• TI-nspire hacked The regulars at the United T1 forums keep them coming, this time hacking the Texas Instruments Nspire graphing calculator. We enjoy seeing the exploits that unlock the backend of these types of devices. The difference this time is that the hacking continues even though Texas Instruments has shown that it intends to [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> O&O Software is currently offering their O&O Defrag 10 Professional Software for free! Basically, you have to Sign Up Here and then wait for the key to arrive in your email inbox. Very simple and easy. I used O&O Defrag for ages, but stopped doing so after some later updates made it not [...]

• Update: Realtime 3D for you too! [Kyle McDonald] has kept himself busy working on 3D scanning in realtime. He’s posted a writeup that takes us through the concepts, tools, and assembly of a DIY 3d scanning camera. You should remember a preview of this method posted earlier this month, but now it’s time to [...]

• Panoramic scanner camera [Photodesaster] put together a panoramic digital camera using a scanner and some miscellaneous parts. You may remember seeing something like this about six months ago and originally about five years back. The parts used here work together nicely. The sensor board from the scanner is mounted to a metal plate along [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Gearbox, the creators of Borderlands, are releasing yet another dlc (downloadable content) for their Borderlands game. It’s called Moxxi’s Underdome Riot. This new add-on pack provides access to the Moxxi Underdomes where you can challenge some of your previous foes in the game. A trailer for the game can be seen Here. Something [...]

• Hackaday at CES Hackaday is going to the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This year’s show runs January 7-10 and we’re going to use every minute to scout out hacking’s past and future. We’re looking for hacks from the past that have made it into new, commercially available electronics. We also want [...]

• Zilog in a matchbox Now you can have a Zilog computer in the form factor of a matchbox. The RamBlade is a tiny PCB that uses a Parallax Propeller IC to implement the CP/M language. The OS is stored on a microSD card, with a four-pin serial interface (3V3, GND, SO, SI) that allows [...]

• Office prank: death from above Unsuspecting office workers beware. You may already be in the cross-hairs of a ping-pong ball launching robot. This covert robot hangs out on the other side of a suspended ceiling, waiting for its operator to unleash the fury. When put into action a hatch in a ceiling tile is [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> If you like to rip DVD’s, then this is a good deal for you. The creators of Free Fast DVD Ripper Pro are offering the software for free in a limited time promotion. The details of the promotion can be read Here. This is a pretty good deal seeing as how the software [...]

<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> I was too busy yesterday to post “Merry Christmas” but today I shall do it instead — Merry Christmas! I hope you guys did not get coal and that you actually got some pretty cool stuff. I know I sure did. I also know that it rained here on Christmas, which was pretty [...]