John writes – “LibraryThing lets you catalog your books, but the coolest part, to me, is that they have a feature that lets you repurpose the CueCat, a late-ninties barcode scanner which was hitherto useless dot com schwag. Now you can use it to scan your books into their system! Very cool.” – Link. Related: […]
It appears that most of the “The Secret life of Machines” are now on Google video, they’re outstanding and worth a view/download… “The Secret Life Of Machines is a TV series made for Channel 4 and subsequently shown on the Discovery Channel. The series was written by Tim Hunkin, and presented by Tim Hunkin and […]
modrak has a video of some homebrew DS app that emulates the iPod interface on your DS… “Showing off the new Pods homebrew app… the first song is mp3 320kbit/s, the other one is ogg at 192kbit/s” [via] – Link. Related: The iPod phone – Pocket PC to iPod – Link. State of the DS […]
Mikest picked up some conductive velco, he writes – “It finally arrived! This stuff is expensive at 15$ a foot, but check it out, full current to a luxeon through 2 feet of hook-and-loop :) it has the neat property of acting as a resistor too… “ – Link. Any makers use this stuff? Post […]
Go-to Hacks author Paul Bausch shares another productivity problem he’s solved for himself with a bit of hacking: Windows doesn’t have a command line utility for compressing files (that I know of), and I had to come up with a way to automate some file transfers today. So I whipped up a tiny Perl script […]
I’m in NYC at the moment, so here’s one for the NY makers looking to recycle their electronics (assuming a suitable, or unsuitable project isn’t possible)… [via] – Link. Related: State Electronics Recycling Programs and Policies – Link.
Meg writes – Here’s a guide on how to make a basic vibration meter that might be helpful for people working on cars/machines – Commercial vibration meters will typically cost $1000+, and may be more than your average hobbyist needs. The parts cost of this project is $85, and it gives you a basic vibration […]
