Spark Fun has a new series of tutorials, here’s the first, beginning embedded electronics – This is a series of lectures written for those with mild electronics background (aka Sophomore in Electrical and Computer Engineering) to learn about the wild world of Embedded Electronics. I assume only that you know what electricity is and that […]
Here’s another great video from Know How, make a cozy boat! – A little boat like a floating papasan chair. Perfect to lay in and look at the sky. Exactly big enough for two people to snuggle. The supermodels in the boat are Arwen and Saul. This boat is part umiak, part currach, part coracle, […]
Here’s a stunning knife/fork/spoon table called “Precious Famine” from objection design – [via] Link & table. Related: Spoon Bracelet – Link. Spoon art – Link.
Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17, 2007. Started by Sonora Dodd to honor her father who raised five children alone after the Civil War, President Coolidge supported the idea, Lyndon signed a proclamation, and in 1972 it was official. Father’s Day is over a week away, but we’re putting out suggestions and ideas early so […]
Gina at Lifehacker posted a really nice rundown of what goes into making a Firefox extension: The meat of a Firefox extension is simply Javascript – the not-very-mysterious stuff of bookmarklets and regular old web pages – and a markup language called XUL (pronounced “zool.”) To build your own, you’ll need some Javascript know-how, comfort […]
In addition to some great new features on the electronics part searchin’ Octopart (PDF, project saving, sharing and more) – they’ve started posting hardware stories – check’em out… Like many particle physics experiments, ATLAS is a collection of several concentric cylinders, each cylinder being a different detector technology. At the center of all the cylinders […]
Sony has a collection of concept devices that never need charging (well, they’re human powered) pictured here a Spin N Snap camera… – [via] Link.
