Felt Gameboy iPhone pouch
Wrap your fancy new iPhone in this soft, luxurious felt Gameboy iPhone pouch found at etsy.com.
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3G on Dell Mini 9
If you’ve already got a netbook and enjoy the form factor and would rather not have to plug in a dongle, here’s a quick run-through for integrating a Novatel EU850D 3G radio into a Dell Mini 9 that should give you an idea of what such a project entails.
The USB… cigar?
This thing is wrong on so many levels, it almost reaches back around to right. Almost. USB Cigar Flash Memory (with LEDs)
How-To: Reclaim your hijacked search bar
The other morning, I clicked on an upgrade button for Winamp. Generally, I like the program, it seems to load faster than Media Player, and doesn’t bother me too much. In the afternoon, I did a search by typing in the address bar of Firefox. Normally, this type of search brings me to the Google […]
The first ethernet cable
Lisa Katayama writes on Boing Boing Gadgets: Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and copiers at PARC is the world’s first Ethernet cable. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe sent an internal memo to his colleagues at Xerox proposing a local system of interacting workstations, files, and printers. The devices would all […]
Make: Projects – Outlet-mount device charging pocket
Most cell phones are provided with a very basic wall-wart charger, and you usually have to pay extra for a proper charging dock. The bundled charger is often unsightly in use, being just a transformer with a cord strung out to an end table or something where the cell phone rests. If you have a […]
How-To: Web-connected sensors with Arduino + Pachube
Morgellon posted steps on publishing Arduino sensor readings to the web via Pachube – I recently discovered Pachube and have just fell in love with it. This is a video of my first Pachube project and what I’ve been able to do. I connected two light sensors to an Arduino. One sensor measure light levels […]