Whether you’re an avid electronics guru or an armchair robo hacker, you’ve probably encountered a situation where it would be nice for your project to communicate information wirelessly. David from uC Hobby wrote in with a cheap solution to the problem: Need a simple, one-way, wireless data transmission for your microcontroller projects? This article will […]
I’ve known people that will find a specific room based on what problem they’re trying to solve, perhaps there’s something to it… “When a person is in a space with a 10-foot ceiling, they will tend to think more freely, more abstractly,” said Meyers-Levy. “They might process more abstract connections between objects in a room, […]
Adds C02 emission information to travel sites, extremely clever – Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce website. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Following versions will work with car directions, car rental, and shipping websites. Think of […]
Starting today you can use Google to make your own “gadget” that can be added to your site. From the Seattle PI – Getting more people to log in to the site is important to Google because it allows the company to log more data that helps its algorithms better understand the nuances underlying many […]
Yod’m 3D is a freeware virtual desktop manager for Vista that provides a three dimensional spinning cube effect, similar to a Beryl effect. It’s not open source and it doesn’t provide all the features of Beryl, but it looks pretty slick and I really dig the cubic virtual desktop metaphor for some reason. Yod’m 3D […]
Every time I launch Firefox I’m usually researching something online and/or something that has appeared on MAKE – so here’s a fun feature… You can have two pages open up in tabs as your start page, just put a link, the pipe symbol “|” and the other URL – handy!
Putting a RAID 0 (striped) disk array in your laptop is a double edged sword. One the one hand, it’s twice as likely to have a disk failure. One the other hand, it can make disk-bound activity, such as uncompressed video reading and writing, much faster. Frankly, with processor, bus and memory speeds as fast […]
