Hans sent us a link to HowtoForge’s guide to installing and using the Ubuntu Tweak utility. Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc. […]
A man in Muncie, Indiana was charged with criminal mischief for painting his own crosswalk at an intersection near his house, claiming that cars weren’t slowing down for the stop signs there; the city refused previous requests from Whitney Stump to have a crosswalk put in. Stump, a 27-year-old Ball State University graduate student and […]
Craftster user Merwing has been sharing pix of her awesome “Childhood Heroes” embroidery series, featuring portraits of such luminaries as Jacques Cousteau, Shel Silverstein, Crystal Gayle and Bob Ross (seen above). Check out the thread to view them all. Link.
Just when you thought the Arduino name permutations would stop – they don’t! Enter the “Ardrumo”: This is a software MIDI interface designed to accept serial data from an Arduino board and convert it into MIDI drum data in OS X. The application acts as a bridge between sensors connected to the Arduino board and […]
I love these plush digger toys created by Elsie Marley, which I spotted in our CRAFT Flickr pool. Every kid I know seems to be obsessed with trucks, trains, and construction gear, so these would make a great gift for any of them. Link.
Does Willy Wonka know about this? From Boing Boing: Sounds like an awesome band name, but chocolate biodiesel is in fact what one vehicle ran on, in a 4-week trek from the UK to Timbuktu. A group known as BioTruck modded a 1989 Ford Iveco Cargo to run entirely by biodiesel made from chocolate — […]
Over at Sparkfun they’re selling a relatively massive 7-segment LED display, measuring a highly legible 6″x3.3″. Finally, I can see what MIDI channel I’m using from down the hall! Has anyone put one of these to work in a µcontroller project yet? We’d love to see it in action! 7-Segment RED 6.5″ Display @ SparkFun […]
