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With such an elegant interface that begs to be touched, you might wonder why anyone would bother using a stylus with an iPhone, but there are times when such an implement comes in handy. When you find yourself in such a situation don’t bother grabbing your old PDA stylus. You’ll need something that works with the iPhone’s capacitive touch screen like this handy DIY iPhone/iPod touch stylus pen.
Chris O’Brien over at Silicon Beat had a great time at Maker Faire. In answering the question “What is Maker Faire?,” he ends up with an optimistic view of how we can use Maker Faire to take back our technology. How do you boil down an event where someone spent 13 years building a life-size […]
Wired Gadget Lab has a piece, as a teaser about their attendance at Maker Faire, about Steve Chamberlin’s home-wound 8-bit, chess-playing CPU made by wire-wrapping some 50 basic logic chips. Quoting Steve on the benefits of undertaking this project: Computers can seem like complete black boxes. We understand what they do, but not how they […]
Jesse Rutherford writes: Have you ever wanted to plug in a professional studio mic to your ipod touch/iphone? There may be a commercial solution, but I couldn’t find one. Even if there is one, I figured I could build one cheaper than a ready-made one. You could also use this for a line-in (my original […]
Whenever I start a new project, I find it helpful to define several key items. These typically involve defining what the customer requirements are, and what tools are available to meet those requirements. The customer for this project is a friend who recently converted a shuttered electronics supply warehouse into an 8000 square foot mixed-used […]
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post generates sound and an array of scrolling text from net-based conversation – Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, […]
Jorge Colombo created the artwork for the June 1st issue of The New Yorker using the Brushes app on his iPhone.
