If there are any London makers going to this please take some photos! WHERE can you find a torture chair, Napoleon’s toothbrush and Florence Nightingale’s slippers? Answer: In a free exhibition opening in London today. They are among more than a MILLION bizarre objects stockpiled by eccentric tycoon Sir Henry Wellcome, an obsessive collector. And […]
Randy has a good article on selecting a wall wart (power supply) for your projects, he writes – AC adapter, wall transformer, power pack – they go by many names, but the most popular seems to be “wall wart.” Although they are indeed an “unsightly protuberance,” they look pretty good to me most of the […]
Craftster’s Under $5 From a Dollar Store has a near plastic solider table surely to be expanded to a coffee table soon… – [via] Link. Related: Melted plastic soldier bowl – Link.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – We have been using POV-Ray to create 3D models and render bitmap slices that can be printed with the CandyFab 4000, our home-built 3D sugar fabricator. One thing that we could do to extend the usefulness of this procedure is to be able to take STL files as input, […]
Meet Mr. EQ – a nice DIY equalizer – While use of a graphic equalizer is often recommended for fine-tuning the tone of your instrument, no feasible DIY versions exist. However, a seven-band equalizer is not necessary to drastically shape the response of an instrument of effect. Adding peaks at certain frequencies can provide a […]
R2D2 was on to something. Think easier speech recognition with reduced error rates: Use Linux® or Microsoft® Windows®, the open source sndpeek program, and a simple Perl script to read specific sequences of tonal events — literally whistling, humming, or singing at your computer — and run commands based on those tones. Give your computer […]
Chris writes in with some DIY Radio transmitter circuits… If you can receive, what would you like to send? Here are some of the radio broadcast circuits that I like lately. Some of them I have built, others I would like to or am in the process of testing. One idea would be to set […]
