European Maker Faire and EuroOSCON!
We are delighted to announce that we have decided to host a European Maker Faire the evening of Wednesday, 19 October, in Amsterdam. This event is free and open to anyone possessing the Maker spirit. All Makers are welcome! The hours are 1930 to 2130, and the location is the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam. The Maker Faire event is being held in conjunction with O’Reilly’s EuroOSCON Open Source Convention (for more details about EuroOSCON, click here). The conference runs 17 October to 20 October…
There’s a lot of speculation about future iPods, and if they’ll play video – but you don’t need to wait, the latest version of podzilla (Linux for the iPod) plays video, and now video with sound. Here’s a quick HOW TO on installing podzilla and a 
Here’s my quick review of the iPod nano along with some photos of accessories that work and do not work. The iPod nano has replaced the iPod shuffle for audio listening, it’s tiny, screen is great, it’s all the things I liked about the iPod photo, but in an impossibly small form factor. While it doesn’t run podzilla (yet) and it doesn’t have the little accessory port to control and power things like fm transmitters, remotes, etc…it’s a great little device. So for now, my 2g podzilla running iPod and the nano are in my bag and the old photo iPod when I need to offload stuff from a camera. Here are some photos…
