Interesting, it seems when you make a master key for voting machines it’s not a good idea to put a photo of the key that’s good enough to make a physical copy of… – Link. It looks like a mini-bar key. More: Diebold shows how to make your own voting machine key – Link. Homemade […]
Tim writes – “This project shows the use of a neat chip that lets you use any IR remote to switch something on-off. Here I’ve modified an old non-working General Electric RF remote AC switch to a switch that can be controlled with any IR remote. My motivation was this, I wanted to be able […]
Miss Woolly’s Eliza and Melinda have come out with a new line of cute needlepoint kits. Choose from a delicious pear, cute owl, and adorable worm. Each kit comes with instructions, cross stitch fabric, embroidery thread, needle, and a display card. Link.
As reported by Google Operating System, a couple days ago, Google gave its Image Search a “cleaner look.” The new design uses JavaScript to hide much of the information (such as the domain, type, dimensions, and size of the file) that used to appear below each image (as shown in the screenshot at the beginning […]
Popular Science’s Theodore Gray show you how to power a string of LEDs using a chain of five homemade gravity-cell batteries – Link. Related: Tomato soup battery and more – art by Ben Woodeson – Link. Penny-Powered LED – Link. Powering LEDs costs mere pennies – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Penny-Powered LED. Power […]
Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula is an equation that, when graphed, displays the formula itself. Here’s the equation (same as the image of the output shown at the beginning of this post): Check out the link for the specifics of the functions and values of the variables. (Via kottke)
Without getting into the ethics of employers blocking access to certain sites on company machines (and without comment on the ethics of subverting those filters), if you need to access your personal Gmail account from an office that restricts access, engtech has a number of solutions for getting around the firewall. Check out the linked […]
