Here’s how to make your own scratch off cards, fun for projects for kids and possibly an idea for starting your own lottery “For this 1 Minute Finger Tip you’ll need a piece of card, a green wax crayon, some green poster paint, a paintbrush and a black felt tip pen. And a spare minute, of course!” Link.
Last week was Doppler’s birthday, Creative Digital Music has a tribute featuring where to learn more about the Doppler effect, and how it applies to astrophysics (but NOT the expansion of the universe), and how to reproduce it in software like Pro Tools. Now if someone can just come up with a good recipe for the Dopplertini. Definitely shaken. Link.
Kotaku has an overview on watching TV on your PSP using Sony’s LocationFree TV “watch cable TV, DVDs and DVR from your home entertainment center anywhere you can access a broadband connection. The one (major) downside is that you have to fork out about $350 to buy the LocationFree TV base station.” – a commenter on the site also mentions “you can use it to play PSX/PS2 games on the PSP. Granted there is a slight lag, but it does work.” Link.
Why buy a Media Center PC when you can make your own – fun project for an old PC “MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. It allows you to listen to your favorite music, radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs! “ [via] Link.
The ODEO podcast studio is now open – I was on the beta, and it’s really fun – “…everyone can now record audio with the browser-based Odeo Studio – or via the phone. Either way, your voice gets posted as an MP3 on an Odeo page, and from there you can easily share it or edit the title, etc. We’ve also made some changes to how the site looks and works, which we think make it simpler and move it closer to our vision of Podcasting for Regular People.” Link. Anyone with a web browser can pretty much make their own audio show, excellent use of Macromedia Flash and Com server…
We have a ton of new goodies from MAKE – a limited edition YEAR ONE 4 volume set, our high speed flash photography kit, the Makers book, shirts and more. Mark (editor-in-chief) has a bit about the Makers book here, it’s a gorgeous. You can get them here and here are some photos of our elves cranking away, next year we’ll have robot elves too Link.
This is from earlier this year, but I didn’t see how it was done – so here it is. Ever want to make your own TRON lightcycle game? But not a video game, real life! Here’s a page that details how a group of racers hacked up gear and software to make a real life TRON racing game. Ingredients: “gps-receiver, backpack with laptop(Tatonka Serverpack with Gateway Solo 2500), keyboard, trackball (from old broken laptop), helmet (giro switchblade) with display (old viewfinder)” Link.
