i had this small solar panel that charged pdas “okay” but not really that great, so once i started using a spot watch (fm radio data watch) i thought it might do a better job charging the watch, it did, and it also was the start of the solar powered ipod project.
for about $60, you can make your own ramjet. i haven’t tried this yet, but it’s on the tipity-top of my to-do list for future projects. 100% chemically bonded construction – absolutely no welding required, hot hot hot!
want to add 10 hours of playing time to your ipod with a cool project? here’s a great one using a firewire socket, some batteries, wire and box of playing cards.
ya know all those cheap $10 disposable cameras a the drug stores? some of them can be used as regular cameras and you can pull the pictures off, it might not be worth the time if you’re a camera-pro, but i might try and make a timer and set it loose.
the cuecat, which you can still get on ebay and other places, was a neat little device that scanned in bar codes and with a net connection go to sites, offer up discounts, etc
i had an old nes in the basement and was thinking of making a pc case out the nes unit, but then i googled around saw there was a kit you could get to solder up a usb joystick for macs and pcs out of the old nes controller. grab some emulators and you’ve got some up down a b select start action.
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i wrote an article for popular science august 2004 issue on how to change the voice of an aibo ers-7. the reason i wanted to do this is because sony really goofed when they added a “human” voice to latest edition to the aibo robot dog series, what made aibo cool was that it didn’t actually talk in some lame “show me to your leader” voice. but after poking around on the memory card(s) and reading up on the aibo file formats and tools, you can change the voice to something a little more r2-d2 and less c3po.
