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And we’re back with our tenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. John Gomm did some hacking and came up with an… er, interesting adaptation of the Most useless machine: I rotated the design so it would open as a normal […]
Regardless of what you may think of either platform, it’s fun to see what others will do to get what they want. In the accompanying video Taimur Asad from Redmond Pie demos an alpha version of Frash running on an iPhone 4. If you want to try this yourself, check out this how-to.
Gearbox’s smartphone-controlled ball looks quite cool, offers much potential for creative game ideas – So basically how HTC/Android/Apple make smart phones, we make smart toys. Our first smart toy is a robotic ball that you can move by tilting your phone in the direction you want the ball to roll. We are then leveraging the […]
Thanks to everyone who entered the Gadget Freak Design Contest sponsored by. We had lots of great entries and were really splitting hairs among the top five or so, but after careful deliberation we are now pleased to announce the winners:
Last summer, a commenter on my tutorial about how to make one of these from a shampoo bottle said, “instead of drilling a hole in the bottom of the bottle, you could cut off the bottom, flip the bottle upside-down and voila – hole.” Don’t know if there’s any causal link between that tutorial and/or that comment and/or this anonymous photo recently submitted to ThereIFixedIt, but in any case it does look like a better way to skin the cat. [Thanks, JP!]
Looking for a Bluetooth remote for your LEGO NXT kit? Youtuber freedroidz is on it. There’s a few wrinkles to iron out, but once it’s stable it should find its way to the Android Market.
If you’ve ever wanted to build your own charger that works with the latest Apple devices, here’s how (schematics and video)… In this 7 minute video we explore “The mysteries of Apple device charging“. Usually device makers need to sign a confidentially agreement with Apple who want to say “works with iPhone / iPod” and […]
