This photo blog has an amazing view in to what it was like 100 years ago, a lot of the backgrounds have the machinery and what people (in these photos, children) made back then… Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did […]
Cyenobite has some great photos from this week’s MAKE: Philly! The March meeting of Makephilly.com The topics included mousebots, a brazing demonstration, and a maker challenge to build a motorized ski lift that had to transport to “cork heads” up an 18″ incline. In addition to various makers showing off their creations. MakePhilly March 07 […]
Add this to the list of (possible) things you can do with old records… make wreaths – Link. Related: Animated records – Link. Glasses made from vinyl records – Link. Play Records with a Laser – Link. How phonographs records are made – Link. Digitizing Records and Tapes – Link. Convert vinyl records to MP3s… […]
GMail Loader is a cross-platform Python utility that can import mail messages from several mail storage formats (including mBox and MailDir) straight into your GMail account. It doesn’t currently support Outlook’s PST format, but there are utilities for converting PST to mBox format (see below). Eventually, support for direct access to IMAP will be added, […]
Don’t forget – handmade music night, an informal gathers of Makers in Brooklyn, stop in! Thursday, 3/22 7:00 pm – whenever At Etsy Labs & MAKE offices in downtown Brooklyn Calling All NYC area Makers and lovers of gear, hardware projects, and code – March 22nd @ ETSY + MAKE offices – Link.
Bre @ MAKE writes: Some people are obsessed with twitter these days. We’re not endorsing it, but if you’re a twitterer and you want to stay up to date with the makezine blog, the craftzine blog, and the hackszine blog, then you can follow them on twitter and get updates about posts while mobile or […]
Handy for arc experiments, Popular Science 1933 HEAT so terrific that no known substance is able to withstand it for long can be developed in your home laboratory with nothing more than a pair of electric light carbons, a small crucible, and some means of controlling the flow of the electric current from the house […]
