Pointcloud writes – Here in Los Angeles there are a bunch of places to picnic in the evenings and watch an outdoor movie, like Cinespia in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This sounds scary, but when you have your own vinyl picnic blanket to spread out on the lawn, to protect from damp and spirits, with […]
There’s a way to avoid the standard AT&T contract plan and sign up for pre-paid minutes on your iPhone. With this hack, you can activate your phone for a fixed amount. Even after you’ve used your prepaid minutes — or remove the sim card entirely — the phone will continue to function as a WiFi […]
We were fortunate enough to be approached by not one, but two groups of authors, to write iPhone Hacks, and like peanut butter in your chocolate, they’ve teamed up to take on this fun project. And you can find them at this week’s iPhoneDevCamp. So if you’re joining the fun, be sure to say hi […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Curiouslee writes – The iPhone camera lens is flush with the back of the perfectly flat back of the device making it easy to hold a pocket magnifier loupe in front to convert the camera into a microscope. Here I am using a Radio Shack 15x 3-lens magnifier on a […]
Tom writes – I’ve made a cheap and easy to build time lapse camera, using an old mobile phone, some java software, general firmware hackery and an old phone carrycase. Most of the other timelapse camera mods I’ve seen on here and Make are based on wiring up a timer to switch the camera on, […]
Gschoppe writes – I have always dabbled in instruments. Over the course of my life, I’ve attempted (with varying success) Piano, Guitar, Banjo, Penny Whistle, Ocarina, Panpipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, Smallpipes, and Didgeridoo (don’t ask, It was late, and I was a bit tipsy). In the process, I have continually hit one major hurdle. I […]
Short, but really interesting article from Popular Science in 1933 discussing what have got to be some of the earliest examples of animatronics – mechanical dinosaurs from the Chicago World’s Fair. – [via] Link.
