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Project enclosures the right way

Posted: November 7th, 2010, 2:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

[Stephen Eaton] created an enclosure and shared his process in a pair of blog post. We thought is was amusing that he remarks on how rarely his projects get the to point that you’d want to make an enclosure for them. We’ve certainly got a lot of bare-PCB creations lying around. But when it does [...]
IM-ME plays music in preparation for gaming

Posted: November 7th, 2010, 1:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

[Emmanuel Roussel] is coding a version of Tetris for the IM-ME. Before you get too excited, he hasn’t actually written the game yet, but instead started with the familiar theme music. The IM-ME has a piezo speak on board so it’s just a question of frequency and duration. [Emmanuel] developed an Open Office spread sheet [...]
Water use feedback changes behavior

Posted: November 7th, 2010, 12:00pm MST by Mike Szczys

How much water do you use when showering, or washing your hands, or washing the dishes? Not how much does the average person use, but how much to you use? That’s what the team over at Teague Labs set out to find with this water usage feedback system. The sensor used is a Koolance flow meter [...]
Exploit Bait and Switch

Posted: November 7th, 2010, 11:00am MST by James Munns

When a new virus or other piece of malware is identified, security researchers attempt to get a hold of the infection toolkit used by malicious users, and then apply this infection into a specially controlled environment in order to study how the virus spreads and communicates. Normally, these toolkits also include some sort of management [...]
Your mobile phone, now with 100% more RFID

Posted: November 7th, 2010, 9:00am MST by James Munns

More and more today, it is becoming harder to avoid having some sort of RFID tag in your wallet. [bunnie], of bunnie:studios decided to ease the clutter (and wireless interference) in his wallet by transplanting the RFID chip from one of his subway cards into his mobile phone. Rather than the tedious and possibly impossible [...]
The Transistor Takes on the Machine

Posted: November 7th, 2010, 6:13am MST by Jakob Griffith

It only took 4 hackerspaces, but we finally get to see a zombie movie inspired project; hackerspace The Transistor Takes on the Machine with a Dawn/Shawn of the Dead movie theme. Race cars disguised as zombies swarm toward the players, who then use laser tag like guns to “shoot” down the approaching undead. The whole [...]