Homebrew

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The White House Brews Its Own Beer

7:00AM September 19, 2011 | Jack Loftus

US President Obama oversaw the elimination of Osama bin Laden… and he asked the White House kitchen to begin brewing its own beer for parties? Remind me, how is it he’s not a shoe-in for reelection? Don’t answer that. Let’s focus on the beer. More »


Gadgets

7 Tools For The DIY Drinker

6:30AM July 26, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

The making of one’s own booze is a practice that extends into prehistory and has outlasted countless empires (as well as Prohibition). These seven tools will help you create your own crunk and continue the home-brew tradition. More »


Mobile

Microsoft Wants You To Jailbreak Your Phone… For A Fee

3:55AM June 19, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The merry team at ChevronWP7 Labs just announced that, in collaboration with Microsoft, they’ll be unlocking Windows phones for a small fee. This creates a wholly legitimate route for developers to access WP7 users. Apple could learn something here. More »


Gaming

Sony Hasn’t Always Hated Homebrew Development

3:40AM April 30, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Sony’s recent run of legal and now technical issues with hackers can be traced back to a single decision: that of removing the ability to run the Linux operating system on the PlayStation 3. While Sony cut Linux out of piracy fears, fans were upset that it brought to an end over a decade of custom and homebrew development on PlayStation consoles. More »


Gadgets

Synergy Home Beer Brewing System: Mr Beer’s Rich, Crazy Uncle

4:00AM April 2, 2011 | Brian Barrett

If you’re a fan of brewing your own beer – which, hey, it’s about time you were – you can’t do it much better or more expensively than this. More »


Entertainment

Hacked Kinect Puts Your Shadow Puppet Bunny To Shame

12:07AM November 20, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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Kinect’s been hacked! And I can’t think of a better use of a day than the creation of this goofy animated bird, the most impressive shadow puppet you’ve ever thrown against a wall. More »


Homebrew Technology: The $US100 Aeroplane

12:20AM October 3, 2010 | Catherine de Lange

Take an evening stroll through a park in Brooklyn, New York, and you might spot what looks like a luminous stingray whizzing through the air above. Follow it to its landing spot and you’re bound to bump into Breck Baldwin and Mark Harder, two exhibitors from last week’s Maker Faire who spend much of their time in an underground workshop building remote-controlled aeroplanes pretty much from scratch. Their plan is to wean people off shop-bought kits and get them freestyling when it comes to building model planes, getting creative with recycled materials instead. More »


A Glimpse Of The Multitouch DJing Of The Future

4:00AM August 7, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

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This isn’t the first multitouch deejaying we’ve seen, but something about seeing this guy navigate his transparent control station – a homebrew touchscreen running a Traktor Pro MIDI controller called Emulatorreally makes me want to do the robot. More »


Software

Zune HD Gets Homebrew Apps And Games

1:56AM April 17, 2010 | John Herrman

And older Zunes, too! But let’s talk about the HD: With the new OpenZDK toolkit, developers can make homebrew apps for the Zune HD, and by following a relatively simple set of instructions, you can install them. More »


Software

webOS Getting Doom, Quake, OpenGL, Native SDK

4:31AM January 5, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

With some elbow grease, we’ve been able to play Doom on our Palm Pre devices for a while, but now we can do so without any messy terminal commands. Oh, and there’s a playable version of Quake, too. More »