bbum runs down some great ideas for removing all traces of your data from an old hard drive: Me? I take dead drives apart. They have amazingly powerful magnets inside, along with all kinds of very useful screws, washers, nuts, coils, and other fiddly bits. The platters, obviously, contain the data and they should be […]
Jake made a dead baby deer and Victoria painted it. Live the genre of cute and dead. – Link Here are the step by steps so you can make your own. – Link
One of the best electronic/art/music events Tranzducer @ LEMURplex is this Friday, if you’re in the NY area stop by – Once again, it’s time to bring your ears down to the soundtastic living-room that is Tranzducer @ LEMURplex. LEMURplex’s performance & gallery series will take place this month on March 23rd, 8-11 PM. Tranzducer.003 […]
Here’s another week in tools from Chuck! This week we looked at a portable high-pressure CO2 rig designed to power low-volume pneumatic tools – like nailers – without a compressor; Toolmonger readers responded with some great DIY versions based on SCUBA gear. We tested a set of demolition screwdrivers designed to do all the things […]
Last month, Brian wrote about Windows Vista’s 30 day activation grace period and how it can be extended to 120 days using the included licence manager program. It turns out that with a quick registry tweak, you can extend this grace period for a year on copies of Vista that haven’t been activated yet. Here’s […]
Jeff just posted up a Carl & Jerry story PDF from the February 1957 Popular Electronics called “Electronic Cops and Robbers”. Carl & Jerry stories are some of my favorites, the original author John T. Frye wrote over 119 tales of electronic hackery – the book Jeff recently published of the stories with Copper Wood […]
Peter Kirn and MAKE are doing an informal get together at the ETSY & MAKE offices in Brooklyn, NY – stop by Thursday, March 3/22 7pm – we’ll have some MAKE kits for sale for cheap there too– AND! …Eric Singer, founder and director of LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (http://lemurbots.org) will show […]
