Erica made an iPhone voice recorder utility, wow! She writes – I was pretty sure the capability was in there to begin with–after all, didn’t the Steve promise us one back in the January Keynote? So that certainty made the class hunt go a little quicker. When I returned home from the Apple Store Genius […]
Remember that open source hardware “Digg button”? It’s a simple kit to teach soldering and basic electronics (I co-developed it with Adafruit and Digg)… and part of the goal was to donate proceeds to the EFF, the first $500 was just sent off, this might be the first time an open source hardware project sent […]
Meet Sue. She’s straight out of school with 0 investments and a $36,000/year job. She’s hardcore in her simple living, and has a roommate so she can save for an early retirement. She manages to live on a tiny $16,320/year take-home budget. It’s hard work, but she’ll be a millionaire at 44, even without a […]
That was fast, the first 3rd party iPhone application is out, it’s a terminal app, nicely done – round up here… Link. Also worth mentioning – Erica (MAKE author, MAKE tech board) and TUAW blogger is doing amazing work with the unofficial Apple iPhone SDK: iPhone screenshot utility – Link. Journeys inside the iPhone’s SDK […]
For $200 you can buy the Tubes Clock by B&W, they’re selling LCDs inside little tubes for the nixie effect or you can buy your own *real* nixie tube clock kits for $150 or less and learn about building electronics. Here are a few of the kit makers to check out… Tube Hobby, Nixie clocks […]
I stumbled across this paper from the 2007 Chaos Communication Camp which describes a method for extracting the cryptographic keys used by either dm-crypt or cryptoloop. Technically, the cryptographic keys need to reside in memory while your encrypted disk is in use, so, obviously, if an attacker has access to your physical RAM, they will […]
Gordon has posted new info and pics on justDIY for his capacitive touch pad project. Happy with the results of the prototype, he sent off the PCB design for fabbing. He added a 2×8 header to the board, for use with a ribbon cable. He also increased the values on the caps, settling on polyester […]
