Wow, this is one cool keyboard I wanna get.

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Here’s a cool hack that you can use to make your Windows boot up faster
using the built-in msconfig command.

Here the site that finds out what superhero you’d be after answering couple questions!

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Here’s a cool site you can make your own signs and print them out whether
that be a replacement stop sign for your driveway or your “STAY OUT” sign
on your bedroom door.

Yes, it should really be “Quicky” but we didn’t want you to get the wrong idea.

Here’s more cool speed tester for your cable or dsl modem.

Nicely done Wii drum machine hack!

Bob Somers managed to turn a Wiimote into a drum machine using this custom script and GlovePIE. Video after the jump.

Now if you could just get two Wiimotes running at the same time, along with some sort of foot switch mechanisms for the kick drum and hi-hat, you’d have a full-fledged electronic drum kit. Anyway, we like the graphics of the Wii demo better. But both approaches look like tons o’ fun

Instructions:

With all the hacks for the Wii remote going around, I kept hearing people say they couldn’t wait until someone made a drum machine.

So I did.

To get this working, you first need to go over to either WiiLi.org or LiquidIce’s Wii Hacks page and get your Wiimote working with bluetooth. Follow all the great information they have to get your remote working with GlovePIE. Once your remote is working fine with GlovePIE, then your ready for the following files:

• Download WiiDrums.zip

NOTE: You’ll need the latest version of the .NET framework to run the Wii Drums program, so shame on you if you haven’t been keeping up with your Windows Updates!

Unzip those files to a directory of your choice and run the setup program. When you get a security warning, click Install anyway, sorry I haven’t paid Microsoft lots of money to be a “verified publisher”.

Once the program is installed you’ll see a program on your Start menu called DrumSounds.

Connect your Wiimote, load up GlovePIE, and run the WiiDrums.PIE script I included in the WiiDrums.zip file. Then run the DrumSounds program from your Start menu, and make sure it is the front-most program. Then just follow the instructions on the program and have fun drumming!

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Here’s a cool upcoming technology that can change the world forever for you if you are blind.
It translates text into braille and lots of more features.

The bridge is a neat device. None of the technology is not revolutionary but the tiny package is impressive.

“When it is scanning the text in books or other presswork, it translates the text into braille, which is then displayed on its special screen for the blind to touch. At the same time, “Bridge” saves the text into the internal hard disk to be read later. In addition, the product can download data from the Internet. So that it can fit books of different sizes, it has been designed with a foldaway shape. The user can delete files on demand. In order to allow users more convenient reading, the Braille screen can display a column of words only. The device is easy to operate, with easily identified functional divisions. It is small and easy to carry, allowing it to be used anywhere.

How does it work? The braille screen works with electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. When the current or voltage goes through every array of six stitches, the resulting rise and decline gives birth to braille. The product scans the original printed matter, then translates the images into analog electrical signals with an optical-to-electrical transducer. Finally, it translates the analog electrical signal into a digital signal.”

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Here are some super bike lights you can build using some parts from Home Depot!

I’ve been using this headlight for 4 years now and I’m still using the original bulbs. The low beam has power enough for speeds up to 40 miles per hour and on-coming traffic ALWAYS dims their brights when I flash the 50-watt high beam.

This one is made of 120 super-bright red LEDs, and two 1W Luxeon LEDs - Link. Schematics / Eagle CADs and more here - Link.

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You can now watch races using power tools!

It’s a rocket. Stuck through the back of a skull, sitting on an aging belt sander rigged to a pair of sawed-off skis. And it can haul butt down a track.

Scott David and his 10-year-old son, Cal, built El Diablo del Muerte (“the Devil of Death”) for last summer’s first annual Seattle Power Tool Drag Race and Derby. Inspired by earlier events in New England and the Bay Area, such races are now popping up around the world. The rules are simple: Build something that gets its drive from a handheld power tool (loosely defined). Each race pits two rigs against each other on wooden tracks, 60 feet long and one foot wide. The winner is the first to reach the end, but judges value originality as much as speed.

Besides El Diablo, the Seattle race featured a papier-mâché gremlin on a mini motorcycle and a rocket-powered toaster with AOL CDs for wheels. The gutsiest was an angle grinder/Rollerblade hybrid that launched off a ramp and nearly landed in the bed of a pickup truck down the block. El Diablo won several heats, but Cal is already looking ahead. Next year, he’s thinking his entry ought to shoot ping-pong balls.

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