DIY Hoffman box
Mobile developer Steve Bull needed to do some signal testing to pass the certification process for an app he was writing, so he improvised this Hoffman Box using pots and pans found in his kitchen.
Hacks
Brainstorming cooler hacking ideas
Hi everyone! It’s me, your friendly MAKEcation camp counselor Matt. Have you started your cooler hacking project yet? If not, here are some ideas to help get you started. Be sure to post your own ideas in the comments. We’ll be giving away a Maker’s Notebook and The Best of MAKE or Best of Instructables […]
iPhone + Wiimote … together at last
Ubiq_01 points out this vid demonstrating the use of a wiimote over iPhone’s bluetooth connections – The video first shows the iPhone’s AirPlane mode activated before starting an OpenGL-ES Demo. In the demo, the orientation of the virtual WiiMote is controlled by a physical WiiMote over a Bluetooth connection. For this demo, the portable Bluetooth […]
Prototype iPhone mini jack magstripe reader
The prototype iPhone payment system Square, currently in testing at a trendy clothing store in NYC, has been generating a lot of buzz for the past couple of days. What caught my attention was its use of the mini jack as a communication port.
The speaker phone (no, not that speakerphone)
From the MAKE Flickr pool Zackaholic made this rather unique powered desktop speaker with some neat features – It’s a speaker… in a phone! The kind of cool thing is that the power switch is wired to the phone cradle switch so to turn it on you just take the phone off the hook. It […]
MAKEcation Cooler Hacking Challenge
Whew! All of that soldering and kid-wrangling worked up a powerful thirst. So, you drag over the ol’ Coleman and crack open a few cold ones. Sitting there drinking your beers (be they root or hops) with your newly-trained team of solder-droids, you all start contemplating that old faithful camping cooler. Maybe it needs some […]
Palm Pre WiFi tethering
Interested in using your Palm Pre as a WiFi router? Recent Pre convert Max Lee has written a tutorial that may get you closer to 3G tethering bliss.
