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DIY Usb Psp Charger
this sunday we bring you a DIY PSP USB charger. Say you don’t drive, but have a car charger laying around that is 5V and will satisfy the PSP’s power needs. you should take that charger and hack the end off and replace it with a male usb cable. this way you can charge pretty much anywhere you might find a usb port. especially handy if you’re going to be in a computer lab or you’re at a friend’s house and the PSP dies after hours of metal gear acid. it’s a fairly simple hack, but a very useful one.
HOWTO: Put Linux On A ZipIt Handheld
AiboHack of all places has come up with quite an interesting hack. Turns out someone actually can make good use of the $100 ZipIt Instant Messaging device. The ZipIt (in case you didn’t know) has built-in 802.11b WiFi, a really cheap 320×240 LCD screen, and the ability to IM with MSN, Yahoo!, and AOL Instant Messenger. Groovy, but what good is this to us if we don’t have a WiFi spot to use? Not much. So with a little tweaking and some re-flashing, you’ll be running a sub-2mb version of Linux in no time. Here’s what you’ll need:
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A Zipit device you are willing to screw up
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A Windows PC (Windows XP recommended)
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A WiFi card, or WiFi access point, attached to the Windows PC
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Optional: Linux PC or cygwin running on Windows PC (for compiling your own Linux ARM apps)
Make A Palm Pilot Robot
the old palm pilot you have could also be used as the brains for a nifty little holonomic drive robot. the palm pilot robot kit was created several years ago by the carnegie mellon toy robots initiative. that would be the same research group that came up with the bow powered pogo stick.
The Palm makes a handy robot controller: it packs a lot of computational power in a small size, runs on batteries, and best of all, can display graphics and an interactive user interface. Our robot empowers a Palm to move about and sense the nearby environment.
speaking of palm hacks, sean russell sent me this link after reading the palm lcd display article. make sure to check that out as well if you are interested in dusting off your old palm device.
Reuse Your Old Palm Pda As An Lcd Display
if you’ve got an old palm device (palm, visor, clie, workpad), you can use it as an lcd output device for your pc or robotics project. the open source software palmorb runs on palm os 2.0 or above and makes your old palm pilot emulate a Matrix Orbital LK204-25 LCD.
this is great. i’ve got an old palm 3 collecting dust that can get some use now. there are some code samples on the site, or you can use lcd4linux or lcdsmartie to communicate with your new lcd device. thanks for the link ray.
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Connect Your Handspring Visor To The Internet Via GPRS
This hack is for those of us die hard old skool types still making good use out of our Handspring Visor handhelds. You’ll also need a SonyEricsson phone with GPRS and an IR-port to make this work. This hack comes from Ola Eriksson, distant cousin in the Norwegian branch of the Sony Ericssons.
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Enable Bluetooth Headsets On Ipaqs
here’s one hack a day pal lars sent in…
there is a reg. key you can edit to enable bluetooth headsets on ipaq.
put 1 insted of 0 in:
HKeyLocalMchineSOFTWAREWidcommBtConfigServices 005Enabled=1
and add a DWORD Enabled=1 Enabled=1 to
HKeyLocalMchineSOFTWAREWidcommBtConfigServices 006
and also there is a key in softwaremediaplayer that has somthing in the lines of play unsupported=0 (off) enabeling it must do something but i dont know what,but i supose U people could figure it out.
so if you have a bluetooth headset for your phone and have a bluetooth ipaq, there’s a good chance you can use your headset to listen to audio through the headset.
