Credit card iPhone stand
Here’s a simple, flat stand for your iPhone, Touch, or other mobile media device, made from a cut-up office store bonus card. DIY compact iPhone stand More: Earbud cord manager Credit card guitar picks
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The Eye-Pod Victrola
The folks at Steam Gear Lab made this wacky fully-functional Eye-Pod using a 1st gen Nano. Steam Gear Lab has broken the chains of small electronics obsolescence. Behold! The Eye-Pod Victrola! From MAKE magazine: Check out MAKE, Volume 17: The Lost Knowledge issue! Buy your copy in the Maker Shed Subscribe to MAKE Access the […]
Felt Kokeshi-Doll Speakers
The fabulous Lisa Katayama points to these adorable felt speakers on her equally fabulous TokyoMango blog. Whether they’re Russian stacking dolls or Kokeshi, they definitely seem like something you crafty, techno-savvy readers could easily re-create at home. Send us some photos if you do, or post them in the Craft Flickr pool.
“Kids” played on iPhone/iTouch
Phil Clandillon sends this music video of The Mentalists playing Kids, originally by MGMT. The Mentalists are an all female act based here in London. They’ve done this unusual cover of MGMT‘s “Kids” played entirely on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using apps from the application store. What kinds of great music can you play […]
New library teaches Arduino to speak iPod
From the MAKE Flickr pool Another useful piece of software from Flickr friend recotana – this time it ‘s a handy Arduino library for controlling iPod via appropriate connector. Looks to be quite an easy method for adding audio to a project considering the near omnipresence of iPods these days. The documentation is written in […]
Early (giant) iPod prototype?
From the MAKE Flickr pool Greg posted this sleek and stylish shot of the “Giant iPod Prototype” apparently on display at Panic software headquarters – This is a giant ipod prototype they have in the front display case. Apparently, it was big so that no one would know they were working on a mobile music […]
Flashback: Mod Your Rod
Straight out of the 2005 archives, the Mod Your Rod special section in MAKE Volume 03 has got to be one of my favorites of all time.
