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Finding GSM Cell-Phone Location

September 20, 2011 by Chris
This article presents a method for using GSM basics to find out your current location. A PHP script included in the article lets you input your cell phone's details and then passes it to google maps to find out your location. Granted many phones already have GPS in them, location triangulation from GSM towers is also very useful.

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PIC Phoneline Controller v1.0

July 1, 2011 by Chris
If you're looking to figure how phone lines work and how to interface with them, this article should help you on your way. The article explains how to make a device that you can 'call into' and control using normal telephone lines. No hardware schematic is included but you can get a general feeling for the design and what is going on by the details included in the article.

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iBot – a real iphone robot

May 6, 2011 by Chris
Although there seems little practicality for putting a $500 iPhone on a robot, the novelty seems to be alluring enough. This project uses a jailbroken iphone to send commands to a microcontroller, telling the robot to move in different directions. Don't miss the action video.


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A Robot iPhone Mask

January 2, 2011 by Chris
Here's a very low tech way to make an awesome robot mask with an iphone. Using the iphone app 'mouth off' for a mouth that moves with what you're speaking into it, this project write-up goes through step-by-step how to build and use the mask.


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Shimon Jazz Robot

January 1, 2011 by Chris
Using a novel gesture-based improvisation and motor control system, the robot listens to the human play and tries to match its beat, sync, and themes. It uses choreographic gestures to generate both motion and sound. Take a look!


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Old School SMS Communication

December 24, 2010 by Chris
Taking a break from the hardcore stuff, here's an old classic: older cell phones were much more (hardware) hackable compared to newer cell phones. Getting received SMS messages out of them to control electronics was easily achieved. This project shows you how to control elecotronics via SMS, old school style.


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Mobots: Speedo

December 21, 2010 by Chris
If you're an avid bike rider and you have an extra nokia lcd laying around, this project is for you. Speedo uses a nokia lcd to display your current bicycle RPM's and distance traveled. The project write-up includes: schematics, software and action shots.


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Automated Text Messages To Your Cell

November 7, 2010 by Chris
Text messaging has recently become mainstream and second nature. Many cell networks will now let you send text messages to a cell phone with an e-mail message. This is extremely convenient and the today's project explains how to do it.


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Phone Recorder Project

October 27, 2010 by Chris
If you're curious about how telephones work and how to actually record and play back sound files using a microcontroller you'll want to read this project write-up. The phone line is connected to a PIC which collects that data and can save it as a wave file for you to play back and listen to.


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Flickr Images On A Nokia LCD

October 15, 2010 by Chris
Adding a display to your project makes it look that much cooler, plus 'normal' people will have a shot at understanding what you're doing! This project write-up goes through the process of using a Nokia LCD to display images from Flickr. Source Code and Schematics included.


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