Rafael Mizrahi sent in a link to his Real Virtual Skater project, a real skateboard turned game controller for use with Tony Hawk Pro Skater. The deck uses a Wiimote to capture accelerometer data and send it over Bluetooth to software on the PC. This software then sends emulated keystrokes to the game in response […]
As the title suggests, s3fs is a FUSE-based file system for Amazon S3. What this means is that you can mount an S3 bucket and use it just like a standard disk—a crazy-huge distributed disk that you can mount from any machine. s3fs supports mode (e.g., chmod), mtime (e.g, touch) and uid/gid (chown). s3fs stores […]
This hack shows how to lengthen your camera’s flash cord by building your own with a CAT5 cable and some spare jacks. This was tested with both 5 feet and 50 feet extensions and it worked flawlessly to trigger the flash. Much cheaper than shelling out the cash for new cable. via DIY Photography
Brett O’Connor wrote an informative article on using Amazon’s EC2 service to host a Bittorrent client. For an estimated $75/mo, he can feed his torrent addiction without impacting the bandwidth on his local network. For me, at home, trying to maintain my ratio has caused big problems for my evening Left 4 Dead sessions, and […]
Ralf Ackermann sent in this suggestion for soldering an alternate connector straight to an SD card for a cheaper way to use SD/MMC cards in an embedded project. Pictured is his ATMega based MIDI recorder/player that uses this design. This reminded me of another hack by Rob Wentworth. He noticed that the pin spacing on […]
In response to my previous post on creating panoramic photos in Linux, reader Tim pointed us to this DIY camera mount tutorial. When you rotate the camera to take different frames of the panoramic shot, it’s likely that the images of nearby objects will experience a perceptible parallax effect, which can cause problems during the […]
Using a standard webcam and some Americium 241 from a fire detector, Jared Bouck created a PC interface for visualizing alpha radiation. The basic idea behind this project is using the built in CCD in a USB web camera as a medium for alpha radiation to interact with. The result is a visual presentation of […]
