Technology

Flickr Electronics Guts group

Daniel writes “I recently started the “Electronics Guts” Flickr pool for photos and scans of the insides of electronics. So far we’ve got the intimate bits of a Sony Librie, a BlackDog tiny linux box, a mobiBlu cube MP3 player, a digital stylus, and some mystery parts.” Link.

Continue Reading October 15th, 2005 Phillip Torrone

HOW TO – video to iPod bonanza!

Here’s how to get TV from a Windows Media Center on to your video iPod, commercial-free Link. Here’s how to get DVD video on your iPod with a Mac – Link. And finally, here’s how to get DVD video from a Windows PC on to your video iPod – Link.

Continue Reading October 14th, 2005September 30th, 2015 Phillip Torrone2

Lego Yarn Winder

All knitters know how painstaking a task winding yarn is on your poor wrists. There’s also a lot dexterity you need to keep the yarn from tangling into a big mess. (This unfortunate mess has happened to me many times.) Craftster.org’s multitude of project forums saves the day with a DIY Lego Yarn Winder. Powered by two motors and an RCX unit, this automatic yarn winder is just the excuse we need to go out and buy a new box of Legos. Thanks Leah! Link

Continue Reading October 14th, 2005 Nataliezdrieu

Electric Clothing – RFID Pocket Replacment

Mikey writes “The project describes how the average person can rip out a pocket from a pair of jeans and replace it with a cotton like fabric which contains enough conductive material to block most RFID tag frequencies. Watch the video.” Link.

Continue Reading October 14th, 2005 Phillip Torrone2

Roboraptor hacks…

These pages are a little hard to get around, but this site has some interesting mods and hacks for the new WoW Wee robot, the RoboRaptor. This project tutorial shows you how to add a new color LED to the controller and how to add a stealth mode by turning off the green LED, you know, so you can have your robo dino buddy sneak up on people. Link.

Continue Reading October 14th, 2005 Phillip Torrone

Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes

Lifehacker has a nice HOW-TO on subscribing to del.icio.us feeds (a bookmark service of sorts) and getting videos in iTunes. The music and videos download automatically to iTunes, like a podcast would. The latest version of iTunes has better video support, so if you’re up for some random videos or want to have something specially download here’s how… [via] Link. I have a couple in our links, but I’ll try and add more soon now that’s more people can likely download content.

Continue Reading October 14th, 2005September 30th, 2015 Phillip Torrone2

New iPods record in stereo!

Wow, this BIG! The new iPods record in stereo! Voice recording settings: Low (22.05 KHz, mono) High (44.1 KHz, stereo). At least that’s what the spec page says. This is _great_ news for anyone who has wanted to use their iPod as a recorder, but didn’t like the idea of installing Podzilla, or recording at the crippled rate the older iPods are set at. Link.