Technology-related projects, tutorials, information, and news. http://www.techdose.com I'm adding a new section to the site called "Repair Log" where I'll add some short problem/resolution articles for repairs I've done on arcade games, electronics, etc. First up is repairing chase / rope lights in a Bug Bash Alley Game. I'll be addi... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5690 I picked up an HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 a few weeks ago -- yeah I know HD DVD is a dead format, but some really good deals can be had on HD DVDs these days. Some of the same movies that would cost $15+ on Blu Ray are just $2-3 on HD DVD so I fi... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5484 A coworker recommended a new Amazon Price Watch website that I've been using the last month or two during comparison shopping - camelcamelcamel.com. I seem to remember there being another price watch and price trend tracking website like this a few... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5452 Updated the Furby project with my recent experiments with the Furby motor & an H-Bridge driver IC to control the motor's forward and reverse movement via the Arduino. It's not working exactly how I want so there's no how-to or code yet, but it's a s... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5299 This week in celebration of the 1yr anniversary of World Of Goo, the developers are offering a huge sale on the game. You pay whatever you think it's worth in form of a Paypal donation and you get the full game. Regular price of the game is $19.95,... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5164 Starting a new project page on Furby Hacking! I bought some used Furbies off of eBay recently for the sole purpose of tearing them apart to learn how they work. Furbies are pretty neat to study since they have relatively simple components working t... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5094 Just finished creating a tutorial on How to Use Solderless Breadboards. If you're at all into electronics, solderless breadboards are an essential tool to prototype circuit designs. The breadboard tutorial picks up off a tutorial I did a few year... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5092 Over in the Squeezebox forums there's some buzz about pictures of FCC test with a new Squeezebox Radio that may be the smaller sized LCD-based BOOM replacement. [quote] Squeezebox Radio model X-R0001 is a compact tabletop network music player and... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=5024 I used to have 3 XM subscriptions -- one for my car, one for my fiance's car and another for my parents. I enjoyed the service much more in the beginning when the gimmick was less commercials & there weren't a lot of good online radio alternatives.... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=4893 This is an update to a previous post on the Acer Aspire One. Like many others, I was having wireless issues and thought I may have found a driver that solved the problem. Even though the Atheros AR5007EG 7.6.0.264 driver I had attempted seemed to w... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=4799