For your Media Center PC folks out there- this is really cool. This package (firewire.zip) supports channel change and recording (SD/HD) via firewire, integrated into MCE. Channel change only works with the Motorola 6200/6208/6412 STBs and the SA3250HD/SA8000/SA8300HD STBs, recording works with other STBs. [via] Link.
A few weeks ago I was at O’Reilly’s Foo camp and while I thought I saw a lot of interesting things, took photos and met a lot of people- this write up from the son of one of the folks there is perhaps the best one I’ve read. Note to self, try to look at the world through eyes like these all the time. Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member laurence posted a neat photo in the MAKE pool – This is a marble-run made out of milk cartons. I saw it at the Tokyo National Museum where they had a whole room filled with various creative ways of “recycling” these cartons. Link.
Evidently this isn’t the first, but somebody’s running a bot on Google Talk which essentially creates a chat room for Talk users. A few folks seem to think this is Google’s doing, although I can’t see this having as much practical application as oh, say, actual rooms. Source code included. Link.
Fabienne Serrière has a couple really good HOW TOs on getting started with Csound and then she shows constructing a homemade MIDI controller circuit and using the new device to control Csound in real time. Link.
From Etsy – a place to buy and sell all things handmade…an inside-out computer. The motherboard, instead of being hidden away, faces outward for all to see. The entire case was made by hand using oak hardwood and 1/4″ amber-tinted plexiglass. [