I have come to deal with the fact that my computer systems will always live in large boxes that makes lots of noise and are an eyesore. This U1 computer changes that, it is the size of a power strip and can even hide under a printer. At first I thought that this mod was going to be a computer stuffed into the printer that is on the desk.
This is a fantastic application of the Nintendo Wiimote. Timo Fleisch of Germany has created a system that uses some Wii remotes which can be purchased at any local department store and some IR LEDs which are also readily available to create a very usable virtual environment. You hold an item infront of a monitor which will be displaying the virtual item, above this screen there is a Wiimote
It is nice to see something other than a basic machining project for a final university course. This team spent 5 weeks putting together a cool final project that would create and serve an ice cream to some hungry onlookers! "The Department of Technological Studies at Ohio Northern University developed these ice cream serving robots as part of an extracurricular activity for ONU’s homecoming festivities. The project took 5
The ARToolKit is a very cool technology. How long will it be before the Wii or Playstation 3 has a game that takes advantage of this? The demonstrations are simply fantastic. "ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears
Using a DVD player screen, a rewired toy keyboard and toy laptop looks like it made a great start to this DIY Parallax Propeller Laptop.This project demonstrates the power of the Propeller microcontroller. Full documentation is available so that you could make your own. "This is a Propeller laptop – with a 6502 co-processor and 64K of static RAM! The Propeller handles all I/O for the 6502 and runs
Darren from Hak5 goes over a cool tool called Nmap. If you want to do some snooping or just some exploration on your own network this is a good tool to learn. Video after the jump. "Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing
If you are building a system that needs to dynamically make decisions about items around it have a look at this Vision Object Detection and Ranging project. I think making this would be an excellent start to building your own Sentry gun! "This particular setup consists of 2 X 3Com Homeconnect Webcams I bought off of Ebay about 4 years ago. They are fairly good cameras for the price
