Our friend from Denmark is back at it! After David purchased a wireless keyboard that didn’t have the range needed what did he do? Return it for a different model? That would be no fun… He instead cracked open the equipment and installed some monster antenas that were salvaged from a dead WiFi router. “The core of the antenna cable was soldered to the start of the internal antenne which
If you have a spare computer you might want to put it to good use as a monitor and control system. “SerReg is a small home controller intended to turn your personal computer ( PC ) into a process control / data collection system. With the appropriate sensors SerReg can monitor physical variables such as pressure, temperature, light intensity, weight, movement etc, process the information and then use the result
The new episode of Hak.5 is out. Watch the preview above and click here to watch the full thing. “In this episode Paul takes a look at Q, the open source CPU emulator for Mac. Erin Shahan joins us to talk about RSI, the geeks natural predator. Alli shows off an idiot-proof Nintendo DS mod chip with plenty of hackability (and Doom of course). And Wess brings us a
Thinking about building a CNC machine? Hacked Gadgets forum member, Aaron Bowser has a site loaded with information on how to build one. Not only is there helpful information about his design, there is also a vast number of links to other resources. “The mechanical design of the machine was based on a survey of CNC machine websites and on the availability of used and surplus parts. A y-axis gantry
This technology allows everyday items such as a chalkboard to become interactive. “Sensitive Object attempts particularly to make day to day objects interactive by proposing man-machine interfaces (MMI) that are particularly innovative, which use the sense of touch and adapt to all forms of electric or electronic commands (switches, pushbuttons, keyboard keys, control panels…)”
Will this be our future movie and music collection interface? I sure hope so! The people at Natural Interaction are sure creating some interesting software. “A natural interaction interface to organize and navigate contents such as images, movies and audio. Make sure to have the speakers turned on! It uses only the left mouse button, mouse motion, arrow keys, save (s) and rewind (r) keys. Useful for astonishing presentations.
Cory, Zach and Summer created the iTunes Jukebox , it represents a fun way to allow party guests to play their favorite tunes. “Take one of the “cartridges” (an electronically enhanced jewel case), and insert it in an empty slot in the iTunes Jukebox (an electronically enhanced CD tower). The tower is connected to the iTunes software on your computer, and as soon as you insert a jewel case,
