Gotta love fast cars, right? Since you can’t drive fast in real life, then why not do so instead in EA’s latest Need for Speed: The Run? In this NFS game, you’ll get to experience awesome graphics, great sounds, and a whole lot more — and it literally is available on everything! From Windows PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo Wii, and the Nintendo 3DS, you can play this game. You may need some Need for Speed: The Run Game Fixes though. Some problems are created by Origin (this game isn’t available yet for Steam), whereas some are just normal problems you’d expect to encounter, such as…

Need for Speed: The Run Keymapping Not Saving
NFSTR Fails to Launch
Need for Speed: The Run Crashes
Origin Stuck at “Ready to Install”
Need for Speed Freezes
NFSTR Sound Not Working
NFSTR Lag
Not all these problems are common. You may encounter just one, a couple, or none at all even. It all depends on your system.

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• EagleUp pulls your PCBs into SketchUp
  [Karl] wrote in to tell us about a software package called EagleUp that will import your Eagle CAD PCB designs into Google SketchUp. It bridges the gap between the two using the open source image processing software ImageMagick. As you can see above, you’ll end up with a beautifully rendered 3D model of your hardware. [...]
• Electronic recorder conversion
  As we wrote the title to this feature we can see why [Jeff Ledger] calls it an electronic flute and not a recorder; this is a musical instrument and not something for archiving audio. Confusion aside, we’re all familiar with these plastic ‘musical’ instruments. Many elementary schools in our area require students to buy one [...]
• POV bauble uses DIY accelerometer to sync the image
  So we saw this tip come in and thought–oh, another POV device. We watched the video (embedded after the break), took a sip of coffee, then almost sprayed the beverage all over the computer when we realized that this uses a diy sensor to synchronize the POV image. [Ch00f] came up with the idea for [...]
• I am root! — Kindle Fire edition
  Amazon’s new tablet reader, the Kindle Fire has been rooted. Early this morning [Death2All110] posted the steps he took to gain root access to his device (which is so fresh out of the box it still smells new). The heavy lifting is done by a package called SuperOneClick which aims to root all manner of phones [...]

ACR is out! WOOOOO! You can assassinate your friends in multiplayer or play the campaign and assassinate THOSE targets instead. The graphics are stunning, so thank you Ubisoft. Unfortunately, the Steamworks / Steam release date was pushed back so you’ll have to get the game through other means computer users! It’s available on Windows PC, as well as PlayStation 3 (PS3) and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. This game isn’t without its errors though! You may need some Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Game Fixes to help you troubleshoot any problems with the game.

Such problems that you may need a guide to fix…
USB Game Controller Not Working
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Crashes
ACR No Game Audio, Sound, or Music
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Freeze
ACR Black Screen or Failure to Launch Game
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Lags

Okay. I think you’re ready now. Go assassinate! GO GO GO!

Saints Row…What a great game series. Now that Saints Row: The Third is out, you can enjoy all the robust gameplay that you have come to expect from the series. It’s available on the typical consoles — Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 / PS3, as well as Windows PC computers. You can get it for Steam or you can just hit a store to buy it! You may need some Saints Row: The Third Game Fixes though, as there are errors. Use a guide to help troubleshoot your problems away! The typical errors found in this game…

Xbox 360 Game Controller Not Working
Saints Row: The Third Crashes
Saints Row: The 3rd Has No Sound, Music, or Audio
Saints Row: The Third Lags (or stuttering)
Steam Cache Validation Not Working / Redownloading File
Saints Row The Third Freezes

Solve your errors. Play the game. Beat it. Play another game. BOOM. That’s how it goes.

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• A technique to avoid warping on large 3D prints
  [Jamie Mantzel] figured out his own way of 3D printing large objects without fear of warping. First a bit of background information. When using a 3D extrusion printer like the RepRap or Makerbot, prints that span a large area tend to warp. That’s because these printers lay down one thin layer of plastic at a [...]
• DIY LED photography lights
  [Markus] had been drooling over some LED panels to use as a soft light source for photography, but being a hobbyist, he didn’t want to spend a ton of money to buy them. He figured that he had enough electronics know-how to build his own panels, while saving a boatload of cash in the process. [...]
• Snake-bot gives us the mechanical heevy-jeevies
  Basilisk? Nope, just your run-of-the-mill giant serpentine robot build. This build aims to recreate Titanoboa, a prehistoric snake which measured more than fifty feet long and weighted over a ton. They’re well on their way to completing the goal, as what you see above is fully operational, lacking only cosmetic niceties which would only serve to make the [...]
• Stylophone 5 – modernizing the best of the 1968 hardware
  We love looking in on [Simon Inns'] projects, and this must be one of his very best. This is the fifth version of his MIDI-capable stylophone. The gist of the control system is that a conductive keyboard (made of a tinned PCB) is played by making a connection with the tip of a wired stylus [...]

The Amazon Fire is finally out! It’s bringing a whole new wave of competition to the tablet industry and at a reasonable price too.

But how does it stack up against the other tablets out there? The Apple iPad 2 is very popular, the NOOK Color is affordable, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is sporting some interesting special features.

See the Comparison of Amazon Fire, Apple iPad 2, NOOK Color, and Samsung Galaxt Tab 10.1 then! These tablets all rock after all.

I’m personally eyeing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The comparison shows that the hardware of this device is actually pretty nice, especially against the iPad 2 — iPad 2 VS Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Those are the two expensive tablets.

If you are shopping for a more discounted, lower end tablet that still has great features, then your choices are more limited. That’s where in the article you can check out the Amazon Fire VS NOOK Color. These are the less pricey tablets, especially the Fire tablet.

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• Nixie clock exhibits well fabricated metal bezel
  [Matt Evans] achieves a total win with his Nixie clock. Not only does he have the benefit of the retro display hardware, but he really catches our eye with the enclosure he built for it. The project had its genesis when he came across a set of the Nixie Tubes in a surplus store. This [...]
• FT-2232 bridges Python and I2C/SPI
  You might already have the hardware on hand to easily interface I2C and SPI devices with Python scripts on your computer. The board seen above is an FT-2232 breakout board. These chips are often used to facilitate JTAG programming via USB, but they have other features that might be useful to you as well. The [...]
• There’s a lot packed into this BeagleBoard controlled rover
  That black box is hiding all kinds of goodies that make this rover a hacking playground. [Andrey] built the device around a BeagleBoard, which offers the processing power and modules that he needed to make the rest of it work. The control unit shrinks the pilot down to the rover’s size, using a cockpit that [...]
• Taking GPS where no man has gone before
  [Willem] has a friend that wanted to take a GPS datalogger up an unclimbed mountain the wilds of Kyrgyzstan. The GPS logger built for the expedition made it to the summit of Eggmendueluek, but it didn’t work the whole way up. Since the logger came back to London, [Willem] was able to do a complete [...]

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• NES controller is a slick way to carry around your portable OS
  [Oliver] had an old NES controller laying around, and without any other use for it, he decided to repurpose it as a portable storage device. He gutted most of the controller, removing the plastic standoffs, leaving the D-pad and remaining buttons intact. He crammed a 32 GB flash drive inside, along with the guts from [...]
• Chicken light keeps up egg production
  It turns out that as the days get shorter, chickens lay fewer eggs. But you can trick them into keep up production using artificial light. [Jpitz31] decided to build his own timed coop light to bridge the gap until the days of plentiful sunlight return. He already had an LED camping light to use, but [...]
• ColorNode: A drop-in GE Color Effects LED controller
  [Paul] was looking to spice up his holiday decorations this year, so he picked up some GE Color Effects lights and started hacking away. We’ve already seen how hacker-friendly these LED bulbs are, which is why [Paul] decided to give them a try. His ultimate goal was to synchronize several sets of lights from one [...]
• Sous vide with racing stripes
  We’re not going to question the logic that went into putting racing stripes on a slow cooker, but [Evan]‘s sous vide machine is the most professional one we’ve seen. After [Evan] found a cooking book that went into the physics and chemistry of making a meal, he wanted to make some really good meals. Sous [...]

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• Lego NXT creations are even cooler with WiFi on board
  The folks at Dexter Industries have just wrapped up a week of Lego NXT projects, most of which centered on the use of their NXT WiFi sensor. Developed over the last few months, the group has been hard at work refining their design and getting some of the kinks worked out, so now you too [...]
• Video: Working with the 3pi robot’s line sensors
  This week, we are serving up part five in our series where we are using the Pololu 3pi robot as a fancy development board for the ATmega328p processor. This week we are taking a quick break from working with the perpherals specific to the processor and will show how to work with the 3pi’s line [...]
• Adding RS232 to a multimeter the hard way
  You might want to store information from a multimeter to be graphed over time. This comes with pretty much all of the high-end professional models. But if you buy a super cheap meter you can bet this isn’t an option. [Jazzzzzz] has found a way to pull the data from a $4 meter via RS232. [...]
• Ghostly images appear thanks to projections on fog
  This wire-frame cube appears to be floating in mid-air because it actually is. This is a project which [Tom] calls a Laminar Flow Fog Screen. He built a device that puts out a faint amount of fog, which the intense light from a projector is able to illuminate. The real trick here is to get a uniformed [...]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (CoD MW3) is a rockin’ first person shooter (FPS) game! It dives into as much detail as its predecessors, plus more. Shooting down enemies or friends is always a fun feeling that this game loves to deliver. It’s available for everything too. If you’re rocking a Windows 7, XP, or Vista PC, then you can play it there (possibly through downloading it via Steam). If you have a Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, or Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) you can take that route too. It’s even available on the Nintendo DS (with the Defiance label)!

There are some bugs and glitches in it, as well as errors that you may need Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 game fixes for, not to mention there was some general confusion over the game.

Help With No Sound / Audio / Music
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Lag
Elite Founder Status Subscription Code Invalid
CoD MW3 Freezes
Graphic Textures Broken / Glitched
Modern Warfare 3 Crashes
Clan Tag Text is Prohibited
Game Launch Failure

There are just many problems that can arise. A lot of the complaints seem to revolve around the latency or lag compensation, which lets players with a slow internet connection play on “equal footing” with those with a fast connection. This ends up just causing even more problems though. Hope the guide helps you troubleshoot your problems or at least provides as solution to one of them!