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Can Your Punching Bag Play “Ode to Joy?” Well, This One Can!
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Punching bags can be a lot of things to people. For boxers, it’s something they usually beat the pulp out of when they train. For people working out, it’s something that will help them lose weight or burn calories while developing a whole host of other skills.… |
January 18th, 2012
Twine: Hassle Free Hardware Hacking
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The web has been buzzing about this wonder device for a while now, but I think it’s still worth sharing here on our blog because it will allow you to replicate some of the hacks that we’ve featured. So what is Twine, and what does it do? In a nutshell,… |
January 5th, 2012
Code Cards: Celebratory Syntax
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I’m not going to pretend to know anything about coding and programming languages. Sometimes I even forget the correct format for the A HREF thing. And I call it the A HREF thing. So I’ll let the Code Cards speak for themselves. Not that I know if they’re properly written.… |
November 21st, 2011
Facebook’s iPad App Hiding Inside iPhone Version
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It’s been a while since the Facebook iPhone app was released, but people have been anxiously awaiting the iPad app, which, thanks to its larger screen, will make using Facebook a lot more fun. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler reports that the iPad app is actually hidden in the iPhone app codebase,… |
July 25th, 2011
Minibloq: Drag-and-Drop Arduino Programming for Kids and Code Newbies
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We’ve featured a lot of cool and useful Arduino-based creations here at Technabob. If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at making an Arduino-based project but know little about programming, then you’ll want to support Julián da Silva and his Minibloq project. Minibloq is a graphical programming environment for… |
April 17th, 2011
Statsheet Automated Sports Reports: Blogger 2.0
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Until I came across the StatSheet Network, I thought that robots were the only man-made automatons that are taking over human jobs. But just last week, a network of websites with no human writers was launched. The StatSheet Network currently has a whopping 345 websites, one for each Division I… |
November 15th, 2010
Pressure Sensitive Drawing on iPad a Possibility
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While nobody at Apple intended for the screen of the iPad to support pressure-sensitivity, there’s a demo video floating around showing off a proof-of-concept for this truly artistic usage of the iPad’s multi-touch screen. You can really imagine all of the cool drawing programs you could create if you could… |
July 3rd, 2010
Robots Start Playing Pool and Hustling Humans
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I used to love playing pool when I was younger. I still do from time-to-time, but not like I did before. Well, if you thought that you were the best at pool, you’d better move along – because soon, pool ‘bots everywhere will start hustling you for your money! The… |
June 17th, 2010
Barbie Powerwheels + Xbox 360 Controller + Nerd Power = Wi-Fi Warthogs
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Where lesser men see a child’s toy when they look at a Barbie Powerwheels toy car, imaginative folk like Tim Higgins see a really fun real world Halo spinoff. Higgins’ Wi-Fi Warthogs are controlled using Xbox 360 controllers and a laptop mounted on each Warthog. Like the video game Warthog,… |
January 25th, 2010
Clearview: One Software to Fix Them All
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Ah, software problems. We’ve all experienced them in varying degrees – sometimes it’s just a stupid online video that won’t load, and sometimes the operating system itself gives up. Now imagine a future where programs can still be compromised, or attacked, but will no longer crash or hang. A group… |
October 30th, 2009
