Ladyada writes – Stacy Millions built his mintyboost to match up with a OpenMoko Neo phone. By default, the phone uses the ‘correct’ 100mA drain current to charge when there is no USB enumeration. However, it is possible to force the phone into using a 500mA charging current via software. So he wrote a little […]
Gareth @ MAKE writes: If you’ve had your Maker’s Notebook for awhile, you’ve likely ended up with a tassel where the bookmark used to be. The ends of the ribbon markers are not finished or glued and so they fray over time. This is easily fixed. Just dab little beads of white glue along the […]
Danielle Thompson of Tiny Bazaar has just opened a new shop called Kitschy Digitals, which offers digital downloads for scrapbooking. She’s set up the downloads so you can use them for online scrapbooking, or print them out for use in various paper projects. I like the vintage look and crafty touches she includes like buttons, […]
Apple new iTunes (8) is out today and while there are interesting things in it for folks who really follow Apple, there’s also something which might be *very* interesting for the processing fans – it appears that’s Robert Hodgin’s work is now featured as the iTunes visualizer. It’s unclear if Apple made some type of […]
As part of the Images ’08 festival, Guillaume Reymond organized service vehicles of the city of Vevey, Switzerland, into large automobile robots, photographed from the air. What a fun project!
Article @ Cnet on TI’s new “Energy efficiency chip” — this is interesting, most microcontrollers can do this now with pulse width modulation & analog to digital sensors, but TI seems to be grabbing the mindshare as they say… Energy efficiency, in general, is considered the most cost-effective way to decrease pollution. And specialized power […]
Sarah from The Small Object shares her adventures in making her own notepads using this handy-dandy brush-on padding compound. I’m totally inspired to run around my place gathering up scrap papers to turn into notepads now!
