Making a flexible, “roll-up” keyboard from a standard USB keyboard is a lot easier than I would have expected. Rolling your own is about as simple as removing the membrane from inside an existing keyboard and gluing key labels in the appropriate places. Aside from having a portable full-size keyboard, and the additional geek-cred that […]
There are a lot of sites that provide little Flash audio widgets that allow you to listen to a tune but make it difficult to download. MySpace, for example, has a player that a lot of bands use to promote their music. Songs are downloaded to the player in normal MP3 format, but each time […]
Ugobe hasn’t yet released the official Pleo SDK, but a couple of AIBO hackers have already adapted some neat behavior editing tools for the Pleo. MySkit allows you to develop motion and audio routines that the pleo can perform. As you are developing a skit, you can preview it on a virtual Pleo. This makes […]
Jonathan Zdziarski and his editor, Andy Oram, just wrote in with the news that Jonathan’s iPhone Open Application Development book is now available in “rough cut” form. Here are the details: Certain technologies bring out everyone’s hidden geek, and the iPhone did so instantly upon its release. Thousands of programmers want to provide applications on […]
I posted this over at the OLPC News Forums, and decided to share it with Hackszine readers as well. Most of the time, the 256MB in the XO Laptop is sufficient. But I use yum to install software, and it can be very memory hungry. I often run out of RAM when installing more than […]
Download PocketGuitar and you’ll be able to rock a virtual guitar or bass on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Get a friend to load up the BeatPhone drum sequencer and you can get the virtual band back together. You’ve got to appreciate the $400 mp3 consumer being converted into a music creation device. I was […]
There’s an article over on the WiiLi Wiki that goes into great detail describing how to translate 3D accelerometer measurements into an estimation of the position, rotation, and velocity of a device like the Wiimote. By making a few assumptions—people’s arms have a limited range of motion, most Wii play doesn’t take place in moving […]
