How cheap can you make a cellphone? Bunnie Huang recently bought one in Shenzhen for just $12. There wasn’t a carrier subsidy, it was contract-free, and unlocked. As Bunnie says, “…that about the price of a large cheese pizza, or a decent glass of wine.”
I came across an excellent bit of wizardry by Rasmus Andersson called PeerTalk. It’s a Objective-C library allowing you to communicate between your iPhone and your Mac over the USB dock cable using TCP sockets. My immediate thought was that the same mechanism should be able to be used to talk to something like the BeagleBone, or the Raspberry Pi, not just your Mac.
Give a pair of plain canvas shoes a Doctor-approved makeover with this fun TARDIS shoes tutorial!
Kristy Daum just finished this massive quilt, called “The Tenth,” which features an amazing portrait of David Tennant!
The problems that we face are not beyond our control because we are the ones creating the problems. We can do something about them. I’ve paraphrased a quote from Jared Diamond who spoke at an Earth Day celebration at Iron Horse Vineyards in Sonoma County. Diamond is the well-known author of “Guns, Germs and Steel.” […]
Fashion designer Nukeme has teamed up with some other artists and hackers to make a project called “Hacked Knitting Machine and Glitch Knit,” in which they’ve made another knitting machine hack and are using it to knit glitch patterns!
Oslo, Norway’s Mini Maker Faire recently concluded and it sounds like a hit! Highlights included a costume workshop, a chessboard that plays music, as well as Miguel Valenzuela’s PancakeBot (pictured). See the Flickr group for pictures of the event. Also, don’t forget about Maker Faire Bay Area, coming this May!
