Here’s a great hack on how to make an iPhone LoJack and also be able to chart your location using GoogleMaps.
Basically the hack connects a Twitter account so your iPhone “twitts” your iPhone’s location at set intervals. The “twitts” are basically GoogleMaps URLs that locates the GPS location of the iPhone.
How cool it that? Pretty awesome I’d say.
If you’re traveling across the country, change your start interval to 15 minutes o
Here’s a good instructable on how to build a cheap bluetooth audio for your GPS. If your GPS doesn’t already support bluetooth (I believe most don’t), this is a great cheap way to get all those audible directions into just the driver’s ears, not everyone in the car.
I needed a way to hear my cheap a$$ GPS under the helmet on my motorcycle and didn’t wanna fork over 2x the price for a “motorcycle ready”
Now, you can build your own open source multi-touch display. I guess it was at Maker Faire but somehow I missed it…
Researchers at Eyebeam, an engineering and design firm, sell kits that let people build their own multitouch tables. In this picture, the Cubit frame is completely disassembled. To make the display functional, users must add an inexpensive video camera and a projector, among other pieces of
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzQAfLSLU9w
Remember we featured Touch Tetris way back last year? Well, I saw it in person at the Maker Faire 2008 so I had to post another video of how “cool” it is.
You can go here to find out how to make one yourself.
You know I ran into this post today, it’s a Ford Bronco PC. Well, the first thing it reminded me was OJ Simpson. Weird what the media could do to your mind. I try to stay off TV and any real news these days for that reason. Maybe one day I will buy my own island and live there with a dog and a cool boat.
Anyways, check out the Ford Bronco PC, all custom built from scratch, lovin’ the pics.
I started with the idea of an mp3 player for
Here’s a really cool hack that let’s you use your optical mouse as a scanner.
Are you using an optical mouse right now? Ever wanted to see your desktop through the eye on the bottom of it? Me neither, I already know I have to clean my desktop 🙂
People get bored sometimes, and when I get bored I sometimes open up stuff to f
Yey, here’s a fun little DIY for those of you who want to mask your secret USB drives as a “Sawed-Off USB Cable“.
This might prove to be the best security protection you ever had for your USB device. (Why didn’t I think of this before???)
Holy crap– somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!
No– wait– sorry. That’s just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Al-pWAw3g
Remember I did a G-Force Meter couple years ago? Here’s another cool DIY G-Force meter. The only difference it that it uses 7-segment display and a PIC18F series microcontroller.
After seeing so many applications using acceleromters making a simple project of my own with this cool sensor just seemed natural. The main application of the accelerometer is either for sensing tilt or sensing acceleration. For this application A G-Force met
video://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4804940574718249086&hl=en
Lol… here’s some cool spud gun to cool you down while I review lots of Web 2.0 stuff…
This Stinger Spud Gun shoots 10 inch PVC missiles! There are no details on the build but by looking at it I would guess that the red button that is used to ignite the gun is a BBQ igniter. The rest of the gun appears to be the standard spud gun that has been dressed up with the black holder and scope. Have a look at the video, looks like it works very well!
Well, this is a real short hack (or a howto really) for hooking up your TV to your computer.
First, you will need a dual-monitor graphic adaptor or extra graphic adaptors. (1 per monitor) If you don’t have one, go buy one with lots of RAM over at your favorite electronics store.
*If you have a laptop, you don’t need a dual-monitor, just use the S-Video or the video outputs. You will need to hit that monitor shaped button along with Fn button couple times usually to make the screen show.
