Here’s a cool howto on using a multimeter. This could be very useful if you are a hacker, inventor, gadgeteer, maker, or ninja among other super human beings…
It could be helpful to know the next time your wife asks you how many volts is running through the power line that your dog or cat stripped…

Check out the pdf too!

This Make: Video Podcast brings you another tutorial featuring hardware hacker Joe Grand. This weekend, dust off that multimeter and learn how to use it! In this video you’ll learn how to check for continuity, measure resistance and measure voltage. These measurements are really handy to have in your bag of tricks if you are messing around with electronics. Make sure to download the accompanying pdf so that you can print it out and have it next to you as you become familiar with these essential multimeter skills.

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Here’s an interesting video on making your wifi encrypted at 2048 bits! The video itself is kinda crappy (not that I can make a better video), but the information is great. I wonder how long it will take to crack 2048bit WEP…if there is one…

Yes, we need to do something about these keys for touch-screen voting machines… These keys
were COPIED via pictures! Why are they using such outdated technology for high-tech
touch-screens? Leave comments!

It was revealed in the course of last summer’s landmark virus hack of a Diebold touch-screen voting system at Princeton University that, incredibly, the company uses the same key to open every machine. It’s also an easy key to buy at any office supply store since it’s used for filing cabinets and hotel mini-bars! That is, if you’re not a poll worker who already has one from the last time you worked on an election (anybody listening down there in San Diego?).

The Princeton Diebold Virus Hack, if you’ve been living in a cave, found that a single person with 60 seconds of unsupervised access to the system, who either picked the lock (easy in 10 seconds) or had a key, could slip a vote-swapping virus onto a single machine which could then undetectably affect every other machine in the county to steal an entire election.

But the folks at Princeton who discovered the hack (after our own organization, VelvetRevolution.us, gave them the Diebold touch-screen machine on which to perform their tests) had resisted showing exactly what the key looked like in order to hold on to some semblance of security for Diebold’s Disposable Touch-Screen Voting Systems.

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This weather station built by couple Oregon college students have been around, but very cool
to know if you are trying to build one from scratch.

The Remote Weather Station (RWS) is a computerized weather monitoring system using MINI-MAX/51-C micro-controller board from BiPOM Electronics and various sensors. RWS consists of  two separate modules ( display module and weather module ) that are wirelessly linked together. RWS was developed by an ambitious team of students at Oregon Institute of Technology. We express our gratitude to them for allowing us to post detailed information and pictures about the RWS on our website.

Here’s some cool CNC machine plans that you can buy…can they send us a sample?
The CNC looks nice, doesn’t it? Kinda like the one Garrett made…

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You can submit your DIY ideas to Mr. Blank if it is too classified or you are too shy. Mr. Blank is an open-source guy personality, cool…
Also, check out his first matchstick rocket video!  (yes, up there dude…or  grrrr….)

Blank (me) is an open-source identity that web denizens can use if they want to show the world some great DIY, but are too shy (or if the DIY is of a necessarily anonymous nature

“UNIQUE VISITORS” is the difference of “HITS” from 10 years ago to now.  Everyone with a website knows what a “unique visitor” is.  If you asked someone 10 years ago, they wouldn’t know it or probably rather pick their nose.

Well, I am not an expert in the blogging subject, but I think I have more enough know-how than your regular joe.
The market that is not being tapped in the Internet marketing world are the blog ads that are out there. You can grab some really low CPM ads over Google AdSense.
The best thing about these blog ads is that you only pay once and you don’t have to pay for all the clicks and impressions. Based on past history of the blog, you are free to post some advertisements. Blogs seems to be very stable. You can check out some traffic of any website on alexa.com. There are some other ones out there but I feel that Alexa.com does a good job.  Make sure to check on your stocks and check out some of the latest emerging blogs… you will see that your stocks really suck yet blogs are really starting to rocket…
Here’s two of my favorite blog ads:

Blogads.com - Great CPM but their website seems to be down sometimes, well the ads keep going but…
Performancing.com - A lot of blogs including this one but their website seems to have some quirks to fix since they’ve been recently acquired by someone else.

Even though these are not greatest ads, it could be your path to guerilla internet marketing… well again, I am not an expert, but just an honest opinion from a techy blogger…

The cool thing is that some of these “blog ads” can cost you almost $10 Gs for some celebrity blog! BUT, do check out the advertisers on those sites. They are all big companies like Helios, Sony, etc…etc…

I suggested this to my boss and he figured it was a good idea to try and see what happens, so we will update you on the results of our Guerilla Internet Market over the next couple weeks… In the meanwhile, try to promote our website by coming BACK! Thanks to everyone who watch us and Cheers!

I’ve tried Google adsense and it does work but the cost per impression and cost per click is way too high and sometimes you get some of these bogus clicks!
So today’s lesson from Zedomax is to get some Blog ads!  Our ad on performancing is 11 cents, so go get it and help us keep maintain the site and get some easy traffic to your site!

Blog ads works!  (I think….we will update you with results soon…)

Okay, enough of this for tonight and we will get back to hacking, DIYs, and more gadgets… :p

My work place is hiring bunch of new people and offering some express programming service for inventors, engineers, makers, and tinkerers out there who want to make some cool touchscreen applications.
I got some hookups from my boss so you can use the Promo Code “ZEDOMAX” for 40% discounts for your future projects, make sure to check it out!  The offer ends end of March so if you got a touchscreen project and need some quick programming, this might be for you.

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Hey here’s a cool feed reader you can make. (Hey, Phillip, send me a make mp3 so i can start hacking it, we are in hibernation ‘cauz we really need a desktop mp3 player…)

Okay, we agree that we request too many free stuff but at least we do make things…hopefully a lot of them when we get out of our weird hibernation mode right now…

In the meanwhile, do check out our new video site dabomb.tv!

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P.S. Yes, my work address is:

550 Pilgrim Dr.Ste.K

Foster City, CA 94404

If anyone has some cool peripherals (such as GPS modules and whatnot), please feel free to send them here, we will make sure to hack it and make a new DIY…
Send us SAMPLES! Yes, we are cheap but at least we are doing somethin’ hehe….

P.S.2. We’d like to know what is the best e-cart shopping mall software or package to use, if you are an expert in this, let us know since we are thinking about opening some new stores…