it’s a gorgeous sunday here. probably because we don’t have hurricane dennis bearing down upon us in philadelphia. so while it’s still nice out, lemme throw some links on the grill for you guys to chew up.

the “no parts” pic programmer. [n00bmaster]
the IDE64 project. pretty interesting, a great concept. [patrik]
torrone goes to town with wolfgang puck’s self-heating can. [alex]
make a hot-air pencil for de-soldering chips. [hcker2000]
real life tron via GPS. i don’t know why i never though of this before.

babblefish it if you need to, but these german guys turn miniture “hot wheels” cars into working R/C cars. amazing craftsmanship. i’d love to try one out! [janff]

this is beyond ghetto i don’t even wanna look at it.

but he makes up for it with these sweet longhorn screenshots. [weirdguy0101]

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the podcast link is fixed. download it here.

it’s the weekend. woohoo. rock eh? we’re trying to get jolt cola to sponsor our philadelphia hackaday meeting and it looks good. it’ll be held at the holiday inn here on august 4th. more information will come later, no worries. so here’s some links to hold you over while you glee with excitement.

the xshox mod. make your xbox controller shock you! (read carefully) [camzmac]
this pez hack is pretty interesting to say the least. [bm5k]
get your “free” verizon get it now on. [robby]
portable cardboard speakers. they’re a bit um

the third official hackaday podcast is now out! you can download it here or on iTunes. we’ll be talking about everything from defcon, to the internet going down in pakistan, to the guy who made furniture out of fedex boxes. it clocks in at 33 minutes of vince and eliot goodness so what are you waiting for already? give it a listen!

download hackaday podcast 03

Update: iTunes still sucks but you can download it above! woohoo!

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well it’s been chaotic lately in both the hackaday and real world! before i throw some info at you guys as always, let me throw you a few fresh links instead!

down or upgrade your psp firmware. great for homebrew [DASGames]
i know you guys love lifehacking, so here: go make t-shirts into fancy underwear. [xytec]
holy. crap. top gun all the way right here. [4*3]
make your own microphone and be the next bo bice! (coke not included) [superlevel]
really simple but sleek looking ethernet LED mod! cool beans. [pillowcase]
the detachable steering wheel project [camzmac]
google maps does it again!!! this time, track hurricanes with gmaps. here’s the track for hurricane dennis. [geoff]

alberta declares that keystroke logging is illegal. whoa. good i suppose?

lastly, make a cardboard folding chair. we swear it’s hip. [kolwon]

so, look out later today because ahhh…you might see a podcast. probably. we’ll give you the lowdown. the rss feeds aren’t ready yet, but we’ll still upload it and throw it on iTunes. so keep checking back relentlessly!

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