MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week’s Flickr pool roundup includes some sweet Halo props, impressive amateur astrophotography, a Viking helmet with a fiber-optic mohawk, and more! Check it out!
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Your Name in Lego
Interesting notion for a Lego-based enterprise Eli Carter, who wants to sell you a custom-packed kit (complete with custom instructions) to build a Lego nameplate with text and colors of your choosing. Check it out at Brick-Built Nameplates.
LED Party Scroller
Brian, aka Plasma2002 of San Francisco build this LED scroller that displays messages SMSed to a Google Voice number. I’ve always loved the idea of sending messages to the big screens you usually find at concerts and other large events. I figured it could be scaled down, while still being just as entertaining. It may […]
Android on HP TouchPad
If you dropped $99 on a discounted HP TouchPad hoping to run the latest CyanogenMod, you’ll have to wait a little longer. In the meantime you can occupy yourself with this proof-of-concept video showing Android running on the device. The team says they’re still working on the touchscreen driver and have resorted to a “blatant publicity stunt” in order to get their hands on more TouchPads for testing.
Freeware Bluetooth Smartphone Remote for Your DSLR
YaNiS EOS is a free app, currently in beta, written by “Manis,” a physics student at the University of Luxembourg. The hardware stack consists of an Arduino, a USB host shield, and an SPP-compatible Bluetooth module.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Highlights from this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup include some lovely long-exposure double-pendulum light painting, a beautifully-built and -shot cigar-box guitar, and an awesome WWII-era GE searchlight stabbing into the night sky with its 800,000,000 candela beam. Check ’em out.
Jumbo 7-Segment Display from Glue Sticks, LEDs
More cool original content from Hack a Day, this time by Kevin Dady. He writes: “I was recently commissioned to make a device which uses a pretty large number display, and I went out shopping. The seven segment we liked best was still quite pricey, and would not fit our enclosure correctly anyway…”