Russian wooden phone
Handmade applewood cellphones, thanks John! Link.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Make a USB power/charger from a wall wart
A user on the Hacked Gadgets Forum posted this simple conversion of a common wall-wart into a USB power supply/device charger. He used the power adapter from an old Iomega drive and a few common components. I’ve seen several versions of these floating around. Easy to make. Nice to have around. DIY Wall-Wart USB Power […]
Personal health monitor demo
Reza Naima, a bioengineering student from University of California, San Diego, has uploaded a video of his thesis project to YouTube. Called the Pervasive Health Monitor, it’s a Bluetooth-enabled, TI MSP430-based microcontroller board (1.4″ x 1.8″) designed to be worn on a person to monitor various vitals. Reza explains: It’s meant to be worn 24/7, […]
Embed a google map
View Larger Map… You can now embed a Google map in a page, just like a video (Youtube, etc)… For all our Burner friends, have a great time next week, welcome home and here’s a map from last year! – [via] Link.
Cellphabet 1.0 – “Walk in English”
AlgoMantra writes in – So I made this totally tedious but kinda clever thing on my Nokia N70, on which as you might know – one can write Python scripts. So my script logs the cellphone tower IDs that my phone is connected to, does some rudimentary clustering analysis. This enables me to assign say […]
Motherboard power light
HackedGadgets.com: Bill from DSE GLOBAL has created a tool called the Case Light that will ensure you don’t forget to remove power from your motherboard before you work in the case. Modern motherboards are still live when your computer is shut down and some don’t have any LED indication of the lurking power… Case Light […]
The K’NEX computer
Wow, these students are trying to build a computer completely out of K’NEX parts, here’s a calculator… The K’NEX calculator stands over 10 feet tall, and can perform 4 bit addition and subtraction operations in about 30 seconds. The slowest part of the operation is the user entering the balls. From there the balls trickle […]