After successfully making his own delightfully funky but functional US$5 wooden tonearm, German maker Charles Altmann decided to keep a-goin and try his hand at creating a wooden turntable to go with it. He built the whole thing for around $50. The Altmann DIY Turntable [via No Tech Magazine]
A Google engineer has developed a solar-powered data display for Google calendar information to use as signage in Google’s offices outside of their conference rooms (to display meeting schedules). It uses an ultra lower-power Cholesteric LCD display which can operate on energy generated from indoor light. Aaron Spangler, the engineer, claims on the video that […]
Our friends at iFixit.com nabbed a brand-new DSi as soon as it went on sale, and as they are wont to do, they immediately field stripped it down to its nuts and ribbon cables. Here are some of the deets they discovered. Highlights: * The DSi’s new matte black skin feels rougher than the DS […]
Hunyue of HY Research has turned the awesome Beagle Board into a complete mobile internet platform, with a 4.3″ touchscreen, battery power capability, some extra side controls, and a CNC case. It won’t win any design or beauty contests, but it’s still pretty cool. Beagle MID
In case you missed last night’s Nightline segment on the DIY movement and MAKE, featuring Mister Jalopy and Mark Frauenfelder and scenes from Make: television and Maker Faire, ABC News now has it on their website. It’s the “Do It Yourself” segment. More: Welcome Nightline viewers!
UK designer Giles Miller makes these laptop cases (and a number of furniture pieces) from recycled cardboard. I love the way he’s altered the corrugations to create designs in the cardboard. Corrugated Cardboard Laptop Case
By way of Ladyada comes this tidbit from this morning’s iPhone OS 3.0 press conference. She writes: Ryan Block from GDGT has some major news from the iPhone 3.0 press conference, pretty soon you’ll be able to make/hack/add any accessories to the iPhone – wow! We’ll see some Arduino projects shortly. 10:20AM – Apps talk […]
