unable to find one, I settled for the next best thing: a diode. After building the circuit, I tested the output with a
Working on a command line Linux system and want to watch a YouTube video? Until now you were out of luck. Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text! “This is a concept video depicting how users can surf and even watch videos from youtube with out the use of a Graphical User Interface. The operating System is linux
Microsoft is not the only player in the Multitouch computer table system. Actually, Alessandro Valli has been working on this concept for many years. Have a look at the latest work out of Natural Interaction. “SensitiveTable’s interface, Skin, is at an advanced stage of development. Last month’s tech demo shows some of the features we are investigating. The multitouch table itself now features zero force sensitivity.”
Learning binary addition would have been more interesting if it were demonstrated using a Binary Marble Adding Machine. Video after the jump. “The core of the invention is a modification of the divide by two flipflop to retain the marble that falls off the right side, and keep it until the flipflop is flipped to the left by the next marble. See small diagram above right. The retention of this
Imagitronics from Japan shared his latest creation with us in the Hacked Gadgets forum. It’s a USB Controlled Traffic Light Status Indicator which he built to show the number of running applications at a glance. “I retrofitted this generic “Blinking Traffic Light†with a USB module and wrote a simple Mac application to monitor my computer usage and reflect the results in by changing the stoplight. This project was born
