Zack writes in about his Flex-Radio SDR-1000 – “This is an amateur HF 100 watt transceiver that is completely software driven. The software and updates are all free. There are NO controls on the box itself except a power switch. Users are encouraged to write their own software to control the radio as it is […]
Gina @ Lifehacker pointed to this interesting Web 2.0y site that helps you pick and find costumes, I usually don’t use “tag clouds” but these are kinda useful… – “Dying to find a unique costume idea? Costumzee will help you find great costume ideas! Browse through thousands of popular costume ideas, search by keyword (i.e., […]
Zombietronix has a bunch of calculators for sizing common creatures for your DIY creature projects. Each uses a value such as height or length to determine other dimensions… Calcs include: Bat wings, biped, canine, hands and spiders. Thanks Sky! – Link.
Max writes – “Okay, yesterday through the instructable, we made a simple hovercraft. Today, we are going to take it to another level by taking FOUR PC fan coolers and running the FANS at 24VDC instead of the 12V DC rating. I think they are okay up to 30VDC, well, our fans are still running…” […]
Brian posted up this neat crystal radio mousetrap in the MAKE pool created by Kevin Norton that was featured at the 2006 New England Wireless and Steam Museum’s Yankee Steam-Up – Link.
Our pals at Popular Science explain how they made salt in an experiment, for popcorn. The video is rad – Theodore Gray writes – “Sodium is a soft, silvery metal that explodes violently on contact with water and burns skin by reacting with even the slightest moisture. Chlorine is a choking yellow gas, used with […]
Happy cricket writes – “…at work one fine morning, I was taking a gander at a drywall pallet, that had some mighty fine logs to it. I thought to myself, well golly, I could make something with that! Voila, one evening later, I had a simple potrack.” – Link. Related: HOW TO – DIY Hanging […]
