Wii Spray can
The WWii Spray can Wii-Controller turned Spraycan prototype by Martin Lihs at Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany via PSFK. Freaking rad!
Technology
Pianist – iPhone/iPod touch app
Pianist (used to be named iAno) is a virtual piano application for the iPhone/iPod touch. Remember Schroeder, who could play such astounding music on his toy piano? [via]
Enclosure tips
Sparkfun has a some helpful tips for casing up electronics projects – good tips for board and switch mounting specifically. One thing to keep in mind during all of this: as in all things, there will be a lot of back and forth when you find a box that you think might work, then something […]
Home ambient lighting system
Joe of HacknMod writes: Here’s an awesome DIY lighting system for you. This guy set up a wicked system that can be controlled by the colors displayed on his TV (similar to Phillip’s Ambilight) or by controlling it with his BlackBerry. He used an LED-Wiz controller to control various RBG LED displays thorough the room. […]
Swashbot build videos
Crabfu Steamworks’ Swashbots have crabwalked their way from one end of the blogosphere to the other. Folks can’t get enough of the characterful little buggers. I-Wei got tons of requests to post more information about how the bots were made, so he’s posted this three-part build series on YouTube. Swashbot Build Video part 1 of […]
Epic HP printer take-apart
When I was writing my TiVo hacking book, my favorite part of the entire project was taking apart two TiVos (a series 1 and series 2) and trying to figure out what everything did. I tested components, poked around inside the code, did countless Google searches on chip manufacturers and parts numbers, looked up patents, […]
DIY Slingbox
Using a standard DV cam, a Mac Mini, and the Quicktime Broadcaster utility, you can roll your own Slingbox-style TV streamer on the cheap. David Glover, realizing that his DV camera had an analog input and firewire output, put together a howto for doing just this: Yesterday from a dusty shelf I discovered my Sony […]