Hack a Day

• The Credit Card Sized GameBoy

  Think you’ve seen every possible type of Arduino based hand held video game? [Kevin] managed to coax something new out of the theme with a very clever credit card sized console that uses some very interesting construction techniques. The inspiration for this project began when [Kevin] drop ...

• Design Your Own Processor With Verilog

  Designing a computer from scratch is one of the holy grails of hardware design. For programmable logic, designing your own processor is a huge accomplishment. That’s exactly what [zhemao] has done. He created EZ8, an 8 bit processor is written in Verilog. EZ8 has a 3 stage pipeline, which ...

• The Catweazle Mini: A Super Small ARM Based Em ...

  There has been a recent trend in miniaturizing embedded platforms. [Jan] wrote in to tell us about his very tiny ARM based embedded platform, the Catweazle Mini. Who knew that an ARM based system could be so simple and so small?!? With the success of the Trinket and Femtoduino (miniature Arduino ...

• Smart Thermostats for an Old Club House

  [Michael] is a Scout Leader in the Netherlands, where they have a great clubhouse—a “Landhuis.” The only problem? It’s old, and it’s not an efficient place to heat! The building currently has two furnaces to cope with its many nooks and crannies, with individual thermosta ...

• PCB Antenna Reference Designs

  Have you ever built a wireless project and weren’t sure how to make one of those awesome (and cheap!) PCB antennas? ”What low-cost solutions does our Antenna Board #referencedesign contain?” said Texas Instruments (TI) recently via Twitter.  This older reference design contains ...

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• Lip Sync Battle with Paul Rudd

  Lip Sync Battle with Paul Rudd Jimmy and Paul Rudd compete in a lip sync battle, and Paul raises the bar in the second round. Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aN Watch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknights 11:35/10:35c Get more Jimmy F ...

• "Her" in 1995 - Late Night Basement Parody

  "Her" in 1995 - Late Night Basement Parody What if the Spike Jonze movie "Her" was set in 1995 instead of the near future? This short parody appeared on Late Night Basement with Chris Rose, a live late night show in Brooklyn. Written and Edited by Chris Rose latenightba ...

• 50 MOVIE SPOILERS OF 2013 IN 6 MINUTES

  50 MOVIE SPOILERS OF 2013 IN 6 MINUTES BLOOPERS on TheFinebros2: http://goo.gl/pXjE00 SUBSCRIBE! New vids every Sun/Thur/Sat! http://goo.gl/MPCgu FREE NETFLIX FOR A MONTH: http://netflix.com/Fine Spoilers Playlist: http://dft.ba/-SpoilersPlaylist What movies were popular last year? Watch 50 M ...

• Coldplay - Midnight

  Coldplay - Midnight Directed by Mary Wigmore MIDNIGHT In the darkness before the dawn In the swirling of the storm When I'm rolling with the punches and hope is gone Leave a light a light on Millions of miles from home In the swirling swimming on When I'm rolling with the thunder ...

• Knife Guyz

  Knife Guyz Just some guys playing with knives. ...We can't possibly be that good, can we? Knife Handlerz: Ben M. Waller, Freddie Wong, Clinton Jones Blade Technicians: Freddie Wong, Clinton Jones, Alessandro Schiassi Music by Jon Karmen aka DJ Thermostatus More awesome videos at Rocket ...

Slashdot

• Scottish Independence Campaign Battles Over BB ...

  00_NOP writes "The political battle over Scotland's independence ballot — to take place in September this year — has now moved on to how the BBC project the UK on their national weather forecast. The BBC use a projection based on the view of Britain from geostationary weather satelli ...

• Vodaphone Foundation Launches Cell Site In a B ...

  Bismillah writes "The Vodafone Foundation's Mini Instant Network cellular access site is deployable in ten minutes and can be carried on as hand luggage on commercial airliners. It's only 2G, but hey ..." This reminds me a bit of the Gargoyles in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and useful for more ...

• Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Mi ...

  sciencehabit writes "700-year-old human feces, preserved in sealed barrels under a town square from the Middle Ages, are shedding new light on the evolution of the bacteria in our guts. Viruses isolated from the ancient poop reveal a growing arms race between our native bacteria and microbial in ...

• How I Cut My Time Warner Cable Bill By 33%

  lpress writes "I was at a Time Warner Cable (TWC) store returning a router, when I asked what my new monthly bill would be. The answer — $110 — surprised me, so I asked a few questions and ended up with the same service for $76.37. Check out my conversation with their representative ...

• Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Re ...

  An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is exploring whether to release a free version of Windows to increase the number of computers using the latest operating system. Currently the company seems to be testing a new version of the OS called 'Windows 8.1 with Bing', which will include Microsoft's ...