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O’Reilly author Wei-Meng Lee has published a short free PDF that will get you started building iPhone applications with Apple’s SDK: If you have always wanted to learn iPhone development but don’t know how to get started, download my free eDoc on Getting Started with iPhone Development. Try it out and see how easy it […]
It seems like one of the trickiest components in a wearable computer is coming up with a wearable display device that’s usable, not overly intrusive, and preferably inexpensive. Last November, I posted about Raif Ackermann’s Nokia-based wearable that uses a hacked Myvu Crystal headset as a head mounted display. Meant for privately watching iPod videos, […]
Joyce is a teacher and librarian. She recently got an iPhone, and has fallen in love. Consider the portability of texts, the potential for blogging or taking notes and pictures in the field, the use of GPS for science and geography, the possibilities for organizing learning, the options for the music classroom, the opportunities to […]
Youtube user petesteg has a great cabin fever project. It is an interesting/stupid/noble experiment for the winter months: put a hard drive in a plastic bag, put some rocks on it to hold it down at the bottom of your ice rink, and make a video of it throughout the winter. When the thaw comes […]
We’ve covered creating a hackintosh PC and putting OS X on the Asus Eee before. Making OS X work on a PC usually involves downloading a patched version of the OS X installer and running a patched kernel. It works, but the potential exists that you’ll run into problems with Software Update. This hack is […]
We’ve covered Jon Sarriugarte and Krysten Mate’s Golden Mean snail art car on the Make: Blog and in MAKE magazine before. But now, they’ve posted an Instructable of the build details so you can create one yourself! How many takers do you think they’ll have? I wished we lived in a world in which this, […]
You don’t expect unboxing pr0n on a program development board like this, but uC Hobby thought this board and box were different. The board itself even has a snazzy tat. I’m not familiar with the AVR Dragon. Is this treatment new? The board has labels silk-screened on both sides, too, which is nice. AVR Dragon’s […]
