Sam writes – “As promised to all of you we ran into at the Maker Faire, here are instructions on making your own retro handsets for your cellphone. I apologize for the delay in posting – but one of you friendly Makers out in San Francisco was kind enough to share the black plague with […]
Our pals at Popular Science have a write up of a low cost way to do your own cell phone tracking – “…Jen, is tracking me. Using a $100 kit from Mologogo (with a $6-a-month data plan), I’ve turned a prepaid cellphone into a GPS tracking device. Every few minutes, the phone transmits my location […]
The US Patent Office has a kids section of sounds called “Trademark Soundex” – it’s a great collection of trademarked sounds in MP3 and WAV formats. They make excellent ringtones and samples to mix in with music you might create. [via] – Link.
We get a lot of questions about cell phone repeaters and this is one that might be interesting to check out (and take apart)… DA4000MR Wireless – no connections to cell phone Increases cell phone range up to 50+ miles Amplifies 800 and 1900 MHz bands Use multiple cell phones and carriers at the same […]
Tea Vui Huang writes – “The objective here is to create a low-cost introductory & disposable graphing calculator for the educational use of schools and students who may have difficulty, are unable or may not wish to acquire a stand-alone feature-laden graphing calculator. The TVH-72g Graphing Calculator is a small 14 Kbytes Mobile Java program […]
Bre writes – “I collect lenses out of cameras and put them on other stuff. I used gaffer tape to make my nokia 7610 have a fisheye.” Full photo set here – Link. If you get bored with your camera phone, this is a lot of fun.
Wired has an article about some Makers who got tired of waiting for satellite radio to get to their phones / mobile devices, so they did it themselves – “Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones. But as the two […]
