From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Jay Dugger has a photo of “TiVO” for you car, it looks like he turned a personal recorder – “The DejaView Camwear (a device that records constantly) into a BlackBox for cars. At the press of a button it writes the previous thirty seconds to disk. Just the thing in case of an accident.” Link.
Seth’s Atari meets Xbox 360 mod on Informit.com “The Xbox 360 represents a significant step forward in gaming and home media integration. The Atari 2600 was major step in gaming and home entertainment, so it seems appropriate that Seth Fogie modded his Xbox 360 to fit inside a 2600 case to create the Atari-Xbox 3600. This article shows you how he did it.” [via] Link.
Papydom writes “I love my Sony DSC 7 camera. It is really thin, and I can finally go to a wedding or a family party with a camera in my pocket and still have a straight jacket. The point is that it is so thin you cannot screw a regular tripod in it. You have to use an adapter that looks like a big socket for the camera, and accepts a regular tripod screw. This adapter is not heavy, but it is too big for my pockets. So I decided to build my own accessory. I call it the “L”-pod, because this is its shape when in use, as you can see in the last pictures.” Link.
Great interview on You-review.net…“The only difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toys said a wise person many decades ago – and little did they know about the 21st century addiction with gadgets and toys. One man who has fueled this addiction, and at the same time helped bring uber-expensive technology to consumers has been the robotics rock star Mark Tilden. Mr Tilden, a real life rocket scientist, is the creator of hundreds (if not thousands) of robots, based on the simple principles of BEAM ( Biology, Eletronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics).” [via] Link.
Google Maps Mania always has excellent finds like this one for MCE and Xbox 360 owners…“Here’s a great tip for browsing Google Maps from the comfort of your couch using the Microsoft Windows Media Center. Colin Savage picked up the Google Maps API and the Software Development Kit for the Media Center to create this page. Colin explains how to add the page to your own Media Center so you can use it to browse Google Maps.” Link.
Nicrosin writes – “My Lexar JumpDrive gave out on me, I ended up fixing it (a piece was loose on the pcb) but destroyed the case in the process. So I found an Altoids Strips tin and used that for the case. Check out the set for the process.” Link.
Mattr’s handy Instructable “The “Notebook Akku Hot-swapper” is a device which allows to exchange the rechargeable battery of a Notebook during runtime avoiding the need to shutdown/poweroff the system before the exchange.” Link.
