How To: Make an iPhone Remote Control [Video]

Ever wanted to learn how to interface your iPhone touchscreen to the physical world? This video is not about interfacing your iPhone to control your TV, it is a tutorial will help you better understand how to create this interface between the iPhone and the real world. It uses an R/C example to illustrate the technique. [ad#ad-1] Layering different simple systems together to perform one complex task is really at the heart of what engineering is all about. In this project we show h...

HOW TO: Use PHP 5 Classes with JQuery and JSON to Insert into a MySQL DB

This article will explain in the most basic terms how you can use the JQuery API to insert form values to a MySQL database using no form actions, just JQuery. Pretty cool stuff. I wanted to create a CSS/Ajax powered database management system and the code you see here is the very streamlined version of this effort. Download JQuery Download all the files that I refer to in this tutorial. Let's begin. You will need a copy of jQuery running on your server in order for this tutorial...