Today is the last day of the 10% off everything sale at the Maker Shed store, order something now and save some cash – if your order is over $25 you also get a free Maker’s notebook. Halloween is coming up soon, here are a few scary/related items to pick up while the sale is […]
Philipp Lenssen, author of Google Apps Hacks mentioned a really cool YouTube hack on Google Blogoscoped: A Car’s Life is an interactive Arcade-style game using YouTube. To make it through a given level, all you need to do is click a button which appears. The video makes use of YouTube annotations, which can be linked […]
Louise – Paisley wrote in to tell us about a very cool project from Steve of PanoCamera: In my day-to-day routine I often find myself having to do extensive photographic documentation of objects or locations, only there is often someone waiting to turn off the lights, or move objects, or any myriad of possible interruptions. […]
Berto Aussems wrote in again with another modification to the Zoom H2 recorder: Listening to soundrecordings made in the 360 degree surround pattern mode of the Zoom H2, I found out that the directional sensitivity is bad. Even the stereo recording sounds mono. The front/back channel separation is the same story. So I had to […]
There have been a lot of “lifestream” services popping up lately that aim to collect all of your Web 2.0 meanderings and assemble them into a slightly less schizophrenic view of your online life. It’s a great idea, but the downside is that most of these are closed source and externally hosted, so you are […]
Matthew Karas sent us a hack for creating an iGoogle homepage interface for physical measurement devices. Using an Arduino and a python script, he found a clever way to send real-time sensor data to a Google Gadget, and it doesn’t even require having a web server. I managed to hack up an arduino to upload […]
PhoneGap is one of the best projects to come out of iPhoneDevCamp II. It seems absolutely perfect for web developers who haven’t yet gotten comfortable with writing iPhone applications in Objective-C: PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone […]
