With a couple hours of work, it’s pretty simple to pull the power supply from an old PC relic and turn it into a pretty decent bench system for powering your electronics projects. The standard ATX power supplys that you find in desktop computers have regulated 5 and 12 and 3.3 Volt outputs with sufficient […]
InexorableTash wrote an Apple II program in assembly that receives streaming video from a Windows PC over a 115kbps serial connection. Why? So his nautilus avatar could wander about in Second Life on hardware: For another fun example of new software on the Apple II, check out this video of a Wolfenstein-like game called “Escape […]
I caught this self-referential tutorial on YouTube today which walks you through the basics of the YouTube API. It appears to be quite simple to develop Javascript or Flash applications that can control or interact with the YouTube player, or even completely reskin the interface. What I didn’t know until recently was that the API […]
CupBoy from the Nihilogic blog wrote a Javascript Super Mario engine which compresses down to just 14K. This includes all of the audio and sprite data for the little demo, which are both encoded within the single Javascript file. The sprites are stored in custom encoded strings in a format that only allows 4 colors […]
I had the challenge of adding Google Analytics tracking code to all the outbound links on a site I’ve been working on. There are hundreds of these links scattered around the site, so rather than try and edit a bunch of links, manually adding onclick handlers in an error-prone fashion, I decided to get lazy […]
For a buck’s worth of materials, you can quiet your PC by damping your hard disk’s vibration: As the pictures show, the drive is essentially suspended on the stretched elastic. The resilience of the elastic stops all vibrations from passing from the drive to the case — or vice versa, for that matter. … When […]
There’s a good post on the O’Reilly Rich Internet Application blog about running Air under Linux on the EeePC: Adobe recently released the first public alpha version of the AIR runtime for Linux on labs. This is great news! I felt compelled to “geek out” with it, and was able to get AIR running on […]
