Kiteman writes – “About 300 years ago, Daniel Fahrenheit made and calibrated the first reliable thermometers. Some people* still use the scale he developed; the Fahrenheit Scale.” – Link. Related: LED Temperature thermometer project – Link. HOW TO – Make an AVR-Based statistics thermometer – Link. HOW TO – Make a digital thermometer – Link. […]
R. Stern writes – “I work in a computer lab with a physical computing studio, and recently I cleaned out the component closet. It occurred to me that the reason we had a build up of unlabled resistors was because noone knew how to read them without the Resistulator widget or a resistance calculator website, […]
We get a lot of email asking for help making things and we try and post them up here so everyone can share in the questions and answers – here’s one from Emma… “I am making a lamp and am looking for the part shown in the attached photograph. If you have ever seen or […]
Tired of typos in your URLs? URL Fixer is an extension for Firefox (and other Mozilla-based browsers, such as Flock) that fixes common mistakes in your address bar caused by careless keystrokes. For example, typing hackszine.con will redirect to hackszine.com. The current version: will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, and .mil, […]
If you’re in the NY area check out TRANZDUCER “TRANZDUCER The first in a monthly series of performances and installations at LEMURplex Date: Friday, Jan. 26, 2007 Time: 8 to 11 p.m. Address: 461 3rd Ave (between 9th & 10th Sts), Brooklyn, NY Cost: $5 Performances by Jamie Allen/Circuit Music (http://heavyside.net) Loud Objects/Tristan Perich, Kunal […]
Ray made a homemade, low-tech version of the supine computer desk/system (The Ergopod 500) – Thanks Joe! Link. Related: Office Organix, Ergopod 500 – Link.
This is pretty neat, a prototype of a USB drive that’s also a ruler. You could make one of these on your own from an old or freebie USB drive and some woodworking … [via] – Link.
