Project: Open Door via Text Message

Project: Key-less door entry, that allows the user to open and close a dead bolt via SMS text messages. The project consists of a Parallax Spinneret Web Server, servo motor, a dead bolt and various home center metal parts. Twilio software runs on the web server monitoring incoming text messages and authenticating users.

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Video: Computer Virus Halloween Prank

In light of Halloween today, here is a bit of mischief you can do to your close friends and family members. You can download the flash executable here.

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Video: Playing Tetris On A Oscilloscope

Funny video of some guys playing tetris on what looks like a oscilloscope.


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Video: Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe

Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe demonstration.


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DIY: Make an alarm system in 3 minutes!

Small little project with a Cubloc CB280 Start Kit evaluation board. This guy shows how easy it is to put together a simple alarm with board, keypad, alarm, and reed switches. The code looks very simple. I have been trying to get this old ass alarm to work in my house. I think it is time for me to try to make something with a PIC micro-controller. Stay tuned for a write up of my project in the near future.


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Cornell Cracks Galileo’s Code

Members of Cornell’s Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe’s first global navigation satellite. The researchers published the codes and the methods used to extract them, giving free access to navigation devices that need PRNs to listen to satellites.

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