Learn about the different materials and techniques you can use to physically build a robotic prototype. Rather than constructing a solid finished robot, see how to build a fast and easy prototype that can be disassembled, reconfigured, and reassembled quickly and easily. See if you can spot the MAKE! [via] Link.
MAKE pal Natalie Zee pretty much sums up why I’m not too bummed I skipped out on this year’s CTIA “Overall, there wasn’t much new stuff to see and it was a bit overrated. I didn’t see anything interesting or new in mobile entertainment either. What I came away with is that mobile phones are starting to get lighter as they do more. Which is a good thing”…Link. Photos here…
This is a really impressive hack – this site shows how to put a Griffin AirClick remote inside an iPod mini so you can remote control the iPod without needing to pop the receiver on top. Link.
Casio has two new simple-yet-useful products that come to rescue. The Casio MZ-120WL and Casio JZ-120WL look like normal calculators, except they come with USB dongles to enable them to be used as number keypads over wireless connection. Effective range is around 1m, and they can be used as cursor keys to control the flow of your presentation too. [via] Link.
EVDOinfo posted directions to share EVDO (wireless) on both Mac & Windows at EVDOinfo.com – Mac OS X: Sharing EVDO & Windows XP: Sharing EVDO Also, for those needing EVDO help, they have EVDOforums.com They also wrote a mini review of the new VZAccess for Mac for KPC650. See our HOW TO on sharing EVDO via a Mac too.
The Fourth Street hotspot is part of a communal wireless project called Neighbornode, started by then New York University grad student John Geraci as a way to add a community-building aspect to the common practice of using a neighbor’s Wi-Fi network to get online. Anyone with a broadband connection can start a Neighbornode. When someone uses the node to access the Web, he is first directed to a home page with a message board, classified section and photo page to help locals recognize one another. Here’s how to do it in your hood’ Link.
Regarding our dispensing for free Wifi over EVDO today…Ian writes “one other thing you can do that’s nifty like that, I did a few years ago at macworld, my powerbook (a titanium) gets notoriously bad reception, however the guy with his iBook next to me had no problem getting on the network. so we did the sharing from airport to ethernet, plugged me in, and since actually both machines have autosensing ports, they connected right up and i was online, didn’t even need a crossover cable”.
