[Blake] sent me this one when my house was covered in ice. He put together a charger for his new iPod nano er, shuffle. It’s sort of in two parts: a USB to mini-jack and a 5v wall adapter to USB port.… Read the rest
DIY Shuffle charger
January 25, 2007 By 15 Comments
Going snowboarding extra
January 25, 2007 By 14 Comments
I’m heading west to do some snowboarding, so I thought I’d clean out the stuff I’ve been saving for you guys.
[Nagi Punyamurthula] sent his notes on making PCBs. It’s a nice introduction if you’re new to it.
[Monster] sent in his how to on making a solder mask
He suggests using mcmaster-carr p/n 9709K61 (4 mil) or 9709K55 … Read the rest
WiiBot – armed and pointy
January 24, 2007 By 20 Comments
[Brian] sent in his Wiimote hacking project – he and his cohort used it to control an industrial sized robot arm. Then they armed it. Keep in mind that the sword is full size. [Aaron] ended up writing a basic pattern recognition program to get it to perform they way they wanted. Response time is a bit laggy, but not … Read the rest
Nike iPod hacking
January 23, 2007 By 25 Comments
Someone else’s apathy often becomes someones motivation. The guys at Gordian Labs got sick of trying to use Nike’s website so they dug into their iPods to find the data generated by the iPod+Nike running shoe add on. Then they put together a handy site for processing the data from the iPod. The site also accepts GPX data, so … Read the rest
Wii Laptop How-To (Part 1)
January 23, 2007 By 7 Comments
Part one of Ben’s Wii Laptop How-To series is up. Ben spends it discussing gutting the Wii, starting up his CAD process for designing the enclosure and makes the thing even smaller than it was before. Because the Wii is so small to begin with, I think alot of people assumed that he just slapped it into a case and … Read the rest
Concrete cast speakers
January 22, 2007 By 34 Comments
[Markus] sent in his 5.1 concrete speaker project. Each speaker is cast from a single piece of concrete. The inner cavity is created using the dear old lost-wax technique. The writeup is in german, but the process is pretty clear.… Read the rest
Magnetic strip resistor MIDI controller
January 21, 2007 By 12 Comments
[Joel] sent me a tip where I discovered this fun hack. It reminds me of the old pencil lead resistor trick. It looks like Ableton Live has been inspiring quite a few original controllers.
From the post: (Myspace doesn’t seem to have individual post linking)
“If you REALLY want to do this, the code is here. It is … Read the rest
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