1. my wallet’s gone…

    April 21, 2008 by coye

    Evil Mad Scientist has a sweet step-by-step method of creating your very own sawed-off USB cable.

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  2. Japanese Robot Sings and Dances

    April 1, 2008 by blair

    Japanese robot sings and dances gay American songs…

    Posted in Software, awsesomze, data visualization, gay, geeking out, hardware, music, pretty, sounds fancy, toys, unawsesomze, youtube | Comments (0)

  3. Pocket physics

    March 16, 2008 by jef

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    I was talking to Davers about homebrew and had to share this gem:
    Pocket Physics for the Nintendo DS
    (this guy also wrote the awesome NitroTracker DS).

    Originally i became aware of this concept from the MIT Whiteboard Physics demo. So how badass is it to have it in your pocket for some hyper-creative Line Rider-esque (although Line Rider is coming to the DS soon) sketching? Very!

    Further reading surfaced an accelerometer card for the DS which is made just for apps like Pocket Physics.

    Posted in awsesomze, gaming, geeking out, hardware, indiemania, monkeys, video games, visualizations | Comments (3)

  4. Hey Flash Developer, Your iPhone Hates You … And So Does Steve Jobs (who made the iPhone)

    March 5, 2008 by jef

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    So start learning Cocoa or find another way to play Kitten Cannon (or Breakout w/ Nude Lady) on the road.
    Steve Jobs pans Flash on the iPhone from AppleInsider.

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  5. Balloon Panther

    March 4, 2008 by dan

    I’ve always been amazed by the quality and complexity of the German Tanks during WWII… so seeing stuff like this is just awesome to me (art + hobby = SUPER ART)

    Balloon Panther

    baloon panther via boingboing.

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  6. ohio farts…

    March 3, 2008 by coye

    remember these???

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    the etch-a-sketch AND serial mice? 2 great tastes that taste great together. how fun is this? too bad someone hasn’t rigged a computer to use a set of etch-a-sketch controllers…. or have they and i’m just to lazy to search for it?

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  7. Chicago Dorkbot! 8pm, Feb 27 2008

    February 26, 2008 by coye

    Hey! Dorkbot Chicago is this week!

    Dorkbot Chicago at DEADTECH
    8PM-10PM - 3321 W. Fullerton Ave.
    Pizza and Beer

    Dorkbot Chicago is psyched to present

    Chris Reilly - a tour of “new school” fabrication techniques. Laser cutting, rapid prototyping etc. Chris walks us through production techniques used to create his work currently on display at DEADTECH.

    Todd Bailey - The project I’m talking about is an effort to get the world of 1982 caught up with the world of 1983 by introducing a dedicated MIDI interface to the Commodore 64 computer.

    The project allows your aspiring Timbo, Paganini etc, to rock out on their favorite Commodore 64 tracker or synth programs with a standard MIDI instrument (like a keyboard) instead of the 64s endearingly backward UI, AND it allows the 64 lock to MIDI-sync, allowing you to actually make the Commodore play in time with its successors. The solution is 100% hardware driven, running on an (admittedly modern) Atmel AVR microcontroller and using HCT logic and optocouplers to interface with the dinosaurs inside the 64 as well as other normal MIDI devices. Softsynths is for suckers.

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  8. Livescribe Pulse: the Fly Fusion for post-puberty peeps.

    by jef

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    The Fly Fusion pen always seemed cool to me but also very limited in some ways. The fact that you have to use special paper is a big turn-off as well as the assumed obsolescence (how much math advice can you really fit in there?). The Livescribe doesn’t overcome any of those shortcomings but it does take a simpler approach which i think is more attractive. It also looks much better. Some thoughts on the advantages after the jump. (more…)

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  9. Apple Roundup

    February 12, 2008 by dan
    • Aperture 2.0 released (over 100 new features oh boy!) hopefully fixes time machine corruption bug.  edit: according to various sources it does fix the time machine bug on both AP 1.5 and 2
    • 10.5.2 is available via software update. A special note to graphics people–currently 10.5.2 BREAKS LINOTYPE FONT EXPLORER… yikes! So you may want to hold off on updating (if you are even lucky enough to be running leopard) edit: update just dropped to fix this issue.  Nice work linotype!!!
    • Flash rumored for iphone. Total speculation from gearlive, but last time they were right… lets see if they are right again, and if so, will it be flash lite? (yuck) or flash9? Hopefully with JIT making a serious performance difference on mobile processors.
    • This is more of a personal note, but Mac Pros with the upgraded 8800GT graphics cards are now shipping in 7-10 days instead of 2-3 weeks… early adopters are reporting that theirs have finally shipped after nearly a month of waiting.

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  10. Fire!

    January 28, 2008 by dan

    I’m still trying to wrap my head around the concept of a flashlight starting a fire. I guess that makes for one less thing you need in a survival kit.

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