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Love the news coming from Hack a Day Hack a Day hasn’t change its format since 2004. Even though MAKE has gone Web 2.0 with buttons using mouseover, and Instructables has fancy drop-down menus, Hack a Day has been a constant black background, green text child of the web circa 2004. A while ago, we […]
Have you ever wanted your very own Street View camera to capture the places not yet covered by Google Maps? With this DIY Street View Kit from German designer Jan Martin, you can now map your favorite walking trail, camp site, or remote location. The kit can be mounted on a car or worn as a backpack and comes with a custom image processing server and player software.
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Todd Harrison of Mesa, AZ, wrote in with his teardown and restoration of a ’80s-era Apple. The very first computer I ever used was an Apple II Plus in high school and I couldn’t get enough time on this machine. I was more than fascinated by computers I was obsessed. Every minute learning on the […]
We’ve had Making Android Accessories with IOIO in the Maker Shed for a while now and now we have the IOIO for Android to accompany it. Check out this amazing little device!
If you’ve got an iPad with a camera, you can now use it to capture 3D objects using Autodesk’s new 123D Catch app for the iPad. Similar to the desktop software of the same name, you take a series of photographs of an object or setting and upload them to a server. The service will then compile a fully textured 3D model for display and manipulation.
Here’s a fun Android Breathalyzer prototype using the IOIO board, a Seeed alcohol sensor and Li-po Rider power module, and a Li-po battery inside an Altoid tin.
Fans of Ytai Ben-Tsvi’s IOIO board will be happy to know that there’s an update coming. Ytai recently announced that there’s an second generation IOIO in the works. The new version will feature the ability to connect to a PC over USB (OTG) or Bluetooth using the same high-level API and cost slightly less than the original.
