Skype payphone…
Unigamer writes “My dream has come true. Ever since last summer when I saw the Skype Video Payphone, I wanted to have a payphone hooked up to VOIP. Not long after I saw that article on Makezine, I put a “wanted” ad on Craigslist Sacramento for a Payphone. I said I wanted it for a project, didn’t have a lot of money I can spend on it, and it didn’t have to be working. I left it alone, never thinking I’d get a response from anyone.” Link. Hopefully, I’ll have time to accept real money in the MAKE payphone soon and have that converted to Skype credits…
Drew writes “If your vehicle was manufactured after 1996, it contains an On Board Diagnostic (OBD) computer that captures information about how it’s running. I’ve put together a basic 
Today is the drive from San Francisco from Seattle, as this happens I’ll upload photos every hour or so via a 
Here is this week’s “Cool stuff being made!” – “Karsten Manufacturing Corporation began in the 1950’s garage of Karsten Solheim, when he set out to build his own club to improve his golf game. What started with a custom line of putters has grown into a full line of drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons and putters. Today, Karsten Manufacturing is utilizing the latest alloys, aerodynamic technology and experiences of professional tour golfers to continually improve upon their design and make some of the best selling equipment in the world of golf.” 
Joelsprayberry has an Instructable that’s sad, cute, funny and clever – “Our dachshund hurt his back, so for rehab we made him swim a lot and i built this chair until he could use his back legs again.” 
Excellent project – “The digital hourglass is a German design project, developed by Susann Hamann and Fabian Hemmert from Germany. The project was created for two classes in the “Interface Design” course of study at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, supervised by Prof. Reto Wettach. Aiming to create a new alarm clock, Susann and Fabian focused on the amount of sleep, not on the time of waking up. Also, the interaction should be intuitive and close to what would be done with a real hourglass.” [
Tom Atwood from fantastic Robot Magazine has a special review of robo servos – “Hitec Robotics’ new robot servos are purpose-designed for robots and offer performance that is superior to that of standard hobby servos in most robotics applications. The new HSR-8498HB servo offers more than 100 ounce-inches of torque and comes with three different case configurations, so that you can custom build robotics joints. If you are looking for brute power, the standard-size, super high-torque HSR-5995TG servo offers up to 400+ ounce-inches of torque. These robot “muscles” are designed for hobby, classroom and robot contest use, and are ideal for android and quadraped locomotion, as well as sensor, gripper and arm movement.”