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Tired of staring at those old incandescent lights in your factory car stereo. A blog article written by Jason at yorkspace.com take you through the process of adding super bright leds to your factory head unit. Once the factory face plate is removed, the incandescent bulbs can be replaced with blue super bright leds. With some leds, resistors, an some wire, you could change the overall effect of the factory head unit. This is a slick and cheap hack.
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Think about it, you place a glass under the spout select a drink and “BAM”, a perfectly mixed drink. This project allows a user to select a mixed drink from a keypad, the bar then properly pours the right drink out a spout into a glass. The project uses pumps to distribute the right amount of alcohol. A computer built into the bar, which is running a visual basic program that controls the pumps. A video on the site that shows the bar in action.
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According to the Mozilla Wiki, major changes to the way Firefox works will not be until Firefox 3 in 2007 in a bid to make it Firefox 2 more compatible.
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This cool simple hack, allows you to pick a Master Lock padlock, using a beer can. The hack involves making the beer into a flat sheet of aluminum, then cutting out a simple pattern. Once the pattern is made it can be bent to work as a padlock shim. This is a very simple hack and it works very well, i have tried it. No more worrying about forgetting the combination to your padlocks anymore.
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Rumors of the xbox 360 being hacked are possibly true. The hack is a firmware re write. A lot of people are speculating if this hack works, see for yourself. If it does work, will Microsoft require a firmware upgrade to fix this hack, like Sony did with the psp.In the forums on qj.net they have the Instruction to hack the Xbox 360
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Growing up, arcades were all the rage. I remember going after school just to watch local Street Fighter 2 masters fight it out at the arcade. Arcades are long gone with popularity of the home video games, like the PS2 and Xbox. If you always wanted a arcade at home, just make one. With the creation of Mame software. Many home video cabinets are popping up all over the web. The Webb Mame machine website is one of the most indepth sites about creating a Mame machine. Webb Mame site has indepth articles and full drawings of the cabinet.
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A contest to get Windows XP running on a Mac has been won. Colin Nederkoorn contest coordinator announced today that hackers “narf2006†and “blanka†have successfully duel booted Windows XP and OSX. The announcement has came days after speculation that the contest was successfully won. Colin Nederkoorn created the contest which has raised $13,854 in donations to anyone who successfully gets Windows XP running on a Mac without any type of emulation. With this successfully hack it allows Windows users to take advantage of the mac hardware and Mac users with the ability to run Windows applications. This breakthrough gives users what they wanted for a long time. To bad greedy companies don’t just give the consumer what they want.
Original contest website: www.onmac.net
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If you are in need of a bench top power supply for all your electronic projects, this stabilized unit from hobby-elec.org might be worth building. As a undergraduate in college I based my senior project on this example. I needed a good power supply to test many of my other projects. I figured that I might as well just make something that can be useful even after I graduated. I did my research and found this power supply circuit example. the project was a bench top power supply, 5v – 30v @ 4A max. It was based around a switching power regulator. The guide shows how to complete the whole project and even test it.
This is not a simple project for the first time electronic enthusiast, but it is something that could be very valuable when completed. This guide is a translation from the original Japanese site.
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The original balancing scooter I made in late 2002 had some shortcomings, so in January 2005 I set out to make a better one. Version 2 is faster, lighter, smoother, and has more range. It has 3 inches more ground clearance, it’s an inch narrower so it fits through doorways better, and it has a much better steering system.
I you ever wanted to build a segway? Here you go. This guys first attempt was not good enough, so he decided to REBILD. You could see some photos of the scooter in action.
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First, to Defense Review’s knowledge, the basic NRI AutoCopter is currently one of the most advanced/innovative unmanned mini-helicopters in the world, and one of the two best unmanned mini-helicopters for under $100,000 (the other is made by Rotomotion, LLC). What’s so innovative about it? Well, for starters, the AutoCopter is…
self-stabilized, using patented “intelligent” neural network-based flight control algorithms (fancy engineer-speak for “automated flight controls”) to allow anyone to fly the AutoCopter with little to no previous remote-control (RC) piloting experience. These automated flight controls make the AutoCopter the easiest mini-unmanned helicopter to to fly, and the hardest to crash. Basically, the AutoCopter’s neural networked-based automatic flight control system won’t allow the pilot to do anything catastrophic (a.k.a. stupid).
What they think of in Alabama. How would you like to see this flying down your street. I don’t know if I would pay 100k for it, but maybe the military will. I wonder how many hunters are drooling over this high-flying assassin. A hunter would never have to leave the campsite to shoot an elk.
more on the Weaponized AutoCopter….
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