Items Tagged With hardware

Engadget have a great tutorial on building your own solid-state AV switcher...

"In this How-To we'll show you how to wire up your own A/V switcher which you can expand and use any way you'd like, for composite, S-Sideo, component, even VGA signals. Sure, you can buy a newer, really expensive TV's with multiple inputs (even component), but for those of us whose credit cards aren't quite up to that challenge, more inputs for less cash would be rather desirable. Let's get started...

Hacked Gadgets brings you schematics and photos of Raphael Assenat's home built, opto isolated lighting control system...

Submission by Mark Goodwin - Scenario, I am leaving my house, pat down pockets, glance at exposed surfaces and scream to SWMBO "Has anybody seen my keys?"...

The Register is running an interesting piece on how Intel is now backing the Zensys Z-Wave system instead of Zigbee... "Intel has joined the Z-Wave Alliance, which backs technology from Zensys, as a principal member, just months after the platform gained its greatest boost to date with the announcement that Cisco would invest in Zensys and rebrand its products under its Linksys name...

Just spotted this on Digg.com. Similar to our own Jukebox server build, but with even more space! "I have a lot of DVDs, but instead of getting a DVD changer, I decided to do something different, as you can see from the Meedio onscreen interface...