From Michael’s “Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena…This is pretty freaky, you stare at the green dot in the middle, as the background grid turns the yellow dots will disappear. Steady fixation favours disappearance, blinks or gaze shifts induce reappearance. All in all reminiscent of the Troxler effect, but stronger and more resistant to residual eye movements. Might be cool to make a video game that has this effect.
If you’re working on, know of, or are interested in car & transportation hacking- submit the best car hacks, mods, personal stories, project ideas, DIY links, etc. Here or in the comments! We’ve just finished up our second issue for the year and we’re looking at our third issue (transportation will be included). Here’s a great one submitted by Maker reader John- Motorcycle and scooter modification tutorials.
I’m going to use this script to have my Mac message a hacked up phone with dummy SIM that will be attached to the TV so I can see when I received an IM- check it out- “…this script is intended to work with iChat to detect new incoming messages, and send a notification (address book contact) to your bluetooth phone that the instant message has arrived. Many cellular carriers offer AIM forwarding services for mobile devices, however, they often use SMS and therefore cost per message. If your phone has bluetooth, why not take advantage of that functionality?”
Make Flickr pool member apbeatty is making a magnetic stripe card reader and documenting it as he puts it together. Here’s a bit about the project from issue 01. If you have a project you’re making from the magazine, or any project join the photo group and post on up!
WOW. This news just broke at midnight! The tools that most of us use in one way or another to make stuff are about to be from one company. Adobe announced they’re going to buy up Macromedia. I’m excited and curious about what’s going to happen, the little vector hamsters in my head are thinking of all the interesting things that this means for content creation, mobile devices and publishing! Make friend Mike Chambers from Macromedia has a post on this too.
Finally some DS hacking…“Most of us will remember Wednesday, April 13th 2005. On that day, Tim Schuerewegen released the driver and application necessary to allow anyone with a Nintendo DS, a GBA flash cart, and a supported wireless network card to load any homebrew demo/app on their DS. You already had the ability to do this with a PassMe device, but now can do it wirelessly!”. Here’s how!
Because you can… here’s a site devoted to overclocking Texas Instruments graphing calculators. The TI-81, TI-82, TI-83, TI-85, TI-86, TI-89, TI-92,a nd TI-92 Plus can be “accelerated”. The 81, 85 and 86 can be accelerated to approximately 2-3x their normal speed, about 18 MHz. The TI-82 and TI-83 can also be accelerated to about 1.5-2x normal speed. They only about double their speed to around 12 MHz. The TI-89 and 92 can be accelerated to around 20 MHz! Thanks Jeremy!
