Check out Parallax’s GPS module that you can communicate to it using 4800 bps serial TTL and 5V DC power. You can use this for communicating with any microcontroller capable of RS232 communication. We will have to add on to our list of peripherals and DIY ideas on using this module to make a simple GPS tracking device.

The module provides current time, date, latitude, longitude, altitude, speed and travel direction/heading among other data, and can be used in a host of applications, including navigation, tracking systems, mapping, fleet management and robotics.

Check out Parallax’s new Hydra! It’s powered by their new Propeller chip, similar to XGamesystem.  Looks like it’s a retro-game system that’s been re-invented except now you can hack it anyway you want it.  You can connect it to TV and keyboard to start playing and hacking games!

Develop games, graphics and media applications with the Propeller Powered HYDRA Game Console. For beginner to intermediate coders, you need only basic programming experience in any BASIC or C-like language. All of the hardware and software you need are included (as shown in pictures), along with the comprehensive book on game programming for the Propeller in Spin and assembly language - “Game Programming for the Propeller Powered HYDRA”. Within the book, the HYDRA hardware is covered in detail with schematics, descriptions, and tips allowing you to take full advantage of its resources, including its expansion port and game card. Note: Printed book is black and white

Here’s a way to mod your Zune up to 40GB.
via engadget

Ouch! that hurts! As a animal lover, this is very controversial project!

Cool stuff on PS3!

Cool paintball machine gun! You will have harder time running away next time you are in the paintball field.

Every so I often I Google “paintball minigun“. This time it actually turned up something good. Special effects builder Rick Galinson has been working on a… wait for it… paintball minigun (cache). There is a video of a dry fire run on his site. He’s apparently having trouble with the triggers; I just want to know how he plans on loading it.

Rick has a lot of other cool projects. He’s got a cool two arm minigun prop (cache) (looks like Monev the Gale), A remote controlled submarine (cache), and a really cool telemetry suit (cache) for collecting upper body movement data.

For completeness’ sake you can check out Monty’s Miniguns for information on other paintball miniguns and miniguns in general.

via hackaday

We have a new face for our blog, which will be a wiki.  Wikis are becoming very popular these days
among the general public and large organizations.  In our experience over the last couple months
testing the wiki, the wikis provide far greater depth into how you can sort and store information.
Wiki would be something between HTML and Word DOC except 100 times faster in organizing
and re-organizing.  Now might be a good time to start your own wiki site, since wikipedia does
all sorts of filtering now days, you can make your own encyclopedia!  There are ways to have
your own wikipedia server…well…you will have to figure that one out.
Now if you type http://zedomax.com on your browser, you will get the new Zedomax Wiki page.
We might change it a little so if you need to bookmark the wiki, use http://zedomax.com/wiki.

You can still access our blog homepage using: http://zedomax.com/blog

So far, we have a feed reader that gives you feeds of cool tech blog sites and a DIY wiki we have not developed yet,
but future DIYs will be posted there.  Hopefully, we will be able to get a better unique look to our DIYs…
You are free to post your DIYs on here and if you have a technology related blog, please also feel free
to add your RSS feeds to Zedomax Feeds.  If you have any trouble, just send your RSS feed link to:

max@zedomax.com

You can also make your own page for reading your personal feeds, which would be shared with everyone else
of course because it’s a wiki.

We used mediawiki, which powers wikipedia. It seems like there’s a new wiki site popping up every week based on the
mediawiki. We also used some cool mediawiki extensions which are like plugins for the mediawiki.

We tried tikiwiki but after initial testing, it seemed to have good linking features but lacked stability.

Any suggestions appreciated in how we can make this wiki thing bring us more web traffic…hehe…isn’t that what we are all trying to do?

I think MediaWiki does has good features. Probably not the easiest to use but you can copy & paste a lot of stuff from Wikipedia,
Wikipedia is mostly based on non-copyright stuff anyways…
Interesting new wiki running MediaWiki:
AboutUs

Here’s a cool site for getting robot kits in Italy if you live in Italia!