August 18, 2008
DIY Multi-Touch Kit for Do It Yourselfers!
For Do-It-Yourselfers, making your onw multi-touch input device has never been easier with the DIY Multi-Touch Kit. TouchKit is a modular multitouch development kit with the aim to make multitouch readily available in an open source fashion. It is a sister project of the CUBIT multitouch system and aimed at rapid implementation of multitouch proj ... More
July 21, 2008
DIY Chumby HACK - How to hack a 640×480 VGA LCD onto a Chumby!
Here’s a really cool Chumby hack that will allow you to use a bigger 640×480 pixel LCD on your favorite little gadget. Chumby is different; it is open source, and designed to be hacked. For example, the serial port is spelled out on the silkscreen for you and there’s a backdoor to enable sshd, so it’s not big deal to bring up the co ... More
June 26, 2008
DIY - How to Make your own Lunchbox Linux Firewall!
As an avid fan of Linux operating systems ever since I took Minix class, which Linux was born from, I love to hear about cool little DIYs on making a Linux firewall out of a lunch box. The greatest thing about Linux operating systems in comparison to Windows or any other operating systems is that it can be easily custom tailored to do one thing wh ... More
May 4, 2008
DIY Open Source Multi-Touch Display
Now, you can build your own open source multi-touch display. I guess it was at Maker Faire but somehow I missed it… Researchers at Eyebeam, an engineering and design firm, sell kits that let people build their own multitouch tables. In this picture, the Cubit frame is completely disassembled. To make the display functional, users must add ... More
April 28, 2008
DIY HACK - How to Build a Prepaid Cellphone GPS tracker!
Well, here’s a cool little hack for anyone who’s interested in building a GPS tracker for fun. Although I’d rather stick to my GoogleMaps on my Blackberry, this is good info for anyone who wants to build a custom app. The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tr ... More
February 19, 2007
Stepper Motor Driver Controller Kit
Check out this cool stepper motor driver you can use for your next CNC milling machine. It is completely open-source with PCB Layout and everything included. Also check out our 3 stepper motor example. via Circuits, Circuits, cnc, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Industrial, Industrial, mac ... More
December 26, 2006
72 resources on Open Source apps for Windows
Here’s 72 resources on open source apps for windows! via listible Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, open-source, windows, Zedomax ... More
