It’s finally starting to warm up where I live on the 45th parallel, which means it’s just about lawn mowing season. It’s not a chore I typically enjoy, but this RC lawn mower designed and documented by Terry Creer looks like it might be a kick. Here’s the best feature, from the project website: THE […]
Lifehacker’s Adam Pash put together a nice overview for using CDHK, the firmware enhancement toolkit for consumer-grade Canon point and shoot cameras. With CHDK and a compatible Canon device, you can capture images in RAW format, display live RGB histograms while shooting, and even write custom UBASIC scripts to take time-lapse photos or capture lightning […]
Another semester’s worth of cool microcontroller projects has come to a close at Cornell University and Bruce Land sent us the results for the Spring 2008 ECE 4760 course: Students in ECE 4760 at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a project using Atmel Mega32 microcontrollers. Over 30 projects this […]
I wasn’t able to make it to last years DEFCON hacker/security conference, and DEFCON 16 isn’t until later this summer. As you can imagine, I’ve been a little impatient for a good ol’ info-security paranoia fix. Thankfully, it looks like a ton of videos from past conferences have been posted to the DEFCON site. This […]
When I created the “Hackers in Your Neighborhood” map last December, I wasn’t sure what the response would be. I was really happy to see it end up being really positive, with lots of hackers and organizations adding their marker to the map. I was just peeking in on its progress today and it looks […]
I haven’t done any coding in Flex yet, but I came across this howto today that illustrates how simple it is to pull in a Flash SWF that has an embedded font and use it within the Flex application. Embedding the bold, italic, and bold-italic sets for a font allows you to use the standard […]
Peter van der Graaf did a little analysis of the URLs that are generated by the Google Analytics Javascript API and put together a very useful tutorial for building Analytics-enabled applications without the use of Javascript. When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an […]
