The iPhone’s headphone jack in recessed so that most 3rd party headphones can’t plug into it. But the hardware beyond the recession is apparently standard. To get at it, you can carve away the plastic housing to make it fit. Here, John Sullivan has cut the jack on his Etymotic ER-6 phones. Etymotic ER-6 iPhone […]
We seem to have crossed some sort of developmental threshold in terms of getting the made to act more like the born. This video, shot at Wired’s NextFest, shows The Salamander, an amphibious bot built by BIRG (the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group) at L’ Ecole Polytechnique Federal De Lausanne, in Switzerland. Salamandra robotica @ BIRG […]
Update: Since, as a reader so astutely pointed out, we already blogged this item (the ONE time I forget to search for prior postings), may I interest you in a Parallax USB Oscilloscope? It was featured on the Introduction to Oscilloscopes Make: Podcast back in February. It’s a 2-channel digital scope that looks pretty impressive […]
The fall workshop series at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto has been posted – InterAccess’s Interactive Art Workshop Series provides artists with the tools needed to begin exploring the creative uses of technology. Participants gain a solid technical foundation for realizing their artistic vision. Our workshops demonstrate how a computer can communicate with […]
Pyrofer created a full stereoscopic 3D game based on the PIC 18lf2620 using two LCDs and a modded Tomytronic 3D shark attack game – Link.
Matt Hartley @ Itmanagement has an interesting article about open source hardware (I found it because of the MAKE mention). Worth a read, post your thoughts in the comments – With open source software becoming a household name, another open source movement that may one day see some fanfare is already taking shape. Open source […]
If you’ve ever had to do any web testing, you’ve probably found that it’s a major pain trying to test out a site in multiple versions of IE, since new versions of IE tend to wipe out previous installs. I usually use a different virtual machine instance for different browsers and OSs I want to […]
