April 3, 2010

Touch Screen Hack for the TI 84 Plus Calculator
Complex Hacks

Owen sent in his cool Touch Screen Hack for his TI 84 Plus Calculator. He is using an Arduino to read in the data from a Nintendo touch screen, the touch data is then sent to the calculator’s serial port so that it can then graph images based on where the screen is being touched. Did I mention that Owen is 16! I am trying to think what I was

Name the Thing Contest - 125
Contests

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Thanks to Senario (the makers of Zibits) for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing 4 lucky contest winner a Zibits robot. Have a look at the video below, the robots are IR controlled and I thing with a bit of hacking they could be sent random forward and turn commands which would make your cat or dog go crazy. “Product Details Mini Collectable Zibits come to life