Jason writes – Relive the glory (gory?) days of early computing with these two great sites for vintage computer kits. Briel Computers has kits for the Apple I (Replica I) and the Kim-1 (Micro Kim). And, Spare Time Gizmos has a has a kit for the Cosmac ELF (ELF 2k). These kits are great ways […]
imagitronics writes – I started working on my next project tonight and realized that I needed four tilt activated switches. I wasn’t exactly sure what would make a good tilt switch. The majority of online videos and tutorials for tilt switches were either undocumented, mercury based, or actually accelerometers. Luckily I found these small steel […]
Just a quick reminder. If you’re in the neighborhoo tonight, it would be great to see you at the Y-box solder-up! – Link & directions.
Sam writes – A few weeks back I wrote up a blog about the Doublet Headphone Amplifier which lets two people listen to the same audio source with independent volume controls. I got so many emails from folks who were interested in building one that I decided to make another run of the printed circuit […]
An old and forgotten RFC provides a way to create applications for the iPhone that people can save and execute locally, even when offline! Back in November, I wrote about how you can store whole images inside of a URL using the RFC 2397 “data” URL format. Using this scheme on supported browsers, you can […]
With a 35W Epilog laser 40% power, 100% speed with a 600dpi vector art image (AI) works great for laser etching an iPhone. The material on the back is a nice plastic that etched white-ish. Special thanks to Dan for experimenting… :)
Smartphone Thoughts has posted a comprehensive article about all your web browsing options on Windows Mobile Smartphones: As you’ll see, on the SP platform, there’re far fewer really usable browsers and there are (currently, before NSIcom fixes the bugs with the current CrEme version) absolutely no Java and, if you don’t apply the Flash “hack”, […]
