Solar engine

June 14, 2008 By 7 Comments

We spotted [Kerrin Mansfield]'s lovely solar engine on ladyada's rantings. It uses 16 1/8th inch solar cells to collect power. At night, an orange LED pulses at .2Hz. He doesn't have a specific write up on the construction, but from the component layout, it looks identical to [Gareth Branwyn]'s schematic in Make 08, which you can find in the PDF. … [Read more...]

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RoboGames 2008 photos and videos

June 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Laughing Squid's [Scott Beale] is attending RoboGames 2008. Check out the great pictures and videos he took on Flickr. … [Read more...]

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Detecting ISP throttling

June 14, 2008 By 7 Comments

ISPs have recently become very aggressive towards their customers. They've been blocking or altering traffic to prevent you from using specific programs or protocols. Google's Senior Policy Director recently stated that they're developing tools to allow people to detect ISP interference. A couple other groups have been building tools as well: The Network Neutrality Squad just released the second … [Read more...]

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PSP L2/R2 button mod

June 14, 2008 By 1 Comment

This is quickly becoming an unintentional "game controller Saturday". We haven't been covering the PSP much lately, so this is a treat. AcidMods forum member [Electro] put together a quick guide for adding two missing shoulder buttons to the PSP. The L2 and R2 buttons are used while playing Playstation 1 games and are usually mapped to directions on the joystick. This mod jumps the joystick's … [Read more...]

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X2Wii, NES/SNES/N64 to Wii adapter

June 14, 2008 By 3 Comments

If you poke around [Raphaël]'s site, the creator of today's featured hack, you'll find a lot of interesting projects. X2Wii is an ongoing project to adapt controllers from earlier console generations so they work with the Wii's GameCube ports. He adapted his Multiuse tiny1 which uses an ATmega8. The code is all assembly so the microcontroller can keep up with the protocol. Definitely check … [Read more...]

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Universal joystick USB interface

June 14, 2008 By 5 Comments

Building on his USB NES pad interface, [Raphaël] released a universal USB joystick interface. It presents a HID device with four directional buttons and eight general purpose buttons. The board uses an ATmega8 and implements USB entirely in software. … [Read more...]

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Exploit-Me Firefox XSS and SQL scanning addon

June 14, 2008 By 6 Comments

One of the best tools we saw at LayerOne was the Exploit-Me series presented by [Dan Sinclair]. Security Compass created these tools to help developers easily identify cross site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection vulnerabilities. … [Read more...]

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