Another stop on the MAKE tour was the Tsukiji fish market, it’s one of the largest in the world and it’s pretty crazy. You need to arrive before 4am to get a really good experience. There are hundreds of old-style bicycle with roller type brakes, I’m not sure why but they were all the same […]
Here are some of the photos from our visit to Akihabara as known as “electric town”. While there are tons of new electronics stores the real fun was the hundreds of parts shops crammed in to massive buildings. We picked up some rare parts which usually are impossible to find elsewhere or are 10 times […]
Ok folks, here are the DIY Halloween 2007 winners! Special thanks to our partners Instructables and PopSci for helping with the coordination of this MASSIVE contest, we had hundreds of entries, thousands of photos and tons and tons of fun. After a week+ of going through every entry here are winners… Hack-o-Lantern First Prize – […]
Etsy seller owlyshadowpuppets, aka Andrea, has a laser cutter and knows how to use it to make really cute shadow puppets. [via] Link. Related Weekend Project Podcast: Shadow Puppet Monsters
Jenny Beorkrem designed these typographic posters for Ork Posters. The posters are available for Chicago and Brooklyn with Manhattan following close behind. Manhattan behind Brooklyn? Score one for us Brooklynites. [via] Link.
Paul Badger, creator of the Arduino-compatible Bare Bones Board, is speaking at tonight’s Providence Geek Dinner. Come early (4:30pm), build a Bare Bones Board (kits will be available for $15, and we’ll have soldering stations on hand and knowledgeable people around to help you if you’re new to this), and get a chance to win […]
It’s not a simple decision, choosing on your next mobile device. There are a lot of different models with various features, built on several software platforms, and with hardware that works well for some carriers, but not well for others. It’s a total mess. One Hackszine reader wrote in on the subject, specifically asking about […]
