Smartphone binder clip tripod mount
Thanks to maker DannyBR, with the addition of a quarter-inch hole, the ever useful binder clip has acquired a new talent: smartphone tripod mount.
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LEGO NXT Bluetooth remote for Android
Looking for a Bluetooth remote for your LEGO NXT kit? Youtuber freedroidz is on it. There’s a few wrinkles to iron out, but once it’s stable it should find its way to the Android Market.
Add Wi-Fi to Sprint Palm Pixi
Swapping out Palm Pixi Wi-Fi modules in this video from gitit20 is pretty straight-forward. Just pop out the old and plug in the new. No pesky serial numbers or setting required.
Nexus One/Arduino SmallSat satellite test launch video
Matthew Reyes sent word that the RocketMavericks launch event on Saturday in Nevada’s Black Rock desert was a resounding success. Traveling 28K feet aboard James Dougherty’s Intimidator-5 rocket was a payload consisting of a Nexus One/Arduino SmallSat. Matthew and his cohorts Chris Boshuizen & Will Marshall are championing the use of smartphone components to lower the cost of deploying a satellite and expect it to become even more affordable with every revision.
Smartphone-controlled NXT robot
Boris Smus, a student at Carnegie Mellon, built this elegantly simple robot that uses a smartphone to interpret commands from Twitter. A few projects around the internet use an Android phone to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick. Most involve an ugly hack in which the phone communicates with a computer over WiFi, and the […]
HTC EVO hackers drop the 30FPS limit
The fine folks over at XDA have patched the latest EVO rev to circumvent the imposed 30FPS limit that has been bothering EVO owners for some time.
HTC Evo inductive charging mod
There’s something appealing about being able to set your mobile down and have it start charging without having to attache anything special to the device itself. Inspired by such simplicity, maker Infinitemods gutted a Palm Pre for the necessary parts and retrofitted a brand new HTC Evo to charge using a Palm Touchstone inductive charger.
