Follow along with Android hacker Taylor Wimberly as he roots a Nexus One “Superphone”. Amaze your friends (and perhaps cause seizures) by strobing the LED flash. Overclock the CPU for a modern twist on the classic parlour game Hot Potato.
The Automatic wireless drink mixer is a final project for a group from the University of Washington’s Electrical Engineering department (ee478). There’s a wireless touchpad interface that talks to the main unit via xbee, an RFID cup interface that keeps track of what you drink, and the whole thing is controlled by a PIC32.
Need to cut tiny parts, and don’t have access to a commercial wafer dicing machine? So did amateur radio enthusiast Tony, who needed to cut small pieces of 50 ohm microstrip lines for a 47 GHz radio he is constructing.
SQNewton didn’t just crack open a bluetooth headset and cram it into a cool retro handset casing; he developed his own hardware to produce a fully-functional, self-contained phone that uses the Ericofon’s original rotary dial, gives dial and busy tones, mimics the original Ericofon ringer, and has voice-recognition dialing to top it off. [via Hack a Day]
Yep, that’s right, we have Chumby guts ready for you to hack, modify, or just make a cool enclosure and enjoy. What’s a Chumby? Glad you asked! It’s an amazing little piece of technology that lets you get what’s best on the web and delivers it right to you on it’s 3.5″ touch screen LCD.
Combine new technology with old for a retro bluetooth handset that will get people talking. Thanks go to Jeff Keyzer for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Retro Wireless Handset video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Retro Wireless Handset article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you […]
Combine new technology with old for a retro bluetooth handset that will get people talking. Thanks go to Jeff Keyzer for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
