Michael K. wrote in, asking for a hack to “enable someone to play a game on a computer with an incompatible graphics card.” Normally, I would have thought such a thing impossible, but I’ve been itching to try out Neverwinter Nights 2, and I don’t have a graphics card that supports it. I recently learned […]
= Noahhw writes – A few weeks ago a friend of mine was reminiscing about their old ant farm and so I decided to make an ant farm and give it to them as a gift. This ant farm is made from old windows, has a warm LED “sun”, some structures for the ants to […]
The Economist magazine has a possible solution to using land for power generating windmills … Put them in the sky! If it ever seems windy where you live, be thankful you do not live 10km up in the air. At that height, the jet-stream winds blow stronger and more constantly than ground level winds, carrying […]
I really like this interview with Blythe Church who makes plush versions of everyday objects – [via] Link.
Last year, a laptop meltdown resulted in the source code for the drawbot disappearing. Adam recently took the time to rebuild a bunch of it. Now you can download it and check it out! – Link Even more code. Here are the programs that make it work! Drop your bmp into the launchdrawbot program and […]
Like a lot of makers out there I spent a lot of time in Radio Shacks, or at least as much as I could, so it’s a pleasant surprise to see that the Sebastopol, CA Radio Shack has a MAKE display and our goods/kits/books/volumes on sale *with* projects on display. It would be wonderful if […]
Artist West Magoon’s out of this world ceramic rays guns! Raku Ray Guns are one-of-a-kind ceramic sculptures made by West Magoon. They are inspired by alien technology unearthed at a secret UFO crash site, known only to a tribe of Wyoming Hill People. These photos depict all of the individual Ray Guns currently available. Each […]
