Chris writes “Selected articles from past issues of ReNew magazine (sustainable technology – lots of DIY/MAKE-type articles). Of interest in light of recent blog entries see “Issue 83: Biodiesel on the farm – One Victorian farmer is running all his vehicles and machinery on biodiesel he makes from his own oilseed crop. He even supplies his own biodiesel recipe tips.” I’ll be reading a lot of these! Link.
We’re all hacking the CVS digital cameras, now we can hack $30 videocameras! — the world’s first single-use point-and-shoot digital video camera. CVS/pharmacy, the retail leader in digital photo and image processing, is exclusively offering the world’s first compact, affordable, one-time-use solution for creating and sharing high quality home movies on DVD. For under $30, consumers can now enjoy a DVD home video experience that compares to pricey DVD camcorders, which cost upwards of a thousand dollars. Link.
Site is getting /.’ed at the moment… a hand-made CPU, complete with hardware address translation, memory mapped I/O, and DMA, out of 200 74-series TTL chips wired together with thousands of individually wrapped wires. By using a port of Adam Dunkels’ uIP TCP/IP stack to the Magic-1, it currently serves up live web pages at an amazing speed of 3 MHz. [via] Link.
I’m thinking of getting a non-recharable battery recharger to recharge all my alkaline batteries- apparently, with chip controlled recharging of “disposable” alkaline batteries, you can recharge all the batteries you’d normally throw away. Has anyone out there tried one of these before I plunk down $40? Seems like a great investment if it works. [via] Link.
The Juicebox is a cheap (under $25 in some stores) music, video, photo viewer from Mattel aimed at kids. There are some hacking projects going on, and we’ll have some articles on that soon, but here’s a good how-to on putting ebooks on one using JPEGBook which makes images from text and you view those on the Juicebox. Link.
Flickr member Jonnay posted some photos documenting the building of an x0xb0x kit. (A DIY monophonic synthesizer that emulates the Roland TB-303). The x0xb0x is not just another MIDI-controlled TB-303 clone. x0xb0x is a full reproduction of the original Roland synthesizer, with fully functional sequencer. The x0xb0x is one of my favorite projects, it’s open source hardware at its best. Link.
It has a beat you can dance to- rand()% is an automated net radio station streaming real-time generative music. All audio is generated by algorithmic software applications and programs written by sound artists and programmers. [