It’s the end of the weekend. Have you watched this week’s Weekend Projects podcast and read the pdf that goes along with it? Watch and learn how to mess around with RF modules… and hear some awesome nerd jokes! – Subscribe Link
This attractive cup-perched craft project is actually a working papercraft model of a Stirling engine being sold by a Germany science novelty catalog. Sitting on your tea or coffee cup, the heat (or cold) from within will power the engine for up to an hour. The kit costs EUR21.90 (around US$30). The Stirling engine kit […]
Kevin Kelly’s Street Use has these (and other) pics of motorcycles and bikes, used in the Dong Dae Mun Market of Seoul, to circulate heavy loads around town. Says the photographer: These bikes are the grease that make the market smooth, you see them ferrying ridiculously big loads for 500 metres or so to where […]
Some of the iPhone Dev Team, an international team of folks working on hacking the iPhone, are here at Chaos Communications Camp 2007 and they’ve got an NES emulator and Terminal among other things running on an iPhone. – Link
I’ve been a big fan of the Mini-ITX systems, using them in the past as silent, dual-purpose, storage and wireless router servers as well as a set-top media system for playing back transcoded DVDs. So I’m pretty excited to see the positive reviews that are starting to pop up for VIA’s new Pico-ITX motherboard, which […]
People are always asking me if you can really tell that much from a component datasheet (if you’re not an electrical engineer). Greg Lipscomb shows how to figure out what a chip can do by reasoning through a datasheet’s pin-out diagram and schematics. Here he uses the datasheet for the Maxim Max756 DC/DC step-up converter […]
We continue our impromptu series on tin can tech with this scratch-built condenser mic housed in a food tin. The ultra-lowtech condenser microphone – [via] Link Related: Fire-powered, bean-tin battery charger – Link
