One of our Maker is over in Shenzhen and did a fantastic write up of the electronics district, SEG Electronics Market – “Ten years ago, Akihabara was the place to be for the latest electronics and knick knacks and components. I’m convinced the new place to be is the SEG Electronics Market in Shenzhen (although […]
John writes in with a how-to on making a Nikon D70 IR remote control – “This is just the thing you need to have in your camera bag. I have one that I bought online but if your not in a rush and have the skills to solder this would be a clever little device […]
Mage2 writes – “Using a Heatgun to remove/ scavange parts from old or broken PCB. I using a old hard drive as a example. You can salvage most any surfacemount, BGA or even through hole parts using this method.” – Link. Related: Soldering and Desoldering – Link. Soldering Tutorial – Make Video Podcast – Link. […]
Chris writes in looking for a bit of help for his dumpster procured Electone E-50 – I found this Electone E-50 in a dumpster, and it mostly works! As you can see, the pedal board is missing, but the metal tabs that allow for interfacing are still there. Anyway, I want to hack this thing […]
Todbot writes – “The Roomba. Vacuum cleaner or hackable robot? I prefer the latter. Though all the hacks in my book Hacking Roomba don’t require you to actually take apart your Roomba, they are fascinating little gizmos inside. Let’s go exploring…” – Link. Tod also has a photo set of all the Roombas including the […]
Max and his crew are extremely motivated and capable, they won a MAKE MP3 and are working on a touch screen and display for it, here’s the video of where they’re at and mini-review … Good work gents! – Link. Related: Daisy, the MAKE open source MP3 player – Maker store. Daisy, the MAKE open […]
A few of you sent in how to get free WiFi by changing your browser’s “user agent” to be a Vista machine, so here’s i-hacked.com step by step… “For the release of Microsoft Vista, T-Mobile is offering 3 free months of their hotspot service. The catch is… You have to be running Windows Vista. (don’t […]
