James from Retrothing writes in – I’ve been working on a Super 8 movie making magazine called smallformat with a bunch of dedicated Super 8 filmmakers from Europe. We’re putting the finishing touches on our ninth issue this week. It’s an eclectic mix of nostalgia and modern filmmaking information that introduces the ‘digital generation’ to […]
These are fun, laser cut fake leather watches – eealfakewatches are wristwatches that only work for one minute every day (well, two for analog ones). they are being made by linda kostowski and invited other designers. the watches are laser cut from three pieces of genuine leather and manually assembled. they are fastened with velcro. […]
On Wednesday 4/25 we will have another “MAKE night” at our offices @ Etsy in Brooklyn, NY! Join us (MAKE/CRAFT) Etsy, Peter Kirn (Create Digital Music) Instructables, Popular Science and more for a night of paper projects! You can bring any project you want, but paper is our theme. As always, it’s show and tell […]
Christy from Instructables sent us all the deets on movies night if you’re in the Bay Area! She writes – We’re hosting Nerd Pride Movie Night here at Instructables HQ at 8pm Friday the 20th of April. First movie: Real Genius starring a young Val Kilmer. A fabulous nerd comedy classic from 1985- see it […]
PlotKit is a slick javascript library that allows you to easily generate line, bar, and pie charts with a few lines of javascript code. It supports rendering to both Canvas and SVG, so you can use it to add charting to your application and still be able to support a fair amount of browsers. I’m […]
Here’s how to organize a collection of things using Flickr, in this example an impressive 20 year collection of superballs. Lenore writes – Flickr is a great tool for organizing a collection. You can upload your photos and apply titles, tags and descriptions, which is a sneaky way of cramming a lot of indexed data […]
Ben Heck shows you how to make an Xbox 360, he writes – The making-of How-To for the Xbox 360 laptop will be in three parts. In today’s segment we’ll discuss the parts list, stripping down an Xbox 360 motherboard, and modding / reattaching the DVD and hard drives. The next installment will cover case […]
