Category Archives: Computer

DIY HACK – HOWTO build a “Fire Alarm” Alarm Clock

Wow, this has to be the loudest and best solution for you doozers.

Ever sleep-in because your alarm clock wasn’t loud enough? With this design that is guaranteed not to happen! This hack takes a standard cheap alarm clock, some interface components and a fire alarm bell to get the job done right. Normally these small alarm clocks use a piezo buzzer to attempt to wake you up. The alarm signal is hijacked from the clock circuit board and used as an input to the interface board

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First signs of the Google Phone – GSM/WiFi Phone runs Google’s new Phone Operating System called Android!

Yes, Google is planning to take over the world with its Phone operating system, Android! As an experienced embedded technologist, this seems like it will blow up not because they have great technology, but they could market it so crazy.

Wistron NeWeb Corp, a Taiwanese company, was selected as a CES Innovations 2008 Award Honoree for their Wireless Handset technology. Offering a full set of applications for creating and editing documents, email (via pull protocols only), PIM, PC sync and web browsing over GSM as well as WiFi and Bluetooth.

Using

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DIY iPod HACK – Add Bluetooth to your iPod!!!

Tight, here’s some cool hacks on adding bluetooth to your iPod!

1st Ever Bluetooth-Enabled iPod!

If you’re like me, you’ve often asked yourself why Apple has not added native Bluetooth capability to their iPod line up. Even the iPhone only supports mono Bluetooth!

Sure, there are numerous adapters that plug into the iPod’s dock connector to give you wireless music, but they are clunky, they come off eas

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Christmas DIYs – Go make yourself one of Zedomax’s LED Christmas Tree!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgLhllDEzWU

Wow, it’s been almost a year since we’ve made some Christmas DIYs. To bring them back to life, we are featuring it here again and well tell you to go make yourself one by following our directions here.

BTW, we are going to go buy a real

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DIY Wii HACK – Crazy Wii Case Mod – UV Hack Up

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtgGd-ASU5A

Tight, check out this crazy lookin’ Wii Case Mod, I wish they sold this at the store. Looks pretty simple to make though.

This Wii mod is one of the most extreme mods I have seen for the Nintendo

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Interactive LED table

DIY HACK - HOWTO Build your own LED Coffee Table!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp5STHMym4E

Cool lookin’ Interactive LED table!

I purchased one of the Interactive LED Table kits from Evil Mad Scientist and built a table, it took a week to assemble, and almost two months to make the table part, but it’s pretty awesome. Tons of photos, and a few videos of the building process, and final table on the link above

via MakeZine

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DIY Linux DoS HACK – HOWTO Limit your the max number of TCP connections to your Web Server!

I have been reading the following book called, Linux Server Hacks, which shows you many ways you can hack your Linux server so your server doesn’t die.

This actually works since we just had a DoS attack about 5 minutes ago. (It seems like we are getting more and more DoS attacks these days. You can refer to the

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USB Gadgets, USB Gadgets, USB Gadgets!

Okay, let’s do a quick USB relay from GetUSB.info.

Check out this Dog Tag USB thingee, it might be great if you want to carry some memory around on your neck. – via GetUSB

Lindy 57-in-1 Mir

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The Quarter Wiki – a new paid Online Encyclopedia!

As you know, the team of moonlighters at Zedomax.Net has been working on new paid wikis. We belive this concept of paid wikis will blow up soon and we have just started diggin’.

We first made Five Dollar Wiki, One Buck Wiki, then EntreWiki.

Now,

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DIY HACK – HOWTO make some sounds with Arduino! Sound Part 3 – Playing a Melody

Check out the Part 3 of “HOWTO make sounds with Ardunio” and learn to play melody.

Bit-Banging Sound To bit-bang sound we toggle an output pin at the desired frequency. To play a musical note, we need to use specific frequencies and play the sound for a specific amount of time.

Generating the desired frequency big-bang style means figuring out what the period or cycle time of the desired frequency is. This is easy to c

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