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On his blog, cmw just posted details (and pictures) of yet another awesome BUG-related hack. After building the first homebrew BUGmodule and following up by porting Quake to the BUG, cmw shows us his latest invention - a little level-shifting thingamajigeroo that interfaces two serial devices. In this case, a BUGbase and a Nokia N810. "Since most embedded hardware has a serial port (typically hidden in an obscure place) I decided to build a device...

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A pretty significant milestone has passed here at Bug Labs - might we say, the "killer" app has finally arrived. That's right - Quake has been ported to the BUG!  Using QuakeSDL, BUGcommunity member cmw hacked together a binary which is guaranteed to replace the Bug team's nightly COD2 deathmatches.  We're already salivating at the idea of CTF matches over a BUGwifi or BUGbee 802.15.4 network!In three steps, you can now play Quake with your...

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Over at BUGblogger, we just posted some details about our venture with IDEO, the super amazing international design and innovation firm which has worked with organizations such as Lucent, BBC, 3M, Nike, TiVo and many, many more. For the next two weeks, IDEO will be partnering with Bug Labs and the BUGcommunity to generate some ideas on how to improve the BUGbase user interface, aka the front panel comprising LCD, joystick and four hotkeys.This is...

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