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Re:Let's Buy Hackaday
on Monday July 15, 2013 @02:08PM (#6047407)
Their blog is fantastic actually. And while there are ads for adafruit items, you'll notice there are literally no other ads. zero.
Hackaday has adsense, so if you're not blocking it, you get the usual banners.
Re:Let's Buy Hackaday
on Monday July 15, 2013 @10:59AM (#6045955)
Just to clarify a single point here. There are no writers or editors at odds with eachother. Brian is doing this in an attempt to buy it from Jason. I'm moving on to other things regardless of what happens at Hackaday. We're all super good friends and get along great.
As for the rest of the thoughts and concerns, well, not my problem!
Hacking the Oculus Rift for better immersion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8FSuxA-cp4
The simple addition of a microcontroller sampling the colors at the edge of the screen and reproducing them using RGB LEDs (just like an ambilight), can improve the immersion of the Oculus Rift. Super easy, super quick, fairly effective.
Game Developers, your lazy enemy design is ruining your awesome game
http://thegrue.com/game-studios-your-lazy-enemy-design-is-ruining-your-awesome-game/
with storage and computing power reaching the levels it is, why are we still treating our enemy NPCs like sprites and calling them en masse, even when our game would be very well suited to fewer and more unique enemies? (looking at you bioshock).
How to kill the Arduino? (embrace it)
Re:The Internet is causing the world to shrink
on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @09:19AM (#1954139)
interesting. While in terms of speed of communication the world may be shrinking, in terms of experience, it is growing. Had I been born 100 years ago, I would probably only know people/businesses in my city and possibly another or two where I would travel/settle. Now I get news from each coast and talk directly to friends in other continents. My experience has expanded, my world has "grown".
Ask hacker Phillip Torrone anything
http://hackaday.com/2010/11/29/phillip-torrone-answers-your-questions/
Phillip Torrone has been a recurring name in the hacker scene for many years. From 2600, to Hackaday, to Make magazine, Phil has had some major influence on the current state of DIY/Modding/Hacking. Send in your questions, he's promised to answer some.
Re:Ask HN: How was the Kinect hacked?
on Monday November 15, 2010 @11:57AM (#1906952)
Well, the biggest hurdle is being capable of writing a driver at all. Your average joe isn't going to just "hack" this thing. These are people who are already familiar with programming peripherals to be used with computers.
If you have that knowledge, there are several ways. 1. Open it up, look what hardware is used, find documentation for that specific hardware set on the net. Write code to the specifications of the people who made the components.
2. sniff the communication. This is what Adafruit did (see iantimothy's post). Once they see that communication, they break it down to see what is necessary to make things happen.
Re:Picthing bloggers with this email, got no reply. Advice needed.
on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:44PM (#1839642)
absolutely. A personal message will carry so much more weight. I get tons of advertising requests and they barely get read because I can tell they are boilerplate.