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DIY mechanics can now build a Hybrid to save some bucks and help the planet. The XR3 holds two passengers and can get 125 mpg on diesel and 225 mpg when combined with electricity. Weighing a mere 1,480 lbs., designer Robert Q. Riley promises fast acceleration and a maximum speed of 80 mph. With a clam shell canopy and three-wheel platform, use battery power alone for up to 40 miles distance. You can build the XR3 in a diesel only model for less than $10,000.00 while a Li-ion version can cost up to $25,000.00. Plans will set you back $170.00 to $200.00.

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Yes, sometimes the greatest DIY projects are built not from scratch but from the cannibalized bits of other, less-brilliant controllers. Together, these pieces become greater as a whole, from bland and boring to bizarre and fantastic.

Case in point: Devin aka “mzo” writes us with his Cyrillic-emblazoned custom controller creation for VJ control.

The controller is built from modifying 3 off the shelf controllers (M-Audio Trigger Finger, Belkin Nostromo n52 gamepad and the old Mixman Dm2) into a custom made, laser etched box with a cold-war soviet space station theme (hence the name Def-con, also Definable-controller because of its flexibility in programming). The computer still sees the thing as 3 seperate and unmodified devices and I program them for my vj’ing using the respective software for each (although the dm2 to midi software isn’t from the manufacturer). This also makes the controller suitable for a wide variety of applications including dj’ing.

I currently use this controller with Vjamm, Resolume, Live and Traktor with custom control setups for each.

I was curious about more details of how the controller mappings were used in action, so Devin sent more.

Full-size image download of above

No videos, but he did write up some other impressions:

The dm2 is unfortunately pretty janky so the joystick is a little unreliable and the scratch wheel needs some fine tuning. The n52 is definitely my favorite controller ever, i’ve dj’d tons of parties using just the n52 and vr goggles with no computer in sight to bust out whole sets.

I’ve attached the diagram of my current resolume def-con setup (I actually reference the printout of it when playing still since its pretty newish) so that you and the readers can get an idea of how it’s actually used.

God I can’t wait for resolume 3 so I can use resolume for avj’ing instead of having to switch between vjamm and resolume mappings!

If readers were interested for whatever reason I could also package up my mapping files for the devices and resolume.

So, what do you think? Would those mappings be useful?

(And yeah, we’re excited about Resolume 3, too!)

Def-Con Picture Gallery [Picasa]

If anyone else has gone Dr. Frankenstein on their own controller, we’d love to hear about it.

Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedans/Saloons, Jaguar

Since you can't even really call it a car anymore if it hasn't been blasted around the 'Ring in development, Jaguar has taken the mechanicals of the next XJ sedan to everyone's favorite playground. Those internals wear the ill-fitting sheetmetal of the current XJ, with the addition of serious wheel arches and a fire-breathing nose.

The real thing to take away from the story is this: the car has been described as "the XF's features... draped over an Aston Martin Rapide." Frankly, we were happy when the XJ's design was moved away from mimicking the Mercedes CLS. And we have come to appreciate the design of the XF. But this equation: XF + Rapide = XJ is the kind of thing that could go wrong. Mr. Callum, however, has earned the benefit of the doubt, so we will wait for the feast for our eyes to decide.

[Source: Autocar]

 

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It's a PS3 extravaganza!! All day, Amazon will be offering Gold Box deals on PS3 items. Sadly, there's only one piece of hardware in the sale, the Logitech Driving Force GT Racing Wheel. We're not sure how much the controller will be going for since the deal hits at 10AM Eastern, but it might be worth checking in later if you want to build a fancy racing rig like this one. Otherwise, the sale is for games only. Here's the entire schedule: 9AM EST: Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII 1PM EST: Logitech Driving Force GT Racing Wheel 3PM EST: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 6PM EST: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 7PM EST: Devil May Cry 4 9PM EST: Haze If you still haven't played Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, I highly recommend picking it up. [Kotaku and PS3Fanboy]

It's a PS3 extravaganza!! All day, Amazon will be offering Gold Box deals on PS3 items. Sadly, there's only one piece of hardware in the sale, the Logitech Driving Force GT Racing Wheel. We're not...

Today I tried this method on
http://www.jessecole.org/2008/06/25/...assword-reset/ to reset a mac password
he said " First, enter single user mode and mount the filesystem read/write.
mount -uw /
Then do this:
10.5
rm -Rf /var/db/dslocal
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

after entering rm/var/db/.AppleSetupDone an error was created
”Couldn’t find root user. Sleeping and trying again"
I tried resetting it but only apple logo and the spinning wheel would appear. I tried inserting Mac OS X Install Disc 1 into it but my mac won't boot from the disc. Is there anyway to reinstall my system from the disc by booting from it? or other way? anyone??? thanks!

Today I tried this method on
http://www.jessecole.org/2008/06/25/...assword-reset/ to reset a mac password
he said " First, enter single user mode and mount the filesystem read/write.
mount -uw /
Then do this:
10.5
rm -Rf /var/db/dslocal
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

after entering rm/var/db/.AppleSetupDone an error was created
”Couldn’t find root user. Sleeping and trying again"
I tried resetting it but only apple logo and the spinning wheel would appear. I tried inserting Mac OS X Install Disc 1 into it but my mac won't boot from the disc. Is there anyway to reinstall my system from the disc by booting from it? or other way? anyone??? thanks!

I think my wireless mighty mouse's scroll wheel is defective (can't scroll up), it scroll's down.

I purchased it along with my 24 inch iMac last December. Is it under a 1 year warranty or 90 day warranty. I am having a hard time googling the answer on apple's website.

Also, I have a 3 year Apple warranty on the iMac. Does the warranty apply to the wireless mouse/keyboard since I purchased it in the same package?

Fantastic Contraption is a free, simplified riff on the old Incredible Machine game. Your aim is to move a box into a zone by hooking together some wheels and sticks. It lacks the inventive motor elements of the older game (set the balloon to pop to lower the basket that has the mice that will cause the elephant to move onto the scale that flips the lighter that sets off the rocket, etc.), but its simplicity also works in its favor.

You may have a child that will love it. You might also. If not, there are bunches of other games on the site.

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Filed under: Peripherals

We'd say the jump from traditional optical mice to laser mice was pretty momentous, and it sounds like Microsoft is getting ready to jump again -- Microsoft Hardware put up a teaser this afternoon for a September 9th announcement featuring the tagline "Say Goodbye to Laser." Yeah, that's not exactly subtle, is it? We're hoping a return to old-school trackballs with grimy little wheels is in order, but we're just sentimentalists at heart.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Ferrari, Special/Limited Editions

click above for gallery of the Ferrar Monza concept

It appears that after seeing a number of its finest works crashed by errant drivers, Ferrari has decided to make a... something... that its designer says is simply too much for humans to drive. It's called the Monza, and it's part car, part motorcycle, part flying wing, and all anime.

Designed by Iman Maghsoudi, the Monza, whose name recalls historic Ferraris of yore and the race track that hosts the Italian Grand Prix, can go 125 miles per hour. But because humans cannot muster "sufficient concentration" to keep it on the ground and upright, computers take over. They change the angles of the canards over the front wheels and make sure the Monza doesn't go airborne in violent gusts. This study in advanced aerodynamics appears to be the road-going equivalent of an F-16, which seems to be a rather complicated way to go speeds that aren't considered that fast anymore. But hey, it's a Ferrari, it's red, no one else has one, and if we got the chance we'd drive it, too.

Gallery: Ferrari Monza design study

[Source: Telegraph]

 

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Filed under: Motorsports, Sports/GTs, Euro, Audi

Click above for a hi-res gallery of the Audi R8 GT3 car

The courtship between Audi and GT3-class racing teams has officially begun with the automaker's announcement that it has developed a GT3 version of the R8 sports car dubbed "R16" internally by its project overlords at Audi Sport . The rear-drive racer (GT3 regulations prohibit AWD) features a six-speed sequential gearbox, mostly production-spec suspension components, plus an updated front end and a large rear wing designed to keep it planted to the tarmac. No additional tech specs have been revealed at this time. Factory driver Frank Biela was at the wheel for the prototype's roll-out, and customer deliveries are expected to take place next fall. Look for the car to see wheel-to-wheel action against the likes of the Aston Martin DBRS9 and Jaguar XKR GT3 during the 2009 European racing season. We patiently await its inclusion in a future Gran Turismo update so that we can try it out, too.

Gallery: Audi R8 GT3 Racer

[Source: Audi]

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Don't know if anyone is interested, but I found it really cool that I could play my favorite MUD on my DS using DSlinux and it's telnet client. Furthermore once I had set up binds/aliases, it actually wasn't much of a hassle,of course long conversations are a sure way to a hand cramp but moving around and fighting actually can be faster in some respects. Plus I didn't need any RAM expansion like the Supercard or 3-in-1. You of course will need homebrew wi-fi connect ability.

I am using the Games N Music for this, but it should work on any DLDI compatible device.

If you don't know what a MUD is, you probably won't be interested but for those who don't, a MUD is a Multi-User-Dungeon, basically a text-only MMORPG, sort of.


I did a search around and found that there was no information about MUDs on the DS and decided to write this up.I did find a MUDClient for the PSP, wow that must be hard.

If you are already using dslinux and wi-fi, you may have thought of this already, or dismissed it as too annoying to be useful.I think that it's very playable but not everyone may think so.

For this rough How-to, some knowledge of DSOrganize would be useful. I use the hacked nintendo wi-fi usb dongle, but I believe any "softAP" capable wireless device will work in connecting your DS to your wi-fi.

First download the file below. It is a version of DSlinux that works with no ram expansion and DSOrganize_3_1129,which is used to alter a linux config file without corrupting it.(I also customized the Icons in DSO and this is last stable version.) I'd like to note I didn't compile this version of DSlinux, someone posted it on dslinux forum.

DSO and DSlinux
http://www.mediafire.com/?qptjkai2kj1


The reason we are using DSOrganize to edit DSlinux config files is that Windows notepad(or any windows/dos text editor) corrupts the .conf file rendering it useless in linux, plus around the web it tells you to use some linux text-editor that is hard to find and execute.


Extract the folder and place it's contents directly in the root of your card.The folders need to be in the root, I don't think the .nds files need to be but thats where I put them. DLDI patch DSlinux and DSOrganize.nds(unless by chance you use a GnM card).

Boot up your DS and then DSOrganize.nds.

Using the DSO browser, navigate to /linux/etc find rc.defaults, copy it somewhere(use shoulder buttons to alter DSO's functions). Rename rc.defaults to rc.conf.The rc.conf file needs to be in /linux/etc folder.

As far as I know the DS hates DCHP connection. If you are using the DS for homebrew, you will already know what your ip's,gateway's and mask's etc. are.If not You can open up your command prompt in windows and use ipconfig command to see your wireless networks IP and gateway

Open rc.conf with DSOrganize.

Plug in your essid,channel,wepkey,IP,Gatewaynetmask,broadcast, and dns1, make sure you enable network on boot.The quotes are needed.


enable_network_on_boot="YES"
essid="youressid"
wepkey="yourwepkey"
ip="your static DS IP"
gateway="your wireless connection's IP"
netmask="your Subnet Mask for your wireless connection"
broadcast="youressid"
dns1="your Wireless Network Connection's IP"

I don't use a WEP key, so don't know if using it screws something up.My DS hates security.

While still in /linux/etc .Open resolv.conf and plug in your wireless connections IP instead of the one below.(This can all be done inside DSOrganize.) Quotes are not needed here.
nameserver 192.168.1.1


If you can get all this crap figured out,then when you boot dslinuxNORAM2.nds, it will auto-connect you to your wireless.

Font Size
First, the tiny font will leave you with a massive headache so I've included some different font sizes.

Type the following exactly, consolechars -f font2
Use font3 to check if you like that better.(Simply press D-Pad up to cycle through whats been typed already for ease.) consolechars -f font2,whichever one you choose will need to be entered every time you start dslinux, before you start telnet.


Connecting to a MUD server.
(for this example I will use Wheel of Time MUD because it is my favorite and has PK)


type telnet to start Telnet.

Type telnet wotmud.org 2222

This will connect you to wotmud.org, but should work for any telnet MUD, I tested some others like Discworld.Type telnet discworld.atuin.net 23 that worked fine.So just leave out the ":".


A brief look at "aliases"
Once inside the MUD with your new character hopefull your favorite MUD will use binds or alias's.


For instance in WOTMUD, if I want to make a shortcut to allow me to "look in sack" I would type alias ls look in sack and then every time I type ls then enter, it would execute look in sack.


Luckily on the DS with telnet the A Button=Enter.The D-pad and the X and Y buttons create a string of characters when pushed.
Pressing D-pad UP creates the string ^[[A, the rest of the directions create something similar. The X-Button creates a group "^[[5" and the Y-Button creates "^[[6".


So by creating an alias of alias ^[[A north every time I press the D-Pad UP followed by the A-button, I go North. I usually assign the X-button to something I kill a lot. alias ^[[5 kill deer for example. Furthermore you can do double tap button binds, like alias ^[[5^[[5 kill stag, so pressing X-Button twice followed by the A-button will "kill stag".


Incredibly I found that with skillful binding and some quick fingers I was able to move around and kill quicker then on my computer(unless I am using Zmud). Player Killing Battles would seem easier to "spam" in too.

Hope that all made sense and is useful to someone.


List of MUDs
http://www.topmudsites.com/forums/mudlist.html

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hey guys,
i was playing with my touch today and put on a background with customize and when i wanted to change it, it didn`t work so the i restored it and that didn`t help. i went into settings an pressed the erase all settings. when the ipod restarted it stayed on the apple logo with a loading wheel on it. what can i do to fix it?

BMW 735i sport sedan. This vehicle is one of the finest examples you will find in Canada! Everything works perfectly. Features of this car include the following:
3.5 liter high output 6-cylinder engine (great power, more economical than a V8)
Auto transmission
sport alloy wheels
CD player
Metallic paint
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This car runs and drives like a charm. It is a perfectly good daily driver, or will be happy to wait in the garage for you until the next sunny day. It is an absolute blast to drive! Two keys and the original floor mats are included . There are no mechanical issues whatsoever. The only cosmetic issues with this car are a small area of the clear coat is beginning to peel off on the rear passenger side of the car . Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. I can be reached via email. I encourage anyone local to come in person to check out this car.
the car is sky blue with navy blue leather interior in excellent condition we are the original owners! The car has a clean history and comes with all the all power amenities including keyless entry and remote start for those cold winter mornings. The car also has on board computer CD player, speed sensitive wipers, power seats, etc... All service and maintance records available. Recent work includes, new tires, brakes, entire front end incl. shocks. Complete exhaust system, starter and alternator. Open to reasonable offers - serieous inquires only please.

Filed under: Gaming, iPod Family

iPhone-wielding gamers rejoiced when EA announced a version of Spore for the iPhone, set to debut in September of this year (check out our hands-on with Spore). This week, click wheel iPod owners got a leg up, as Spore: Origins is now available in the iTunes Store [link].

Origins, as the name implies, lets players experience the 1st level of the game, in which you guide a single-cell organism through the primordial ooze. Game play is straight forward: Use the click wheel to guide Jr. around, and the center button to eat other organisms he finds. No word on sharing your progress with the full game once it's released on September 7th.

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Filed under: Cellphones

Well, they're here. Nokia's latest and greatest N-series devices just hit the market like a trio of well-aimed bricks -- or at least that's what Nokia's hoping. We got to spend a little bit of hands-on time with prototypes of the new devices, and while we came away slightly impressed, we were nowhere near E-series impressed. Here's our biggest problem with the lineup: the only one worth talking about is the N85. Other than minor screen size disparities, the 16GB built-in memory of the N96 and the fresh candybar form of the N79, these three phones are pretty much exactly identical on specs, and yet the N96 manages to be inexcusably bulky, while the N79 sports an inexcusably terrible screen -- we're hoping that was just the prototype being funky, but we saw two versions with the same problem. The N85 isn't exactly the pinnacle of thinphoneness, but its amazing OLED screen and more refined design make the N96 look like more of a rough draft than a sibling. On the interface side, the phones are much more responsive to S60's new motion and transitions, but Nokia has oddly chosen to disable the Navi Wheel scrolling in all three phones -- a weird move, but we can't say we blame them, we haven't had a single good experience with Navi Wheel since Nokia introduced it. In all, we're not exactly thrilled about Nokia's prospects for winning over the masses with this new series of devices. Sure, Nokia will protest that it's going after the high-end users, but 5 megapixel cameras, GPS and WiFi are no longer the differentiators they once were, and users have begun to expect thinner, sexier devices at prices far below the N96's gargantuan $895 pricetag.

Gallery: Nokia N79, N85 and N96 hands-on