Altoids tins are used! This site features projects and circuits for building stereo microphones from low-cost Panasonic electret microphone capsules. Included are Mid-Side, XY, and Blumlein microphone setups. In addition, there are interesting related circuits and links to sites with microphone information and parts sources. Link.
This website shows how George Goble, an engineer from Purdue University, uses liquid oxygen to go from cold charcoal to a ready to cook state in 3 seconds flat. This website has a neat picture of the ball of fire created by the liquid O2 and a link to an interview with George at the bottom of the page. Link.
You can create a real-time GPS tracker using Google Maps API. Don’t worry about having a GPS device, you can emulate a garmin using GPSGate. Then later you purchase fancy gps devices and JunxionBox. Link.
Here’s a new site that has a lot of information, hacks and downloads for Google Earth. It’s pretty amazing how quickly a community can rally around an application, release a site and publish a lot of good information. If you’re curious about adding your own data to Google earth like photos, check out our HOW TO as well. Link.
Aftermarket cell phone companies alter the electronics of a cell phone to enable you to activate (without ringing the phone) the microphone in the phone, so you can listen in remotely. A company in France is now offering a modified Nokia 3310. I guess it’s a hardware mod that hides auto-answer?[via] Link.
Fred Quimby of the Stella Atari 2600 VCS homebrew game development community has written a BASIC compiler for the Atari VCS. Yes, you read that correctly — it lets normal mortals write games for the Atari we all played to bits before we finally poured orange juice into the console by accident when we were XYZ years old [via] Link.
