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Photo from Petmar0 on Flickr Pete responded in the comments to the the call for designs in the Rural Celly Charger article on Saturday. How about connecting a joule-thief circuit (DC-DC upconverter) to a cap on one side and a small solar cell (like the ones in calculators) on the other? You pull off of […]
Take an old outdated hard drive and teach it new secret tricks by increasing it’s capacity and speed.
The authors of the brand new iPhone Hacks have posted one of the coolest hacks from the book: using a Cypress PSoC to connect an external serial keyboard to the iPhone, without jailbreaking. The great thing about this hack is that it can be adapted for other serial devices, including TTL serial, and the authors […]
Recently, Sebastian of the Little-Scale blog has been conducting some interesting experiments in sound synthesis with Max/MSP. The above is the output of a patch designed to playback all 4-bit 32 sample waveform conceivable – There are 16 ^ 32 possibilities. The patch plays 100 different waveforms for every second, at a constant frequency of […]
Image from Women of Uganda Network The Women of Uganda Network has an interesting story of a woman who got scammed at a cell phone charging business. Mrs. Muyonjo is a housewife in a remote village of Ivukula in Iganga district, Eastern Uganda. She used to ride her bicycle for twenty miles in order to […]
MAKE subscriber Rakesh Agrawal fashioned a garage door opener on his iPhone using some X10 gear and the X10 Commander app for iPhone. Using my iPhone as a garage door opener
During World War II, British brainiacs helped save their country and defeat the Nazis. Recently, the equipment they used has been rebuilt and the surviving members got together for a reunion. The rebuild project appears to be a maker’s delight: code, electronics, old-school manufacturing, and rapid prototyping all wrapped up in a world-changing quest to […]
