The laser's back and this time I'm finally getting around to trying out some real-time effects using JACK. This is a simple circular oscilloscope (look ma, no retrace!) spinning ...

Costis is screwing around with the clock on a GBC and I just couldn't keep myself from trying it out. He quoted some pretty insane max clock speed and I wanted to see whether ...

This is how I'm programming SaveMiis now :-) This is a programming robot built using Fischertechnik parts. I'm using two motors and two microswitches, plus some Python scripting ...

Here's the new power controller for the laser. Now I can finally turn the laser on and off and modulate brightness as I draw things. I still need to write the code, so for ...

The dashing is done by altering the speed at which the beam moves, not by directly changing the laser's brightness (I haven't done that part yet). Code here: http://pastie....

I was trying to do some speed modulation on a circle but ended up with this instead. The noise you hear is the galvos moving! This stressed them pretty badly, I'm not going ...

Brand new SCANLSP-30 scanner being tested in the classic oscilloscope mode. I'm waiting for some cheap USB sound cards to come in for modding, so I tested this with my laptop's ...

This is a little wireframe rendering of the Stanford Bunny on a chinese MP4 player based on the SPMP3052 chip. The hardware performs 2D line rendering, and the 3D vertex ...

This USB launcher was created in 6 hours, to demonstrate the simplicity given available tools. Based on: IOS Module Toolkit by neimod USB2 module by Kwiirk Apploader code ...

What do hackers do when they get bored? Blow things up! Unfortunately, blowing things up is a somewhat hazardous thing to do indoors, so we had to settle for making things ...

Here's a video of a little gamecube pad to Wii Remote adapter that I rigged up. The console sees the adapter as a Classic Controller. It's missing some buttons (-, home, ...

Get the final version here: http://bootmii.org THE HARDWARE WAS JUST FOR TESTING, BOOTMII IS 100% SOFTWARE, YOU DO NOT NEED ANY OF THE STUFF ABOVE THE WII. Jeebus, read,...

Using a hardware device to trigger a built-in recovery mode in the Wii System Menu. This can be used to recover many otherwise bricked Wiis. Nintendo calls the official ...

Here is the completed banner of the soon-to-be-released Homebrew Channel. 100% homebrew, made with 100% homebrew tools. Info and explanation: http://hackmii.com/2008/05/the-elusive-banner/ Sorry ...

A few days ago a homebrew loader for the Wii was released. I just managed to get the USB interface to work, and therefore talk to the internal Bluetooth controller (which ...

Anyone remember the days of DOS games "playing" music by moving the floppy drive heads? Well, I had to test a new robot platform, but I was too lazy to go build an actual ...

The original Pac-man arcade game, implemented inside a single Xilinx Spartan-3E chip on a Spartan-3E Starter Kit. None of the extra hardware on the board is used, the chip ...

Yep, we finally figured out how the darn IR camera works. It's just a quick hack, but I've written a program to take the data from the Wiimote, filter it a bit, and emulate ...

We are working on documenting and adding support for the Wiimote on Bluetooth-enabled computers. Here's how it's turning out so far. Stay tuned for pointing, Mii data (already ...

So I just picked up my new Wii with an extra Wii Remote, and look what starts happening soon after I begin to use it. This really screws up gameplay. No, you don't have to ...