Fred writes – Here’s a very quick 30-40W/channel stereo amp that nearly anyone can make. It uses LM3886 chips, and is based loosely on the GainClone amps people seem to like making, using point-to-point wiring and off-the-shelf stuff. The amp sounds great, and is small enough to stick on the shelf at my office! Decent […]
Nonlineargirl writes – This Japanese site documents a mother’s daily bento preparation – each one a work of edible art. I saw an article in my local paper about this, and followed the link mentioned. Click the month links at the top of the page (in English) to see what the bento art looks like […]
Low cost way of disposing of used needles, great article @ Business week… – “When I was nine, I was rescued,” says industrial designer Hân Pham. She’s not speaking metaphorically. Fleeing the communist Vietnamese regime in the 1980s, Pham, her older brother, and her father–a political dissident–were plucked from the China sea by West German […]
Here’s a nice gallery of tilt-shift photography, a flexible lens makes scenes look miniature… Link. From the pages of MAKE: In MAKE 09 we show you how to make your own! Tilt-Shift Photography – page 144. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 09 in the Maker store – Link.
This past May, a jaw-dropping 45,000 people gathered at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in California for an event some called, “The Woodstock for inventors.” A one-of-a-kind event for tech geeks, crafty hipsters, DIY lovers, and basically, anyone who builds anything–from 7 year-olds to 70 year olds–Maker Faire brought together people from over 10 different countries […]
This SMD op-amp project uses the TI RC-4560 dual op-amp chip and a salt water-etched PCB. The builder got the op-amp as a free sample from Texas Instruments and scavenged all of the SMD resistors from old hard drive electronics. The results are not pretty, but they’re functional. The circuit used (with some changes) is […]
Today was a busy day for iPhone hacking. First, example exploit code that unlocked the iPhone was released by the iPhone hacker Zappaz. Shortly thereafter a full iPhone unlocking utility became available at the iPhone Dev Wiki, along with step-by-step instructions for making it all work. The source is available for both codebases, so it’s […]
