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Attention Bay Area Makers! Is your house is filled with old, abandoned electronics? Do you have failed or unsatisfying projects in your garage? Maybe it’s time for some spring cleaning. You recycle your unused, household electronics this Saturday, March 29 from 10 am to 4pm at ACCRC in Berkeley. No fees are charged for this […]
Jonathan Zdziarski, the author of O’Reilly’s iPhone Open Application Development, spoke about writing applications for the iPhone–both on jailbroken phones and via the official Apple SDK–at the Cambridge, MA Apple Store! Wade Roush reports on the event: But the really amazing thing about the event was that Apple even let the keynote speaker, Jonathan Zdziarski, […]
John Maushammer who we lovingly refer to as “the hammer” reverse engineered the firmware in all three Pure Digital disposable cameras and figured out how to connect them to home computers, and now he’s messing with…MacBook air USB ports. Other hammer projects: Homemade PONG watch! Rocket-Launched camcorder – Hack a $30, single-use camcorder to make […]
The Illusion PC, part of Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design competition via Gizmodo.
Gorgeous Mac Mini mod from Japan called the Mac Mini Pro Related: DeLorean Mac Mini. Mac mini Robot.
This guitar player built a USB-powered pedal switch (with conductive fabric switches) for hands-free scrolling/paging while he’s playing guitar. USB Pedal Page Turner – Link
Here’s a cool port of Arduino and Processing software running on the famed One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). This will no doubt enable lots of new hackers to emerge from the laptop’s growing user base. OLPC runs Processing and Arduino – Link, thanks Gian!
