[Tim] is getting his drone ready for SparkFun’s 2013 Autonomous Vehicle Competition on June 8th. He has a pretty good start, but was having some problems accurately measuring travel distance. The technique he chose for the task was to glue magnets onto the axles of the vehicle and monitor them with a hall effect sensor. …
Adding an optical mouse sensor to an autonomous vehicle
AVC from the vehicle’s perspective
Team 0×27 was the winner of this year’s AVC, the Autonomous Vehicle Contest put on by SparkFun Electronics. You’ll find video of the two runs from this entry (the third run did not finish). We love it that there’s an on-board camera recording both video and sound of the race from the vehicle’s point of …
Cramming for Sparkfun’s Autonomous Vehicle Competition
[Paul Breed] participated in this year’s Autonomous Vehicles Contest put on by SparkFun Electronics. As with most projects, the deadline really snuck up on him and he ended up cramming a bunch of code development into the waning days before the competition. His experiences are shared in this recent blog post. One big part of …
Traffic Source Diversity is Essential for Successful SEO
Posted by randfish I recently created some custom filters in Google Analytics to illustrate SEOmoz’s traffic over the past 12 months: SEOmoz’s Traffic Sources Distribution _Data from March 15, 2010 – March 14, 2011Here’s the breakdown in percentag…
Pac-Man Hacked Onto a Touch-Screen Voting Machine Without Breaking ‘Tamper-Evide
The Pac-Man hack onto the Sequoia/Dominion voting machine was revealed this week. It was accomplished without breaking any of the “tamper-evident” seals that voting machine companies and election officials claim are used to ensure nobody can physically…
Pac-Man Hacked Onto a Touch-Screen Voting Machine
The Pac-Man hack onto the Sequoia/Dominion voting machine was revealed this week. It was accomplished without breaking any of the “tamper-evident” seals that voting machine companies and election officials claim are used to ensure nobody can physically…
Adding an input to an old head unit
Tape decks in cars? Yes, that used to be quite common before optical media took over road. [Nirav Patel's] 2004 Toyota Corolla had a deck that he used with a tape adapter in order to listen to music from his iPhone. But one day something happened and, although the adapter still worked, the cassette player started making …
