Hardware – Active Wirehead http://www.activewirehead.com Cyberpunk Web Magazine: Tech - Video Games - Sport - Entertainment Fri, 01 Jul 2016 21:50:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.14 Building a Cyberdeck http://www.activewirehead.com/building-a-cyberdeck/ http://www.activewirehead.com/building-a-cyberdeck/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:10:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=2091 Note from D10D3: What follows is a detailed description of a custom hardware project I did awhile back. I previously posted a simple how-to on another site but I’ve had a lot of questions about how this was done, so I decided to write a more detailed account of the project. It’s a little rambly but I […]

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]]> http://www.activewirehead.com/building-a-cyberdeck/feed/ 1 DIY VR: My Homemade Oculus Rift http://www.activewirehead.com/diy-vr-my-homemade-oculus-rift/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:35:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1887 DIY VR: My Homemade Oculus Rift I’m a huge fan of VR, I’ve wanted to explore VR since I first heard of it in the 90’s, or really since I saw Tron as a kid. I’ve been watching the developments at Oculus and I’ve desperately wanted my own Rift. Problem is, I don’t have the […]

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]]> DIY Wearables: System Complete http://www.activewirehead.com/diy-wearables-system-complete/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1717 Putting it all together This is the third article in my DIY Wearables series. Given the small size and large power of today’s devices, you don’t need to wait on the big tech companies to make a wearable computer you can afford. These creations may be a bit kludgy, but if you want to experiment with […]

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]]> DIY Wearables: Head Mounted Displays http://www.activewirehead.com/diy-wearables-head-mounted-displays/ Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:44:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1629 Keep an eye on Cyberspace In this segment of my DIY Wearables series I’m going to concentrate on ways to build a cheap Head Mounted Display(HMD) that you can use for a variety of platforms. When I was a kid I used to watch shows like Beyond Tomorrow about cutting edge technology. Occasionally they would […]

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]]> Microsoft HoloLens http://www.activewirehead.com/microsoft-hololens/ Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:08:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1549 Microsoft HoloLens The product was announced and showed during the windows 10 demo. Microsoft HoloLens is more a full-3D augmented-reality headset. So images will appear only for you projected on the lenses which is, chummers, Hyper Cool if the quality is as good as the video commercial! HoloLens has see-through lenses, spatial sound, motion sensors to […]

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]]> DIY Wearables: Data Glove http://www.activewirehead.com/diy-wearables-data-glove/ http://www.activewirehead.com/diy-wearables-data-glove/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2015 03:36:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1518          Rule Cyberspace with Your Digital Fist For those who want to embrace the future of wearable computing , but either can’t afford the new tech or want to make their own there are a lot of options .  You can build a wide array of machines using modular parts, which makes it convenient to […]

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]]> http://www.activewirehead.com/diy-wearables-data-glove/feed/ 3 VR on the Cheap http://www.activewirehead.com/vr-cheap/ http://www.activewirehead.com/vr-cheap/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2015 03:40:00 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1330 It looks like there might be a bright future in store for those faithful to the the church of Virtual Reality, but it’s been a rough road to get here. While Oculus and Samsung may be promising the future, some hobbyists are not willing to wait.   Back in the 90’s We were promised the […]

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]]> http://www.activewirehead.com/vr-cheap/feed/ 2 A Rift in Time: An Examination of the Oculus Rift in Development http://www.activewirehead.com/rift-time-examination-oculus-rift-development/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:25:55 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=1085 One cold morning in November of 2013, I woke up and thought to myself, “Man, I sure would like to dig into some virtual reality gear”.  A half hour later and $300 poorer I emerged from a what turned out to be a deep, dark hole with a new toy on the way. All it […]

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]]> Kali NetHunter Turns Android Device Into Hacker Swiss Army Knife http://www.activewirehead.com/kali-nethunter-turns-android-device-hacker-swiss-army-knife/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:57:50 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=701 Kali NetHunter   The Kali developer team and Offensive Security released a new Kali project that runs on a Google Nexus device. Called NetHunter, the distribution provides much of the power of Kali with the addition of a browser-driven set of tools that can be used to launch attacks on wireless networks or on unattended […]

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]]> Meet ”Watson” the new supra computer from IBM http://www.activewirehead.com/watson-ibm-computer/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:19:36 +0000 http://www.activewirehead.com/?p=638 From Sci-Fi to nowadays Remember HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey? One of the possible source name of HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM In 2011, a new computer from IBM named ”Watson” won against humans on Jeopardy Game   Today this technology is available in the market. IBM presents IBM Watson […]

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