Jonathan Schwartz @ News.com has an article that will be making the rounds quite a bit regarding unencrypted information on some of the new credit cards. I fully expect our Makers to make a text to speech version that screams out names as people walk by – “They call it the “Johnny Carson attack,” for […]
Pop Sci’s How 2.0 has a handy diagram and parts list for building your own cantenna from Mike Outmesguine – the thing that makes this one awesome – it’s a cellphone cantenna, not a wi-fi cantenna. Mike crunched the numbers and came up with the right size/length, etc to amp a 1900Mhz cell signal. Time: […]
Spluch points to this photo of the world’s first transistor radio from Michaeljpro… It’s funny Sony still uses names like this for all their products… “Regency TR-1, the world’s 1st commercially released transistor radio – went on sale in the fall of 1954. This cabinet colour was called “madarin red”. Also came in black, cloud […]
For those of you who have an EV-DO phone, here’s how to use its wireless connection with your PC and/or Mac, Ben writes – “In today’s How-To, we’ll show you how to share your HTC Apache’s EV-DO internet connection with your laptop. We’re going to focus on the XV6700 by Verizon, but one can re-apply […]
Brian posted up this neat crystal radio mousetrap in the MAKE pool created by Kevin Norton that was featured at the 2006 New England Wireless and Steam Museum’s Yankee Steam-Up – Link.
Last year MAKE was invited to try out Boeing’s Connexion Wi-Fi (wireless) service on their planes. It worked as expected, and now 13 months later it’s disappointing to hear the service isn’t going to take off, literally. It’s not clear why – perhaps laptops may eventually be banned on planes, the demand may have been […]
Simon @ Scitoys shows you how to build a computer controlled wireless transmitter – “How would you like to send text messages to your friends without wires, and without an Internet connection, and without paying monthly fees? In this project we will build a very simple radio transmitter that you attach to a serial port […]
