Pinski1 has a great Instructable in the MAKE group on building a LED display… – “This is a simple HOW-TO make your own personalised LED Dot-Matrix display. I will be adding the complete program with an explaination to light the LEDs with. It’s also rather hackable, you can change it to suit yourself. I decieded […]
Remember that camera gadget we posted about earlier today that takes photos of lightning? Turns out there is a DIY version if you want to build one yourself – Thanks Shadyman! [via] – Link Previous: Capture lightning with a digital camera (commercial version) – Link.
These little notepads have a 3.5″ floppies as their hard protective covers, for $10 it could be a good gift for someone who has actually used a floppy disk, or you could make your own pretty easily with a drill and some wire / clear thread… [via] – Link. Related floppy projects: SD/MMC card in […]
Here’s how to run chess on a Dutch voting maching, along with how to monitor who’s voting for who via RF. Fun stuff, I can’t wait until we’re all picking up these machines on the cheap off eBay and using them for robot projects or something… [via] – Link. Related: Security Analysis of the Diebold […]
Life… is suffering, but we have lots of medications to get over that.. So, on that note – here’s a buddha statue made entirely of pills… Thanks Spluch! [via] – Link. Related: Portraits made from pills – Link.
This is a time lapse video of a 1,702 penny portrait of Lincoln. The coin sorting took seven hours, and making the image took just under six…. [via] – Link.
There isn’t much information about the artist or where these are from, but it’s an incredible gallery of sculptures made from mechanical parts… Many of the sculptures are familiar characters like Alien, Pinhead, Gremlins and Predator… [via] – Link. Update: The photos might be from this site/artist – Link.
