Wiimote Leveltool
Can’t find your bubble/spirit level? No prob. Just download this software and install it on your Wii and use your Wiimote as a level. Leveltool
Hacks
Drag and drop Super Mario
NES emulator hacker Xkeeper has been working on a Lua script that allows you to manipulate Super Mario Bros. game objects right in the middle of game play: FCEUX is a NES emulator. It has Lua scripting support, and in the latest versions, a feature that allows you to grab input from the mouse and […]
Arduino-powered holiday lights
I wanted to take control of the lights on my Christmas tree this year, so I read everything I could about interfacing an LED matrix. The idea was to have a setup where I could turn individual lights on and off, and run a little program that did something more than your typical strand of […]
iPhone: Singing the Praises of iTunes:
I was really grateful that I could initialize and configure the iPhone using iTunes. It’s a complete break with the way we buy a cellphone. Plus, iTunes keeps insinuating itself into my life, helping me manage more and more of the content I care about. iTunes is becoming an important desktop application, growing up from […]
Server-side Javascript/DOM – search friendly AJAX?
John Resig posted yesterday about his experiments with creating a full Javascript/DOM pseudo-browser environment that runs from the command line: This weekend I took a big step in upping the ante for JavaScript as a Language. At some point last Friday evening I started coding and didn’t stop until sometime mid-Monday. The result is a […]
TiVo Hacks Roundup (with Caller ID Hack)
SatelliteSweeper has a great roundup of 23 TiVo hacks to turbocharge your DVR: Learn to modify your Tivo or DVR to show Caller ID on your TV when you get a phone call, store over 5 times more recordings than a standard DVR, transfer files to and from your PC and more… They’re all great, […]
Loading 3D Model Data In Flash At Runtime
I was working on a small 3D flash program today and wanted it to read in it’s model data from a file that I created with another program, such as Blender. I’m not sure if it’s the best way to do things, but it was fairly painless to export the model data to a plaintext […]
