Hmm, if we add this vibrating motor, what happens?

Hooking up a vibrating motor to the LED leads adds new tactile sensations to this old phone.

A full view of the Frankenphone, complete with new power source and vibrating motor. Hitting a button now makes the whole thing shake shake shake!

The Phone and the Tool: Today, we're taking apart a toy cell phone. All you need, really, is a screwdriver.

This breadboard holds the power converter and input power line for the resurrected phone. The button isn't doing much but hanging out.

Just some quick notes while the experience is fresh in my head:

The Chronicle: 2/9/2007: Caught in the Network - Very interesting development here with academics using Tor, software created for keeping your Internet usage private. A professor at Bowling Green, who teaches about the social implications of authorities censoring Net usage, was asked not only to stop using Tor but to not teach his students about it. Apparently, the university's IT policy doesn't have an entry for irony. [My del.icio.us]

• MySpace
• The Essence of MySpace
• Can it pay off?
• Not making it feel like a big company

Part of my MFADT application portfolio was a series of animated penguin videos that I made using Blender, most of them in the fall of 2005. I'm a little obsessed with these birds, but I can't quite say why. They're just so damn funny.

Anyway, now they're all "you tubed."

First off, you can see my YouTube profile and subscribe (or not... hater). And, if you're a Parsons MFADT person, you should join the MFADT group.

Also, here are links to Inti and TrayJayG's pages. I'll add more once I get everybody's YouTube channel links.