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Vermin writes – “I stumbled across this bit of overkill describing the construction of a PVR (personal video recorder) with the following specs: 4 x HDTV tuners, 7 x SD tuners, all can work simultaneously, 4 x 250GB drives – 1TB of storage space, 112 hours of HDTV recording or 424 hours of SD recording.” […]
This looks like the start of an excellent project – using a Gumstix robostix and WiFi CF card the Maker controlled a RC helicopter with a PSP, but then it all crashed, so hopefully the project will start up again soon. [via] Link.
You can make your own version of Bing Bang Bong using stretched out balloons and peanuts cans. The goal is to have the ball bearing bounce to as many trampolines as possible [via] Link.
Here’s how to a build a remotely managed music player out of a $40 wireless router, a $15 USB audio adapter, and a $12 LCD kit. [via] Link.
Here’s a Flickr photo set from LinuxMatt on making your own LEGO based iPod dock. I think the next step would be to use the Mindstorms to control the iPod. [via] Link.
Ben from HDbeat has a good article about getting over the air HD TV “There are a few benefits to OTA today that we didn’t have before the US started the DTV transition. Some of the best picture quality possible can be obtained with an antenna, at least until High Definition DVDs are released. It’s […]
Forget the PSP, here’s a video of a homemade, handheld portable Playstation 2! [via] Link.
