Month: July 2005

Oldie but goodie- It’s no secret among Mac users: We have been left out of the Media Center PC world. Solutions like EyeTV offered a bridge to turn your Mac into a TiVo like device, but what many of us haven’t realized is that many large cable companies have been providing us with most of what we need to turn our Macs into flexible video recording devices. What’s more, because of the powerful video features built in to Mac OS X Panther (10.3) we can even capture the high quality video and audio contained in HDTV feeds… Link.

This fellow was bored, so he added a USB drive to a toy car. I think the USB drive, being cheap and tiny, is a great way to get into electronics and modding. The devices and subsequent mods are collectable, wearable and personal–this one has wheels. Link.

The cardboard speaker a quick and dirty look at a DIY project- goals: light, cheap, portable, battery powered option, loud, bass, dirt cheap. Wow, this uses all sorts of thrown out speakers, duct tape, card board- our type of project! Link.

Tons of routers, many hacked up and modded from everyday things. Is it hard to build a router? Not really, it just takes time and patience. If you’re already running a router, then you’re probably the type of person to enjoys tinkering with things, so why not try making that router look good? If you’re stuck or need advice, then just search for help here in our FAQs, Guides, and forums. Someone will always try to help you in the forums! If you want to do more of the advanced stuff, then some experience with tools like a Dremal & soldering iron is recommended and basic knowledge of computers & electronics. Link.

Here are tons and tons and tons of online generators: many of the them are fun, or gags, but there are a lot of useful ones. Barcode generators, Dungeons & Dragons random dungeon generator, morse code, comp sci papers, passwords, names and more. Link. UPDATE: Check out this blog too!

On Friday MAKE was a guest on G4’s Attack of the Show. Before the show, Scott Moschella gave me a tour of the studio and all the places you really don’t see on camera. Here’s a bit about the appearance (we’ll be posting video soon, we had fun with lasers and I debuted my iPod box robot) and here are some of the photos I took.
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…Thanks to Mrs Rowling’s insistence not to release an electronic version of the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, underground e-book pirates have already began to do the work for themselves. There are now homemade text and audio versions of the book all over the place; this somewhat reminds me of when Battlestar Galactica was released in the UK and not in the USA. Would folks buy a digital version of the Potter book if it was available? I think so. On that note, an e-version of MAKE will be out soon! [via] Link and Link.