The Ubuntu Blog shows off one of the neat tricks that KWord has up its sleeve. You can use it to import PDFs, and they retain a lot of their formatting. Once you’ve got it into KWord, you can work with it there, or export it into your favorite word processor’s format. I imported the […]
Marty writes – I just reviewed a forgotten book from 1990 called “Handmade Helps for Disabled Living”. The author has a Maker’s spirit – the book is chock-full of well-designed and beautifully-sketched plans for everyday adaptive aids. It’s great reading for Makers even if they don’t happen to be disabled. Handmade Helps for Disabled Living […]
Ben sent in this COM84 PC board, a simple serial port, PIC based programmer – Link. Related: PIC microcontrollers – a beginner’s guide – Link. Get your PIC on – free PIC programming resources – Link. Programming PIC microcontrollers in BASIC – Link. USB/Serial PIC programmer – Link.
Nikropht writes – Dan Edwards a student at NC State University, is attempting to break two records by creating an autonomous glider. The project goal is a 142 mile cross country flight and a 25 mile flight with return flight without human intervention. The glider finds thermal updrafts and automatically circles them to gain altitude, […]
We’ve added another one of our kits to our MAKE instructables group – Originally designed for the Maker Faire by Grand Idea Studio, the “Build Your Own Electronic Game Kit” is a custom-created kit intended to introduce you to the world of electronics and soldering. When successfully assembled, the kit becomes a version of the […]
Ah, back in the good ole days, when all you needed to get across the country was a map and a mechanical thumb. From Popular Science 1938 – Link.
Nitesh Dhanjani @ the ONLamp blog shows that it’s fairly easy to spoof someone’s Twitter & Jott – looks like you can require a PIN for twitter if you’re worried- Both Twitter and Jott authenticate users by their phone number. Twitter does this by validating users based upon the source of SMS messages sent to […]
