We’ve seen these little toys called “sugar cubes” by GirlTech around for a while now. They are a toy block, with an LCD on the front and they respond to movement, button presses and they interact with each other if you stack them up. We’re just as curious as anyone else about their internals, but maybe not quite curious enough to rush out and buy one. Luckily, we don’t have to as [Joby] … [Read more...]
C# Portable Settings Provider
November 15, 2010 By 19 Comments
We live in a world where everything must be portable, ranging from mobile applications to making an application able to run on Linux, Windows and OS X. Making a C# application to be completely portable across all windows computers is a problem that Microsoft knows about and willingly admits they will not fix. [Mike] from Geek Republic has taken it upon himself to show us how to hack up some code … [Read more...]
Halloween House Has Been Known to Burst Into Song
November 1, 2010 By 24 Comments
Just a day after Halloween and a replacement for Michael Jackson has been found, in the form of a very talented musical house. Not only does this house come close to a Michael Jackson dance routine but can mimic the voice quite well. The house has also been known to do the Monster Mash as well as Sandstorm (Techno) by Darude. YouTube's KJ92508 has uploaded his Halloween conquests for all to … [Read more...]
C Sharp Development 101 – Part 2: Toolbox Controls
October 15, 2010 By 29 Comments
In this tutorial we are going to start finding out more about the toolbox we utilized in the previous tutorial. The Controls available in the toolbox are quite extensive and allow users to simplify a variety of everyday tasks such as manually creating and instantiating a textbox on a windows form. At the end of this tutorial you should be comfortable finding Controls in the Visual Studio … [Read more...]
GameBoy Advance Rapid Fire Hack
October 1, 2010 By 11 Comments
Ever find yourself in the middle of a Game Boy game and your hand cramps up? Save that sore wrist for something else because now you can hack the Game Boy Advance to add Rapid Fire for the B button. [William] has developed a way to do this by creating a simple circuit that generates a square wave on the B button when it is pressed. To do this hack all that was needed was a short shopping … [Read more...]
C Sharp Development 101 – Part 1: Hello World
September 30, 2010 By 55 Comments
In this tutorial we are going to get up close with the Visual Studio 2010 environment. We will learn how to make a console application as well as a form to display our hello world applications. This will give us an opportunity to view 2 types of solutions of the many available in Visual Studio. We will start making the console application first then progress to the forms application. First … [Read more...]
Magnets Capable of Brain Hacks
September 29, 2010 By 52 Comments
It has been recently discovered that all of the snap decisions that your brain makes on which hand to use to do simple tasks, such as picking up an object from a table, can now be automatically decided for you. This is done using magnetic stimulation that is applied using transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS. This TMS will affect the brains ability to process motor movements and reduces … [Read more...]
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