Rarely do we want to take something apart so much. . . Apple's new phone, the iPhone looks great, can't wait to poke at it. . . Since it uses Mac OS X the mantra at launch seems to be about build real (un-crippled) desktop level applications.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:58
Memories! "BBS: The Documentary" is an 8 episode series about all aspects of the history of the dial-up Bulletin Board System, or BBS. 3 years in the making and the result of over 200 interviews, this collection puts in one convenient package a sense of the variety and wide-reaching effects of the BBS phenomenon.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:58
Bay Area (CA) Makers, this looks like a lot of fun (tonight). . . - "Radio Handi is hosting a happy hour for phone geeks. Tuesday Oct 10th at the Phone Booth, 25th and S Van Ness in San Francisco.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:57
Folks frequently ask me what happens at Maker Faire tryouts. This episode of BBtv gives you some idea, as Greg MacLaurin demos his "Judy Phone," a playback device via an old analog phone of bizarre Judy Garland audio recordings done for her 1960 autobiography.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:57
Make your own "Universal Software Radio Peripheral" - it can do things like. . . record every FM station, all at once "The UniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral (USRP) is a low-cost, high speed implementation of GnuRadioHardware, developed by a team led by MattEttus.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:57
This is interesting, Wind farm construction out in Illinois is being halted, because the giant turbines might interfere with military radar - some folks don't care for Wind Farms either, it can spoil their view of the ocean - [via] Link.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:57
If you have an iPhone and watch long movies (usually from ripped DVDs) leaving the phone in the dock doesn't cut it, the iPhone needs to be horizontal.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:56
For those of you who have an EV-DO phone, here's how to use its wireless connection with your PC and/or Mac, Ben writes - "In today's How-To, we'll show you how to share your HTC Apache's EV-DO internet connection with your laptop.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:56
Rob solved a phone ringing problem in cubicle land "I work in an office of several cubicles. Often someone is on the other side of the room, and a phone rings.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:55
Amazing! Andreas Jakl posted a cool N95 hack that uses the built-in accelerometer, Python, Bluetooth, and a microcontroller to control the movement of a remote control car:
Now we wanted to take the acceleration sensor of a mobile phone to the next level and use it to control something literally "bigger" than an application that is running on the phone itself.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:52