While traditionally robot battles usually ended with one of the robots being destroyed, a new way has been created, leaving the robots in tact. The nBot robot several pieces of equipment, including an Eee PC netbook. The netbook is attached to the robot and the web cam streams the video of the battle to the control center. The control center is a PC and the stats of the battle are uploaded to a server.

Also on the robot is a movable arm, which is controlled by an Xbox 360 controller. On the end of the arm is a laser pointer. Aiming and firing is also controlled by the 360 controller. Last but not least, there is also a photo resistor on the robot. The aim is to use your laser to hit the photo resister on the other robot to decrease it’s health, which is tracked on the server.

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While tablets are becoming more and more popular, with many manufacturers releasing their own, there’s still netbook owners who love nothing more than to transform their run of the mill netbook into a touchscreen tablet. The latest mod is from EeeUser forum member sp1kez. He’s turned an old Asus Eee PC 1000HD into a touch screen device.

The netbook usually comes with Xandros Linux or Windows XP but, for the tablet mod, Windows 7 has been chosen as the operating system. Several touch input optimizations have also been put in place, giving the taskbar larger icons and enabling multitouch gestures. The mod is still being worked on, with sp1kez saying he needs to “work on adding the bezel around the screen now” but, you can see a video of the modified 1000HD after the jump. (...)
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While it’s not the first tablet mod we’ve seen and it won’t be the last, it’s always interesting to see how users are modding their devices. The latest mod turns the Dell Mini 9 into a tablet. Not only that but, it has a working touchscreen and accelerometer. A video has been posted up of the mod in action which shows the touch screen working as well as the accelerometer that was added. While it isn’t as smooth as say, the iPad at how quick and smoothly it auto rotates, it’s definitely something worth boasting about.

To some it may seem rather daunting but, has been described as rather simple. You will however need some technical know how to pull it off. The basics of the mod however, is to remove the keyboard, add a touchscreen film to the screen and add some software tweaks. You can view the video of the Dell “once a netbook” Mini 9 after the jump. (...)
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It is a well-known fact that netbooks suffer from having horrible performance when it comes to gaming, and even with developments such as NVIDIA’s ION graphics chip, gaming performance is still only passable at best. Is there any way to improve netbook gaming performance without giving up on the ultraportable platform altogether to settle for a more powerful full-sized laptop or desktop? Apparently, there is, as far as Steam games are concerned, and it involves getting down and a bit dirty with the program to enter a few commands.

To be able to optimize any netbook for Steam games like Half Life 2, Portal, and Counter-Strike: Source, you need only follow the steps enumerated in the Blogee forum thread that we’ve linked to below. You can do this right now as long as you have Steam installed, as well as a couple of games, of course. But know that this is not 100% guaranteed to allow users to play without causing a great deal of frustration. Still, anyone is free to perform the “mods” necessary for this trick and the worst that could possibly happen is that you’ll have to reinstall your Steam client. Check out the full instructions below.

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Now that Dell actually has plans to release a set of touchscreen tablet slates soon, I wonder what’s the use of getting a Dell Mini 9 modded into a tablet. For the sheer awesome geek cred of course!

The B-rock is now selling his beloved tablet netbook to fund some important housing choices and you can help him out. He’s offering a lot to go with the modded device including a lot of internal gadgets like a TV tuner, accelerometer, GPS, and Bluetooth plus a maxed out rig of 2GB RAM and 32GB SSD. He’s also up for a couple of weeks worth of after-sales tech support should you need it.

If you think you’ve heard about this before, well it was featured in a lot of blogs before and he did previously put it up for sale as a hackintosh though Apple balked at that and that sale didn’t go through. If you want to grab this fine little device, head over to eBay right now and bid on it! B-rock will ship to folks in North America and some parts of Europe.

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Here we have another mod done on the netbook that started it all, the Eee PC 701. The main goal was to turn it into a mini media center for watching flicks and reading eBooks. User McG from EeeUser posted up a quick how-to and teardown of his unit to show how he did his mod.

It was certainly a labor of love and he did a swell job of putting it together. He even added on an extended battery which should be useful as a handle and a slot for the stylus.

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Sure this tablet mod isn’t the first one with seen, with a rebadged MSI Wind U100 most recently turned into a slider, like the VAIO UX. This time around, one modder has hacked his U100 to resemble the upcoming iPad from Apple. The keyboard was removed from the netbook, a touchscreen added and what really makes it look like more of an iPad than the regular tablet mods, is that alexbates, founder of InsanelyWind added OS X to it with customisations. He also cites that, not only does it look like an iPad but, the specs of it, far exceed that of the iPad with it having “10 times the storage, twice the speed, external video (VGA), webcam, USB ports, and built-in multi card reader.”

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This isn’t the first touchscreen mod made to a netbook and it certainly won’t be the last but, for anyone with the Dell Mini 10v, it could be very interesting. Weathejx of MyDellMini forums, explains he was jealous of the touchscreen display mod for the Dell Mini 9, so had a go at creating the mod for the Mini 10v. Which he’s done, with successful results.

The kit used, was a Hoda kit, which cost $85. Unfortunately, the cables packaged with the kit, didn’t work on the Mini 10v, so it needed tweaking before it would work, which means those who aren’t that technical minded, probably won’t be able to pull the mod off without help. It took several dissasembles and reassembles of the netbook before it worked fully. It also required parts of the case to be cut away, as well as some soldering.

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The latest tablet netbook mod, is byEeeUser forum member, mxjf. He’s turned the Asus Eee PC 701 into a touch screen tablet. Windows XP is easy to navigate through the touch display, while over all, it’s very responsive. A video has been uploaded showing off the tablet mod and it shows how easy it is to navigate the OS and shows the responsiveness of web browsing. Unfortunately the video quality isn’t that great but, it’s clear enough to see how well the mod turned out.

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Adding a Broadcom HD video accelerator to a netbook is nothing new and with some netbooks, it’s as easy as just plugging it into a free mini PCI-e slot. For other netbooks however, it’s slightly harder and requires some soldering. Unfortunately the Eee PC 901 falls into the second category.

Traditionally, the mod is done to 10 inch netbooks and Brad Linder reports it’s the first time he’s seen the hack done on a 9 inch netbook. Firstly, after taking the back off to access the motherboard, you’ll need to solder on a second mini PCI-e slot, the same was as you would if adding 3G to the netbook. It then requires some more modding before the Broadcom Crystal HD Accelerator will actually work on the netbook. You can see how EeeUser member horakus got it working here.

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