Nexus One custom LED trackball colors
Activity is picking up for the Nexus One. Among the hand full of hacks mentioned in this video is one that allows you to completely customize visual alerts using the LED trackball.
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Android controlled door opening Linux WiFi router
Sunlight Labs, known for opening America’s government, had a problem when they recently moved facilities. Creating new keys for team members was becoming costly, so they figured out an alternative method of providing secure access using a WRT54GL, easily sourced components, and a trusty copy of Make: Electronics.
Intern’s Corner: Naked piezo pickup for Cigar Box Guitar
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern I’ve been working on winding coils and testing out a cool new electromagnetic guitar pickup for the upcoming issue of MAKE, so I thought […]
Backwards tower PC case
Although this is an old page, it’s still a clever idea. Mike Harrison was tired of having to crawl around behind his computer to mess with all the connections, so he turned the case around by mounting all the lights, switches, and drives in what was the back of the case.
Atari punk guitar pedal
GetLoFi shares an interesting method for controlling the popular Atari Punk Console circuit via guitar – The basic idea of this mod is that you are using the volume potentiometer to control the frequency of the APC. Obviously this is not the same as turning the notes played on the guitar fretboard into the APC […]
Multi-touch on Android 2.1
What gives with multi-touch on the Android OS? Earlier this month when asked about multi-touch on the Nexus One, Google seemed a little touchy about it. It would seem both the hardware and software support multi-touch, but you won’t see it implemented in any of the built-in applications. That’s OK because folks like cyanogen go out of their way to explore the possibilities.
Stunning images of space taken from a shed
Here’s a great story in the Telegraph about an amateur stargazer who tricked out his garden shed in the U.K. and surprised professional astronomers around the world with his top-notch images.