Comments on: Welcome back, HackaDay links

By: Spanky

Spanky — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:00:23 +0000

That image is exactly the kind of thing I meant. Great work!

By: zombie_kicker

zombie_kicker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:35:39 +0000

@Kakapu4u

If you look at The Score’s contest details, it says you can request their alternate free entry, consisting of them sending you a 3×5 index card with a math problem needing a solution. Apparently, they don’t actually want you to enter for free…

By: Kakapu4u

Kakapu4u — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:01:48 +0000

Unfortunately, the practice of requiring a purchase to enter a giveaway is illegal in the US, with limited exceptions. Bad news for Ben Heck’s PS3. Contests that require purchase are considered lotteries, which are tightly regulated by the federal govt.

By: Howie

Howie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:37:30 +0000

I’ve just improved *my* hackaday immensely with some greasemonkey scripting. Find comments from a select few, or comments that contain a few keywords (hate is a good one), and just hide them from my page. My HAD is 50% less whiny now. :-) I got to do a little xpath/javascript hacking to do it, too.

By: adam

adam — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:25:51 +0000

Is it not possible to have multiple hack-a-day streams? I’m thinking mainly for RSS subscribers (such as myself), but what if there were a couple of blogs, so people who whine about stuff not being hacks, or being too simple can subscribe to/visit the hackaday.com/elitist-hacks blog?

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:23:17 +0000

Indeed, HaD links rock! Especially with classic Carrie Fisher photos like those! ;-)
Yes ‘The Gadget Show’ is a Channel 5 feature shown 8pm monday nights here in the UK, actually for most of the year it seems. Its actually quite watchable, but somewhat out of date in relation to internet news of course.
Plus the woman presenter Suzi Perry is quite the little hottie!
Its in the TV magazine type format, they put a lot of similar type gadgets up against each other in reviews, following some kind of theme which runs thru each show, (eg. pets, outdoors, sports etc) and score them accordingly. They also cover a lot of innovative new developments, incl visits to tech labs in other countries.
They also do a lot of web content incl videos, heres the link –

http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show

I dont know if anybody outside the UK can access the videos. If not, just use a suitable web-proxy.

By: walt

walt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:28:51 +0000

Yay!!!!!

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:58:14 +0000

So glad to see HaD links are back, I really missed them! =)

By: Howie

Howie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:59:30 +0000

those crutches look awesome. i would have killed for those when i was cast-bound for 3 months.

By: irootpiroot

irootpiroot — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:26:22 +0000

yes. thank you so much. now can we bring back comments with no capitals?

By: MS619

MS619 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:19:15 +0000

Holy crap, me being cranky brought back HAD links!
This is the best thing since I told Torrone to add a bikes category to the make:blog and he did it.

By: Mike Szczys

Mike Szczys — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:43:12 +0000

Those stilts are great… I can’t wait to explain this one at the ER.

By: DontBuyFromApple

DontBuyFromApple — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:16:43 +0000

mmm love seeing pantyhosed feet in high heels

By: Haku

Haku — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:17:54 +0000

The Gadget Show is usually pretty entertaining, apart from when they appear to be sales reps from an Apple store.
They do have build challenges where they take an idea of their own and get it built – usually by someone else, although the presenter Jason Bradbury did come up with a pretty unique idea he built himself a few years back – he took a Plantronics bluetooth headset apart and put the gubbins into a driving glove so you could answer phone calls like Inspector Gadget (only without needing an antenna), you put your thumb in your ear and speak into your little finger :)
Then there was the DIY car HUD GPS he did using a CD case as a transparent mirror to get a see-through sat-nav display. Unfortunately those two builds don’t appear to be on his website anymore.

By: Caleb Kraft

Caleb Kraft — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:11:54 +0000

@Tane,
I’ve loved Paul’s stuff on the dome projection setups. what else has he done?