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The “Walking Radar” project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. Pretty cool, just don’t try to take this phone through airport security. Walking Radar – [via] Link, video
Interesting story @ Wired Science about open source science data & Google. I wonder when and if there will be medical open source hardware in there – Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists […]
Chinook writes – [Any] idea is dead without a good application for it. So “California Dreamin’†USB virtual peripheral could be a very nice sample of academic research, but hardly anybody is going to build a keyboard or mouse using it. I have been thinking for a while what to do with it as well. […]
Following up on the guitar hacks theme, this guitar pc case mod seems like a nice way to show your love for rock while simultaneously destroying a pretty nice acoustic guitar. Unfortunately there are no specs available for building it, but it looks pretty easy to do, cut a hole in a guitar, stick a […]
Here’s my favorite talk from 243c “I can count every star in the heavens above but I have no heart I can’t fall in love…” presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The presentation shows all the uses of computer in music, our fears and our hopes. If you have time to watch, it’s definatley worth it – […]
This phone was made to look like a pack of smokes and it can also hold a half a pack of cigarettes in the back…- [via] Link. It could be a nicotine fueled response to the cell jammers (both commercial and DIY) which also fit inside packs of cigarettes too. Pictured above, I believe this […]
MAKE editor and Hackziner Brian Jepson recently met up with Joel Evans of Geek.com. Like any geeks worth their root access, Brian and Joel proceeded to do whatever they could to brick their respective XO laptops. Joel writes: After we were done chatting, Brian wanted to show me some other hacking he’s done. In this […]
