Month: November 2007

Introducing BIG CRAFTIE!

photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid I’d like to introduce Big Craftie, the supersized version of our magazine’s mascot, as designed, sewn, and stuffed full o’ love by Heidi Kenney of MyPaperCrane. He made his debut at Maker Faire in Austin this last October, but if you keep an eye out at various craft […]

Wind-up steampunk laptop

Wind-up steampunk laptop

Our pal Datamancer has finally finished and posted details on his steampunk laptop. And it was worth the wait. Seriously cool. He also has a tutorial on making the brass faceplate he used on the mod and a page showing his gorgeous custom-made steampunk keyboards. I like how he has a customer testimonial on the […]

Chip hacker blog

Chip hacker blog

Bunnie writes – Flylogic Engineering now has an interesting blog up on chip hacking! If you liked the posts on my blog about chip hacking, you may very much enjoy the postings at Flylogic. They’ve actually got a very nice piece up on the PIC18F1320 which reveals new findings about a device that I have […]