Putting a RAID 0 (striped) disk array in your laptop is a double edged sword. One the one hand, it’s twice as likely to have a disk failure. One the other hand, it can make disk-bound activity, such as uncompressed video reading and writing, much faster. Frankly, with processor, bus and memory speeds as fast […]
if you haven’t seen the latest weekend project podcast, go check it out the video and the pdf and get your rfid and speech synthesis modules set up! Subscribe in itunes to get it automatically! Subscribe Link As a sidenote, don’t use the security access application in this video as security for something like a […]
Dale writes – Following the Earth Day recycling push and just weeks before Maker Faire, James Burgett and his team of ACCRC (www.accrc.org) in Berkeley hosted a ReMake event at this unique electronics recycling center in Berkeley. Alex Handy, who lived up to his name, organized a nametag table where you popped keys off a […]
BENT NYC, the circuit bending fest in NYC is over, I can’t hear anything but glitchy bleeps, and that’s OK. During the day Todd Bailey’s electronics worksop was really good and this was the best music night so far, my favorite was loudobjects, they solder up a live circuit bend on an overhead projector – […]
These pool of blood pillows would be fun for Halloween sleep overs, the dog likes them too – Thanks numlok! Link.
Chuck breaks down the week in tools, he writes – This week we looked at a ten-in-one gauge for woodworkers that measures everything from dovetails to dowel diameters and slips right in your apron pocket, an inexpensive set of plans to help you build your own full-featured chop saw table, and a portable frame that […]
Rod McFarland has put together some really cool AJAX-based CLI themes for WordPress. With his CLI 2.0 theme, you can browse blog entries by “cd”-ing through categories, typing “ls” to list article titles and “cat [articlenum]” to read a post. AJAX is used to make the whole experience seem like you are typing at a […]
