Nat stopped by ABC’s “View from the Bay: and showed how to do some DIY gift wrapping: “Dress-up your holiday presents this year by wrapping them in a new and inventive way that will impress everyone! Natalie Zee Drieu from Craft magazine came back to The View from the Bay to tell Spencer and Janelle […]
Jake writes – “I’ve been using this headlight for 4 years now and I’m still using the original bulbs. The low beam has power enough for speeds up to 40 miles per hour and on-coming traffic ALWAYS dims their brights when I flash the 50-watt high beam.” – Link. Want more? This one is made […]
Robyn writes – “Hi. I wrote a small article in the toys and games issue about my Grandpop’s shop. I just posted a few more photos of the shop on my blog. I thought your readers might enjoy seeing more of the details.” – Link & part one. From the pages of MAKE: Grandpop’s Shop […]
Gillian in Scotland writes – I’m running some workshops in Glasgow, Scotland in Jan 07 for Urban Learning Space – We have Natalie Jeremijenko visiting us on 11th January and Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki doing a Scrapyard Challenge on 17th January… details are: Title: Designing Technology for Social Change, Conversation with Natalie Jeremijenko Dates: […]
Bruce writes – “Students in ECE576 at Cornell used Altera DE2 student development boards to build ray-tracers, audio spatialization processors, and image analysis systems. The projects are a combination of hardware, specified in Verilog, and software, written in C. All hardware and software was built and ran on an Altera CycloneII FPGA.” – Link.
And0 writes – To prepare for a 2003 doomsday “pole-shift” scenario, a group of survivalists put together this “Troubled Times” information hub. One neat idea caught my eye: using an old power drill as a makeshift hand-crank generator.” From the site: “The unit is light weight (2.5 lb), portable, low cost ($10-$20) and can be […]
DIY-Central shows you how to make your own XLR, TRS, studio cables “Looking to save some money? Create your own cables! By spending a few dollars on jacks, shielded cables, solder and soldering iron, you can save a ton of money in cables. It’s easy. Here are some step by step photos. At the bottom […]
