The Retractable Alarm Clock is one of the Cornell University Microcontroller Design Final Projects. Colleen Carey and Vincent Zou have made a product that has a concept that could be marketable. I am not much of a morning person and the snooze button is always handy, this could work for people like me. 🙂 “The Retractable Alarm Clock is the next generation alarm clock that combines both active alarm feature
Yes you can run your Apple TV system on your PC! Video after the jump.
For this hack you don’t even have to crack open the Apple TV box. Video after the jump. “We can now boot an unmodified and unopened AppleTV from an external USB hard drive. We’re running the same modified OS as in my last video, but this time it’s on an external USB hard drive with a modified partition type and one small file change.”
A bit of customization allows you to use your PC as an Apple TV. Video after the jump. “Apple TV on Hackint0sh PC controlled by keyboard using IRKeyboardEmu.kext IR emulator for osx.”
Turn your XBox into an Apple TV like experience. Video after the jump. “First off, let’s go over what you need to already have in order to properly pull this off. * A Modded Xbox – There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. XBMC just won’t run on a stock console. * Xbox Media Center – I can not provide a copy of this due to legal reasons,
Not the easiest DIY project but this homemade Homemade Oscilloscope looks and works great. “Homemade Cathode Ray Tube with cold cathode. Vacuum is somewhere between 100 – 200 microns, easily attainable with amateur equipment. Vertical deflection is done using an electrostatic plate. This CRT is used as an oscilloscope to display a signal from a sound synthesizer. “
Everyone is aware that we need to shred our confidential information right? Well it looks like software can now restore shredded documents. “A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The pieces of torn documents are scanned on both sides, and the digital images are then analysed by a cluster of 16
