We’ve seen plenty of human-powered fair attractions, however most of them make use of pedals, levers or perhaps re-purposed bicycles as their interface for locomotion. This one is a bit simpler than that, as the operator just grabs onto the guard rail and pulls, kind of like a vertical roundabout.
Posted by YouTuber Adalipu, whose channel contains a number of videos of these “Display2000” modules. This video only shows two modules scrolling a single letter, but a total of ten modules were constructed. There’s more info over on Hack a Day.
Interested in playing with the open-source Beagleboard, but don’t have a DVI-capable monitor to use it with?
What gives with multi-touch on the Android OS? Earlier this month when asked about multi-touch on the Nexus One, Google seemed a little touchy about it. It would seem both the hardware and software support multi-touch, but you won’t see it implemented in any of the built-in applications. That’s OK because folks like cyanogen go out of their way to explore the possibilities.
Mobile hacker Brandon Roberts has managed to shoehorn Android onto his N900 along with the Maemo 5 OS for a dual boot setup.
The application I chose to use as an example is “yet another sudoku puzzle solver”. This program uses a very simple depth-first recursive backtracking algorithm with up-front and ongoing elimination of invalid entries.
The release of the TI Chronos development kit is exciting not only because it is a cool piece of hardware, but I expect to see many great projects that cleverly exploit the resources of the Chronos. This nifty hack wirelessly unlocks a door using the built-in accelerometer to detect coded taps on the watch. [via […]
