 I had this idea some time ago to get a hole bunch of one-wire sensors and wire my house to measure everything that could be measured, but that’s a lot of wires so I never did it. Over at www.bwired.nl they made a reality of this and this is just something you gotta see if statistics over everything! turns you on. Some of the things logged and measured are the telephone calls (including recordings), motion sensors, energy consumption (gas and electricity), water consumption, lights on off. There are also a bunch of live webcams of the surroundings. Link: www.BWired.nl |
 Take one battery and connect a LED directly to it, add one magnet and wrap it together with some tape and you have a LED Throwie. Accoding to Graffiti Research Lab, that developed this, one of these units will keep on glowing for about a week and with a hole bunch of them you can run downtown and do some electronic graffiti. And yes - they did it and here is a video of it. What you see on the picture is a whole bunch of these throwies stuck together. After all - they’re magnetic. Read about them over at Instructables |
 While LCD’s are getting more popular there is still one thing that the cheap ones miss. Design. More like a rule then an exception they’re plain and simple ugly and this is what Antti was faced with when he got his hands on a cheap one to use with his laptop. So what does a true maker do then? Rebuild it of course! He writes
Link: 15″ TFT panel transformed to something more aesthetic |
I’ve been a regular user of Skype for about a year now and have been using my own solutions to try to make this as user friendly as possible. But it was never perfect and I’ve always been the only one in my house using it as it hasn’t been user friendly. Then I heard about the Sipura and started looking around on how to use it, and then I heard about VoIPBuster which provided free VoIP calls to land lines all over the world. But - there’s always a but - it wasn’t as easy as I wanted it to be to get everything up running. I eventually figured out how to actually get a user friendly, transparent, phone solution up running and now anyone in my house can pick up any phone and the Sipura takes care of routing the call the cheapest way.
Here’s the How-To VoIP for free with the Sipura |
 Jesper writes on his page about his AccelR8 project:
Maybe not something you’ll do in the coffee break but have a look at the AccelR8 project |
 A organ (when you speak electronics) is a device that flicker and blink a couple of lights in motion with music or other sounds. This is such device and there are two things that are interesting with it. The first one is of course how to build one and there is a piece of schematics on the linked page where it’s described in detail how you would go about to build one. The second one is just the looks of it! It’s built like a birds nest, which is quiet common when you build small things - not when you have hundreds of components on such small space!! None the less it’s very impressive. Very! Link: The electronic peasant’s LED color organ [via] |
 To make something useful doesn’t always have to involve rocket science - that’s something I’ve said before and I’ll say it again. Papydom has a small compact camera that is nice and thin, which unfortunatley means that it lacks a proper hole for a tripod mount. He writes:
Link: Build a L-Pod |
 I’ve seen a lot of great custom cases during the years but I think this one beats most of them. Janos Marton took computer casing to a new level with his computer in a Ballentines whisky bottle.It’s not extreme in terms of either power or performance but it fulfills its designers wish to be small, handy and quiet as he already has a powerful computer when that’s needed. Link: Small whisky computer [via] |
I’m very bad in folding t-shirts. Plain and simple, it takes me forever to fold a t-shirt in what my wife considers a proper way and she usually comments my folding with But - it’s so simple.. Well, I just don’t have it in my fingers and if you’re anything like me then you will appreciate this instruction video on how to build a t-shirt folding machine.
God - it’s so simple when you see it. [click on the image to play]
From Alltribes, streamed by SW, [via]
 You can buy these LED flashlights for not to much money, but why buy one when you can build it yourself? The benefit of using LED’s instead of a regular glowing lightbulb is of course its efficency where about 90% of the energy is turned into light comparead to a lighbulbs 10%. With these LED’s consuming about 90mA you should be able to use this flashlight for about 25 hours before it’s time to charge or replace the batteries.As this curcuit needs 3.3v to function there is a IC taking care of the stepping up of the voltage from 1.5 to 3.3v. And no, you can’t pop in more batteries as we’re talking a pocket flashlight here. Link: DIY Led flashlight |
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