Time lapse photos, Sonic Fabric, RFID implants – Dorkbot
Amal Graafstra has an excellent write up and photos from the happenings at NYC’s Dorkbot meeting – time lapse photos, sonic fabric and RFID implants “Attending a dorkbot meeting is an interesting experience to say the least. The atmosphere is quaint and inviting, with attendees waiting eagerly in their seats and engaging in friendly conversation about all kinds of technical, philosophical, and entertaining topics. The meeting took place on Jan 4th, which may or may not be Isaac Newton’s birthday, depending on which calendar you subscribe to.”
Here’s a great article from Tom Bridge on building an out-of-band device: “When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the southeastern United States in late August 2005, telecommunications networks were interrupted in a significant fashion as switching facilities were flooded and power disrupted for days on end. Our Jackson, Mississippi office was left without a T1 when power was restored, as the route for our MCI/UUNet T1 travelled first through New Orleans. Facing days or weeks of a dark T1 was more than our company could take, so we decided to build them a fully functional dialup router using a spare 56k modem from our old dialup bank, a dialup account with a national provider, and a Netgear wireless firewall.”…
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Michael wrote up a special how to and guide for MAKE about a robot you can program and control over the web right now! – “Before you roll your eyes and tell me about all the other robots you’ve seen on-line and at robot shows, let me tell you why this one is different. You have to program it, or it won’t do anything. And by that I mean you ssh into the robot, write a program, compile it on the robot, and run it on the robot.” Here’s how it works and how to try it out…
Jonas is looking to do a Mac OS X Smart Card project – “Because I fear I will never have time to do this project I was wondering if any budding smart card tinkerers would be able to hack together a low end “smart card” authentication token for Mac OS X? As some know 10.4 has built in support for the US Government Smart Card Interface Standard authentication thanks to some government agencies using it. I also saw 
Brian has a great review of the Hasbro Zoombox! “When 
The Kodak EasyShare-One is one of the first wi-fi (wireless) enabled digital cameras on the market. Take a photo, connect to a wireless hot spot, then transfer them or email them. Sounds good, right? Almost, except that you can’t really email the photos–they’re sent to Kodak’s EasyShare Gallery and the link is sent to that gallery. I use Flickr for all my photos, so here’s one (of many forthcoming) how-tos on using the Kodak wi-fi camera with Flickr and a Mac. It’s simple and works for me. Now I can send my photos to Flickr from anywhere.