If you’ve ever needed to place a VGA monitor further than the standard 6 foot cable allows, you may be familiar with some of these problems: VGA cables are expensive Several cables chained together affects signal quality Running a VGA cable through conduit is pretty difficult You can avoid a lot of these problems by […]
Here’s an innovative use of recycled HD-video electronics: NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently. The cracker is built out of surplus Grass Valley HD video transform […]
I decided to brave the manure, mullets and *-on-a-stick this weekend and swung by the state fair. It seems like every time I go there are a couple people walking around all day with enormous stuffed animals, presumably won through some feat of basketball tossing or ring flinging. Enormous. Impossible to win enormous. Paid carnival […]
The latest version of Google Earth contains a hidden feature: a full-fledged flight simulator! Press Command+Option+A in OS X or Ctrl+Alt+A on a PC or Linux box and you’ll be greeted with a hidden dialog box that lets you choose an aircraft (F16 or SR22) and an airport. Once you’ve made you selection, you’ll be […]
Until now, you’ve needed to be selective about what applications are added to the iPhone’s home screen. There are a lot of great 3rd party apps becoming available, but the OS doesn’t have the ability to show more than 16 at a time on the home screen. Nate True fixed this problem with Dock, an […]
Erling Ellingsen figured out how to retrieve high sample rate measurements from the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer: As it turns out, the iPhone has a built-in LIS302DL, a tiny 3-axis accelerometer. While some have attempted to use it from within the Safari browser (the Tilt game detects changes to the width of the browser page; it […]
Here’s a weird arc-welding meets soldering hack. You can use a 12 volt car battery (or charger) and a length of graphite pencil to solder connections. The graphite is connected to one jumper cable and a length of solder to the other. Touching them both to the connection closes the circuit, heats up the connection […]
