Nerd The F*ck Out's topics - tribe.net

Babson designed a game

Padrinho — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:50:58 GMT

Nerding it old school.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1733850

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Breakthrough in camera technology.

elliot — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:02:46 GMT

These two guys at Rochester figured out a couple of advances that may let digital cameras run for years on a single charge. The innovations depend on a) reducing the number of transistors to allow more light to pass through, and b) arranging hardware elements to assist in what is traditionally a software task: image compression. The result is cameras that take way less image to capture a photo.

The trick with aligning the pixels to cosine peaks (resulting in a non-uniform sensor array) is brilliant.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0512/05121201new_chips.asp

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 2 replies

get perpendicular

limbo — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:25:41 GMT

Hitachi shows us how it's done!

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

via: /.

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

iPod hacking via the clicky sound.

elliot — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:27:45 GMT

Okay, this is old (March '05) but it's about the guys behind Linux on iPod -- apparently they hijacked the scroll wheel clicker and got it to play out the iPod's bootloader code as a series of clicks. They recorded the clicks, and then wrote a decoder to reassemble the sounds back into code on a PC (no word on if it was Mac, Windows or Linux box).

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7085

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

DartMail

limbo — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:22:19 GMT

DartMail lets people physically shoot electronic information at others.

http://grouplab.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/phidgets/gallery/dartmail.html

first non-evil use of RFID?
how bout a tribe.net interface? any takers?
next version, improves distance, name changed to ICBMmail.

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 2 replies

Post-It Super Mario.

elliot — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:34:32 GMT

http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/8bit/

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

20 Questions AI

gary — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:33:09 GMT

I was thinking of a lamp. It figured it out in about 13 questions:

http://www.20q.net/

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 3 replies

Understanding genetics if you are a coder...

brian — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:54:02 GMT

Found at:

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/24b96c14-a424-42ed-865c-89c8d51e7210?tribeid=66c6ca6c-0bf8-409d-92ad-cac9161685f5&r=10535

and here is the actual link:

http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

GTA, We Will Break You.

elliot — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:26:38 GMT

A guy cracked open a PS2 controller and then wired it up to his PC to try out every single permutation of Grand Theft Auto.

Reminds me of that scene in Ghost in the Shell when they wire up that translator's head to see if she's been hacked.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/18/pc_used_to_exhaust_p.html

Hmm. What they didn't mention was how the review process to find all the Easter eggs was probably very human and non-automated.

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Story behind the C=64 gamestick.

elliot — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:55:29 GMT

This just brought a tear to my eye:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20joystick.html?oref=login

Self-taught computer nut does good.

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 1 reply

Nerds unite! And make your own music video...

brian — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:40:04 GMT

http://www.funpic.hu/swf/numanuma.html

Webcams are a truly wonderful thing.

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 2 replies

iPod hacks o' plenty!

brian — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:18:19 GMT

http://ipod.hackaday.com/

I was particularly enthralled with the idea of putting linux onto my iPod, but perhaps I should just start out with a little Hello Kitty[1].

[1] http://ipod.hackaday.com/entry/1234000567023127

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Homemade Mobile Suit Gundam.

elliot — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:44:21 GMT

This guy is welding a powersuit together, and powering it with hydraulics and a gasoline engine. In Anchorage.

http://news.com.com/Giant+robots+in+the+backyard/2100-1026_3-5499730.html?tag=nefd.ac

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Tinker toys computing...

brian — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:42:54 GMT

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/472_html/Intro/TinkertoyComputer/TinkerToy1.html

cross posted from boingboing.tribe.net

http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread/1df484c6-9716-4cc4-be97-1a9d4283a5d0?tribeid=80e04997-fa46-4545-a1cd-e826137ba3c8&r=10535

Man I love this stuff. Computers are so small nowadays - nice to make em big again.

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Photoshop life.

elliot — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 00:43:13 GMT

"All you do is open a picture in Photoshop, and then highlight a function that best describes the picture."

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2547

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Practical relativity.

elliot — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:26:40 GMT

Think relativity is something abstract and weird that doesn't affect your everyday life? Think again:

http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

The GPS system at work in most airplanes and many cars is designed to take into account minute discrepancies predicted by special relativity!

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Human Pac-Man.

elliot — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:09:30 GMT

Singaporean computer scientists create an augmented-reality version of Pac-Man. You wear goggles to see the streets around you lined with 3-D yellow dots, which disappear as you collect them. The game tracks your position and other players can catch you. Spectators can instant-message you with tips.

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996689

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

mechs in art.

elliot — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:40:07 GMT

okay, some of these reflect some real skill.

some real hard core nerd skill, that is.

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2470

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

What is... "5ikkr1t m3554g3?"

elliot — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:05:14 GMT

That is correct:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/10/jeopardy_winner_wage.html

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Repligator.

elliot — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:02:48 GMT

via Brian:

REPLIGATOR
Genre: Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi (more)
Plot Outline: Army experimentation with transporter devices accidentally turns people into alligators.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146233/

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

mini radio stations.

elliot — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 03:19:15 GMT

as part of an experiment in public/mobile radio in minneapolis, they are handing out tiny radio transmitters that you can plug into your MP3 or CD player, or connect a mic to. naturally, k0mpl347 h4x0rZ are incorporating them into all sorts of found objects:

http://www.wired.com/news/roadtrip/riverroad/0,2704,65137,00.html

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Altoids iPod back-up battery.

elliot — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 05:42:37 GMT

Run-time: +10 hrs
Requires Charmed Iron of Soldering, DEX > 200

http://www.chrisdiclerico.com/mt/archives/001572.php

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

hard core geeky google stuff...

brian — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:46:28 GMT

pardon the cross-post from neatstuff.tribe.net, but this one is definitely nerdy!

http://mathworld.wolfram....s/2004-10-13/google/

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

Google recruiting billboard.

elliot — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:45:22 GMT

Courtesy Brian:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2004-10-13/google/

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies

How-To: NES Grand Theft Auto.

elliot — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:39:38 GMT

Okay, not only does this guy hand-draw the entire gaming environment of a 3D game, so that he can reproduce it in 2D for Super Nintendo -- he writes his own assembler toolkit to help him write the game:

http://www.grandtheftendo.com/index.php?page=design
http://www.grandtheftendo.com/index.php?page=tools

posted in Nerd The F*ck Out - 0 replies