Wiring up your home for VoIP. home voip free

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Great resource for wiring up your home for VoIP, in MAKE 03 we also have a guide "One obstacle to replacing traditional phone service with Voice over IP is that for your existing home phone jacks to work, it's necessary to make a change to your inside telephone wiring. Fortunately, this change is very easy to make. In some cases it's as simple as removing a plug from a jack. Still, a basic understanding of how telephone wiring works is useful before attempting to make such a switch." Link. __

Real RC car controlled with the N95-- phone and more

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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 senso __

Not really but try it VOIP PHONES

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Like VoIP all things telephony? Check out out O'Reilly's new Emerging Telephony site - ETel for short - "...covering VoIP, Asterisk, voice and mobile applications, as well as the policy and regulatory issues that impact these important technologies. In addition to daily blogging and the exclusive in-depth articles you'll find here, we'll be spotlighting the new related O'Reilly books, like Switching to VoIP and Asterisk: The Future of Telephony and Skype Hacks. We'll have these authors chiming in on the blog from time to time, too." Link. Run Asterisk on a Windows machine, handy for on the go..."We have been touting how cool the Asterisk Open Source PBX is and especially how nice the Asterisk@Home installation package is for some time now. You are all excited to try it out but don't have an extra machine, or maybe you are like us and want a way to show clients the web interface and the features but you don't want to run Linux on your laptop or carry a second machine. Well now, with the help of a few free downloads, you can now do a complete installation into a virtual machine on your system..." Link. __

Google ring proclaims your Internet status

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The "Vanity Ring" project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which uploads the amount of mentions their name gets on a Google search onto the ring. From the description: "While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money or jewels someone possessed, in a post information society it's the attention you get from the world's people, that counts.

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Solar-powered bike helmet

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A solar powered, trickle-charged, weatherproof, safety bike helmet with changeable parts.

The Green Helmet (Solar powered, safety lit, weatherproof bike helmet. __

Remotecontrolled-cameraphone--try it might work for your home

www.youthsprouts.blogspot.com Low resolution, slow and almost totally useless: this homemade cellphone-based surveillance camera is one of the best inventions ever. I don't know if it's the Gilliamesque looks, the 80s phreaking flavor or the fact that the solenoid relays—which control the cellphone keys—make it feel like an Old West telegraph machine, but I would definitely snatch it after seeing it in action:

To do it you just need a cellphone with camera, a microcontroller, the solenoid relays, a photoresistor, LEDs, resistors, wires, soldering iron, assorted tinkerman material and know what the heck you are doing. I mean, they call this "instructable," but I hope they are "eBayables" for the soldering-impaired dorks like me. [Instructables]

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