DIY: Quiz-O-Tron 3000

Instructables modder RoysterBot has a dilemma over the holidays, build a quiz system for a party he was headed to. He needed the buzz-in buttons to be sturdy and responsive so his obvious choice were Staple’s “Easy Button’s”. Super easy to hack, all he needed to do was add an Arduino and some custom software [...]

CPU Vs GPU – Mythbusters Style

We have all seen various arguments on CPU Vs GPU, but have you had it explained to you Mythbusters style? At the NVISION 08 show this past week, Jamie and Adam from the geek popular show Mythbusters wanted to show the difference between single and multicore processors, referring to CPUs and GPUs, respectively. They used [...]

Ridiculouslty Expensive Ethernet Cable

I’m sure that their are people out there who are stupid enough to spend $500.00 for a 1.5 meter ethernet cable. I should have come up with this idea, I would have become rich in a matter of months. Denon claims that using the old analog “signal fades over a distance of 5 feet” argument [...]

Chewing Gum Spy Cam

Remember all of those spy camera ads that we all saw as kids in the back of comic books? Okay, so only a few of us can remember that far back. This mini video and audio spy camera throws me back to my days of being a youth. It’s basically a run of the mill [...]