In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how to watch a live feed from your webcam on your iPhone or iPod touch from anywhere in the world.ﾃあ Setup is pretty simple, basically just download and install a windows program and the necessary app and you’re ready to stream live.

What You’ll Need:

1. WebcamXP Pro
2. iPod touch or iPhone
3. An app called “I-C-Livecams“

How to Setup your Streaming Webcam:

• The first thing you should do is download “i-c-livecams” from the app store and install WebcamXP Pro on your computer. Of course, be sure your webcam is plugged in and you see your webcam’s live feed on webcamXP.
• Click the web/broadcast tab on WebcamXP to show you your IP address and the port that it’s using.

Setting it up:

1. On your iTouch/iPhone start up i-c-livecams.
2. In the private icons section select your iPod or iPhone’s name. (Ex: my ipods name is “Matt’s ipod”)
   
   
3. Choose “Add a new WebcamXP Camera”
4. Fill in your IP address and your port with the correct information from the web/broadcast tab on WebcamXP. You can name your camera anything you want, if you set a username and password on Webcam XP then also fill in the correct information.For example: Name: Living Room Host or IP address: 0.0.0.0ﾃあ port: 80 Camera #: 1

   

If all of the information you provided on i-c-livecams was correct you should now be online and watching the live feed on your ipod or iphone.

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Here’s an absolutely outstanding project about how to make a DIY Ratchet and Clank gun which doubles as a sweet iPod amp.ﾃあ We’ve seen a few similar projects such as a Nerf gun turned into a Gears of War lancer and also a handheld portal gun.ﾃあ The author does a great job salvaging materials for the project including:

Basic Materials:

• LED lights – Three seen in the front of the gun.
  
• Raw speaker – Goes inside the main tube.
  
• Empty ink cartridges – Grey things on sides of the red tube.
• Batteries – Also inside the main tube to power the amp.
  
• PVC Pipe – Main tube of the gun.

Check out the full Ratchet and Clank tutorial and be sure to stay updated through our RSS feed.

Learn to build custom speakers by installing bare speakers in two of the original iPods where the scroll wheels normally are.ﾃあ Instead of gutting your old iPod, you can purchase iPod front panels and back panels on eBay for a few bucks.ﾃあ Just add a simple amplification circuit and you’ve got yourself a pair of custom iPod speakers.

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By now, pretty much everyone including their grandmas, own an iPod.ﾃあSo here is a chance to learn how to create your own high quality iPod speaker using the power of Bondo, some carpentry skills, and plenty of beer.

This is definitely the perfect weekend project!

• Don’t miss out on HacknMod’s collection of hundreds of ways to hack the iPod as well as our other audiophile projects.

As with getting news onto the iPod, you’ll need to sync it with a computer, since regular iPods are not currently networking devices, with the exception of the iTouch and iPhone of course. Using email on your iPod is not like having a Blackberry or Internet-enabled Palm; you won’t be able to delete mail or answer it, but you will definitely be able to read it.

This can come in handy if you have a long commute and sync your email in the morning. This way you can enjoy reading it while listening to your tunes. Once you get to work, you can delete or answer messages you’ve already read, from your computer. There are several programs for checking email on your iPod, and in this area, Windows users are actually ahead of the game, for once! Thanks K-Pod.