instructables has a great DIY Valentine’s day contest going, go enter! “The Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year.1 Is this actually something to be proud of? What will historians look back and say about us?…Instructables is hosting the “Show Your Heart Valentine’s Day Contest!” Share a project that […]
Nginuity from the Hacked Gadgets forums made a fun Altoids tin morse code oscillator… “I finally finished that morse code oscillator I was working on. It works okay for what it is, but I have some serious heat dissipation issues I need to look into for next time. The caps going to ground get real […]
Joe writes – “This can be made to be just a headlight or both a headlight/taillight bike light system. My NiteRider light was off getting fixed at the factory and I needed something for my daily commute. I have used it in a 45 minute pouring rain commute on the way in to work and […]
-soapy writes in noting that after many months the tiny CMOS camera challenge was figured out – “Just for closure, here’s the discussion forum thread that tells you the answers, as this was reverse engineered after a little more than 5 months.” – Link. The contest: “This is a 640×480 pixel resolution CMOS camera used […]
Great stuff over at Modern Mechanix! Popular Mechanics 1948, back when 3 years old drove around more… “Driving his own gasoline-engine tractor, three-year-old Gus Dobert of Nashville, Tenn., is the envy of youngsters of his neighborhood. Made by his father, a machinist, the small tractor has a two-cycle washing-machine engine. Power is transmitted by a […]
Katie, Heather, and I are in our last day at our booth at TNNA (The National Needlearts Association). It’s been a fun time here and I’ll fill you in on the cool things that happened in tomorrow’s wrap up post. (We fly back tonight!) Heather and I taught Katie how to knit and here’s a […]
John dug up some pics of his lego birdcam, one of the lego cams has a pan/tilt function. Way back in 2002, a couple of pigeons decided to make one of our flower pots their nest, so I took a couple of Lego Cams, one motorized, one not, and documented the laying and hatching of […]
