Matt writes – A few months ago, I had a problem — I wanted to design a printed circuit board in Adobe Illustrator, but also wanted to send it out to BatchPCB for manufacturing. Board houses require that designs be submitted in Gerber format, the creation of which generally requires special CAD software. At first […]
Ed Paradis has put some thought into a couple of hacks for the Hot Wheels toy radar gun: The Hot Wheels Radar Gun is a real radar gun currently (Feb 2007) available from Walmart and other retailers for about $30 (USD). It is a real radar gun, operating at 10.525 GHz capable of clocking cars, […]
A retro-futuro casemod built inside of an antique phone box with the restored and retro-fit phone itself on top. The phone functions as both a landline phone and works with Skype, MSN Voice, and Google Talk. DialupPC – [via] Link Related: “Computational Engine” casemod – Link Steampunk items on MAKE: Blog – Link
Steve Symons’ “MUIO Interface” is an easy to use, homebrew microcontroller board that operates over USB and requires no programming to get started. The board features everything from on board analog to digital converters, an I2C bus, three expansion busses, and more! Programming the board is only OSX and Linux compatible at the moment, but […]
Here’s one of my favorite portable gaming hacks, the GBA GPS. It’s a project that always comes to mind whenever I hear about some piece of homebrew development hardware falling under legal scrutiny. People are always creating amazing things when closed hardware is hacked open for amateur development. I own Magellan meridian GPS, many efforts […]
Over at the iPhone Dev Wiki, people are taking a crack at hacking the iPod Touch. The discussion so far is that Apple has encoded the firmware image differently for the iPod Touch. Because of this, there is currently no working jailbreak method that will allow you to get 3rd party software onto the deivce. […]
AIBO’s open-source successor?
