A lot of people have been taking photos of their laptops and/or computers with the background “showing” through. This collection of transparent screens now have a home on Flickr. Here they are, this one is my favorite. The really cool thing to do would be to auto-set an iSight or Webcam to take photos from behind the laptop and replace the background. A little update: More here, and a little how-to here.
I’ll be on KUSP radio’s “Geek Speak” via telephone as a guest this Friday (3/25) at 10am talking about Make and other techy stuff. KUSP is an NPR station in the Silicon Valley/Santa Cruz area. You can read more about the show here, and listen live here. Update: The show is posted! It was a lot of fun, thanks Lyle!
Wow, this is exciting news for any Maker out there with an a great idea and some persistence. Pat from Pez MP3 just posted up that he’s inked a deal with PEZ to make actual PEZ MP3 players. The player will be built in the USA (yay!), 512mb, LCD screen, six button interface, uses existing PEZ heads and best of all- supports MP3, WMA, OGG, USB 2.0, mounts as flash drive!
wbeaty commented on our IR Web cam post with a great tip (and link) “A couple of layers of Congo blue makes a great IR-pass filter. I use these on my own B&W CCD cameras to make low-cost IR converter scopes.”
UrbanSherpa.ca’s iTrip stopped working- she was given a replacement right away. But now she needed to destroy the non-working one and send proof. There are lots of ways to dispose of a non-working item, but she decided building an iTrip incineratior with C6 end stage rockets.
Over on Seattlest they have a great story about SeattleWireless member Casey Halverson and how he is providing WiFi access to passengers on the Sounder commuter rail service from Tacoma. The self-contained backpack based 144Kbps portable hotspot can be found in the first car of the last morning train and in Car 403 on the 5:10pm return trip.
About a year ago I was at Radio Shack headquarters hanging out with my friend and Make pal Dave, while there I saw the now released Vex Robotic Kits in early development. The cool thing, amongst other cool things about these robotic kits is that they were specifically designed to be used in the FIRST national high-school science competition (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). We’ll try and do a review of these here right away. I’m so thrilled to see these. PC Magazine article here, along with photos here.
