Add Wi-Fi to Sprint Palm Pixi
Swapping out Palm Pixi Wi-Fi modules in this video from gitit20 is pretty straight-forward. Just pop out the old and plug in the new. No pesky serial numbers or setting required.
Computers & Mobile
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The RCA COSMAC 1802 “Membership Card”
You may have seen this little beauty floating through the interwebs. It’s an Altoids Tin-based COSMAC Elf, built around the classic RCA COSMAC 1802 microprocessor. It’s the prototype to a kit that Lee Hart has been developing. P. Todd Decker (Overland Park, KS) sent us a link to this video of his build of the […]
125-piece puzzle in 6 different metals with hidden “Golden Gun”
Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which is he calls Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot pistol. Other parts of the puzzle separately and securely store “a customized set of tools, all necessary hardware, 45 caliber bullets, a standard sight, a laser sight, a cannister containing black powder pellets, a secure storage area for 209 shotgun primers, a spent primer removal tool and a ramrod for loading the bullets.”
What extensions do you use with your browser?
The two images above are my extensions for Firefox and now Safari (which supports extensions + a gallery as of today). I haven’t looked at the browser share for MAKE recently but from what I recall it was a little over 50% Firefox – which browsers are you using, why and what extensions do you […]
Digital paint roller
It’s called txtBOMBER, by Felix Vorreiter. Battery powered, with seven rollers and an Arduino for a brain. [via Dude Craft]
Nexus One Wii Remote mod
Check out this Nexus One Wii Remote mod from YouTuber baza210.
Making gestural music with the iPhone
My friend, experimental musician, media artist, and director of the Culture Lab at Newscastle University, Atau Tanaka, has tweaked up some iPhones to transform them into gestural musical devices. Here he performs with Adam Parkinson: In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. The accelerometers which typically serve […]