Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags inscribed with wind-activated blessings, Alyce started recording ambient sounds and then started knitting with the tape. One thing led to another and now her tapes are woven with cotten to create beautiful, durable fabrics that have been sewn into dresses, bags and flags (her original intent). Link.
Some UMD PSP games will try and update the PSP, which isn’t good if you like running that homebrew, emulators and custom application- but here’s an app that will stop it. “This program avoids the update necessity from new PSP games. The PSP cannot be destroyed by doing this!” Testing this program out, it asks for the UMD to be in the drive and then will launch the UMD that is in it, bypassing the update! [via] Link.
World’s cheapest fish trap. Made from a plastic soda bottle, a bit of fishing line, and a few push pins. Cat fish chow used as bait, but dog food or cat food would likely work just as well. Link.
Using a servo connected to a Mini SSC II and wired into a dedicated server through the serial port, the Control Our Junk team has created a working train set controlled from any computer on the Internet with a few ports open and Java installed. The trains speed can be modified on the control page, which uses a PHP script to send commands to a .NET application sitting on the server. When the .NET application recieves the PHP command it sends the data to a serial port, and in turn, changes the speed of the train [via] Link.
Veastablog writes – I happen to like having couches outdoors; here in Palo Alto its not really a problem since it doesn’t rain that much, but for everyone living in wet, moldy climates, ReadyMade has posted directions for a sod couch. Imagine using chamomile instead of grass, and being able to brew tea from your upholstery… Link.
Tweak writes- A how to, from i-hacked.com, on building a pre-emptive device ,as used on FromTheShadows 4.0, for under $20. This device will allow you to change red lights to green, just like the ambulances (on signal lights that have the ir sensor). Don’t build this, cool to know how it works though. I like I’ll make an uber-TVbGone. Link.
IT conversation’s Doug Kaye (who also appeared in our Podcasting 101 project in MAKE 02) has a great write up on recording Skype. It has been a long-standing rule here at IT Conversations that we don’t conduct interviews over Skype, but recent improvements in Skype as well as additional experience has caused us to revisit that restriction. I’ll be publishing more detailed guidelines shortly, but here’s a summary… Link.
