iPhone RC car control!
Control a RC car with an iPhone!
Computers & Mobile
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Fail Whale up in lights
(photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid) Sean O’Steen illuminated his love for the Twitter Fail Whale by rendering the lovably iconic mammal in LEDs on a Peggy board. Wow – people love that failing whale! (Personally, I wish whales the best of luck in all their endeavors ;) – LED Whale Love on Flickr […]
Open source charger for an open source phone
Ladyada writes – Stacy Millions built his mintyboost to match up with a OpenMoko Neo phone. By default, the phone uses the ‘correct’ 100mA drain current to charge when there is no USB enumeration. However, it is possible to force the phone into using a 500mA charging current via software. So he wrote a little […]
Make a Passive Network Tap
This is a nice instructable that allows you to monitor you home network without any expensive equipment. Perfect for those who like to snoop anonymously. Companies like Network Optics make incredible taps, for all sorts of media, but if you have 10/100 home network then for $18 in parts from home depot you can make […]
Giant mouse pointer hand will point you in the right direction
This 20 pound mouse pointer hand by artist Gus Baggermans counts 158 LEDs that are programmable per pixel line by a circuit built with an Arduino. Interesting take on the modern icon by this artist, although you probably wouldn’t want to turn this into a chair. 20 pound mouse hand
Von Slatt on Wired Science
Jake von Slatt writes: Last year I had the privilege of tapping a segment for Wired Science with Chris Hardwick. As far as I know the piece never aired (“not sciencey enough” I heard through the grapevine! ;-) ) but it’s finally turned up on the Wired Science website. Steampunk Workshop [Editor’s note: As some […]
One Laptop Per Child @ Amazon
Cory at Boing Boing reports that Amazon will start selling the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop in November; they’ll be continuing the buy-two, get-one, donate-one system through December – great for holiday gift giving!