Videos tagged with Hardware

Systm was the first show launched by Revision3 and it won't be the last. Going forward, Systm will no longer be a weekly long format show. It will morph into regular, if shorter, hands on segments that will live inside Tekzilla. I've made a lot of television in the last decade and gotten to work with a lot of fun people. Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Roger Chang, Robert Heron, Serafina, Jim, the who...

Build the ultimate DIY network storage machine using free software, a mix of hard drives and an old PC. We love a good FreeNAS... who doesn't? A Network Attached Storage box solves a problem lots of folks have: there's never enough space for all your data. Whether your storing documents, digital photos, music, movies or games you'll always need and want more space. FreeNAS is a great free too f...

Everyone knows LEGO's are fun and incredibly creative toys for kids to play with, but did you know you could also build robots? Ones that can you program and build to do almost any task. Find out how on today's Systm! Building a robot requires many skills: metal working, soldering, drilling, and of course programming. It also means investing in the right tools and materials. It also requires a ...

Summer roadtrip season is here, but you don't have to leave your desktop, or its contents, at home or work while you travel: it's all about remote access tools, from monthly fee to VNC! Get to your home PC when you're on vacation, whether to download copies of the baby pixs, some fresh music, or upload a bunch of pictures you want off your camera! Bypass network blocks at the office so you can ...

Looking for an Open Source media server that works perfectly with the PS3 and a host of UPnP compatible set top boxes? Try MediaTomb! Bank in January, in Video Jukebox Part 2, we showed you how to build a movie server with TVersity and iTunes. This week, we build a MediaTomb, a free, open source media server that works great with the PS3, and just about any other media rendering box that is UPn...

We update the classic beer keg with motorized wheels and a remote control tap to build the ultimate robotic beer keg. Although the modern beer keg has been with us since the 1960's the technology surrounding it has advanced much. Sure the materials might be different, and the gas mixture more suited to wide variety of ales, brews and beer, but really it's still a big metal cylinder that's heavy...

We show you how to build a beer delivery robot that comes to you when the time is right and boss is gone. This works for other beverages too but beer is something everyone likes. Robots are great. They do what you want without complaint. So instead of having a spouse or kin folk fetch you a cold one and complain when they bring it to you, why not build a robot that can do the same thing? Buildi...

Learn how to use microcontrollers to control just about anything as we build a device that raises a flag every time you get a new email! Microcontrollers form the heart of many electronics projects big and small. David uses them constantly for robots, and he helps you get the ball rolling with an introductory look at microcontroller, including Arduino and Parallax. How? By building a simple gma...

It's been super hot this week in San Francisco, which has the Systm crew thinking of home made ice cream, but using Liquid Nitrogen instead of a boring old ice cream maker! Everybody loves home made ice cream, especially the Systm crew! But making a batch usually involves an ice cream makerof some kind, possibly a lot of cranking, and, frankly a lot of waiting. Being the ADD geeks that we are w...

Systm hits the 100th episode, and to celebrate we decided to light up our cake with a DIY flame thrower! Systm has finally reached 100! 100 episodes, that is. Today we explore one of the more novel ways of lighting our cake with candles by using a cobbled together flame thrower. Now, unlike a mil-grade flame thrower, our DIY version uses a mixture of butane and propane commonly used with campin...