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I was on GOOD’s video show today, a more positive spin on all the “depression talk”…. So, we’re in a recession: now what? Consumer spending is down and the common (wo)man has been forced to cut back. But there’s no reason to go without. Phillip Torone, senior editor at Make, visits the GOOD News studio […]
Stanford released their iPhone programming course—syllabus, lecture notes, assignments, and all—online. It’s what you’d find in any serious software engineering and object oriented design program, but it’s been designed around the iPhone target platform, with Objective C as the instruction language. There are lectures and assignments on a number of topics, including the MVC pattern […]
Today’s Cool Tool mailing reminded me about one of my favorite year-end publications: the Uncle Mark 2009 Gift Guide and Almanac. Put out yearly (this year and last, anyway) by Mark Hurst, who runs the Gel Conference, this guide is tremendously unglamourous (in a great way). It’s laid out (and spelled out) in a rather […]
We’ve blogged about the Midify module before here on MAKE, and here’s another good way to use this simple chip that will add MIDI to pretty much anything you can think of. This hack shows to to add MIDI to a GameBoy Advance SP with only basic tools and soldering skills needed. Check out the […]
This hack shows how to pitch-modify a Casio electronic keyboard using the LTC1799 Precision Oscillator kit. Read more about this interesting build at the link below. via GetLoFi
Hans writes in – My toaster is hooked to the internet to tell the world when I am toasting and when my toast is done. The system uses the ioBridge module and event widgets and Twitter to echo the feedback from my toaster. I would love to hear your thoughts.
This gel-remote control which was redesigned by Panasonic as something that is “waiting to be touched” actually seems a bit more freaky than functional. Constructed from a soft, flesh-like gel, the remote appears to be cold when turned off. When on, a soft light glows from its middle and the device begins to mimic the […]
