I think we’ll see something like this for all music players soon- This Widget for Mac OS X grabs the currently playing iTunes song and gives you the lyrics for it. It checks Lyrictracker.com first and if they don’t have the lyrics, iTunesLyrics checks another lyric database. Link.
New show to download! from the shadows box 3- An inside look at the vulnerabilities of the 2.4Ghz spectrum with a complete vulnerability assessment by means of WarDriving and WarViewing (from a plane too!). Helping folks with HDTV and HD-DVD, extend the range of the wireless capabilities of the Sony PSP and “How to Crack a WEP Key in a Few Minutes”. Link.
This guy converted his truck to an electric truck. These pages are the chronicle of my Electric Truck Conversion Project. I got interested in electric cars after talking to my coworker Jim Miller who was on the Solar Electric Racing Team while he was at school at Cal-Poly. Because I’m an electrical engineer I’ve always been interested in new technology so I started doing some research on electrical cars. [via] Link.
An experiment in constructing an autonomous flying robot. It utilizes blimp design principles, combining a helium filled envelope with 3-channel motor control allowing it to navigate in 3 dimensions. Schematics and C Source included. Link.
Here’s a good resource for making an cell phone LCD in to a small display that gets its data from the parallel port. pcd8544-based displays can be found in some monochrome nokia-cellphones. With some technical skills, an independant, small display with background light can be gained out of these phones at hardly any costs. Link.
On June 14, sixspace will experience an invasion with RUBIKCUBISM – a logical exhibition by French artist Invader featuring mosaics, video installation, and both small and large-scale sculptures. For the past five years, Invader has conducted worldwide “invasions” with custom site-specific mosaic pieces based on the 1978 video game “Space Invaders” created by Toshiro Nishikado. Sean from Sixspace sent us this photo
just for Make readers! Link.
GarageBand.com has a new podcast publishing feature- so I tried it out. It’s pretty easy, I recorded audio on my local system, uploaded it, then searched for a few songs that I thought were interesting (Nintendo sounding sounds / Bo Bice!) and added them to a “master playlist” from there I made a new podcast, with the playlist, set the order, typed some text and published. In about 5 minutes I made a radio show. Here it is, click download MP3 to listen. Link.
