Here’s how you can use the Wiimote’s built-in accelerometers to measure your ride’s G forces and 0-60 time: I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment. Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, acceleration and even calculate my own 0-60mph times! […]
A working patch was released today that will allow you to use an external USB device as the primary storage for your audio and video media. Just a recap for those who are not familiar with this. A few months back, AppleTVHacks.net and FatWallet set up a bounty looking for a way to use an […]
Hackszine reader ozastro made a request for a southern hemisphere night sky guide. Instead of a specific southern sky guide, here are a couple of really nice open source astronomy packages that you can download. One will allow you to view the night sky from any point on Earth, and the other will let you […]
To control a lot of components, especially motors, physical devices or bright LEDs, you typically need to accommodate more current than your typical microcontroller can provide. Eric Wolf wrote a nice introduction for using transistors as a current amplifier to solve this common scenario. In regard to current capability, generally speaking, most microcontrollers will only […]
Pavs sent in a link to a program for Windows XP called Security Cloak, which can be used to tweak your machine’s TCP/IP fingerprint to look like something else: Security Cloak is designed to protect against TCP/IP stack fingerprinting and computer identification/information leakage via timestamp and window options by modifying relevant registry keys. The settings […]
Erica Sadun at TUAW posted a slick reference for getting the Dropbear SSH server running on the iPhone: Over at the #iphone channel at irc.osx86.hu, the thoroughly awesome NerveGas has figured out how to enable ssh on the iPhone without using restore mode. The secret lies in overwriting an existing binary and plist to trick […]
Can you spot Ursa Major, Polaris, Cassiopeia, Betelgeuse, and Orion in the photo above? Know which way is North? If not, here’s a quick 15 minute drill that will teach you how to recognize a few constellations and navigate at night (assuming you live in the northern hemisphere). For you city folk, this could come […]
