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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. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in News on Mar 22nd, 2006
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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Posted in Hacks, Tools and Equipment on Mar 21st, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Hacks, Video Games on Mar 19th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Computers, Mame, Video Games on Mar 17th, 2006
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Tools and Equipment on Mar 16th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Vehicles on Mar 13th, 2006
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 [...]
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 [...]
