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PSP homebrew using the Half-Byte Loader

Posted: June 21st, 2010, 2:30pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Rich] tipped us off about the Half-Byte Loader which lets you run homebrew on late-model Sony PlayStation Portables. Above you can see a PSP Go running Doom (a screenshot from the video after the break), which is a prerequisite for any cracked device. HBL uses an exploit in the game demo of Patapon 2, which [...]
Audio breakout box for MacBook Pro

Posted: June 21st, 2010, 1:30pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Billy] wanted to use the audio connector on his MacBook Pro for input and output at the same time. He knew it could be done because Apple sells headphones with built-in microphones that work with the computer. He set out to build a breakout box so that he could connect the components of his choice [...]
Inductive charging for the HTC Evo

Posted: June 21st, 2010, 12:00pm MDT by Mike Szczys

[Danny] added wireless charging to his HTC Evo. The hard work was already done for him by Palm, it was just a matter of adding that hardware to his phone. A Touchstone induction charging kit for the Palm Pre will cost you just over $40 for the base station and a replacement back cover. [Danny's] [...]
Gaming’s newest accessory: headbands

Posted: June 21st, 2010, 10:31am MDT by Mike Szczys

These aren’t terrorists, they’re electrical engineering students. For their final project they developed a headband and rifle input system for the NES. The controllers send data to a laptop which then maps out the inputs to NES controller commands and sends them to an original NES console, no emulation here. The controllers in the headband [...]
$100 CNC mill

Posted: June 21st, 2010, 8:41am MDT by Caleb Kraft

This final project at MIT turned out quite nice. It is a CNC mill that cost under $100 to make. The tolerances are pretty tight as you can see in the pictures of the PCBs he has milled. He shows that he can even mill mild steel. It is a pretty brief writeup, but you [...]