I like Tetris; who doesn’t? The rules are simple, and it’s a good test of strategy and speed without eye hurting graphics. I’ve played it on a few Nintendo handhelds, my PC, and on Sony’s gaming consoles. The people over…
What if we all had a ham radio license? We could be anywhere in NYC and have an audio backchannel via repeater. If there was a disaster, we could coordinate. We could set up aprs data transfer over radio to…
This is by far one of the more interesting things I’ve come across in the past few days; the Gainer PSoC Development Board. It’s open source hardware and it is programmable in Flash, MAX/MSP and Processing. This is from the…
This has been around for a while but I’m just getting around to posting about it. The Resistor iPhone App is good for on the go Hardware Hacking. The typography is annoying and unnecessary (comic sans?!) but it’s useful and…
This is a great new product SparkFun is selling. It’s called the ScreenKey RGB Graphic Button and is described on the site as follows: ‘The RGB24T can be programmed to display any text or graphics on its 36×24 pixel display.…
Bruce Shapiro was recently featured in an short video by Cool Hunting. He’s a self taught hardware artist and has created some amazing projects exploring motion control, including the ‘egg plotter’, ‘3-axis router’ and ‘Pipedream I, II, and III’â€â€which draws…
Some pictures of The NYC Resistor meeting tonight. Dave’s hardware for the audio oscilloscope. We also had a great demo from Diana Eng of the blogginginmotion purse.
I couldn’t pass this post up. Virgin America is holding a special with Diggnation – buy one flight to anywhere they fly and get one free. You have to use the DIGGNATION promo code and you have to book by…
Here is another great console application that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. This text based browser supports up to 256 colors (but due to the limitation of your console, it will most likely be 16 colors.) and displays web…