[rocketman] has posted about a new event at Defcon dubbed WarBallooning. They are using a Kismet drone (a modified WRT54G), a webcam, and a few high gain antennas. The balloon will be launched at about 15 stories and will be remotely fed targets chosen directly by the Defcon participants. The the directional antenna will be mounted to the camera so pan and tilt can be controlled. The Kismet CSV … [Read more...]
Esquire’s hackable e-paper display
July 30, 2008 By 29 Comments
In celebration of there 75th year, Esquire magazine's October issue will feature an e-paper cover. The display will be about 3mm thick flexible paper with four shades of gray and some animated text and images. The backside will also have a display featuring a Ford ad for the new Flex. The Ford ad is essentially subsidizing this whole production. The cover isn't finalized yet, but Boing Boing … [Read more...]
Robot red snapper
July 30, 2008 By 8 Comments
Engineers at the University of Kitakyushu have built this red snapper robot. Intended for wildlife surveys, this robot sports an array of sensors as well as a hand painted silicon body. It is decidedly more realistic looking than the Robofish and the Essex University robot fish. They say that the life like construction will aid in getting information about natural behavior of sea animals since it … [Read more...]
Bubbloo interactive floor display
July 30, 2008 By 5 Comments
Bubbloo is an interactive display at the Denver Art Museum. They appear to be embracing a more interactive approach to displaying some of their art and information. One of their displays, shown above, features a pair of projection systems working together to make a game. As you pop the bubbles, the artwork is displayed. You can see it definitely helps keep the kids amused.While the technology used … [Read more...]
Teenager invents vehicular antitheft system
July 30, 2008 By 31 Comments
We are very inspired by the story of [Morris Mbetsa], an 18-year-old Kenyan who's invented the "Block & Track", an antitheft and tracking system for vehicles that's phone-based. [Mbetsa] has no formal training, but he's been a lifelong inventor and tinkerer. [Mbetsa] combined voice, DTMF, and SMS text messaging technologies with cellphone based services to allow the owner to control the … [Read more...]
Nintendo Entertainment System hacks
July 30, 2008 By 5 Comments
MetaFilter has a nice roundup of various NES hacks. You might have seen these before, but it's great to see them all in one place. Our personal favorite is the NES in an NES cartridge, and who could forget the NES controller coffee table? Don't forget to check the comments for more interesting NES hacks. We think there's just something about the original Nintendo Entertainment System that inspires … [Read more...]
Shell case your flash drive
July 30, 2008 By 3 Comments
[Aki] sent in his collection of projects. We like his bullet shell cased USB flash drive and his take on our friend, the simple parallel port based logic analyzer. The flash drive uses a B style USB connector, mounted inside a big freakin' bullet shell. The logic analyzer is the classic version, but uses a rather nice unix compatible piece of software that supports up to 1mhz sampling rates. … [Read more...]
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