2011

"Seas0nPass" - the easier way of Jailbreaking

SeasOnPass lets you perform an untethered jailbreak to your Apple TV, allowing you to SSH into your set top box and play otherwise unsupported media. The current version of SeasOnPass by default supports to an untethered jailbreak for the 4.3 (iOS 4.3 – 8F455) software. The released version of SeasOnPass can even supports a tethered jailbreak of the current 4.4.4 (iOS 5.0.1 – 9A406a). You can find out the details

BLINKY - Pinhole Camera Kit

If you are a camera geek wouldn’t it be cool to say that you have built your own camera? The BLINKY Pinhole Camer Kit might be just the thing for you. The kit looks like lots of fun to build but don’t expect this camera to replace your existing DSLR. As you can see below the picture quality is what you would expect from a camera you build yourself in

Bespoke Glass Staircase with LED effects

The wooden hill company brings you a Bespoke Glass Staircase with LED lighting effects. This double laser cut stainless steel structure is having toughened, triple laminate glass treads. For further information you can visit the website of wooden hill company or directly contact to their sales line on 0845 456 1088.  

Twine - Listen to the Objects around you

  Origin of Cool member shares a crazy gadget developed by David and John that can get the objects around you texting, tweeting or emailing. With this gadget, you can get an SMS when your laundry is done or an email when the fridge breaks down. Web-based application is also developed from where you can directly set up the scope of work of this gadget. You can watch here the highlights of this

NBitWonder Software-Defined Radio

Thanks to Ben from NBitWonder for sharing his Software-Defined Radio project with us. “There is much more work to be done on the software, as you can tell from watching the video.  For instance, only AM reception is implemented right now.  The signal processing functions still need some work, and more appropriate gains should be chosen for the entire signal chain.  Still, it is rewarding and reassuring to see the

DIY Color Detection using an RGB LED

We have seen single color LED detection before, fjordcarver has built a DIY Color Detection using an RGB LED that can detect the actual color of the object placed in front of the home made sensor. “For this sensor you will need a breadboard (not required, but it is how I will walk you through it.) an RGB LED (alternatively you could use 3 LEDs) A 220 ohm resistor A

Ben Heck goes over some CPLD and FPGA basics

Ben goes over some basics of CPLD and FPGAs. If you need a ton of power and a microcontroller just won’t cut it, it might be time to move up to a CPLD or an FPGA. Watch as Ben shows us some results of the first few Hello World like programs he runs on an Altera CPLD. Looks like there would be a steep learning curve to become proficient in