Month: January 2006

Flickr Enabled LCD Frame

Flickr Enabled LCD Frame

Estarling FrameAwhile back we made our own Flickr photo frame from an old Tablet PC we got on eBay, and now there’s a real version you can pick up, too. “The eStarling frame is a standalone Wi-Fi LCD photo frame that connects to a wireless network and automatically displays photos e-mailed to it in a slideshow format. Additionally you can specify an RSS photo feed from Flickr based on your own tagged keywords. You can even shoot photos on your mobile phone then e-mail them directly to your eStarling frame for display.” [via] Link. There are also a ton of other ways to make photo frames, too, if you’re in the DIY mood.

365 Days of Skywatching – Free ebook

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“What’s Up 2006 – 365 Days of Skywatching by Tammy Plotner is a free, downloadable ebook. Brought to you by Universe Today. If you like the weekly “What’s Up this Week” column in Universe Today, you’ll love this. The entire viewing schedule for 2006 is available as a free, 400+ downloadable ebook. You can download the whole book, turn to the page for tonight’s suggestions – print off the page and head outside.” [via] Link. We’re helping Universetoday with their PDF downloads, so please grab the PDF from here.

Macworld 2006 predictions…

Macworld 2006 predictions…

Apple-Viiv-PlasmaHere’s a midnight post from Kevin Rose who has a great track record with what usually is announced at Macworld: “I’ve heard: 15″ intel Macbook – order tomorrow, ships Feb (thinner, dual core), iPod FM receiver, iWork/Life ’06, New remote of some type, Photocasting (iPhoto)” Link. And last up, there’s this, an Apple TV. Stay tuned to MAKE on Tuesday, we’ll post up what’s new and what’s cool for Makers.

“I Made This” – photos

“I Made This” – photos

MotomWe’re getting ready to cover Macworld here in San Francisco, and as usual, bizarre flight and travel things tend to initially seem dismal, then work out – I saw two friends as I walked by Ritual Roasters in the Mission area that I haven’t seen since weirdos like us were running Generator 1.0 on online banks and Comcast cable boxes with Flash 3. Any way – one of them makes really fun things, here’s his photo set Link. Then, a few hours later, at the crosswalk, Stewart and Caterina from Flickr happen to be here, so we told them our plan to send live photos from the Macworld floor via EVDO, a WiFi network we’re making and the Kodak Flickr hack we did to auto-upload.

First homebrew game for PSP v2.5! Tetris…

First homebrew game for PSP v2.5! Tetris…

Tetris4876-724526Fanjita writes – “Just a small thing, really, but I’ve ported my Tetris game to the GTA exploit, and have it running on a v2.50 PSP. There’s a small technical glitch that means it doesn’t run yet on v2.60, I hope to sort that out ASAP, before I release a version that will run on any firmware that can run GTA. So – no release yet, but it’s imminent. As well as being the first homebrew game for v2.5 and v2.6, it will also be a good test of the improved GTA loader that will be used to launch the EBOOT loader. Sadly at the moment this is still for US and EU versions of GTA only, my attempts so far with the German version haven’t worked correctly, but I hope to change that soon.” [via] Link.

Mindstorm Pong

Mindstorm Pong

PongAmazing video of an RCX robot using vision command (or a derrivative) to play pong on a real screen. Jmarco writes: “I have designed a Mindstorm Robot who plays Pong game. It have a Webcam, and it’s controled through Infrared with the laptop computer. There is not trick. It truely plays itself!” [via] Link.