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Registration is now open for CommunityOne West, June 1-3, 2009, San Francisco. Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. The main conference on Monday, June 1, is free, but space is limited. Deep Dive tutorials on Tuesday, […]
Microsoft has teamed up with Make: Online to develop a series of embedded projects that make use of Windows Embedded CE, Visual Studio 2005 Pro, and third-party embedded hardware. We’ve brought our pal Kipp Bradford on-board to create three Windows Embedded-based projects and to document them, here on Make: Online and on Microsoft’s SPARK Your […]
This stylishly impractical backlit logo iPhone case mod involves a Dremel and apparently doesn’t affect battery life. I’d be curious to see if there was any material on the build process as the video only shows the end result. Quite the superfan mod, though.
Check out this iPhone-controlled 5×7 laser matrix built utilizing 35 laser pointers, a PIC16F722 microcontroller, some miscellaneous parts, and a custom iPhone app.
Make: Repairs is a periodic column written by Kyle Wiens and the fine folks at iFixit.com. As you probably know, iFixit is the go-to source for Apple-related do-it-yourself repair info and parts and for gadget first-looks and teardowns. Kyle, Luke, and company are in a unique position to know what the common complaints and sticky-points […]
Debuting at the Volt Festival in Uppsala, Sweden, the latest incarnation of Bacterial Orchestra – Public Epidemic No 1 – will be unleashed on a participating public. Organizers speculate impending world-wide sound pandemic.
Ever feel that the web configuration interface for your wireless access point didn’t give you the control you desired? Why not just connect a keyboard and monitor directly to the router and bypass having to access it from another device? That’s what Sven Killig has done with this clever hack using a DisplayLink device and some open source know-how.
