Recent Comments:
Engadget's relaunch giveaways: Xbox 360 Premium pack {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2006 2:15AM Dead Rising
MacBook Pro biometrics {Hack a Day}
Jul 5th 2006 6:35AM sonic reducer: Surely on a site that is pretty much dedicated to using things in a way that is not expected/intended the argument that they are only meant to do this or that is a weak one at best. Who cares what people use leds for, or what articles get posted on hackaday. Or, for a rather more straightforward reply: Apostrophes were never meant to be used in places like "led's were", but that didn't seem to stop you.
CCFL backlight replaced with white LEDs {Hack a Day}
May 25th 2006 12:41PM "Do you have any references to these studies?" Unfortunately I can locate none at the moment. My main reason for believing such is my own experience when I replicated a test with a 10 segment LED bar graph, with the segments driven in 10% duty increments, and to my eye the gradations were closer to logarithmic (I had printouts of a linear and logarithmic scale, both in 10 gradations to match to). The phenomenon may be due to some other factor but I have seen it in practice. A photograph of the experiment showed a linear scale, but this was not as it appears to the eye, probably due to some process in the eye or the brain in processing the image.
CCFL backlight replaced with white LEDs {Hack a Day}
May 24th 2006 12:08AM "LEDs don't work that way. Yes, you can pulse them, but the average current has to be approximately the same to perceive the same brightness." Actually, I believe studies have shown that the brightness does not tend to fall of linearly with duty cycle (that is, 50% dut = 50% brightness) but closer to logarithmically because of persistence of vision.
How-to: iPod super dock {Hack a Day}
May 12th 2006 8:23AM "But if you want a GOOD board sparkfun has double sided, solder masked, and silkscreened boards for $5/in^2, minimum order 1in^2" This is totally untrue. Sparkfun now has a separate business called batchpcb, and the charge is $10 setup, $2.50 a square inch. see: http://www.batchpcb.com
Dell XPS 600 Renegade supports quad-graphics {Engadget}
Jan 6th 2006 1:08AM I would add some style/taste to that paintjob.
Check-in: what's up with hacking Xbox 360? {Engadget}
Jan 3rd 2006 3:38AM The 360 DVDs aren't encrypted at all. As I understand it, they just have a standard empty video DVD section at the starts that tricks PC DVD drives into thinking that is all that it on the disk. Also the layer breakpoints are different from that of standard DVDs. This is why the hotswapping technique works to rip 360 games.
Couch bike {Hack a Day}
Dec 29th 2005 11:27PM Yeah, the capital letters are in the comments and even the original hackaday posts. Just override the css stylesheet, the troublesome line is: text-transform: lowercase; I don't particularly understand the lowercase thing, but since it is easy enough to bypass it doesn't really bother me.
Record cleaner {Hack a Day}
Nov 7th 2005 4:58AM Why does this have to be seen as a DJ hack? Many people have use for a record cleaner, so maybe we can stop constantly bitching. Has there been a single post on this site that hasn't been complained about by some jerk in the comments?
