Hackaday Links: December 7 2009

glowing_wooden_sculptures

Ah the beauty of watching molten solder pull SMD components into place. Yeah, we've seen it before, but for some reason it never gets old. The glory days of wardriving are certainly behind us but if you're still hunting in certain areas for access points you can leave the laptop at home. A homebrew program called Road Dog can turn your PSP into a WiFi search device. You must be able to run … [Read more...]

Subwoofer makes cornstarch dance

People tend not to think about the non-Newtonian properties of foodstuffs, but we're glad at least one person did. When it comes to cornstarch, it's indeterminate viscosity when mixed with water made it the perfect solution for a pretty neat trick: making a liquid move in reaction to a subwoofer. The unique motion can be attributed to the physical properties of the solution: when enough force is … [Read more...]