Heat-Seeking Nerf Gun

The awesome heat-seeking Nerf gun won Make’s Gadget Freak Design Contest. The mod consists of a Nerf Vulcan Blaster hooked up to a few Devantech TPA81 Thermal Sensors and is controlled by an ATMega 168 processor. The unit acts exactly as it should, it tracks you via your heat signature and fires nerf bullets at [...]

Happy Birthday BBS

Just a few days ago, Feb 16 to be exact, in 1978 Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first ever Bulletin Board System in Chicago. Many people belive that the BBS was the predecesor to the modern internet, a crude form I will agree but a much more enjoyable form of social interaction online [...]

App Store Overwhelming? Try Chorus

With the iTunes app store pushing over 100,000 choices it’s easy to see how someone can easily be overwhelmed. If you’re like me you need some clarity amongst the sea of choices. Thankfully there is an app to help you out. Thanks to the wisdom of crowds, Chorus gives you recommendations from people you know [...]

DIY: Auto Tracking Sentry Gun

Every wanted to build you very own auto tracking sentry gun? No? Me either, but now that I take a look at it I do want to build one. Not one that fires bullets or anything, but one that would have a water gun on it to keep people out of my office. If you’re [...]

Water Drops At 2000 FPS

High speed video can be so much fun. Watching something that we normally take for granted on high speed film can really be amazing. Remember the bullets that were shot at 1,000,000 fps? Normally when we see a bullet being fired it happens in the blink of an eye, but when it’s slowed down you [...]

Bullets At 1,000,000 FPS

I’m not a big gun fan but watching a bullet is some metal at 1,000,000 frames per second slowed down to 30 frames per second is quite amazing. To put in perspective how fast the camera was that created this video lets do some math. Video is typically shot at 30 frames per second. This [...]

Still here, somewhere

I have to be blessed with some of the best readers on the internets. I vanish from time to time as life calls me and tech.nocr.at still manages to get all of these amazing readers time and time again. Where did I go this time? Well, as some of you might know, my passion, the [...]

Change Can Be Good

Someone somewhere once said that change can be both scary and good, well we have undergone some small changes that have instilled both those feeling in us here at tech.nocr.at. Syndication Some of you might have already noticed the new syndication images off to the right sidebar. Since I have received many emails asking if [...]

Retrieve Any File Via Email

The Murphy Mac weblog explains how to retrieve any file on your Mac using a simple AppleScript with Mail.app. Once you get it setup you can send an email to your home machine with a keyword in the subject and the full path to the file you want and the script will automatically email the [...]

New Exciting Features For The Blackberry

RIM (you know that tiny company in Canada) announced some highly anticipated features today for their flagship product, the Blackberry. Many of these new features make it easier to work and collaborate with your coworkers. I’m a heavy blackberry user so I’m excited to see all of these new features. Now if RIM would only [...]

Build Your Own Gears Of War Lancer, Sort Of

Wanna build your very own Lancer just like the one in the Gears of War game? Okay so it’s not technically a real weapon, but the plastic chainsaw moves, the unit lights up and it really does fire nerf bullets (Video after the break). All you’ll need is a toy chainsaw and a nerf gun [...]

Build your own Bullet Time Rig

Graffiti Research Lab has posted a set of step by step instructions on how to make your very own bullet time rig ala la Matrix on Instructables. They designed it for a Hip Hop video (Link to video) Now it’s not cheap, you still need to have over 20 cameras to make it work, but [...]