Here’s our latest winner in our back to school Pocket Ref giveaway, “technofrog” posted – August 30, 2007 at 1:55 PM. Send us an email! When i was about 4, i decided that i wanted to be an inventor when i grew up. My first invention was to take every piece of yarn from around […]
Here’s a pretty simple how-to on making a lamp from an old vinyl record – Link. Related: Vinyl record fruit bowl – Link. DIY Dali vinyl record clock – Link. Glasses made from vinyl records – Link. HOW TO – Copy a vinyl record – Link.
Octopart on “The Secret Life Of Gold”… Harish writes – Gold is an oft coveted material. Countries have been conquered in pursuit of gold, and men have been browbeaten to buy jewelry constructed from it. To the technically minded, however, gold is more than currency, more than a neckalace to show off to your friends. […]
Herr_Dokter writes – I found the continued transportation and assembly of portable speaker systems a source of frustration, and so I aimed to create a portable sound system capable of housing my Mp3 player, and also connecting to my portable thinking engine in order to play sounds at our RPG the Clockwork Opera. Gramophone MP3 […]
Low tech way for docs to view an operation, Mechanix Illustrated 1948 Link.
If you’ve ever needed to place a VGA monitor further than the standard 6 foot cable allows, you may be familiar with some of these problems: VGA cables are expensive Several cables chained together affects signal quality Running a VGA cable through conduit is pretty difficult You can avoid a lot of these problems by […]
I recently got back from the hackers on a plane trip to Defcon, Chaos Communications Camp, and a hacker space tour of Germany and Austria. I’ll be posting this week about some more hacker spaces, workshops and hackers! Berlin is filled with hackers! C-Base, CCC, and Esh are all popular hangouts. A long time ago, […]
