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Howard Gordon, of Surveyor Corporation, makers of the SRV-1 Blackfin robot platform, sent us a link to this software collaboration they did with Jeffrey Nelson, builder of the Forknife robot. Jeffrey developed an open-source Android console for the SRV-1 that allows you to remotely control and see the camera feed of the bot from a […]
Of all Maxwell Smart’s ridiculous gadgets, the shoe phone has always been my favorite. Paul Gardner-Stephen decided to make this fantastic piece of spy tech a reality, with an Instructable that shows you how to make your own with a pair of wooden-heeled shoes, a Bluetooth headset, and a Motorolla V620. This shoe phone works […]
My friend Matt Mets baked these cookies in celebration of the UNIX Epoch reaching 1234567890 (499602D2 in hex).
This is my kind of serial (pardon the pun). Ralf Ackermann has been hacking Bluetooth modules into the iPhone and iPod touch, and blogging about it in installments. This mod is different from the built-in Bluetooth in that it opens up possibilities way beyond just connecting a headset: A Bluetooth stack in user space already […]
Why *another* PIC-based clock project on the Net? Builder Alex argues this one is different. It can show different timezones, planetary times, moon phase, Jupiter’s GRS transit times,, anything periodical. It has 16 timers that can be paused and reversed independently, each with independent alarm. Oh, and it’s egg timer, too. I love his use […]
NVIDIA® teamed up with MAKE and created the “Modification Station” a special section on MAKE that celebrates “SPEAK VISUAL” – from PC mods to amazing motion graphics this section had some of the best collections of amazing mods and visuals. For the contest any maker who had an amazing PC mod, gamer station or PC […]
Sometimes you need a handy mobile storage device to move files around between locations. You could use a flash drive or an external disk, but why not make use of that 16GB phone that you carry with you all the time? iPhoneDisk is a MacFUSE based filesystem for the iPhone. Simply install MacFUSE, then install […]
