MakeZine.com: DefCon 13 Coverage
Let the coverage begin! Phillip Torrone from MAKE Magazine will be covering the annual hacker conference DefCon in Las Vegas July 29th to the 31st. If you plan to attend we’ve put together an iPod notes version of the schedule for all three days of DEFCON as well the complete speaker list. If you want to get “live” audio and video coverage from DEFCON click this link and click SUBSCRIBE. This will automatically download the content via iTunes all next week. Link.
Paper Forest is an excellent blog devoted to papercraft models and automata. Shown here, a working paper pipe organ that reads piano-roll-style punch-tapes. [
Podcasts are so last month. If you want to get in on the hip trip, you’ll turn your attention (and camcorder) to vodcasts—Video-On-Demand-casts, that is. No, this isn’t stuff of the future. By following the steps I’m about to outline you can create and distribute a downloadable vodcast today 
“FreeBSD has been ported to the XBox. “Over the last 2 weeks, I have been working on a port of FreeBSD for the XBox. The port is fully functional. The framebuffer is fully supported, same goes for sound and USB devices (such as an USB keyboard). Only ethernet is missing, currently.” The FreeBSD on XBox website is here, downloads included.” 
Contour Crafting is a fabrication process by which large-scale parts can be fabricated quickly in a layer-by-layer fashion. The chief advantages of the Contour Crafting process over existing technologies are the superior surface finish that is realized and the greatly enhanced speed of fabrication. The success of the technology stems from the automated use of age-old tools normally wielded by hand, combined with conventional robotics and an innovative approach to building three-dimensional objects that allows rapid fabrication times. 
The term “mash-up” or “bootleg” (or, more commonly, just “boot”) describes the result of mixing together two or more records to create a whole new track. Though originally performed live using turntables and DJ mixers, recent advances in sequencing software have taken this art-form to a whole new level. This document outlines how mash-ups can be made using the software package Tracktion. 
Is your iPod’s Firewire cable coming apart at the seams? Several of my iPod cables have started to de-sheath. What about you? The easiest way to fix the dreaded Firewire cable de-coupling is to put a thin layer of Gorilla Glue on the exposed metal part of the FireWire cable being careful not to over-apply 
