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January 6, 2009
Brushes turns your iPhone into a canvas
This iPhone app, called "Brushes", lets you add a painterly effect to your pictures or create your own finger paintings from scratch. The sketches above were created by Disney artist Stef Kardos using the app and shows the potential of this cool piece of software. There's even a link to a Flickr group of "Brushes" users so you can check out their creations.
via Core 77
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Jan 6, 2009 06:00 AM
Arts, iPhone, iPod |
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iTurn: Turn a servo with your iPhone
The iTurn allows you to control a servo via the iPhone's built in accelerometer. This looks really easy to do, and it could be used in a lot of different projects. Check out the link for more information.
The iPhone or iPod Touch has an accelerometer that detects how the device is oriented. As the devices moves off axis (from straight up and down) the screen rotates. I want to use that feedback to control the position of a motor or servo or cause specific events to happen depending on the device's position.
More about iTurn: Turn a servo with your iPhone
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Jan 6, 2009 03:00 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Electronics, iPhone, iPod |
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January 2, 2009
Colony adds iPhone connectivity to networked sound sculptures
"Colony" is an interactive, multi-player performance art project by Australian artist Troy Innocent. The project employs a freely downloadable iPhone app ("Colony" from the App Store) that allows up to 30 people to contribute to a shared sound environment by playing a number of networked totems in the physical location. Visitors without iPhones can also trigger the instruments as they walk through the environment.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Jan 2, 2009 05:00 AM
Arts, Electronics, iPhone, iPod, Music |
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January 1, 2009
iPod speakers made out of iPods
iPod speakers made out of iPods via HackedGadgets. Jordan writes-
I took a pair of speakers, and put them in two of the original iPods where the scroll wheels normally were. I was looking through a bunch of old stuff when I came across my original iPod. I had long ago scavenged it for parts, so I came up with another use for it. Although I already had the iPod speaker “shell”, I wanted to make two speakers so that it could be stereo sound. My iPod speaker shell was barely recognizable with too many scratches to count, so I ordered two front panels and two back panels.The total cost ended up around 100 USD for everything. It was mostly the shipping prices that made it so expensive. If I had spent some more time finding cheaper prices, or finding the parts locally, the cost would have been about 60 USD.
The speaker size that is needed is 2.25 inches. I couldn’t find any online, so I went to a local electronic surplus store and had them order two for me. Unfortunately, when I test fitted the speakers into the iPod, they were just a little too deep, so I dremeled the back just a little.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 1, 2009 03:07 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, iPod |
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December 23, 2008
Student replaces wires with antennas to increase iPhone's battery life x 12
Atif Shamin, a student at Carleton University in Canada has figured out a way of reducing a mobile device's power consumption by replacing all of the internal wires and PCBs of a device with an antenna. This enables a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits of the chip. Pretty cool, now my friend can watch their whole ALF box set without getting up to charge it.
Carleton University Engineering via iPhone Alley
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Dec 23, 2008 05:00 AM
iPhone, iPod |
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December 22, 2008
ARToolKit makes it to the iPhone
This iPhone app lets you run the ARToolKit v.4.4 on the device at 10fps with realtime tracking and more features to come! Check out the video to see it in action, pretty limitless things you will be able to do with this like augmented reality mapping onto physical landscapes as you walk down the street.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Dec 22, 2008 05:00 AM
Arts, iPhone, iPod |
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December 16, 2008
Guitar + 2 iPods = iTouch guitar
What's the quickest way to add the capabilities of iPod Touch to your guitar? - try mounting 2 of them to your ax's body! (hey, I said 'quickest way', not 'cheapest')
The ipod closest to the guitar pick ups is running Itouch Midi's Martix app which im using to send midi to Ableton Live on my Macbook via wifi.[via Matrixsynth]
And the itouch near the bottom is running Bloom designed by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, Bloom is a generative music application.
Note: in this video bloom is just being run through my mixer when i play live it is run through various patches to alter it a bit.
The reason i shake the guitar is to clear bloom and start a new pattern, each time i shake it, it clears the boards and lets you start again.
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Dec 16, 2008 06:00 AM
iPod, Music |
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December 10, 2008
iPhone scratches vinyl records with the best of them
This iPhone app called "Record 001" by Hiroshi Okamura is a cool way to proclaim your dedication to old school records and turntables. The app lets you scratch a record on the device, the way you would on a regular turntable. You can backspin, pause, and scratch just you can an ordinary record, of course you'll feel a screen instead of vinyl, but it's less kit to carry with you to a show. Check out the video link below to see it in action.
Video, Record 001 via DVICE
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Dec 10, 2008 05:00 AM
Arts, iPhone, iPod, Music |
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November 21, 2008
Anthony's busted ipod
After school today, Matt and Anthony came in with Anthony's busted Ipod Video. They asked me how good I was at fixing iPods. Never having been inside an iPod before, I replied, "well let's see what you've got." It appears that the back came off the ipod, and now it was bricked. Anthony was pretty upset, wondering if all his songs would be missing, and what he would do without his beloved tunebox. It would not power up at all. He showed how it could be opened by grabbing at it with his nails and separating the back. so much for specialized antimar tools.
We did a few searches on replacing ipod batteries. One page that looked promising turned out to be about the wrong generation. Not knowing which model it was, we looked up the various models to get the generation right. His turned out to be a 5th gen iPod.
Next we needed to know what to expect inside. I could see a couple of ribbon cables that appeared to have just pulled out of their fittings. If they could be placed properly back into their slots, that would be fine. They needed to go back into place in such a way that the back could actually be reattached.
Inside, there was a bunch of cool stuff. The 80gig hard drive was incredibly small. I couldn't believe how much capacity could be stuffed into such a small package. The screen was neat too. Real thin, backlight coming from the top. There was some foam and spacers in there to keep things from flopping around. Everything was held together with ribbon cables.
The ribbon cables would be fine as long as they did not get torn. I found the fitting for one of them on the side, and saw that there was a flip latch to hold it together. After securing that one, the next was the one at the bottom. We got it to go into the slot, clicked the case together and hit the power button. About this time, Anthony got about his 50th text message of our short session. The Ipod would not fire up. Anthony was upset. Then his father called. He explained that he was in the middle of fixing his iPod. There was some discussion of Best Buy and their warrantee policy. I was pretty sure that there was no chance of this relic being still covered.
While they were talking, I cracked the thing open again and took a look at the second fitting, down near the charger port. It was stiffer, with reinforcement of a piece of white plastic. I figured that it had to be that the fitting was not all the way in. I used my Warrantee Voider to get the ribbon into the fitting all the way. Once I got it running, I showed it to him, and he reported happily to Dear Old Dad that all was well.
On looking at the catches on the case, we could see that one of them was more worn than the rest. I figured that it would be good for a while, but it would eventually pull apart, so I suggested that we make a skin for his newly functioning Ipod. He said he had nothing planned, but I could tell that now that his iPod was running, his daily routine was about to resume. We didn't have a whole lot of time.
First we looked up the dimensions for the 5th generation iPod. The thing I was looking for was a good, full dimension drawing that I could use to make the image for the skin. I wanted to make it so that the sticker on the front would reach over to the back and hold the two together. The image and dimensions did not jump out of the browser at me, so we grabbed a ruler and went over to the computer to design up a skin.
We used CutStudio, which comes bundled with the Roland CAMM1. I don't like the software much, but it ports right to the cutter. Once you have the thing designed, you can only cut it, I have not been able to find a way to export it for editing in a more powerful program like Gimp or Inkscape.
Rather than having him do the design work, I chose to do it myself. His texts and calls were coming with increasing frequency, and I knew word had gotten out that he no longer had an excuse to be absent from his pressing duties. We had to work fast. A couple of quick measurements, some alignment of shapes, and the overall design was done. To add tabs to the sides so they would reach over the back, I had to trace over the outline and duplicate most of the shape. Anthony was impressed that it was possible to design something that was so close to the outline of his beloved.
When I sent the file to the cutter, it was done in a few seconds. He couldn't believe it when I showed it to him. Then we weeded it and put it on transfer tape. It took a few tries to get it onto the iPod squarely, but eventually it went on fine. In looking at it, I told him that it wasn't such a great fit, and looked kind of unprofessional, but would keep the back from falling off. I invited him to come back on Monday to make a better looking skin, maybe with a picture that he made on it as well.
He cruised out the door about 45 minutes after coming into my room for the first time ever, happy as can be with his resurrected iPod in one hand and buzzing phone in the other. Problem solved.
Do you have tales of repairs and making things right? How about advice on how to get the right patterns for skins to fit various models of phones or audio players? Would you like to make new skins for your laptop, digicam or even dashboard? Share your ideas in the comments or add pictures and video to the Make Flickr pool.
Posted by Chris Connors |
Nov 21, 2008 02:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, iPod, Kids, Music, Something I want to learn to do... |
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November 19, 2008
HOW TO - Make a Bluetooth handgun handset for your iPhone
HOW TO - Make a Bluetooth handgun handset for your iPhone, ManaEnergyPotion writes-
How to turn an airsoft handgun and a bluetooth headset into a fun, fully functional handset for your iPhone. Pull the trigger to receive calls and to, um, end them. Listen through the barrel, and talk into the grip. I think everyone has made the thumb and forefinger gun-to-the-head sign when someone unpleasant shows up on their caller ID. Eli and I thought it would be fun to make an actual gun handset, and it turned out to be surprisingly straightforward. No glue or powertools were required. Even though it's not very practical, there's something so satisfying about ending a call with this handset. Pow. Naturally, this handset works with any cell phone. You just feel like pulling the trigger more if you own an iPhone.
Perfect for this month's Spy Tech theme and MAKE volume!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 19, 2008 09:00 AM
Cellphones, Culture jamming, DIY Projects, Electronics, iPod |
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November 17, 2008
Felted bacon iPod / iPhone case & the ever growing DIY bacon accessory and bacon craft collection...
Antjes makes these lovely felted bacon iPod / iPhone cases via Giz.
More:
Maker of the day - Matty Sallin, Bacon-cooking alarm clock.
HOW TO - Bacon Tiara.
Fleece Bacon Scarf.
MMmmm bacon....costume.
HOW TO - Make bacon soap.
HOW TO - Make Bacon Curls.
HOW TO - Make bacon.
The AntiCraft Does Bacon Crafts.
Electro bacon.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 17, 2008 05:00 AM
Arts, Crafts, iPhone, iPod |
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DIY: iPod cardboard speaker and stand
Do you have a first generation iPod touch? If you do, this is a cheap way to make an external speaker, and stand, so you can enjoy hours of YouTube goodness without the need for headphones.
Seeing that Apple have sneakily added an internal speaker to the iPod touch Gen II, my Gen I felt sort of lame as I couldn't view YouTube, video or play games without having to use a headphone.
More about making an iPod cardboard speaker
Posted by Marc de Vinck |
Nov 17, 2008 02:00 AM
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November 14, 2008
Papercup iPod speakers
Cute little set of "ghetto speakers" make from four disposable waters cups and toothpicks. Something for the kids to do on a rainy day, not as a replacement for your Bose (or your Altec Lansing).
CupSpeakers [via Dinosaurs and Robots]
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Nov 14, 2008 02:26 PM
iPod, Kids, Music |
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October 28, 2008
Control a rave with your iPhone
This app called "BeatMaker" for the iPhone is one of a huge list of cool new music creation applications that are out for the device. This one doubles as a portable music production center with a drum machine, sampler, and sequencer that usually only exists in desktop applications. Check out the link for the list of all of these cool new ways to bring the funk to your pocket.
iPhone Gems: The Best Music Creation Apps
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Oct 28, 2008 05:00 AM
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October 20, 2008
Another way to control an R/C car with an iPhone
Here's another clever use of the iPhone to control objects in the real world. We've reported on this kind of thing before here at Make but now there's a kit that will help you build your own version of the iPhone controlled R/C car.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Oct 20, 2008 05:00 AM
iPhone, iPod, Robotics |
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September 29, 2008
WowPod melts and inflates the iPod
The "WowPod" by Russian media artists Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin is a large-scale, iPod that actually works, although it looks like it's been through an oven or is reflected in a funhouse mirror.
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Sep 29, 2008 04:00 AM
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September 11, 2008
iPod nano 4g take apart guide
Right on schedule, here's iFixit's iPod nano 4G take apart guide... Here's the thing, at this point there's not much going on or that "new" and exciting, that big chip with the Apple on it is basically an iPod on a chip, it does everything. It's an incredible feat of engineering but not too much fun to poke around with now. Makers what do you think?
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 11, 2008 11:20 AM
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September 10, 2008
Rebrand your iPod the old fashioned way
This hack shows how to turn Apple's branded white headphones into black ones in order to fool people into thinking that you are not just part of a worldwide marketing campaign. We like the simplicity of using a Sharpie to color the cables, but we wonder if your skin will when the ink sinks into your bloodstream and turns you into a vampire.
via TodBot Blog
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Sep 10, 2008 05:00 AM
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September 7, 2008
Meet the IXI (first iPod?) over 3.5 minutes of audio cica 1979
I think it's a stretch to say this is how the iPod was invented, regardless - it's very cool to see this sketch from 30 years ago...
Here's the article from Dailymail..."Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, but he's still not getting any money..." via CrunchGear.
Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod.Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.
And the father of three is so hard up he had to sell his home last year and move his family to rented accommodation.
Now documents filed by Apple in a court case show the US firm acknowledges him as the father of the iPod... Two years ago, Mr Kramer told this newspaper how he had invented the device in 1979 – when he was just 23.
His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 7, 2008 10:00 AM
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September 3, 2008
Reuse an iPod LCD
This cool hack shows you how to retool an old 2.5" QVGA TFT iPod LCD screen in order to use it for another project. Lots of really good info about the pinout connectors of this screen in order to get it up and running in no time.
iPod LCD Hacking, via Electronics Lab
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Sep 3, 2008 05:00 AM
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