it’s time for some tasty links people.
POV seems to be getting bigger and bigger. this guy made pong and tetris into POV games. [providencia]
icopulate lets your ipods transfer music directly in an interesting way [matticus66]
aside that it’s getting pretty warm around here, neon death rays are on the move
convert your sprint treo 650 to verizon
turn a mac mini into a pc (if you dare)
the ‘mars rover‘ is a telepresence robot made by robo-hobbiest kerwin lumpkins. he created it as a mock up of the real mars rover, but on a more down-to-earth scale.
controlling the tank is a general purpose robotics development board, also designed by kerwin. the darc board takes input from infrared and sonar sensors, controls locomotion and camera aim, and has basic ability to make decisions based on a combination of its immediate environment and operator commands which are sent to the robot over a rf modem connection.
here’s what makes this cool. if the robot detects that a given command would place in in jeopardy (such as running into a kitchen cabinet) it will abort and send back a warning to the control station.
to better simulate a real mars rover system, kerwin uses some tivo-like time shift software to delay the incoming video signal 5 seconds. this makes controling the rover more difficult and is why onboard decision making is a must for your own martian explorer project.
we’re back from the market and we’ve brought you the freshest of links!
aside from some encyclopedia issues and a little linux promotion going on, there is much to be discussed.
looks like researcher richard etter got bored with his daily attire and decided to get a bit more technical about his wardrobe.
also, someone got ahold of motorola’s new itunes phone which is very cool looking. they we’re able to re-create it as well and you can too.
google whom we all know and love, has come up with a little thing called ridefinder to help you
you want an interesting hack? here’s one for ya. this dude took ordinary clothespins and made em into a joystick. joysticks are apparently the big rage lately. you too can make one for your MAME arcade at home, or maybe just for fun. but beware, it will be messy and it will be ugly. just plain and simple.
oh yes folks, just what you’ve always wanted. the foxblocker is a little piece of metal that screws into your coaxial cable on the back of your television (or cable box) and will block out the news channel, FOX News. this is a very interesting concept because in theory, you could start to daisy chain these together and filter out whichever stations you wanted. i think it’d be fun to see these made into “nickelodeon blockers” or something to that effect. whatever will make your little brother cry.
it’s available now for $8.95 from the official website. thanks to off the hook for informing me.
wow, such heated debate! the fox blocker is what’s called a band-stop filter. you can make your own and block whichever cable frequency you wish.
sidenote: in the old days, cable companies would screw a few of these on your line to block premium channels that you hadn’t paid for. good samaritans would occasionally crack open the cable box and remove all the filters for everyone on their block.
i thought the band-stop filter post was a nice juxtaposition to yesterday’s amp, but that’s just me. if you are more interested in making things louder, the chu moy amp circuit used in two of our previous posts might be a good place to start for your dreamcast amp guts:
portable minty amp
covert desk lamp mic
jim younkin, shufflephones inventor, has started a new site devoted to shuffle hacking. read my article on safely disassembling a shuffle and get to work. we could all use a good shuffle hack now and then.
picture of a paper shuffle case [trilly]
oragami 35mm slide adapter for your scanner [paul]
help put linux on the playstation portable
follow linux development on the nitendo ds
tivo your favorite news program for your psp
more tivo hacks [david gould]
take your psp apart
ebooks on your psp [david the link machine]
last, but not least: a giant, eight foot nes controller
let me ask you something. haven’t you ever wanted to build your very own guitar amp out of an old video game system? of course you have. well now you can start out with the dreamcast guitar amp. basically, it’s pretty easy, doesn’t require any soldering, and takes a lot of patience.
if you dare attempt this rockin project, read on.
