The lastest SYSTM is up and it’s from Maker Faire! – “The 2006 Maker Faire presents the do-it-yourself community with thousands of finished projects and inspired ideas. For their inaugural expo, Systm host, Dan Huard enlists the help of DigitalLife’s Patrick Norton to scour the showroom floors and find the best projects. For this episode, […]
Antonio show how to make to make terminal balls for electrostatic machines by spinning metal – “Metal spinning is a technique where a flat metal disk is pressed against a form while turning in a lathe. It is a convenient method for the making of balls and other round elements for use in high-voltage instruments.” […]
Gerald writes – “Since I saw my first 3D movie, “It Came From Outer Space”, in 1953 I’ve been interested in making my own 3D movies. I got my first 3D camera in 1954, a Bell and Howell Three Dimension Company Colorist, which I still have. I was interested in taking 3D pictures through a […]
Tikva Morowati is an ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) graduate student at NYU and she’s sent us a video report on her final project, The Snackfax! Besides being a CNC machine for icing on cakes, they have networked it so that you will be able to control the icing machine remotely. Tikva’s going to be making […]
Pastelero writes – “Listening to music on my pc (proudly using WINAMP), I was wondering how would be to have some leds blinking with the sound that came out from the P2 connector, so I decided to make a simple circuit to do that. It worked pretty fine, so I decided to write a HowTo […]
This is somewhat “new” – eBay has RSS feeds when it returns search results, so you can subscribe to something you’re looking for – Link. As GetLoFi pointed out, this can be handy if you’re looking to scoop up cheap gear or items that are hard to find. Here are a few handy ones for […]
David has some good tips on cheap lighting gear for the budget photographer – “”Starving student” off-camera light kit – The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck – with a nod toward extreme portability. It will work well with any camera that […]
