DIY: Balancing Robot

Here’s a great project to work on if your just getting into robots. The self-balancing robot doesn’t use any fancy accelerometers or gyroscopes, all you really need is a motor and some gears (with a few additional items you might have around the workshop). This is a very simple robot that uses a simple switch [...]

11 WordPress Plugins For Professional Bloggers

In a world filled with enough plugins to make your head spin, it can be quite frustrating looking for that right plugin to do that job your after. Most bloggers have spent countless hours sifting through google or wordpress.org looking for a plugin to do something they are after but just can’t come up with [...]

Anti-Paparazzi Glasses

Sure, if your being chased by an angry mob of paparazzi or if your afraid of big brother watching you you might need some diversion tactics like an IR hat or these anti-paparazzi shades. If your in need of said diversion tactic then building these puppies is a snap. Attach two small but powerful IR [...]

3G, GPS, MobileMe, Oh My

After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]

Proper Electronic Enclosures

Picking the right enclosure for your next DIY electronics project can be daunting at best. Sparkfun electronics has a great write up about how to go about getting the right case for your project. They give a great layout of how to get those holes for switches and button just right. They even explain how [...]

Make A Push Button Ignition For Your Car

Have you even felt that using a key to start you car is just foolish? Neither have I, but if you want to get up and go in a hurray, or if you want to feel like your in some super duper fast drag car then this hack is for you. “When i first saw [...]

First Looks At Mobile Firefox

Mozilla has just revealed a first look into its new Mobile Firefox interface. The new mobile browser will come in two flavours: one for touch screen devices like the iPhone and most PDA’s, and one for non touch devices, like most cell phones. Firefox mobile offers a familiar layout to all you iPhone and iPod [...]

Protect Your PC With A Magnet

Did you know that you could protect your PC or most other devices that use a power source from being powered on with nothing more than a magnet? All you need is a reed switch, a magnet and some duct tape. This is of course a basic protection and someone who really wanted to access [...]

Lightsaber For Your Wii

You ever wanted your very own Lightsaber for your Wii? Okay maybe it hasn’t been on the top of your priority list, but if it is Camy’s Pro Gear Wii Light Swords come perfectly into play. These coloured plastic Wiimote holders are available in 3 colour for either the Jedi or Sith in you. The [...]

Blackjack! Save $840 a year.

Blackjack! The Samsung Blackjack is an awesome phone but when I tried to connect it to my computer on the road like I did with my old Razr, I hit a brick wall. So, what was wrong? After 45 minutes of hold time, you’d be surprised what I was told. Cingular “The new AT&T”, we’ll [...]

Google todo away with paid video

First we report that google is going to offer more storage on gmail for a cost an now google is doing away with their pay per video content. I guess it won’t be that big a deal if the content that people purchased was to remain payable, but this is a huge problem since any [...]

Google Earth Sky Easteregg

I was playing around with Google Earth’s new “Sky” feature, and it turns out that Google Campus, US is near the California Nebula. All of the Sightseeing spots still “work”. Check out some of the other sights, like Forbidden City or Manhattan. Add your home address into your “My Places” (While in Earth mode) switch [...]

Microsoft puts the smack down on AutoPatcher

AutoPatcher.com has been a safe haven for Sysadmins who don’t know how or want to deploy a WSUS “Windows Server Update Services” server (and all the headache that comes along with it). For those who don’t know, AutoPatcher was a portable “Windows Update”+. You could literally take it around on a thumb drive, (or the [...]

Clean up cable clutter

How many of us have a cables cluttering up desks, tabletops and nightstands. Below is a video showing a simple and easy way to clean up the cable clutter. I would warn you that almost every powerbrick produces heat so make sure you don’t end up with a neat box that catches fire and burns [...]

26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256

I always feel the need to speed up the process of backup my my dvd’s and encoding them with DVD:RIP, I’m sure this bad boy would make it fly. Calvin College student Tim Brom built, from scratch, a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer that runs off of a single wall outlet for about $1200. The supercomputer, called [...]

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