Why is it call 01//atch? Todd Baily said is because “there are 10 types of people in the world, those who read binary, and those who dont”. Its a clear binary LED “01//atch”. Additional features are accessible through a scrolling menu system on its 3 x 4 LED matrix. Current features include: voltage meter, binary counter, club mode and time display.
Since Apple released new MacBooks you can now pick up the old iBook for a pretty cheap price. Few guys from University of Saskatchewan teach you how to do some modification to the iBook. You can find some appearence mod, hard drive replacement and even over clocking with screen/hinge repair. Take a look at their website here.
Ben Heckendorn has released details about his latest creation that will put those little Game Boys in their place, the nPod. This custom NES chip based handheld videogame console sports a 3.5″ screen and takes 4 AA batteries. You can read more in at BenHeck!
Nick Dawkins has made an interesting spinning LED device. As it spins it can display the time and a picture of the globe. He uses 19 LEDs and a 24V motor for the main drive. To be easy, he uses a battery to power the PCB and LEDs. Check out his website, he will update the site with full built instruction and make the final source code free to download.
Want to have something different from everyone? This is a nice hack that will allow you to remote control your original Xbox from your PSP or DS. This hack works not only on the Xbox controller, but just about any controller you can throw at it.
Robodyssey shows how to upgrade the Robosapien; “We hacked a Robosapien just because we thought they were so cool. After taking our robot on a couple of field trips, we were ask so many times “How did you do that?” that we decided to post the instructions. Well, here they are. We will be selling kits shortly that will allow several toy “hacks”“.
The HandySwipe provides a portable magnetic card reader interface and display. It collects card data from a “Type 2″ card reader (shown here), and displays the data on a small character LCD screen. Type 2 stripes are by far the most common in use, such as on credit cards and drivers licenses. More info after the jump.
Crabfu SteamWorks writes “Steam Powered Armatron Hack. Taking the best toy ever made - Armatron, and hacking it to be powered by a steam engine. There are no electronics or batteries what so ever, purely a mechanical robotic arm powered by steam.”
Want to have a Gmail drive on your computer? With just a Gmail account and of course an internet connection, you will have extra few gigabytes of storage for free. You can use it as a central file server that is accessible from anywhere you can access Gmail. You can store any files but as long as its not more than 10MB each. This is not illegal, dont worry. Learn how to do it after the jump.
Ryan writes - “Ive been following with much interest these robo-one style robots. The servo powered little humanoids with amazing capabilities. I saw a few video clips of the KHR-1 humanoid and decided I wanted it. Then I saw the price. Around $1,200. Then i decided i could build one myself. Imagine a doll, crossed with a robo-one robot. Its a computer cotrolled robot doll. Very cool, and a little creepy all at the same time.”
