Mona Lisa made from recycled train tickets
This Mona Lisa was made from 320,000 used tickets from the nankai Namba train station in Japan, over 300 employees help create it… [via] Link.
Month: October 2007
DIY Sundial for your garden
Here’s a creepy cool DIY Sundial for your garden, Mechanix Illustrated 1949 Link.
3,000 MAKE Flickr Group Members
Vrgoy alerted us that we’ve hit another milestone for MAKE, we now have over 3,000 members in the MAKE Flickr photo pool Link AND over 16,000 photos!
USB to serial project
Spikenzie writes – The USB to Serial project is a break-out board for the CP2103 from Silicon Labs. I was looking for an inexpensive Serial Port solution for my Mac, that I could build into my projects without external adapters. I have the KeySpan USA-19HS, which works very well, but it is too expensive to […]
Modern Mobiles: Inspiration you can DIY
I’ve been seeing lots of mobiles lately and did a round up collecting some great inspiration and how-to ideas for you to DIY in a stylish way. Mobiles are definitely modern and go beyond just the nursery. You can read more in my post on the FM Fall Shopping Guide here. Link.
NES on the Pocket PC and Smartphone
Paul McGuinness sent us a few more Blackjack hacks today, some of which are particular to the device, and some that apply to Smartphones and Pocket PCs in general. My favorite, though, is getting an NES emulator running on the device. I’ve played with the PocketNester NES emulator on my PPC quite a bit. You […]
Optics sequencer for 8-bit concert accompaniment
Gijs Gieskes is a Dutch hacker and circuit-bender who’s built this automated kaleidoscope machine with interchangeable optics barrels. He uses it to create visuals for his GameBoy music concerts. Camera Sequencer 1 – [via] Link