HOWTO – scrub private data from your iPhone 06/12/2008 Jonathan Zdziarski, author of iPhone Open Application Development, has been working on a forensics toolkit for law enforcement that allows...
YBox2 – a networked set-top box 06/11/2008 The original YBox was a nifty little electronic gewgaw that made it easy to make a network appliance that displayed...
Time lapse movies using a graphing caclulator 06/09/2008 If you want to shoot time lapse movies with your DSLR, you need an intervalometer, a simple device which sends...
Star Wars music played by a floppy drive 06/08/2008 I can’t find any documentation for this, nor can I help posting it. I assume it’s a hardware hack that...
Turn a Brita filter into a reusable activated carbon filter 06/07/2008 We filter our drinking water at home, though it’s not because there’s a risk of giardia or heavy metals in...
Electronic embroidery 06/06/2008 I’m told that one of the most popular projects at the CRAFT table at Maker Faire is our friend Becky...
DIY Slingbox 06/05/2008 Using a standard DV cam, a Mac Mini, and the Quicktime Broadcaster utility, you can roll your own Slingbox-style TV...
Use video RAM as swap in Linux 06/04/2008 If you are into the headless or console experience, there are a couple of ways to put your machine’s graphics...
Google Earth has a Javascript API 06/03/2008 Google released a plug-in, currently for Windows browsers only, that allows you to embed the Earth application inside the browser....
Wii Guitar Hero guitar as a real musical instrument 06/02/2008 I’ve been trying to get better at Guitar Hero and I’m bothered by the fact that you dump so much...
