David Schneider of IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article up about a system he set up to improve his Skype-mediated telepresence at their editorial meetings. Physically, the system consists of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday July 18th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: General | 2 Comments
Dan Lampie and David Brenner built a turbine that powers a WiFi repeater and VOIP server. The project uses a pair of Linksys wireless router with DD-WRT firmware to bring...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday July 20th, 2010 10:02 AM
Categories: Electronics, Energy | No Comments
Ben wrote in to share his latest labor of love, a homebrew VoIP-capable web server running on a... wait a minute, on a PIC?
Posted by Matt Mets | Monday October 5th, 2009 2:45 PM
Categories: Electronics | 6 Comments
Yet another reason why I am glad to have a jailbroken iPhone. Yup, this one is limited to those who are jailbroken, or willing to jailbreak. Anyway, it is possible,...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday May 5th, 2009 8:01 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 5 Comments
With some of my family overseas, Skype and iChat have become important tools for voice communication, second only to the cell phone and face to face protocol. It occurred to...
Posted by jstriegel | Thursday November 27th, 2008 9:24 PM
Categories: Electronics | 9 Comments
Jason has a sweet Skype hack… Jaanus Kase posted instructions over on Skype’s developer site for enabling higher quality 640×480 video. You need to upgrade to the latest Skype release...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday February 9th, 2007 5:47 AM
Categories: General | No Comments
MAKE reader Cuthbert writes – “If you don’t like carrying two headsets with you (one for using Skype on your laptop and another for your cell phone) then here is...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday November 13th, 2006 8:42 PM
Categories: Electronics | 12 Comments
Noelix writes – “Want to talk to people through your computer but are sick of using those cheap headsets out there? Do you want that unique, styled, classic look in...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday September 6th, 2006 11:27 AM
The VIVOphone VoiceKey lets you plug in a regular phone / cordless phone to your computer and use Skype (or VIVOphone) [via] – Link. At the Skype site they have...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Saturday August 12th, 2006 12:27 AM
Kurced @ Oldskoolphreak has a how-to I’m going to if I can get working with Asterisk – “As most of you know SkypeOut is free until the end of 2006,...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday July 31st, 2006 6:40 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | No Comments
Wow! Here’s voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games (like Zork) over the phone, this might be the coolest VoIP project ever – [via] – Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday June 5th, 2006 3:27 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Fun & Games | No Comments
If you want make secure phone calls, these phone Misers look pretty good. A little pricey, but can you really put a cost on privacy? Yes, $295 for one, and...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday May 24th, 2006 8:20 PM
Categories: Craft | 16 Comments
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