Taking a cue from bar stool racers, Robert Lee built this kart using a Honda starter. The frame is constructed out of PVC with steel reinforcement. Notice the forced air cooling. Along with the kart details he’s got links to PDFs about building barstool racers and PVC frames on the site. Be warned: Tripod sites will make you envy the blind.
[thanks john kiniston]
ooh. fresh. hot. salty
Martin Fielder did most of the hard work when it comes to using the iPod Shuffle without iTunes. All you have to do is copy the music over to your Shuffle like a normal mass storage device. Then run the database builder which takes care of all of the dirty work. Ohad took care of the final loose ends for Windows users by converting the Python script to an exe. Head over to his blog to pick up the zip file and start managing your own music, because… well… you’re not an idiot.
oh man
Henry sent this in just in time for us to ignore Slashdot’s terrible story on JuiceBox hacking. The JuiceBox is a simple personal video player designed for people who don’t care about resolution or framerate, supposedly kids. Major retail chains have started dropping the prices of these units so you can pick one up pretty cheap. Probably the cheapest MMC based MP3 player you’ll find. To get more info on the hardware and the uClinux OS that it runs check out the JuiceBox page at the eLinux wiki. Details and pictures of Henry’s boom bag after the jump.
hello peepdizzles. im writing from JERSEY right now and have some great links for you all.
checks these out for size and freshness!
RFID tags exploding in the microwave. $1000 down the drain. [je]
The motorola IMFREE lives…sorta. [john]
Lamp o’ CDs. Very Tight. [Steve]
Freedos embedded style. Cool? Yes. Useful? No. [h4rm0n1c]
GPS Jammer stuff. [ilovehacks]
Cheap-ass IR goodies.
And of course we have some Lego hackaday love from [Lee]
Only the coolest of dorks rock a Hal 9000 webcam [paul]
Non-DRM eBook rockage! YES. E-INK 4 LIFE.
I also can’t resist. You will soon be able to get a .XXX domain. HACKADAY.XXX. RAW AND WET.
Reader EPooch needed a USB attached display for a future project. From initial research it seemed that most available solutions involved using a “usb to serial” adapter followed by a “serial to parallel” adapter and finally connecting that to the parallel interface on the lcd; Far from elegant. Eric decided to try using a USB to parallel cable intended for use with a printer. His first cable didn’t work out to well because of poor documentation. He ended up finding an adapter from Belkin that would work. Oddly, it works even though the cable was supposed to be Windows only and the Mac version of it isn’t made for OSX. Keep up the good work Eric and we hope to see more from you soon.
