Canida shows you how to clean (and cook) a dead snake, she writes – Roadkill. It’s what’s for dinner when the apocalypse comes. Learn how to cook snake, and you’ll be ready for almost anything. The snake in this Instructable was run over by a car; Eric found it a couple minutes later, its heart […]
Hot off the press as of a few minutes ago! The new Roombas have been announced (iRobot Roomba 560). New features include: room to room cleaning, built in RF, light touch sensing, voice instructions. Impressive update for the most ubiquitous robot in homes (over 2mm) – Link. If you’re curious about their hackability (the previous […]
Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Labs got a copy of the new No Starch Press title “Forbidden LEGO.” He explains the idea behind the book: Forbidden Lego is written by a pair of Lego master builders, who used to work in designing advanced Lego sets (e.g., Mindstorms). While they obviously got to work on lots […]
Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan have presented the coolest digital image effect I have ever seen. “Seam carving” allows an image to be resized non-uniformly, so you can change the height to width ratio in the image without cropping, but also without distorting important features in the image (such as faces). If I understood the […]
Danny Seo of Simply Green has an idea that lets you know it’s always tea time with this vintage saucer and teacup glued onto wood. Link.
Better breathing with origami – More than 8 million children in Mexico suffer from asthma. These children and their families travel up to several hours to urban hospitals where they endure long waits to get relief from acute asthma attacks. More troubling still, these families are sent home from the hospital without the means to […]
HackedGadgets.com: Bill from DSE GLOBAL has created a tool called the Case Light that will ensure you don’t forget to remove power from your motherboard before you work in the case. Modern motherboards are still live when your computer is shut down and some don’t have any LED indication of the lurking power… Case Light […]
