hey, if you’re working on a cool hack let us know, here’s one that just came in. “neo2” sent this–“just built one of these (on a breadboard for now), and it is as fun to play with as it looks. as for the question of how to program it, you need a pic programmer. i got mine off ebay for about $20. pictures of orignal program and my change to say “matt” here.
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we’re not really sure why, but some people told us they wanted to be frozen for the next 4 years. any hoo, you can’t do that yet, but you can put a lego guy in your mouse and make it a little tiny cryo container complete with LED so your plastic pal can rip can winkle it away while you mouse in to the future.
i have a phone line in the house, but haven’t plugged a phone in to it in over 3 years. i keep it around since i use dsl, but now that i’ve seen this neat project, i think i’m going to make a batphone. this how-to has pretty much all you need, i think i might make a slightly different version where the bat phone is a bluetooth headset, then i don’t need to use the phone line.
this “hack” is making the rounds, so i wanted to get it up here. with usb drives getting smaller and cheaper, there’s pretty much no end to where you could potentially put them. in this example, a pez dispenser. i’m pretty sure companies like pez may even be offering up these of their own soon with content on the drives along with that sweet sweet candy. post up other weird things that can or have been used a usb drive
a couple years ago i made a pair of shoes that spelled words in the air as you walked, the cost was a little high for mass production, but now it’s looking like i can do this on the cheap
cds, toothpicks, light bulbs, tinfoil, florescent bulbs, christmas tree ornaments, soap and grapes– all things that can potentially be put in a microwave.
here’s a great guide to using those usb flash drives to make a boot up disk. very cool and handy to always carry with you
