Nothing like bending electronics to your will… Using three filters (red, green, blue) and three exposures from a standard (albet old) Nintendo Gameboy Camera a color image is born. I did the same thing years ago with a black and white Quickcam camera and three filters from a gel catalog pack. I’ll have to dig that up one day. Looks like develpoment has stalled on this project but it’s still a great read. Makes you think, don’t it?
Disappearing Civil Liberties Mug
I’m glad I can live in a country where I can buy these, but then again I’m sad because I have reason to buy one…
Drink your decaf in this dazzling mug – and watch your civil liberties disappear and reappear! Simply pour in your coffee or any hot beverage and watch the painstaking work of the founding fathers vanish before your eyes and then reappear after drinking up or cooling down. A great way to amaze and entertain a guest with satire. Imported.
[via Boing Boing and Jason]
Audio Signals on a TV Mod
Sure, this will seriously void the warranty on your TV but that’s what surplus store are for. The mod is pretty straight forward, you are feeding audio signals directly into the deflection inputs on the cathode ray tube of the set. This will cause the electron beam to paint not a regular image but something more along the lines of what you would get from an oscilloscope. I have a 5" Bentley portable TV that is just about to go under the knife for this mod. If all works well I should have some video of the results pretty soon.
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All in One Microcontroller Kit
If your looking for a nice turn key solution for learning microcontrollers this could be for you. The Thames & Kosmos Computer systems engineering kit has pretty much every thing you will need to get you started with electronics and microcontrollers:
- microcontroller module
- dual digital display module
- 3 transistors
- 7 light emitting diodes
- motor
- light sensor (light dependent resistor)
- temperature sensor (negative temperature coefficient type)
- potentiometer
- microphone
- buzzer
- diodes
- capacitors
- resistors
- switches
- wires
- contact clips
- infrared interface device
- USB to 9-pin serial adapter (RS-232 type)
- software CD
- portable case
You can pick one up from Amazon
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Myspace Worm Using Quicktime HREF Track
Just great. For a long time I have been trying to figure out a way not to let Quicktime spawn web pages. Not only is it annoying but now it can get you phissed:
It begins with a QuickTime file being embedded in a Profile page. If the user “runs” the file (simply visiting the infected page is enough to trigger the attack in most cases), it uses the HREF function to activate some JavaScript.
Allowing JavaScript from a movie file….whoops.
When this happens, the profile page is “infected” and pastes a fake overlay of options onto the profile page – the most serious of which is (of course) the fake login button. If your page has been affected, you will see a strange, blue navigation bar such as this on your page. If this is the case, you will need to clean out your profile and check if any of your friends have also been infected – if they are, you will continue to be reinfected…most likely via the friends list itself. We have seen reports of users complaining that even when they’ve removed the fake navigation bar from their page, it comes right back if one of their friends is infected – so it looks like the friends list is being exploited in much the same way the Orkut worm used a similar feature to spread. Except in this case, the only option to fix the problem is get your friend to remove the infection code from their page, or remove your friend from your list indefinitely.
Going back to the fake login, if you enter your details, you have officially been Phished.
Urban Light Pillars Above Cities
I saw this a few days ago on Boing Boing. After seeing how under certain circumstances ice crystals in the air can reflect lights on the ground It’s easy to see how these could be mistaken for UFOs.