College Of Computing @ Georgia Tech have a great DIY Bluetooth accelerometer, source and schematic included — This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontroller (onboard ADC) at roughly 100Hz (rate can be changed via firmware). Data […]
Monkeyrun uses a drill to make a pretty spicy dish… It’s always good to experiment and it’s always good to experiment in the kitchen. It was with this motto that Nick and I came up with the concept of putting chillis inside meat to create Drilled Chilli Beef. A ‘mechanic’s dinner’. This is a meat […]
If all goes well we’ll have an upgraded server here on MAKE along with some new features on the site. During the day (and night) today things might be a little wonky, including not being able to comment on posts and perhaps a few other things – we’ll keep you posted as we work on […]
Here are 92+ photos, some of our faves, from the Pulse NY event — PULSE, is a biannual invitational contemporary art fair, that will coincide with The Armory Show February 22-25, 2007. The Fair has been created to bridge the gap between established and alternative art fairs and will feature a range of international galleries […]
Eric, Kell and Roberto made a really fun musical instrument – it’s homemade conductive slime (graphite) hooked up to a MIDItron @ tranzducer. Slime-o-tron Link. Related: MIDItron – Link.
# lsof | grep TCP portmap 2587 rpc 4u IPv4 5544 TCP *:sunrpc (LISTEN) rpc.statd 2606 root 6u IPv4 5585 TCP *:668 (LISTEN) sshd 2788 root 3u IPv6 5991 TCP *:ssh (LISTEN) sendmail 2843 root 4u IPv4 6160 TCP badhd:smtp (LISTEN) vsftpd 9337 root 3u IPv4 34949 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN) cupsd 16459 root 0u IPv4 […]
Australia is proposing the ban of incandescent bulbs, next time you need to replace a bulb, consider compact fluorescent – The environment minister said the move could cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tonnes by 2012. “It’s a little thing but it’s a massive change,” Malcolm Turnbull said. The decision will make […]
