Quickie roundup

Hacking Digital Cameras

This book is on my list to check out - "Hacking Digital Cameras, recently released at the end of September, is the first and only book on the market that is aimed for the DIY photographers. It contains numerous hacking projects for the camera, lenses, accessories, tools, and storage. Whereas other photography books aim to explain how to use camera equipment, control lighting, and framing the shot, Hacking Digital Cameras shows the reader how to build lighting tools and hacking their camera to get the desired picture."

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Anyone try this out yet? Post up a review in our comments.

Make speakers from hard drives...

Sven writes "About a year ago, inspired by other projects like Afrotech's Hard-disk Sound System, I built a first version of my harddisk speaker. The first one was just a very quick hack to see if it would work and was destroyed due to too much power melting the coils and cables. We hooked it up to a 50W guitar amp and pushed the volume a bit to far... Since it sounded really great, I decided to build a second one."

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Robot Combat returns to San Francisco

David from Combots writes "The best flame-throwing, high-energy, steel-crunching robots in the world come to SF for the championship (Sat/Sun, Nov 12-13, 2005). Biohazard, Sewer Snake, Megabyte, and other famous bots weighing up to 340 pounds will spew fire, flip their opponents, and spin hundred-pound weapons faster than Bruce Lee on meth - all competing for the $10,000 grand prize."

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Die Dulci Fruere