iPhone hacks widget
Here’s a widget for your Mac that will give you all the latest tips, tricks and HOW-TOs for your iPhone – from HACKSZINE! – Link (zip).
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1930s Japanese robot
Yasutaro Mitsui with his steel humanoid, circa early 1930s. Dig those crazy vacuum tubes… Robot of the day – Link
Elevator express mode hack: truth or myth?
There’s an urban legend that claims you can put most elevators into “express mode,” causing the car to sweep directly to your floor without stopping. Supposedly, all it takes is holding down the “door close” button in combination with the desired floor number (and, perhaps, a slight lack of scruples). Is this fact or fiction? […]
Barebones Arduino on a breadboard
Here is a truly barebones Arduino setup. Just the Arduino chip and a few support parts. This has to be close to the simplest and lowest cost way to play with microcontrollers. The only special parts are the resonator and the Mega168 programmed with the Arduino boot loader. Everything else you should already have as […]
HOWTO: Arduino LCD interfacing
David from uC Hobb writes: I have scrounged up several LCD displays and wanted to use one with the Arduino. At the very least I wanted to test the displays. For future projects with the Arduino having a LCD display could be very handy so for this reason it is a good first project as […]
Send an MMS from your iPhone
One of the limitations of the iPhone is that you can’t send a multimedia message over MMS. Fortunately, there is a simple workaround. Most, if not all, cellular providers have an email-to-MMS/SMS gateway that you can use. For example, T-Mobile uses tmomail.net. So, all you need to do to send an MMS to your T-Mobile-using […]
HOW TO – Make an aux-in for the Bose SoundDock
Will O’Brien posted this short how-to on Hack A Day because he says the site gets quite a few hits on posts about the Bose SoundDock portable speaker system. On my site, Street Tech, the review of the SoundDock also gets lots of traffic, so there appears to be a lot of SoundDock enthusiasts out […]
