here’s a great guide of how the ipod remote works, if you’re like me, and might be if you’re reading this, you’d like to control your ipod via other ways, like wiring your jacket, or wrist watch. this site has all the info, connections, signals and protocol to pull it off.
i almost forgot to add this simple but useful project, and then today i saw it mentioned on techtv…for $1.50 you can make your own bottlecap tripod with parts available from just about all hardware stores. this comes in handly when you’re in a bind for a quick tripod on the road or you want to mount a camera to something non-tripody.
g3 ibooks that sport the 750fx g3 cpu can be uplocked from 600 to 700mhz (in some cases 800mhz) all via software using a cool hack called icook.
i’ll be adding an entire section on tivo hacking, but for now, here’s a cool hack to display rss feeds on your series 1/2 tivo. just grab the tivo control station and this hack and you’re good to go.
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i’ve been fascinated with the idea of taking photos on a timed basis from a car, a pet, a kite, but all the gear and ways to do it were really expensive, plus i just wanted to take tons of photos, not 10 or 20. so using an old digital camera and a $1.50 part from radioshack, i rewired the camera to take shots over and over–mounted it to a car, a kite
there’s a 4gb hard drive in the creative nomad muvo2, and it’s actually cheaper than a 4gb microdrive, sooooooo
you can speed up (or slow down) many of the pocket pcs out there, just using software. speeding up things is the obvious fun thing, but if you’re looking to max out your battery life you can throttle the processor back, all from a control panel.
