• DS goes full size – pockets everywhere rally in protest
It’s hard to believe we missed this one from a couple of years back but we’re thankful that reader [Christian] tipped us off about it. This a Nintendo DS with two tablet pc screens being used as an external display. He’s using an FPGA but not to emulate the processor. It is translating the video [...]
• Tiny keyboard/touchpad has “hack” written all over it
Yes, we know, this is not a hack, yet it just has the vibe of something we’ll likely be seeing in many small form-factor systems and wearable hacks in the future.
The USB Wireless Handheld Keyboard is a diminutive keyboard and mouse replacement with a passing resemblance to a BlackBerry PDA — where the screen has [...]

Do you know what day it is? No? That’s too bad. It’s Thanksgiving!



Load up on as much food as possible. Jaaaa!

• Make any gloves work with a touch screen
The chill of autumn is upon us, and with it comes the awkward sport of trying to work touch-sensitive phones and gadgets with gloved fingers. One can try toughing it out with fingerless gloves, or we’ve seen some costly solutions in the forms of specialized gloves and capacitive-compatible styluses, but sometimes simple is best: all it [...]
• Recover borked HDD after Xbox 360 ban
[Incudie] tipped us off about a method to fix a borked HDD in your Xbox 360. Many of the one million consoles banned earlier in the month also had the hard disks scrambled making off-line gaming impossible as well. It turns out that this is caused by having a ban flag in the NAND chip [...]

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• Commodore SQ1000 twitter wall: the twypper
Before we begin, let us soothe those first dreaded thoughts. No, the commodore was not destroyed in the process. They can simply clip the 16 wires they added to interface the keyboard and be back to stock. Breathe a sigh of relief, and enjoy the twypper, a twitter wall made from a commodore SQ1000.
[Alex] needed [...]
• Hack a Sketch
Sometimes we miss that old Etch a Sketch we had when we were kids. The challenge of producing a decent image using those two knobs was always fun and frustrating at the same time. This project lets us recreate this interface on our computer. The Hack a Sketch is a combination of an Etch a [...]

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It is downloadable free for a limited amount of time from Here. So…what does it do? Well I’m glad you asked!

“1Password Pro will securely store your important information and can automatically log you into websites with a single tap. There’s no need to remember the username, password, or even the website address. With the ability to save and sync text notes, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information, everyone from Macworld to Apple itself loves 1Password!”

You can pre-order the Metalic Blue Nintendo DSi wtih Mario Bundle from Amazon for $154.98. Shipping is free and the release date is November 27. The extra Mario stuff that it comes with: Mario Calculator, Mario Clock, WarioWare: Snapped!, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!, and Dr. Mario Express…I personally love Dr.Mario. Addicting game. Old school. Jaaa!

I wanted to do another set of phone reviews and have finally finished! The phones I compared were Samsung Behold II, HTC MyTouch 3G, and HTC G1 — all smartphones by T-Mobile. Though these models are specific to T-Mobile, variations exist for other carriers so if you have another phone carrier then you should check it out anyway. Read my Samsung Behold II, HTC MyTouch 3G, and HTC G1 Review/Comparison! It’s rumoured that the phone will be launched in Metro Manila sometime around November 2010.

• STM8S-Discovery: Microcontrollers reach a new low
A complete microcontroller development kit for little more than the cost of a bare chip? That’s what STMicroelectronics is promising with their STM8S-Discovery: seven dollars gets you not only a board-mounted 8-bit microcontroller with an decent range of GPIO pins and functions, but the USB programmer/debugger as well.
The STM8S microcontroller is in a similar class as the [...]
• Cable management for pull-out shelves
Cable management is a headache for all, and if unmitigated it becomes a playground for cats. [kws103] posted a project a while ago that takes care of the messy wires for electronics on pull out shelving. Channel bracket is used to house the cables and has been articulated in three places to facilitate the movement [...]

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• Building capacitive sensitive floor tiles
That title’s a mouthful but you’re already familiar with the technology and application of foot pads as sensors in games like Dance Dance Revolution. The usbddr project sought to make a USB connected DDR controller from scratch. The microcontroller used is an Atmel ATmega8 running the V-USB firmware for connectivity and uses the analog to [...]
• Hackaday Links: Sunday November 22
Hacklab’s laser cutter got the customary musical treatment. You can see it play the theme from mario brothers here. It’s nothing new to us, but we still enjoy seeing it done.

Ever been curious how a pole transformer is made? Quench that curiosity with this educational video. [via HackedGadets]

Here’s a quasi humanoid robot that is designed [...]

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• Build a camera boom at less than a grand
The folks at The Geek Group built a camera crane for less than $1000. In the video embedded after the break a presenter takes you through the different parts that make up the boom and how it is operated. This feels like something from a Junkyard Wars challenge as most of the parts are scavenged [...]
• LED PDF from TI (KUWTA)
[Satiagraha] let us know that Texas Instruments(TI) has given out a neat “LED Reference Design Cookbook” PDF. The document contains 17 some odd little projects featuring different TI ICs and ways of using them to control LEDs in things from backlights to torches to solar lanterns to advanced PWM control! Sure the document is biased [...]

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