“VideoMan”, is a performance / street intervention project by Mexican artist Fernando Llanos where the artist wears a custom built suit comprised of a video camera, projector, large portable battery pack, power inverters, amplifiers, and other noise generators. Walking around city streets, Llanos projects varied imagery of news broadcasts and other themed material. Check out […]
With some of my family overseas, Skype and iChat have become important tools for voice communication, second only to the cell phone and face to face protocol. It occurred to me that outside of telemarketers and the very occasional late-night pizza dial, the land line has become a relatively unused service. Unused, yet a consistent […]
IT’S EMAIL TIME – Innocent-looking “clock” monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox – by Tom Igoe. I have a lot of anxiety about email. Every kilobyte in my Inbox destroys another minute of my life, but I can’t stop checking it. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would worry […]
JC sent in a link in response to 24 hours of Android. He was suggesting an adapter for the headphone, essentially usb to 1/8″ stereo. The $6 purchase price indicates that there must be a simple way of doing it. While checking out some of the other accessories for HTC phones, I came upon this […]
A follow up our previous post (now with PDF & another)… Pete writes – The FCC is deregulating “white-spaces”, which are the unused bits of the TV spectrum. This is important to us Makers, since RF circuits for the TV spectrum are easy to find and modify for cheap (just tear apart an old TV, […]
Big news for makers out there today, the FCC OK’ed the use of white spaces to deliver broadband – this might mean a whole new class of devices soon, just as Wi-Fi took off we’ll likely see even more wireless devices flourish along with super-fast broadband speeds… The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to open […]
Back in the old days we’d just saw off another piece of radio when we needed it via NOTCOT.
