Everyone’s favorite DIY Web 2.0 site builder, Ning, just relaunched with new features that make setting up your own social networking site easy as pie. Thanks to Gina’s handy walk-through, I was able to whip up a community site for my own hometown in just about no time at all. The initial features in my […]
Lenore writes – I just put up a quick how-to on modding t-shirts to fit curvy people, since freebie shirts are rarely girl shaped. For bonus points, I used last year’s Maker Faire shirt. Actually, it was just my worst-fitting shirt that I still really wanted to wear, so I had to do something about […]
Raphael writes – Being able to play NES and SNES games on the Wii’s Virtual Console is great (Thanks Nintendo!), but it’s much more fun to do it with the original controllers. (And some games are much more playable like this). That’s why I decided to design this Nes/Snes controller to USB conversion circuit. Snes/Nes […]
You can call some plants right now, try it! It’s happening at the Etel Faire – Botanicalls allows thirsty plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the botanicalls network needs a lot or a little water, it can call a human and ask for exactly what it needs. Brady writes […]
Here are some photos from the Open City opening @ Eyebeam in NYC, the show runs from March 1st to April 7th. If you’re in the NY area check it out, it’s a fantastic collection. Presented by Eyebeam, Open City: Tools for Public Action is an exhibition documenting the ingenuity of graffiti writers, artists, protesters, […]
“SeisMac is a Mac OS X application that turns your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs. Version 2.0’s enhancements make SeisMac an even more valuable tool for classroom demonstrations of seismic concepts and techniques.” –Link.
From Instructables, gowithflo shows you how you can make your own laundry detergent. Link.
