Teagueduino: Learn to Make by Teague Teagueduino is an open source electronic board and interface that allows you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code, while teaching you the ropes of programming and embedded development (like arduino). Teagueduino is designed to help you discover your inner techno-geek and embrace the awesomeness of making things in realtime — even if you’ve only ever programmed your VCR. Teagueduino makes making things really simple. Want to build a light-controlled alarm clock? A harmonic music generator or a light that changes color based on temperature? Just plug in a sensor to one of the input ports (for example, a knob), hook up an output device (a speaker, perhaps?) Teagueduino makes learning about electronics and programming intuitive. Beginners can jump in without needing to know how to solder or write code. For those interested in learning how to work with electronics, there will be step-by-step tutorials for wiring up custom sensors and outputs.
Arduino My older son recently started school and needed his own desk for doing homework. I wanted to make something nicer than a simple tabletop with legs, and realized that I could also build in a bit of fun for when the homework is finished. Both my boys and I still had space travel on our minds from our summer trip to Kennedy Space Center. For this desk project, I decided to go with a NASA theme. I researched the Apollo Program as well as NASA's Mission Control Center, and designed my own console roughly based on those. The desk resides under my son's loft bed (which I also built), and stays closed until the homework is finished: When playtime begins, the lid flips up to reveal the Mission Control console: As I mentioned in the video, I painted the underside of the lid with magnetic primer. The programming of the console, which I posted to GitHub, has the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi working cooperatively. The CAPCOM panel has connections for the headset as well as volume controls.
10 OS X Pranks That'll Get You Beat Up--or Fired Posted 07/14/2009 at 5:08pm | by Arvind Srinivasan If you're thinking to yourself, "Wait, it's not April." Don't worry, we know exactly what we're doing here. Everyone expects pranks in April and the days leading up. No one expects a prank in the middle of summer. Oh, and if you get fired because of one of the pranks, it's summer time. Disclaimer: Use the pranks below at your own risk. 1 - I Know Where You Are... The Prank: How creepy would it be if your computer suddenly talked to you when you walked towards it? What you need: >Access to their Bluetooth phone and Mac. The Steps: 1) Find, or create, an .aiff sound that you want to play when your victim approaches their computer. 2) Save the file you found, or made, in ~/Library/Sounds. 3) Open script editor (Applications > AppleScript > Script Editor), type "beep" and then click compile. 4) Download Proximity and launch it. 5) Pair their phone to Proximity by selecting "Change Device." 2 - And You Thought it was Cut and Paste 3 - Oh Noes.
Latte Art Printing Machine – how to build one! « Oleksiy Pikalo Invents Latte Art Printing Machine – how to build one! Note: Due to the overwhelming response, I have decided to form a company OnLatte, Inc. Our new address is Note: if you are willing to register, you can help me to promote this idea on MyStarbucksIdea site Long time ago, I saw a great video about “Latte Art”, and figured that I absolutely must build a machine capable of printing the most beautiful art on top of my latte. So I bought a used x-y flatbed plotter (Philips 8155) on eBay and a great book by Matt Gilliland, titled “Inkjet Applications”. In this video I print out Starbucks logo for fun. So the question is, how can you build a system like this? You will need: 1) An old flatbed plotter (in my case it was Philips 8155) – make sure it has real x-y translation stage. 2) Most old plotters connect through GPIB/Serial interface -mine connected through GPIB interface, so I needed a GPIB card, which I also got on eBay. 3) Matt Gilliland’s book Inkjet Applications. Like this:
How To Become A Hacker - StumbleUpon Copyright © 2001 Eric S. Raymond As editor of the Jargon File and author of a few other well-known documents of similar nature, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizardly hacker?". Back in 1996 I noticed that there didn't seem to be any other FAQs or web documents that addressed this vital question, so I started this one. A lot of hackers now consider it definitive, and I suppose that means it is. Still, I don't claim to be the exclusive authority on this topic; if you don't like what you read here, write your own. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at Note: there is a list of Frequently Asked Questions at the end of this document. Numerous translations of this document are available: ArabicBelorussianBulgarianChinese, Czech. The five-dots-in-nine-squares diagram that decorates this document is called a glider. 1. 2. 3. 5. 2.
MTS2:Creator Guidelines/Sims 3 Body Shop This page was last modified 19:49, 21st March 2010. Uploading sim content? This guide will walk you through every step of what we require on MTS. Please make sure you read these guidelines carefully, as our standards have changed over the years, and there may be some items you weren't aware of before. At the end of the guidelines after full explanations of each item is a checklist, so you can make sure you've done everything you need to. If you've uploaded TS2 Bodyshop content, then many of these standards are the same; however please pay particular attention to requirements regarding recolourable channels. Quality The first thing moderators look for when moderating uploads is quality - simply, is the item good or not? Time and Effort This is probably the hardest one to quantify, but it's something that is obvious whenever upload moderators look at an upload: have you really expended some serious time and effort on a creation? Logos Not Too Bright Black and White Crisp/Unpixellated Screenshots
How Secure Is My Password? - StumbleUpon 5 Fun things To Do on School Computers - Pahgawks Animations - StumbleUpon November 26th, 2010 I know it's been a while, but I'm reinstating my weekly blog post policy. This week will be about something I've wanted to write about for a while: School computers! They're just too easy to hack and do fun stuff with, especially because teachers are just so incompetent with technology sometimes. 1. There's all kinds of really annoying things you can do with Javascript, and all you need in order to do some of these things is a text editor and a web browser. So what do you do with this code? So, what does this code do? 2. Yep, it's actually quite easy to do. Or if it's actionscript 3 write the following: Press Control-Enter when you're ready to crash your computer. 3. Want to be an administrator? Although, you have to replace USERNAME with whatever your username is. Note: This may or may not work if they have disabled the command prompt. 4. It's usually useless... Start > Run. It's bluescreeneriffic! 5. Open notepad. Warning On that light note, see you all next week!
The Humble Bundle for Android 2 (pay what you want and help charity) AppleScript: Beginner's Tutorial The following online materials are exerpted from the Apple Training Series book . Consider this chapter a “book within a book.” If you don't read any other chapter, read this one. To accomplish this goal, you’ll learn the fundamentals of AppleScript, and then put them to use as we step through the creation of a Finder Toolbar script, that you can use to instantly reset a cluttered desktop window display to a predefined window set. AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the Macintosh Operating System and many of its applications. Whether a task is as simple as copying a file or as complex as building a real estate catalog, AppleScript can perform the requisite actions for you with “intelligence,” controlling applications and making decisions based on its observations or from information provided by its interaction with the person running the script. How it works... Scripts are written in the Script Editor application, a free utility included with every copy of the Mac OS.