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February 26, 2008
DIY Security system calls your phone
Design news latest "Gadget Freak" has a DIY security system that will call you when something is up... -
Gadget Freak Bill Bowden has created a security system that calls you when an alarm is triggered. You can set it up to indicate intrusion into a door, window, office or pool. It can also connect to a panic button. The circuit includes a small PIC microcontroller, an assembly program and a handful of other parts that can be designed to detect the interruption of a switch closure or the connection of a panic button. When the circuit is tripped, the gadget dials your number and indicates what device has been triggered.DIY Security system calls your phone - Link.The construction cost for the security circuit is less than $30. As well as circuit parts, you will also need a PIC programmer to load the program into the microcontroller.
Related:
- MIDAS: Homemade Dorm Room Home Automation System - Link.
- Make - Connecting a hacked wireless doorbell receiver - Link.
- MAKE: Blog: Monitor Hack: High voltage security system - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 26, 2008 06:00 AM
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February 25, 2008
HOW TO - Use a cellphone data cable for microcontrollers
Bob writes in with a rundown on how to repurpose an old USB cellphone data cable for rs232 communication.
About three years ago,I bought a USB data cable to use with T610 mobile phone.I can't remember what is model just know it is made in China.But now I have a new model mobile phone and my USB data cable not used at all.So I want to modify it to use with my microcontroller projects that use rs232 communication like a USB to RS232 converter.If you have this cable and want to modify this article may help you.Old cellphones are great for scavenging µC project parts like small LCDs, motors, etc. -Link
Related:
RS-232 to USB conversion - Link
From the Maker store:
USB-TTL Serial Cable -Link
Posted by Collin Cunningham |
Feb 25, 2008 03:00 PM
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February 15, 2008
Sandwich phone gives new meaning to ordering delivery
This sandwich phone is made from two slices of fake bread and probably someone who must have been really hungry at the time. We just wonder if the cellphone version comes wrapped in wax paper.
Custom Made Sandwich Phone - [via], Link
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Feb 15, 2008 08:01 AM
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January 25, 2008
iPhone Open Application Development PDF book available
Jonathan Zdziarski and his editor, Andy Oram, just wrote in with the news that Jonathan's iPhone Open Application Development book is now available in "rough cut" form. Here are the details:
Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and the iPhone did so instantly upon its release. Thousands of programmers want to provide applications on the iPhone. This book shows them how to achieve the spectacular effects that made the iPhone an immediate hit. The book covers both Apple's toolkit and an open, community-developed toolkit that has been widely downloaded and used. Author Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the first fully functional application using the open iPhone toolkit, now explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API, which in some ways resembles Apple's desktop API and in some ways strikes new ground. After covering installation of the toolkits and some background about the operating system and Objective-C, the book offers detailed recipes and working examples for everyone's favorite iPhone feature. Graphics and audio programming, the CoreImage and CoreSurfaces interfaces for games programming, interfacing with iTunes, and the use of sensors are all covered. Any programmer, using this book, can provide applications that impress users just as much as the official iPhone utilities.
For the moment, this version of the book covers the community SDK, but when we have more information on the Apple SDK, it will be updated to cover it.
O'Reilly's Rough Cuts give you early access to content on cutting-edge technologies -- before it's published. You can buy just the PDF ($19.99) or get the PDF now and a copy of the book when it's finished ($43.99). Pick up a copy and start writing some apps for your iPhone! iPhone Open Application Development Rough Cut - Link
Posted by Brian Jepson |
Jan 25, 2008 10:06 AM
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January 22, 2008
Walking Radar connects physical spaces to SMS messaging
The "Walking Radar" project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. Pretty cool, just don't try to take this phone through airport security.
Walking Radar - [via] Link, video
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Jan 22, 2008 09:00 AM
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January 21, 2008
World’s smallest low-speed USB analyzer (works as a USB key recorder too)...
Chinook writes -
[Any] idea is dead without a good application for it. So “California Dreamin’” USB virtual peripheral could be a very nice sample of academic research, but hardly anybody is going to build a keyboard or mouse using it. I have been thinking for a while what to do with it as well. First project that came to my mind was building a hardware key logger for USB keyboards, something like www.keyghost.com, built for PS2 protocol using PIC16F877. It was quite simple to implement USB part using SX, serial EEPROM and a few switching IC’s. Furthermore I found out that built-in features of SX MCU would help to create a device able to work not only with pure low-speed USB keyboards, but also composite, built-in-hub, things, hence covering all existing systems (SUN, Mac, PC). Recording keystrokes is fun, but if we can do that, why not go further and try to record all low-speed USB traffic. No problem for SX again, problem for the memory. Serial EEPROM is just to slow to handle it. Solution was www.ramtron.com FRAM with 1MHz two-wire interface (let me pay credit here to www.svtehs.com, who happens to advertise it). Finally “California Dreamin’” found a real life application in the world’s smallest low-speed USB analyzer “Atapchi” (stands for a small fruit in Singapore, tastes like apricot). I hope you find this project interesting.World’s smallest low-speed USB analyzer - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 21, 2008 05:00 PM
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January 20, 2008
Phone looks like pack of cigarettes and cell phone jammer that fits inside a pack of cigarettes
This phone was made to look like a pack of smokes and it can also hold a half a pack of cigarettes in the back...- [via] Link.
It could be a nicotine fueled response to the cell jammers (both commercial and DIY) which also fit inside packs of cigarettes too. Pictured above, I believe this one was from "advanced-intelligence" - Link.
And there's the open source hardware version, the WaveBubble - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 20, 2008 01:00 AM
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January 18, 2008
Mobile phone telescope makes your crappy phone cam into a spy cam
Just strap the "Mobile Phone Telescope" to your Motorola RAZR cell phone using its accompanying installation kit and you too can become James Bond. The lens lets you zoom in for ideal paparazzi pics, but we think it might look a bit too conspicuous for the average photo junkie. Still it's a pretty simple kit to put together and will enhance your viewing angle quite a bit, but we're still waiting for the iPhone version.
Mobile Phone Telescope - Link, video, [via]
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Jan 18, 2008 10:00 AM
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January 14, 2008
The afterlife of cellphones
Here's a good follow up to our last post about consumption (Artist Chris Jordan) - The NY Times on where cell phones go when they die...
Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream and, depending on your outlook, either an enormous problem or a bonanza. E-waste generally contains substances that, though safely sequestered during each product's use, can become hazardous if not handled properly when disposed. Those products also hold bits of precious metals like silver, copper, platinum and gold.The afterlife of cellphones - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 14, 2008 01:00 AM
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January 9, 2008
iPhone audio recognition
iPhone hacker extraordinaire Erica Sadun made an application for the iPhone that will listen to music and identify it! She writes -
Download a copy of the Listen beta. It’s still *very* beta. Install it on your iPhone, get near music and run it. It will sample the music for 5 seconds and then attempt to contact the id server. If it succeeds, great, you’ll see the song, artist and album. If it fails, nothing happens. You just wait 30 seconds and if you haven’t gotten an ID, quit and restart the program.iPhone audio recognition [via] - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 9, 2008 03:00 AM
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HOW TO - Turn a Windows Mobile 6 device into a WiFi router
Jason writes -
WMWifiRouter is a new utility that you can run on your WiFi-capable WM6 device to turn it into a GPRS-uplinked WiFi router. When activated, it will set up your WiFi link in ad-hoc mode and start a DHCP server. Your laptop will see a new network called WMWifiRouter, and connecting to it will funnel all of your network traffic through your phone and its GPRS connection.It used to be that you had to use a separate laptop connected to your phone to do the routing and network address translation side of things. This hack will allow you connect 1 or more WiFi laptops anywhere where you can get a cell connection, and you can do it without additional hardware. All you need is your phone.
Why isn't this available as part of the base WM6 operating system?
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Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 9, 2008 01:00 AM
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January 8, 2008
Stop robot callers with a tone
Aparently there's a U.S. Special Information Tone signal for a dead phone line, and robot callers (telemarketers, debt collectors, etc.) listen for it, then remove the "dead lines" from their lists. Record it at the beginning of your answering machine messages to make (some) robots stop calling you! [via] Link.
(Photo by Flickr user scriptingnews)
Posted by Becky Stern |
Jan 8, 2008 08:00 PM
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January 7, 2008
Graphical resistance calculator for iPhones
Ok Makers, here's a portable graphical resistance calculator for iPhones, but it should work on most other things including most/all computers too, enjoy - Link.
Try it out, if there are any changes to make it look better just send me a HTML file and I'll upload a new version (just keep the credits from the original author in there).
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jan 7, 2008 05:00 PM
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December 19, 2007
Cell Phone lets you use it with gloves still on
Designed for winter, this cell phone's large buttons allow its user to use them outside while wearing thick gloves. The concept brings in to question what other specific types of contexts phones could be developed for or how they could be made to easily adapt to their environments and specific user scenarios in general.
[via], also see Crispin Jones' "Social Mobiles" project for IDEO
Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Dec 19, 2007 01:00 PM
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iPhone GPS addon
This looks like a really interesting iPhone GPS addon! -
The iphone locoGPS module allows jail broken iphones to finally have GPS functionality. This module is in development and will be shipping in February. All software is open source and more applications are being written every day. The locoGPS module gives you the ability to explore all the benefits of GPS from a device that is small enough to put on a keychain.iPhone GPS addon - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 19, 2007 08:00 AM
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December 14, 2007
iPhone video recording hack
The iPhone can't record, but with this hack/app from Monster and Friends you can record 5 seconds and after some more development maybe minutes/hours more... - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 14, 2007 04:00 AM
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December 11, 2007
Soviet-era Bluetooth-ified phone
Brano Meres, a Slovakian industrial designer and engineer says of his Bluetooth-equipped Red Army phone:
This is the first Soviet army phone from the 1960's to be equipped with Bluetooth technology. It was intended for use as a Bluetooth headset with my mobile phones. To redesign this phone, Titanium and high quality wires from dismantled Scud missiles were used.
The phone is equipped with a multifunction button (Power on/off, answer/end calls), volume up/down button, two LED indicator lights and a connector for charging the battery.
Bluetooth Soviet army phone (October 2007) - [via] Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Dec 11, 2007 04:00 PM
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December 10, 2007
Barcode + Colour + Mobile = ?
Martijn writes -
Hi Makezine people, Rein gives us a demo of how you can create a coloured barcode and scan it with your mobile. By adding colour the information capacity of the barcode increases, this leads to many new ways of using the barcode. For instance: put a coloured barcode on a poster, scan it with your mobile and directly get the ringtone of that particular brand on your phone.Barcode + Colour + Mobile = ? - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 10, 2007 04:00 AM
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December 5, 2007
HOW TO - Make a remote controlled camera from a cellphone!
Tanntraad made a relayed controlled cell phone project, nice work! -
Want to know what your cat is doing while at work? Send a text message to your newly made surveillance-cellphone and receive pictures and videos seconds later. Sounds like a dream? Not any more!HOW TO - Make a remote controlled camera from a cellphone! - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 5, 2007 08:00 AM
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November 28, 2007
RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor
Amazing! Andreas Jakl posted a cool N95 hack that uses the built-in accelerometer, Python, Bluetooth, and a microcontroller to control the movement of a remote control car:
Now we wanted to take the acceleration sensor of a mobile phone to the next level and use it to control something literally "bigger" than an application that is running on the phone itself.The result is called "ShakerRacer" (thanks to Adam Montandon for this great name!). Stephan Selinger, one of our professors, bought a normal RC car for about €90 and "tuned" it. Not in the traditional way, but instead he replaced the standard remote control component with an own microcontroller and a Bluetooth-module.
Using the Python module aXYZ from cyke64, it was possible to write a small application that translates the movements of the N95 acceleration sensor to commands that can be understood by the car. This enables you to go as fast as 30 km/h by just tilting your phone!
ShakerRacer: Real RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor - [via] Link
Posted by Brian Jepson |
Nov 28, 2007 02:00 AM
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