Eric at the lab showed me this. The project is called CrazyCopter. It is basically a micro quadcopter built complete on a PC Board and four motors. The board is densely packed with 2 gyros and an accelerometer feeding a Cortex-M3 processor. The whole thing can be programmed via wireless…and it sends its telemetry data to the computer via 2.4GHz Radio as well.

I want to build one badly. Hopefully these guys will release the plans and open source the project. *Drool…*

If you are like me, you HAD to have iPhone tethering even though it wasn’t supported yet. So, you poked around on the web and found/hacked a profile config file for Fido/Rogers and installed it.

Well, as of iPhoneOS 3.1, the iPhone will not accept unsigned config files (unless you have jailbroken); as such, this file will no longer work. This means that if you have the unsigned config file, your tethering option will disappear.

However, seeing as Rogers/Fido has officially embraced tethering (for now). If you have the hacked and unsigned config file installed it (or any similar file for other carriers, like AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) and upgraded to iPhoneOS 3.1 or 3.1.2, you will need to remove it.

Open Settings > General > Profiles (at the bottom). Remove the profile you see there. Tethering should now show up for you.

Enjoy! The credit for this goes to http://cdslash.net/about/ who helped me work out the whole config file thing in the first place…

Nike + Sports Kit

I’m happily logging my running kilometers on my Apple iPod Nano using the Nike+ iPod Sports Kit. You can use it to play your Playlists, or all your songs in shuffle mode while working out. You can even store a “power song” (which I’m guessing is Eye of the Tiger on most iPods) to perk you up when your energy is waning during the workout BUT, for some reason, podcasts isn’t on the list of sources when you go to start a Nike+ workout.

What gives with that? Yes, I like my tunes, but what’s wrong with listening to a podcast while running?

Here’s the workaround:
You can start playing your podcast BEFORE clicking on Nike+iPod.
From the Nike+iPod menu, choose the workout you wish to do as usual.
Then, choose “Now Playing” as your music source.

Irritating, but at least it works. Hopefully, Apple will work on this in a future release of the iPod firmware.

This is an issue that I’ve had for a while, but only recently got around to figuring it out.

I have multiple Gmail accounts for work, play, etc. To make things worse, I make extensive use of Google Reader and Notebook. To switch between the accounts, you have to log-out of one, and into another. Doing this many times a day was slowly driving me insane. So, I did what all self respecting geek would do (other than rolling their own solution)…I Googled!

Basically, I was looking for a solution that would let me swap between a few sets of “cookies”, or the small set of data stored by Google on my computer’s browser that includes my identity, the fact that I logged in successfully, etc. Fortunately, within a few minutes of starting my search, I found CookieSwap.

CookieSwap is an add-on to Firefox that does exactly what I was looking for!

“CookieSwap enables you to easily swap all your cookies so that you can be logged in to multiple web e-mail accounts (like Gmail and Yahoo! mail) at the same time and quickly switch between them.

CookieSwap is an extension that enables you to maintain numerous sets or ‘profiles’ of cookies that you can quickly swap between while browsing.”

To personalize the profiles so that it doesn’t say “Profile1″, “Profile2″ etc., more help in setting up the plugin is here.

If you can’t bring me with you, this guy has it down…