[Mojo Jojo] mentioned this link in yesterday’s comments. It’s really simple and the author has expanded the description since it was featured on Slashdot. The hack describes how to wire sets of red, green, and blue LEDs with the goal of producing all possible colors. Definitely a cool effect with minimal effort, a good starter project. Not sure if kits are still being sold, but they should save you some money on parts. Can someone come up with an adaptive color controller for this?
Well, easyJet managed to lose Fabienne’s luggage, which had the Nano hack for the week. Clearly, this is the work of AOL. Here are some new links from readers. More links coming up later tonight.
[quachified]’s brother keeps his Nano in an Orbit gum sleeve.
[Antonomie]’s metallic case and his previous trident case
[Ian Nott]’s iPod fuzzy for the Nashville winters
Following these instructions you can add an LED matrix to almost any piece of clothing. The whole display can be controlled using one output for each vertical and horizontal thread. The first step is to solder crimping beads onto each surface mount LED you will be using. Next sew a grid of conductive thread into your garment keeping the vertical and horizontal threads on opposite sides of the fabric. Each of these threads is terminated at a sewn on microcontroller socket. The LEDs are sewn on at each thread junction. She doesn’t have any code posted yet unfortunately, but there is an example movie of Conway’s Game of Life.
[thanks lobo]
[Roo] seems to think we’ve been neglecting the NSLU2 or “slug”. It’s true we have spent a lot of time fawning over the Linksys WRT54G instead. The slug is definitely worthy of attention though. It is a small network appliance with two USB ports that you are supposed to attach disk drives to for simple network storage. Add a little custom firmware and you’re free to use the USB ports for whatever you want.
The XScale processor in the slug comes underclocked from the factory. Following the instructions on the NSLU2-Linux wiki you can pop one resistor off of the circuit board to restore the full 266Mhz. Benchmarks, temperature, and power consumption after the change are covered.
If you’re a Mac user you might want to check out our friend C.K.’s experience with the slug. He’s got links to some other good resources.
I’m surprised how many times the 200Gb Nano got submitted when it has photo credits like: “Photoshopped from ArsTechnica. Remove if sued.“
I got a new toy in the mail yesterday. My eyes have never been happier. I used this coupon (expires 10/6).
Yes, there is a fake PSP patcher out there. [tomskag]
[dangel] says he has a better AJAX chat system. It doesn’t work for me at all.
[Sp3cial Person] made a Hack-A-Day EvoX skin.
Bit-tech got a first hand look at a High Dynamic Range monitor. [thanks Geoff]
[tX] put together a Java API search as both a web form and konfabulator widget.
A new version of SyncTunes has been released. You can use it to sync your non-iPod music players with Mac iTunes. [Quafboy]
[drasko]’s eBay – Google maps mashup Good for finding items close to you that would be expensive to ship.
[razor]’s Ultimate iPod dock features far too many toothpicks for my taste.
Doug Nelle uses this super cheap tripod to support his 5″ f/5 refractor telescope. The wooden structures are constructed out of oak. Doug has inserted dowels into the tops of the tubes to keep them from collapsing under load. If you want to build one for yourself [yo_tyler] suggests checking local thrift stores.
If [Fluke]’s comment is correct, then the Sony PSP 2.01 firmware is already in the wild. Here is a handy Hack-A-Day guide so you can tell at a glance whether you should upgrade your firmware. All you have to do is compare the firmware version number to the previous release:
If the first digit has changed (1.5 -> 2.0) then Sony has gotten around to adding a major feature that should have been available since the product’s initial release (web browser). Thanks to the magic of firmware upgrades manufacturers can leave lots of features out of product launches.
If the second digit has changed (1.0 -> 1.5) then Sony has released the hardware in your country. The games aren’t region-locked so there is really no reason for the launch delay.
If the third digit has changed (2.00 -> 2.01) then Sony has decided that you’ve been having entirely too much fun with your hardware without their help and are determined to re-break it.
