Great timing! A couple weeks ago I was talking with some friends about getting all my old emulators working on my HTPC and using the Xbox 360 wireless USB dongle for my PC so we can use my xbox controllers in MAME. It's been close to ten years since I used MAME and all the other emulators much. I'm really…

Thanks for the flashback, now I gotta go make my own radio with a crystal and metric ton of super fine copper wire.... My uncle always got me this kind of stuff for birthdays and Christmas when I was a kid. I blame him for my obsession with building electronics with Arduino's and building a 3D printer.... he planted…

Perfect! The crap bouncing around in the back of my girlfriends Durango has been annoying me like nothing else. Now she can have a few crates to store stuff in so it doesn't bounce around the rear end of the truck while driving.

I have some old milk crates, now I'm thinking about putting velcro on the bottom of two of them and sticking them in my girlfriends Durango to keep stuff from sliding around in the back of it. Cheap useful solutions are my favorite!

That's a shame, that rug really brought the room together.

I've built a 5x5x5 LED Cube with an Arduino UNO. I've built a reprap Mendel Prusa 3D printer with a Arduino MEGA2560. A POV led toy with an Arduino NANO and I'm in the middle of building an infinity mirror with a WS2811 individually addressable LED strip. I'm using a line in and piezo mic so the LED's can dance to…

Bandwidth wasn't so much of an issue as it was the argument to get what they wanted, a way to create an artificial meter for a service and create additional sources of revenue.

Dude, I tried, but I'm also dyslexic so it's truly, earth on hell.....

Oh God.... I feel a full on OCD attack about to hit me!!!! MUST PEEEEEEL

Those things do work great (hated it when cables would fall behind the desk) and for the people trying to save every dollar, binder clips do a reasonably good approximation of this.

This really makes a huge difference, I've done something very similar and it makes spending hours working in front of my PC much more comfortable. It's also nice because my keyboard and mouse can slide under and out of the way and I get to use my computer desk as a "normal" desk sometimes now. It's amazing the…

LOVE THIS KEYBOARD! It's worked great for me for the last couple of years and I never had a problem with the battery getting low or dying on me. I was telling friends how great it was and got quite a few friends to purchase them for themselves. The only friend that had a problem with this keyboard had a keyboard…

I haven't been very happy with Western Digital portable drives. I've had two MyBooks crash and quit working on me in the past few years. I've now switched over to just buying external hard drive cases and buying an internal drive and popping it in there. I've used Western Digital internal drives for nearly two…

I've got an older Harmony remote that controls everything. Setting it up even with the website full of hardware profiles and a USB cable that loads all the profiles onto the remote it still took an evening to set it up and another week to slowly get it working perfectly. Once it was working well it was awesome…

It's not 100% perfect, but in IE there is a developer tools option under the "settings gear" on the top right corner of the window.

My sister lived in Hong Kong for nearly 7 years. I got a lot of counterfeit clothes and watches from her. I also got some amazing knock off video game systems. My favorite was the Saga GameJoy (it was a Sega GameGear knockoff that played gamegear games and some other weird cartridge based game system I wasn't…

Not exactly a hack, but I purchased a super golden joy for my Super Nintendo in the early 2000's, you could load SNES roms onto 3.5" floppy discs to play on the SNES. The unit plugged into the cartridge slot. It was pretty amazing back in the day. There are a few people out there trying to do something similar with…

I rarely use alkalines anymore except for things like a few clocks on my walls that will run on a single "AA" battery for 5-8 years. Everything else I pretty much use Sanyo Eneloop rechargables. They hold a charge for a very long time so you can charge them and then put them on the shelf until you need them. I use…

You're absolutely right. I actually bought a few BT receivers from amazon and ebay before I wound up with this one. I suggested the Logitech BT receiver because it seemed to have the best reception out of all the ones I had tried. A few of the cheap ones I got on eBay didn't work so well unless you were within…

Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Bluetooth Audio Devices $30