Voice Controlled LED sign
Humberto writes in to point us at this handy use of the Google Voice transcription feature. In his Voice2LED Project, Josh converted a simple LED sign into a voice-activated one by connecting it up to his phone number.
Hacks
Ikea hack bookshelf bench
Randy Sarafan writes: The nice thing about IKEA furniture is that it is cheap and easy to hack. In other words, lets say that you were to buy two cheap $30 Gorm shelving units and assembled them to discover them that one was crooked. Well then, it would be really easy to spend an afternoon […]
Digital Mixtape plays mp3s old school style
MAKE subscriber Justin fused the convenience of digital music with the feel and playback functionality of a cassette – It is a cassette tape adapter and a micro usb port hooked up to a tiny mp3 player that I picked up at target. Its a simple build and only took an evening. Its an on […]
Instrumentube: Play instruments on YouTube
Want to rock out, but forget to bring your instrument? Then you might want to check out Instrumentube, a collection of YouTube-based instruments that you play by dragging the video time slider to match up to the correct note.
Reanimating a robotic pet as a FrankenDog
Have a broken robotic toy that you want to bring back from the dead? Why not follow the lead of Morten Skogly, and re-animate it with a toy synthesizer.
Secret knock detector
RFID card readers becoming passรยฉ? Maybe what you need to guard the door to your high-tech lair is a secret knock detecting door lock.
iPhone 3G and 3GS unlocked with blacksn0w
Master iPhone unlocker George Hotz aka GeoHot has done it again. Apparently the current iPhone 3G/3GS baseband has been successfully cracked and new unlock code titled blacksn0w will soon become available through the blackra1n jailbreak.
