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Nike+iPod dissection & more

Nike+iPod dissection & more

Nathan from Spark Fun Electronics writes in with some great hackery on the Nike+iPod device… “In the tradition of ‘you buy it, we’ll break it’, we’ve gotten our hands on one of the nifty running accessories for the iPod. You put a small widget in your shoe, plug a piece of plastic into your iPod, […]

EEG & EKG schematics

EEG & EKG schematics

Adam writes – “I developed my 4-channel, dual-purpose EEG/ECG box between September 2003 and March or April of 2004 with the gracious help of David Rosenboom at Calarts for use in my Medi[t]ations sound performance series. We combined schematics from his book Biofeedback and the Arts (available thru Frog Peak Press) with schematics from the […]

Programming the ENIAC

Programming the ENIAC

Columbia University Computing History Timeline and archives has a great overview and photos of programming the ENIAC, one of the first large scale “super-computers” – [via] – Link. Related: History of super computers – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Off-the-Shelf Parts, Off-the-Wall Ideas. MAKE 06, page 190. Looking for the dawn of the digital […]