iRobot Roomba Videos

Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold by iRobot. It is marketed as a Robotic Floorvac. The Roomba was first released in 2002 with updates and new models released in 2003, 2004, and 2005. As of May 2006, over 2 million units have been sold, making it the most successful domestic robot so far.
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Roombas manufactured after October 2005 or upgraded with the Roomba OSMO//hacker contain an electronic and software interface that allows you to control or modify Roomba's behavior and remotely monitor its sensors. The iRobot Roomba Open Interface, previously known as the Roomba Serial Command Interface, is intended for software programmers and roboticists to create their own enhancements to Roomba. Various hardware interface devices are available to access the Roomba using the Roomba Open Interface

The word "Roombatics" has been coined to be the general science of modifying or programming your Roomba.

from wikipedia.com

XBOX Live Vision Videos

The Xbox Live Vision Camera was announced at E3 2006, and has been revealed to be scheduled for release September 19 in North America, and October 2 in Europe and Asia (not including Japan). Release dates for Japan, Australia, and New Zealand were not confirmed. The first "Camera Enabled" game, a video game incarnation of the classic card game UNO, was released in the Xbox Live Marketplace on May 9, 2006, even though the camera is still not available to the public.] The Xbox 360 version of World Series of Poker touts a "Digimask" technology that will map a player's facial expressions onto his or her in-game avatar.
It seems that this will be in competition with the PlayStation brand's EyeToy line.

from wikipedia.org

PSP GPS application

On the PSP, it is now possible to run a GPS application using googlemaps data.
Maps can be stored on the memorystick. Here is a site with the complete instructions.


You will need to buy the Holux GPSlim module, instructions on installation are here.

Here's a video :

Segway Videos

The Segway HT is a two-wheeled, self-balancing transportation device invented by Dean Kamen and unveiled in December 2001. It is available in various models and form factors produced by the company Segway Inc. of New Hampshire. The name "Segway HT" stands for "Segway Human Transporter."

from wikipedia.org

This one is showing one of Segway's competitors, the Footwalker (very original name if you ask me).
It's not exactly thesame, and it definitely isn't as cool as a real Segway.

(video in ducth)

Apple bootcamp videos

Boot Camp is a software assistant made available by Apple Computer that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (both Home and Professional Editions) on Intel-based Macintosh computers. Boot Camp guides users through non-destructive re-partitioning (including resizing of existing partitions, if necessary) of their hard drives and creating a CD image with device drivers for Windows XP. In addition to device drivers for the hardware, the CD includes a Windows control panel for setting the primary operating system.

from wikipedia.org

I don't own an Intel based Mac, but if I did, I would certainly want a dual boot Windows / MacOs system. So i gathered some videos explaining how all this works.

PSP hacking videos

The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment. The PlayStation Portable was first announced during E³ 2003 and was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E³ 2004. It was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, the United States and Canada on March 24, 2005 and in Europe and Australia on September 1, 2005. The PSP can play games, MPEG-4 movies, several music formats, and JPEG photos. As of firmware version 2.00 it has a web browser.


PSP's are wonderful things, especially because if you have one with an early firmware version, you can play all kinds of homebrew games and emulators on it. I found a few video's explaining how to do this. So here we go.

Mindstorms NXT videos

Lego Mindstorms is a line of Lego Group products combining programmable bricks with electric motors, sensors, Lego bricks, and Lego Technic pieces (such as gears, axles, beams, and pneumatic parts) to build robots and other automated or interactive systems.

The next product in the Mindstorms series is Mindstorms NXT, released in August 2006 . The kit includes three servo motors, a touch sensor, a light sensor (now with the ability to differentiate between colours based on greyscale readings), a new sound sensor, an ultrasonic sensor and a new NXT 'Intelligent Brick'.

from wikipedia.org

The new Lego Mindstorms NXT set should be coming out this month. The preorder form for Belgium says first delivery will be possible on september 21st, but it'll probably be available sooner in US and UK. It's not very cheap, but I am certainly willing to spend 299€ (349USD) on it.
Especially after I got a good look at what it is able to do.

I will not be giving details about each video, just watch and enjoy.