Robot Clothes
Marc writes “This is an technology/art collective that makes interesting, MAKE-worthy projects. The link goes to a CO2-monitoring/flower planting robot. They apparently have a lot to do with NASA robotics”… Link.
Year: 2005
HOW TO send e-mails from any address using Gmail’s SMTP server
A little while ago Lifehacker posted instruction how you could use Gmail’s SMTP server to send mail from any e-mail address. Drawback: Google would always rewrite your From: address back to your original Gmail address, kinda defeating our original idea. Last week then, Google added a new feature allowing Gmail users to add multiple e-mail addys and to choose one from a drop-down list when sending a message via the Gmail interface. What hasn’t been mentioned yet is that once you’ve added another verified e-mail address to your Gmail account, Gmail’s SMTP server would happily forward the new From: address! And this is how you do it… Link.
Record HDTV on Windows Media Center Edition w/ Firewire connection to STB
For your Media Center PC folks out there- this is really cool. This package (firewire.zip) supports channel change and recording (SD/HD) via firewire, integrated into MCE. Channel change only works with the Motorola 6200/6208/6412 STBs and the SA3250HD/SA8000/SA8300HD STBs, recording works with other STBs. [via] Link.
Conference write up…from a young person
A few weeks ago I was at O’Reilly’s Foo camp and while I thought I saw a lot of interesting things, took photos and met a lot of people- this write up from the son of one of the folks there is perhaps the best one I’ve read. Note to self, try to look at the world through eyes like these all the time. Link.
Milk Carton Marble Run…
MAKE Flickr photo pool member laurence posted a neat photo in the MAKE pool – This is a marble-run made out of milk cartons. I saw it at the Tokyo National Museum where they had a whole room filled with various creative ways of “recycling” these cartons. Link.
Google Talk Conference Bot
Evidently this isn’t the first, but somebody’s running a bot on Google Talk which essentially creates a chat room for Talk users. A few folks seem to think this is Google’s doing, although I can’t see this having as much practical application as oh, say, actual rooms. Source code included. Link.