Makers! Set your RadioSharks! This Friday (April 1st) I’ll be on the 2nd hour of NPR’s Science Friday with Ira Flatow talking about DIY projects and lots of fun projects you can do with stuff around your house. More information about Science Friday can be found here as well a station locator with times with streaming info here.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday March 31st, 2005 4:32 AM
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Wow, two tobacco based projects in a row. Here’s a pretty cool site that shows you how to make a Cigar box guitar. Check out the Hall of Fame with mentions of Jimi Hendrix, Carl Perkins, Gov’t Mule, Albert King and Ted Nugent. I have an old Cigar box with bolts in it, once I work through those bolts- I think I’ll make one of these.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday March 31st, 2005 4:30 AM
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Amps, iPod chargers and mice made of Altoid tins, Atari 2600 cartridge getting a new life as flash drives- just about anything can be used a great project case. Even an empty pack of cigarettes. Here’s a neat example of an under $30 DIY pocket amp on an Archos 20 Gb mp3 player with open sourced Roxbox firmware, and Etymotic ER-6 headphones. The surgeon general has determined that this project is smokin’.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday March 31st, 2005 4:28 AM
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save this file to your local system and/or PSP in MP_Root/100MNV01 folder to view). Ideally we could add more parameters like changing color based on battery life, connection, time of day and full/empty status of the memory stick…
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday March 31st, 2005 3:51 AM
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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday March 30th, 2005 12:16 AM
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Make Flickr pool member drewish of a minty cool mouse he made. Ingredients: One Altoids tin and one Logitech USB optical mouse. Not shown: Dremel, mini-hack saw, two-part epoxy, random plastic bits, 4 hours of my life.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday March 30th, 2005 12:10 AM
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There are few ways you can get eBooks on your PSP. One way- you can turn the PSP in to a web browser and hit a HTML page that has an eBook, but an easier way is to use a print utility called PaperLess printer to make images of any printable file or PSPPhoto which makes photos that are properly sized for the PSP. Here’s how to make eBooks using PaperlessPrinter from GameFries, here’s where to get PSPPhoto and here are a ton of great digitized Manga for the PSP. Last up Like this:
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Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday March 30th, 2005 12:08 AM
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Altoids and old Atari 2600 cartridges make great project cases. Earlier Brendan Dawes’s made a USB drive out of an old Atari cartridge and now here’s a great step-by-step from Teach42 that shows you how to make a battery pack for an iPod using Combat.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday March 29th, 2005 5:53 PM
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OMG! LOL! I can’t wait add Flipper to my buddy list…Seadragon allows you to emit underwater whistles and to acquire underwater whistles. You can now try to communicate with many species of whales and dolphins. Seadragon could be described as Instant Messaging for dolphins and humans. It does not translate whistles. It tries to recognize them, it gives a name to unrecognized ones, and it is up to you to figure out their meaning, if any. It allows you to emit whistles underwater and to see the text names of whistles emitted by cetaceans in response to yours. Download it here.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday March 29th, 2005 5:19 PM
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Earlier I had mentioned I ordered one of the GameOptic devices from ThinkGeek. It arrived, and wow, I really like this USB LCD info-gadget. Here are some pictures of some of the things it can do. I hooked up my web cam and set it to upload pictures to Flickr when someone messaged me (photo). There are about a dozen other projects I’m going to do with this little guy and the developers of product have been really receptive to more ideas and hacks.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday March 29th, 2005 5:16 PM
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Exclusively in the Maker Shed, this updated Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS makes interfacing your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with the real world easy! This bundle includes the new RedPark TTL Cable for iOS so a TTL adapter (and soldering) is no longer required.
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