Wireless iPod Charger
Resonant wireless power transfer has been around for a long time, but it never fails to impress. For instance, take this cool DIY wireless iPod charger from instructables user Inducktion.
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Dale Dougherty and Alasdair Allan Talk Arduino/iPhone
Alasdair Allan, author of Learning iPhone Programming, Programming iPhone Sensors, and iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino (available along with the Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS) sat down with MAKE’s Dale Dougherty to talk about getting iOS devices and Arduino talking to each other. (video link) Dale and Alasdair are just two of your […]
No-Drill iPhone Binder Clip Tripod Mount
We’ve seen iPhone binder clip tripod mounts before, but this new version by Imgur user playstationfire is novel in that rather than clamping the phone, it uses the wire handles of two opposing clips to cradle the device. [via Lifehacker]
Brickify Your iPhone to Impress the Neighbors
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, uploaded by Addie Wagenknecht, who identifies it as a “speed project” by her studio Nortd labs (her partner in which is Stefan Hechenberger), under the auspices of her/their ongoing residency at Carnegie Mellon’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. If you’re confused, just click through…
Congratulations, Your iPhone Has Been Unlocked
As first reported on MacRumors, AT&T has begun unlocking iPhones for customers who: Have an account in good standing Have an iPhone that’s not currently under an active term commitment I’ve got an iPhone 3GS and AT&T service that meets both requirements, so as soon as I’d gotten my fill of Easter chocolate, I hopped […]
Smart Glove Helps Hearing and Sight-Impaired to Text
Folks who are deafblind traditionally focus on physical contact to communicate and use a verbose form of signing called Lorm. In an attempt to facilitate fast, casual conversation, and general mobility, researchers at Berlin’s Design Research Lab built the Mobile Lorm Glove to facilitate two-way digital communication.
iPhone Geiger Counter Module
Rick Pannen designed the case for his iPhone-mountable Geiger counter in FreeCAD, milled it out of a solid block of polyoxymethylene (aka “acetal”), and loaded it with a custom-milled PCB and a surplus SI-29BG Russian Geiger-Müller tube from eBay. The circuit itself was designed by BroHogan of DIYGeigerCounter, and it interfaces with the phone through […]
