Android Market running on Archos 5 tablet
If you have an Archos 5 IT tablet and are interested in accessing all the wonderful apps available on the Android Market, JKKMobile has step-by-step instructions.
Hacks
Flashback: How to Drink Beer on C-SPAN
With the Thanksgiving holiday nearly upon us here in the States, I suspect there will be a lot of beer drinking and watching television happening over the long weekend. For those of us who know that life is not a spectator sport, there’s this week’s flashback from the pages of MAKE Volume 07. Bill Barminski […]
Folding lightbox from IKEA changing table
Furniture hacker Boris converted an IKEA Sniglar baby changing table into a portable folding lightbox.
Billy Bass brain upgrade
Here’s a Design News Gadget Freak column on using an ARM-powered processor (the MBED ARM Cortex-M3 MCU Dev Board) to make a Billy Bass animatronic fish speak and move as you wish. [Caution: mild cursing in the video.] Gadget Freak Case #150: Hotrod Your Billy Bass
VR bike ride through Google Street View
Maker Aki Mimoto wrote in to let us know about his exciting new Arduino/VR/Web app mashup. He’s wired up his wife’s bike on a stationary platform to an Arduino using a reed sensor. Using the sensor data from the bike, along with data from a head mounted display (HMD), Ari is able to accurately pinpoint his position within Google Street View.
DIY Palm Touchstone car mount
This has to be the coolest car mount for any mobile device out there. Originally designed for home use, maker remington870_20ga from the everythingpre.com forums wired a stock Palm Touchstone Charging Dock to run directly off his car battery using off-the-shelf components.
Synth sequencer from an LED kit
MirlitronOne explains how to turn a Velleman MK107 LED Running Light kit into a simple 8-step sequencer for use with analog synthesizers. A handy kit hack, but it’s also not too much work to build one from scratch. Related: Sequence it!!
