Mike writes “I thought you’d like to learn about the new phenomenon of “camera tossing” started by Ryan Gallagher on Flickr. This is tossing cheap digital cameras into the air with shutter open to generate cool streaky time exposures of city lights at night. Here’s my moblog post about it with links. Someone has even tossed their Canon 10D! Link. The pictures are really neat looking.
Great site and custom bass pedals, Mike writes “Once I became disgusted with trying to find a great sounding distortion/fuzz pedal for bass guitar I decided that since i knew how to solder and basic circuitry I was going to build one instead. After many hours researching on internet sites and soldering away in my basement, I have come up with two pedals that I feel have a great vintage, yet over the top, tubey fuzz to them… without the loss of bass most distortion pedals give you. Then, much to my wife’s dismay, I began to build other pedals…” Thanks Star! Link.
Make pal Hans sent in this web-only analog computer museum. Analog computers have a long history dating back to prehistory, but with the recent development of the microprocessor these computers and their technology has been discarded and is quickly being lost to history. Their mission is to help preserve some of this technology and to provide a source of information for people that want to use this technology – Link.
Interesting, the latest update for the PSP may lead to some new loopholes – PSPUpdates writes “We are guessing that the 2.01 update was a “hotfix” to clear the exploitable toc2rta libtiff exploit in the PSP’s photo viewer. Expect this 2.50 fix to be a more stable wall against letting hackers run homebrew applications and games on their PSPs in many ways. On the other hand, it’s easy to speculate that 2.50 could be easier to hack than 2.01 now that copyright video can be played on a memory stick, and the location free player has been added. Those two programs could open up potentially exploitable loopholes.” Link.
Here’s a 3D version of one of the pixel ducks from Duck Hunt someone made – The Maker designed in 3D Studio Max and then contructed it out of a ton of wood blocks: Blocks used in 3D model: 1785, Blocks used in build: 1240, Approximate Weight: 17-20 ilbs, Length: 24″, Width: 17.25″, Height: 21″ Approximate Number of Hours to Create: 35-40. [via] Link.
We’ve covered the PEZ MP3 story for many months, and today (iPod day it seems) comes news of Patrick’s PEZ MP3 player! This may be stating the obvious, but this player has one feature that no other MP3 player can claim. It looks like a PEZ dispenser. In fact, it looks a lot like a PEZ dispenser. But, look a little closer and you will see where the headphones plug in, you will see a small play button. Pull on the toes and you will open up a battery door. I wanted the PEZ MP3 player to be as true to the PEZ dispenser as possible and still be an easy to use, inexpensive MP3 player. Link.
I downloaded the new iTunes and as far as I can tell it will be able to put videos from a podcast feed (RSS 2.0, video blogs, vlogs…) on an iPod. While I don’t have a new iPod yet, it does list movies I’ve sent via MAKE’s podcast feed, so it looks like we might be able to deliver our own TV-like content without paying the $1.99 per video. Oh, exporting a video for iPod in Quicktime 7 worked fine. Link.
