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I saw Mayor Bloomberg of NYC speak a few days before our NYC Maker Faire event and he outlined a new service which allows anyone to upload photos and video to their 911 and 311 services (311 is for things like potholes, trash, city stuff). I was pretty excited about this new leap in government […]
Control a RC car with an iPhone!
(photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid) Sean O’Steen illuminated his love for the Twitter Fail Whale by rendering the lovably iconic mammal in LEDs on a Peggy board. Wow – people love that failing whale! (Personally, I wish whales the best of luck in all their endeavors ;) – LED Whale Love on Flickr […]
Ladyada writes – Stacy Millions built his mintyboost to match up with a OpenMoko Neo phone. By default, the phone uses the ‘correct’ 100mA drain current to charge when there is no USB enumeration. However, it is possible to force the phone into using a 500mA charging current via software. So he wrote a little […]
This is a nice instructable that allows you to monitor you home network without any expensive equipment. Perfect for those who like to snoop anonymously. Companies like Network Optics make incredible taps, for all sorts of media, but if you have 10/100 home network then for $18 in parts from home depot you can make […]
This 20 pound mouse pointer hand by artist Gus Baggermans counts 158 LEDs that are programmable per pixel line by a circuit built with an Arduino. Interesting take on the modern icon by this artist, although you probably wouldn’t want to turn this into a chair. 20 pound mouse hand
Jake von Slatt writes: Last year I had the privilege of tapping a segment for Wired Science with Chris Hardwick. As far as I know the piece never aired (“not sciencey enough” I heard through the grapevine! ;-) ) but it’s finally turned up on the Wired Science website. Steampunk Workshop [Editor’s note: As some […]
