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Ben writes – “I love analog gauges, toggle switches, and other retro technology, so I had to find something to do with my small collection of antique gauges. The result is my PIC-based analog gauge controller, which takes serial data and displays it on the gauge. Right now it’s displaying CPU usage from my PC.” […]
EiED’s William Wong has an extremely thorough article on building a multimedia home control set up, he writes – “Home multimedia centers are popping up at stores but most are relatively closed boxes or are full blown PCs. Of course, engineers like myself love to get under the hood so this project is about building […]
The Ethernut project site has source/shcematics for building your own OSS hardware /software embedded ethernet devices – “Ethernut is an Open Source Hardware and Software Project for building tiny Embedded Ethernet Devices… Three Open Source Reference Designs are currently available… The software is an Open Source implementation of a Real Time Operating System called Nut/OS […]
Profile of ReCellular, a company gets about 75,000 used phones a week and recycles / refurbs them for other parts of the world – “With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a crucial role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing world, […]
Here’s a free DJ app for Macs with real time audio mixing and recording – “djay is the groundbreaking new software for Mac OS X. It takes full advantage of Apple’s latest audio and graphics technologies, and runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC processors. It supports all common file formats, such as mp3, aiff, […]
Windell writes – “JellyBean (the cat) participates in an experiment in simulated video feedback. This is done by taking the video (in real time) from an iSight webcam, and processing it with a little Quartz Composer program. This is an example from a tutorial that I’ve written about getting started with Quartz Composer. “ [via] […]
Here’s how to set up a Linux based answering machine from the Linux Hosting and Indian Users Group using a mic, phone line, modem and mgetty/vgetty – Link. Related: HOW TO make an Asterisk answering machine – Link. A Guide to VoIP and Asterisk – Link.
