January 5, 2012

WALL-E DIY Track Build Results

    You might remember the Top 10 WALL-E Hacks post that we made back in 2009? Well the DIY WALL-E builders are still hard at work. Have a look at the video above showing the tracks that Michael from the WALL-E Builders group is working on. UPDATE (January 6, 2012): Thanks to Michael for sending in some of the build pictures.    

Rudolph - Email Reading Reindeer

  Adafruit reported a cool gadget so called “Rudolph“, an email Reading Reindeer that lets you know when you’ve got a new email and tells you who sent it! Basically it uses Propeller Platform USB to log into the email server, trigger animations, and generate the speech. The Internet connection is handled separately by E-Net module. All the software codes required to build this project can be downloaded from Gadgetgangster.

Access your Apple TV 1st Generation via FTP

 Picture courtesy of Omoon at Flickr ÂÂWhat if you have an FTP server in your Apple TV? Don’t you think it will be great to have a server sitting in your AppleTV (with Mac/Windows OS) that will take care of all your file transfers easily and quickly.  Appletvhacks member Ruben has brought out a nice tutorial the help of which you can install ÂÂand Configure a FTP Server