Category: Cool

DIY GPS

Homemade GPS

This is pure DIY goodness.

This is a short description on how I spent some hours this summer building a simple GPS device. For some time now I have been wondering about the possibility to build such a device from mostly scavenged and old parts, the most important being (of course) a GPS receiver module, and an LCD display. And indeed it was possible. ,)

Loads of great things here, he used a slavaged LCD from a cell phone as a display, a NEMA GPA module from eBay, and even burned his own boards using a UV party light.

[via hackaday ]
Ghetto-GPS

Ceiva Adapter

Ceiva to PC Adapter

What the heck is it?It’s an adapter that lets you run a Ceiva from a computer. Whats a Ceiva you ask? A Ceiva is one of those posh digital picture frames that everyone is all keen on turning old laptops into. If your fresh out of old laptop, then go search eBay for a virgin Ceiva. Get one and you can be the talk of your hacker friends. Score big points with the SO by running the emergency ‘kids photos’ script when your mother-in-law stops by for a visit.

[ via MAKE ]
Ceiva picture frame serial port adapter

No Pets? No Worries…

Pet Live! TV

You live in Tokyo and your apartment is eight foot on a side. You can’t have a pet due to the rental restrictions (plus it might damage your priceless collection of Newtype and FRUiTS magazines that line the walls!) but you still crave warmth and companionship (a girl friend is out of the question, as to why refer to the magazine collection plus they never live up to the ones you know in the dating sims).
So stop thinking of collecting hentai mini figs of Sailor Moon and go hit PET LIVE! TV. Here you can watch a little mini zoo of animals frolic and sleep all via web cam. You could get your fix of your favorite online critter anywhere you can get connected to the ‘net. I like the meerkat myself but the ferrets are a close second. You can also catch a few movies of cats and dogs, but where is the fun in that?

Meerkat Ferrets Chameleon

PET LIVE! TV
BTW, if you click on the ‘So-Net Channel 749‘ logo you go to a programming page where you can browse other ‘odd’ items that are offered to the happy people of Japan. Like ‘Let’s Coke Play Battle Myth‘ and what must be a real must see program, ‘Boy Meets Cooking‘.
You might want to translate these with Excite if your not into the whole Japanese roulette web page thing.)