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Michigan maker Pruitt’s iPhone/iPod speaker dock is built using 2-inch full range drivers built into specially constructed pipes that also act as the units legs. Each channel gets 15 watts from an internal class T digital amp (T Amp). It’s not going to blow your socks off, but it’ll sound great at a modest volume.
Rick Borovoy of MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media Project developed the Junkyard Jumbotron, which makes it easy to turn a bunch of small computer displays into one big one. Setting it up is as simple as opening a web browser on each device, loading their website, and taking a photo of the arrangement. After that, […]
The folks over at iFixit did a number on the latest from Apple. Giving the iPad2 a repairability score of just 4/10, highlights on this teardown include a switch from clips to heavy use of adhesive and a crappy rear-facing camera. On the upside, Apple chose to stick with standard phillips screws rather the pentalobular screws introduced recently.
Weekly Flickr Pool Round Up For March 13, 2011, at Make: Online.
Members of the Manchester, UK hakcerspace HAC:Manchester used a projector, an Arduino, and some rotary encoders to build this giant project-a-sketch. Here’s a video of it in use by Maria of littlestar.tv: [via Hackerspaces Soup] More: Sketch3D, the 3D Etch A Sketch Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears Mouse-A-Sketch Toys for Bots โ Arduino controlled […]
The claim of penetrating a razor-blade impresses me, although I note the only metal penetration in the video is thin aluminum, which has been painted, possibly so that it will absorb more light energy. Thereโs also some cool shots capturing the pulsed-laserโs plasma ball in midair.
What does the top edge of say, your utility closet door look like? Iโm betting that youโve probably never seen it, even if youโve lived in your home for awhile. And although thereโs not a lot of room to hide stuff in there, well, if youโre like me, the stuff you want to hide is usually on the smaller side. Not many people think of the space inside the door as a hiding spot, but itโs right there in easy reaching distance when you need to get to it. And itโs devious enough that, yes, I think this trick will still be effective even after we blog it all over the tubes.
