Bizarre car accidents
Dark Roasted Blend has a gallery of seriously strange and guiltily entertaining car accidents. Oops! – Weirdest Accidents
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Use DMX to control your lights
This cool new DMX module from Tinker (the team behind the immensely popular Arduino controller) is a device that can receive DMX messages and control many different types of lights. It is powered by 12 volts DC and set inside a DIN enclosure. DMX messages are converted into PWM signals driving 4 power MOSFETs and […]
Keyboard buzzer to replace console bell
Matt Mets writes: Being a console junky, I am always looking for ways to improve my experience at the terminal. One thing that is is dire need of improvement is the console bell. You know, the really annoying beeping sound that occurs when you pressed the wrong key, that you immediately disable when setting up […]
Cell phones as diagnostic tools in areas without ultrasound & X-Ray machines
Cell phones as diagnostic tools in areas without ultrasound & X-Ray machines via Book of Joe. A professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues have developed a cheaper way to perform medical imaging using a cellular phone. Boris Rubinsky’s team has developed a portable medical scanner that can be plugged […]
Immune Attack – 3D first-person shooter game… teaches immunology
Immune Attack is a shoot’em edu-game that teaches immunology! via /. . Available for PC, in vitro, in situ, and in vivo. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) presents Immune Attackâ„¢, an educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. Designed as a supplemental learning tool, […]
HOW TO – Make 3D glasses for an old Silicon Graphics box
Mark writes in… Ever since I got myself an Octane, I’ve got a renewed interest in everything Silicon Graphics. And with that, my old (imaginary) list of things-to-do with such a machine has been dusted off too. One of those things was making some 3D shutter glasses (cheap). And even though I’m tinkering with SGIs […]
DIY: USB Bit Whacker
Sumanth sent us a link to a DIY USB Bit Whacker, which can be built in about 10 minutes. You can buy commercial version, but if you have a PIC18F2550 lying around you might as well make it. Calling the USB Bit Whacker a virtual parallel port is doing it a disservice; it’s much, much […]
