Month: September 2005

Make Your Own Star Clock

Make Your Own Star Clock

Stars Tell what time it is, with the stars…Print this page from browser and cut out the circles below. If you don’t have a printer, try drawing your own star clock by copying the images below. Cut the notch on the smaller (blue) circle. Place the small circle on top of the large circle. Push a large paper faster to make a center hole through both circles and spread open the fastener on the back slde of the Star Clock or poke a hole through the circles with a pencil then thread a string or thin rubber band through the hole and knot it on both sides. Link.

HOW TO make an iPod nano Sleeve

HOW TO make an iPod nano Sleeve

Nanocase Img5Nice Mac stuff reuse from MacVroom “We decided to take matters into our own hands and make a simple protective sleeve for our new nano…We started with something that would be both protective and useful to shine up the iPod nano – a soft chamois cloth. Chamois is also fairly thin and will not add much bulk. Lucky for us, Apple includes one of these cloths with their Cinema Displays, so we had one on hand”. Link.

Distributing the Future podcast

Distributing the Future podcast

111-Future Distro We’ll be back with lots of MAKE audio starting next week – but do check this out, we talk about the PSP and there are some great guests covering many other topics! “Distributing the Future” is O’Reilly Media’s new weekly podcast featuring the technology and the people behind what you use now and what you’ll use next. This half hour program includes interviews and commentary on science, technology, related social issues, and just plain fun. This show is in public beta. Link. Listen to MP3.

Futon modding…

Futon modding…

Ccs7 Gas, Tires, Oil writes “A blog entry about cutting 2′ section out of the middle a metal futon frame and welding the halves back together. The original mattress still fits, but now the short way is side to side and the futon takes up much less room”. Link. The rest of the blog has a lot of great stuff too…