MAKE pal Natalie Zee pretty much sums up why I’m not too bummed I skipped out on this year’s CTIA “Overall, there wasn’t much new stuff to see and it was a bit overrated. I didn’t see anything interesting or new in mobile entertainment either. What I came away with is that mobile phones are starting to get lighter as they do more. Which is a good thing”…Link. Photos here…
Here’s how to make a low cost compact FM Transmitter to listen to your favorite tunes through any FM stereo receiver. The example is a DIY iPod FM transmitter, it’s in French but you can use any translate tool on the web to get most of the details. Link.
Great HOW TO on making a cold-cathode BAWLS lamp, Chris writes “Now every geek’s favorite energy drink is my desk’s favorite lamp. If you have 10 dollars and a few hours, this is a perfect use for those spiffy blue bottles you don’t want to throw away”. Link.
Here’s another great app for your pre-2.0 PSP or your newly downgraded PSP. Team Xboxopensource has released the Apple II Portable emulator for PSP. Apple II Portable is a homebrew application which will emulate the Apple II on your PSP. Link.
Here’s a great list of applications you can download and run off any USB drive or music player like the iPod. I usually keep my iPod nano filled with applications so I can use any system, but still have access to all the programs I need. It’s also handy to have a toolset when you need to fix computers. Link.
Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations. Negroponte, who laid out his original proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, said MIT and his nonprofit group, called One Laptop Per Child, is in discussions with five countries–Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa–to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children. Link.
Awhile back I made a hand charger for an iPod shuffle, here’s another really good project that uses a hand cranked flash light to charge an iPod mini. Since the project uses a USB cable to charge (and eventually) just 5V you could use this for many other devices (PSP, cell phones, etc…) Link.
