Artist Banksy decided it might be better to give away desktop patterns than to have the folks stealing his work have all the fun, here’s a great collection of images for computer or as the artist says….“Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.” […]
Here’s how to server up your site for all the game systems, Harper writes – “The WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack is an essential set of plugins that automatically renders an optimized version of your posts and pages when visitors come to your blog on a Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS-Lite, or Sony PSP. Each device is […]
instructables has a great DIY Valentine’s day contest going, go enter! “The Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year.1 Is this actually something to be proud of? What will historians look back and say about us?…Instructables is hosting the “Show Your Heart Valentine’s Day Contest!” Share a project that […]
Nginuity from the Hacked Gadgets forums made a fun Altoids tin morse code oscillator… “I finally finished that morse code oscillator I was working on. It works okay for what it is, but I have some serious heat dissipation issues I need to look into for next time. The caps going to ground get real […]
Joe writes – “This can be made to be just a headlight or both a headlight/taillight bike light system. My NiteRider light was off getting fixed at the factory and I needed something for my daily commute. I have used it in a 45 minute pouring rain commute on the way in to work and […]
-soapy writes in noting that after many months the tiny CMOS camera challenge was figured out – “Just for closure, here’s the discussion forum thread that tells you the answers, as this was reverse engineered after a little more than 5 months.” – Link. The contest: “This is a 640×480 pixel resolution CMOS camera used […]
Great stuff over at Modern Mechanix! Popular Mechanics 1948, back when 3 years old drove around more… “Driving his own gasoline-engine tractor, three-year-old Gus Dobert of Nashville, Tenn., is the envy of youngsters of his neighborhood. Made by his father, a machinist, the small tractor has a two-cycle washing-machine engine. Power is transmitted by a […]
