January 2012

Apple TV 2 - 5 Best nitoTV Deals

 xctechs attempted to pool together some packages that he used and genuinely liked on AppleTV2. In order to process and ready to use it, you need to Jailbreak Your Apple TV 2 first. NitoTV is a standard set of tools to enhance the functionality provided by the Apple TV Platform.The 5 best nitoTV deals are: XBMC Media Center – For Streaming Your Movies and TV shows from Your PC

MAKE Podcast - Make: Talk Episode 1

    Make has a new podcast called Make: Talk. They just did their episode 1, click here to listen to it. The first episode is with Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs, you might remember him as the guy who made the knock gumball machine and the Knock Lock. Big thanks to Steve for mentioning Hacked Gadgets in the show!

Harford Hackerspace Coffee Maker Hack

  Ryan Merl from the Harford Hackerspace  needed a coffee maker that did a bit more than your everyday coffee maker. Since don’t we all want one that can accept HTTP requests! With some code and an Arduino this pimped coffee maker is ready to go. “Special Features 15 minute automatic shutoff Controlled via HTTP Requests Status, start, and stop requests Returns JSON for meant for AJAX interfaces Ready and

Cloud Robotics Hackathon

  Carlos Asmat just let us know about a Cloud Robotics Hackathon that will be taking place in Montreal from March 2nd to the 4th. If you are around drop in and participate! “I just wanted to let you know that we are organizing a Cloud Robotics Hackathon that will take place from March 2nd to March 4th. The idea is to bring programmers together (whether they have robotics experience

How to Identify Stepper Motors

    If you have a junk box full of all sorts of motors from printers, scanners and other discarded tech you need to know what you have so you can use it in your next project. Thanks to Steaky for sending in this info that was written to help you determine what type of stepper motor you have and how to use it. “Not only do stepper motors come

Fine Pitch Connector converted to 0.1 Inch to allow Breadboard use

  There are lots of surface mount parts out there that aren’t available in DIP format. Normal DIP format chips and various other parts have pins that are configured with a 0.1 inch spacing. Breadboards make prototyping a circuit fast and easy since there is no soldering involved, it is literally plug and play. If the connections need to be changed all you do is pull the wiring out and