Hackaday Links: Leap Day, 2012

marbles

The Earth orbits the Sun every 365.256 days. Because this number isn't a whole number, an extra day is tacked onto February every four years, unless the year is evenly divisible by 100, except in cases where the year is divisible by 400, or something like that. To commemorate this calendar hack, here's some stuff that has rolled in over the last week or so. Marble sequencer [Brian] sent … [Read more...]

Gitbrew brings OtherOS back to the PS3

otheros

Instead of simply watching the days pass by while the PSN network continues to be unavailable, why not do something useful with your PS3 console? [MS3FGX] wrote in to share some news regarding efforts to bring the OtherOS option back to the PS3. The team at gitbrew.org have been diligently working to bring Linux back to the console for a little while now, and have released a dual-boot firmware … [Read more...]