How to “Steal This Book”
Tim continues to post incredibly useful and interesting Instructables, this one is pretty straight forward, scanning an entire book to PDF – Link. Related: $35000 book scanner – make a LEGO version? – Link.
Month: August 2006
Homemade coffee roaster – The Uglyroast
Derek has a site devoted to making homemade coffee roasters, including the latest “Uglyroast”, he writes – “Here’s my homemade roaster in its current configuration. It’s motor-driven and fan cooled. It roasts up to 500g of beans, and as little as 100g. It’s gas-fired, and lifts out to dump the beans into the cooling tray. […]
CVS Video camera handlebar mount
MAKE Flickr photo pool member DuganJ mounted a CVS digital video camera to his bike, if you’re thinking of hacking up a camera for reuse and mounting it to a bicycle, this is worth a looksie – Link. Related: CVS camcorder usably hacked! – Link. HOW TO CVS Video Camera Hacking for PC & Macs. […]
Interview with Kathreen Ricketson of Whip Up
Kathreen Ricketson wears many hats as a crafter, mother, wife, and designer — yet most of us know her best by the fabulous craft portal blog she runs called Whip Up. She’s got a knack for finding a lot of cool things, something I discovered way back to last fall when I first started posting […]
Make a jar lantern
Sarah’s Pink of Perfection video blog shows us in the most recent segment how to save money and recycle old jars to create nice lighting for those evening backyard BBQs. From Sarah, “I turned instead to the charming jelly jar, but you could use empty salsa and peanut butter jars to the same end. On […]
Phonograph turntable strobe zootrope
Tim shows you how to use an old phonograph turntable and strobe light to display 2 and 3d animated artworks – Link. At the Exporatorium in SF they have a display like this by artist Toshio Iwai, and it’s really fun to watch.
Live motion 3D video camera
O’Reilly’s Radar has a brief write up of a “3D live motion video camera that uses LIDAR technology to get a range-finding for every pixel” – you could “scan” an area and put all the 3D data in to just about any application, wow! Link & full image. Related: Google video tech talk about the […]