Category: interesting
By admin on Nov 28, 2014 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Learn Web Programming on Raspberry Pi
Coder is a free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web like the company from Boca Raton. Many companies are searching for a simple way of marketing, but they still haven´t come across GDPR email […]
By admin on Oct 15, 2013 in interesting, security | Comments Off on Tor Open Network
Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet, you can check http://www.agenciesranked.com/ where you will find that it is one of top agencies. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. Tor provides the foundation for […]
By admin on Jun 30, 2013 in hacking, interesting, open source | Comments Off on Wave Bubble–Open Source GPS Jammer
Wave Bubble: a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer. The device is lightweight and small for easy camouflaging: it is the size of a pack of cigarettes. An internal lithium-ion battery provides up to 2 hours of jamming (two bands, such as cell) or 4 hours (single band, such as cordless phone, GPS, WiFi, bluetooth, etc). […]
By admin on Mar 31, 2012 in interesting, open source, security | Comments Off on Project Sentry Gun
This project guides you on how to build a sentry gun which autonomously tracks, aims, and shoots at targets, using: An airsoft or paintball gun A webcam to find targets A computer to process the video feed and aim the gun Servo motors to physically aim the gun and squeeze the trigger A sturdy tripod […]
By admin on Mar 25, 2012 in general, interesting | Comments Off on How to View a MMS File
You can use MessagingToolkit SMS/MMS Library to send and receive SMS and MMS. When you use the library to receive MMS, the messages are saved with a .mms extension. To view the message you can use the demo program bundled with MessagingToolkit MMS Library. Below is a screenshot of the application. Alternatively, if you […]
By admin on Dec 30, 2010 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Creating Cross Stitch and Knitting Schemes from Images
Scheme Maker is an application designed to enable you to create cross-stitch and knitting schemes from images and photos. While working with a scheme this tool will allow you: Determine the number of cells in width and in height; Detect color for every cell using some algorithms; Lessen the number of colors of the scheme […]
By admin on Dec 30, 2010 in freebies, interesting | Comments Off on Free Space Simulation Software
Celestia is a free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
By admin on Aug 11, 2010 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on DOSBox – Open Source DOS Emulator
DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, joystick, modem, etc., necessary for running many old MS-DOS games that simply cannot be run on modern PCs and operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and FreeBSD. However, it is not restricted to running only games. In theory, any MS-DOS […]
By admin on Jan 31, 2010 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Build a Open Source Helicopter Autopilot
You can find the English language source code for a fully functional helicopter autopilot that you can download without paying for. You need to be an expert in PIC assembly, electronics, & the VicaCopter source code to actually get it to work, but this is actual source code flying our autonomous VTOL aircraft, not an […]
By admin on Nov 10, 2009 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Build a Geek House
Software from the book Geek House, published by Wiley, written by the authors of PC Toys. Project code is for a bar code inventory, security monitoring, a recipe database, a barbeque controller, and a soil moisture driven sprinkler controller. The code is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/geekhouse/
By admin on Feb 28, 2009 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on ScummVM
ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! Some of the adventures ScummVM supports […]
By admin on Dec 31, 2008 in interesting | Comments Off on NASA World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand […]
By admin on Sep 25, 2008 in general, interesting | 3 Comments
Digg Digg is running on the followings Caching (Memcache) Distributed file system (MogileFS) Monitoring (Nagios) Asynchronous Processing (Gearman) To know more about the architecture, you can read the followings How Digg works Digg Database Architecture High Scalability – Digg Architecture eBay Existing eBay website is built using Java. There is a good presentation on […]
By admin on Sep 20, 2008 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Solar System Modeling
The Solar Model is realtime modeling of solar system. It allows user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time flow) and estimate real movement of space bodies like planets, dwarf planets and moons; estimate its nowadays positions in space. You may select two possible views: Solar System view or Milky Way galaxy […]
By admin on Sep 20, 2008 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Open Source GIS
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies. GRASS is official project of […]
By admin on Sep 14, 2008 in interesting, open source | Comments Off on Open Source Robotics
Personal Robotics program is a collaboration between Willow Garage, Stanford University, and other academics institutions to create an open-source codebase and freely available hardware platform for mobile manipulation. The vision is that hardware and software platform for Personal Robotics – robots that do tasks for humans in human environments – will enable breakthrough robotics applications, […]
By admin on Sep 11, 2008 in interesting, Java | 1 Comment
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and […]
By admin on Sep 4, 2008 in interesting, web 2.0 | Comments Off on Visualize and Research Your Own Data
This is interesting.. You can now upload your own data set and create data visualization with Many Eyes The heart of Many Eyes is a collection of data visualizations. On Many Eyes you can: View and discuss visualizations View and discuss data sets Create visualizations from existing data sets Rate data sets and visualizations Upload […]
By admin on Sep 2, 2008 in interesting | Comments Off on Acid2 Test for Web Browser
Acid2 is a test page published and promoted by the Web Standards Project to identify web page rendering flaws in web browsers and other applications that render HTML. Acid2 tests aspects of HTML markup, CSS styling, PNG images, and data URIs. It should render correctly on any application that follows the World Wide Web Consortium […]
By admin on Sep 1, 2008 in interesting, open source | 1 Comment
Google is going to release a beta version of its own web browser, Chrome. There is a comic book on it here. From the Google website, it will be available for beta download starting 2 September 2008.