In the early 80s, millions of terminals were handed out to French telephone subscribers. almost 9 million of these Minitel dumb terminals were in utilize at one time, as well as keeping that degree of ubiquity, we’re shocked we haven’t heard of them before. These boxes were normally linked to the outside world with their…
Month: August 2022
MULTIBOOTING THE RASPBERRY PI
Those of us have been dual booting Linux, Windows, and OS X operating systems for a while will be familiar with bootloaders such as GRUB and its ilk. Surprisingly, though, we haven’t seen a bootloader for the most popular computer of the last year – the Raspberry Pi. It makes sense to have a bootloader for the…
BOTS 4 TOTS CHARITY launched
If you feel the same way that we do about robotics, you probably wish that you had much more experience with them when you were a kid. [Don] felt that way too, and he chose to do something about it. So [Don] and his partner started the Chicago based organization Bots 4 Tots, with the…
PRESSURE SENSOR TUTORIAL
[Ladyada] has released this tutorial on using pressure sensors. They cover everything from the basics of their construction through how to connect and read data from them. The stylish sensor imagined above is available through the adafruit store, but you could always build your own. [thanks pt]
ONSHOULDERSTV understands exactly how TO utilize OPENSCAD
just recently there’s been a boost in the popularity of OpenSCAD as the tool of choice in the 3d printing community. [Gavilan Steinman] is putting out a series of webTV shorts on the utilize of OpenSCAD. While it lacks a great deal of the features of big CAD fits (such as the ability to produce drawings…
HIDDEN device DISTORTS news ON WIRELESS NETWORKS, BREWS BEER, IS TIME machine
We covered the Newstweek, a wall-wart sized box that injects fake news stories over public WiFi connections last February, but now there’s a terrific walk through and it seems our doubts about this project were disproved. The Newstweek uses ARP spoofing to change the text displayed on several news sites. After doing some field research,…
VIRTUAL ARCHERY game MAKES PRACTICING CONVENIENT, SAFE, as well as affordable
influenced by playing The legend of Zelda video game series, Cornell university trainees [Mohamed Abdellatif] as well as [Michael Ross] produced a online Archery game as their ECE 4760 final Project. The game consists of a bow equipped with online arrows as well as a target put about 20 ft away. The player has three…