Dot, a tiny stop motion film shot on a cell phone
The folks at Sumo Science produced this awesome short film, Dot, as an advertisement for Nokia.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Play-Doh shoes!
Core77 is having a fairly brilliant promotional contest that prompts readers to make, photograph, and submit a Play-Doh model of their favorite footwear. There’s still a week left to enter, and, in the meantime, a large and amusing gallery of submissions to date.
Beagleboard Ebook reader
Justin Huynh over at Liquidware has pieced together another Beagleboard gadget. This time around he’s focused on building a DIY Beagleboard Ebook reader out of snap-on components and the open source FBReader software. It won’t fit in your pocket, but it more than makes up for it in hackability.
Using Arduino with MATLAB
Are you a Matlab guru?
Mac Classic clock
Matteo from Ithaca, NY, repurposed an obsolete computer to serve a clock. He calls it steampunk but it looks more like it survived a wicked house fire… This Macintosh Classic II (circa 1990) has a new life as a shelf-top clock. Running MacOS 7 at 16mhz on 4mb ram and a 20mb hard drive, it […]
Visual 6502
Visual 6502 is a javascript simulation of the venerable 6502 processor, that can run in your web browser.
Teardown madness, MASSIVE take-apart roundup
Taking things apart is fascinating. Before you throw away another piece of electronic garbage, disassemble it and try to figure out how it works! There’s still time to participate in the Technojunk Teardown Family Challenge (hint: more than just families can enter), take apart some junk, document it, win tools! Here’s a roundup of our […]
