These are some of the nicest DIY telescopes I have ever seen. You have to take a look through the site to see the level of detail and amazing craftsmanship that goes into each piece. Dave’s machining skills are really amazing. He even created a machine to polish his own mirrors. – Link Related: DIY […]
I know, why not use USB? Well, a lot of time you could, but many people still use RS232 connections for for programming micro-controllers. Recently I needed a simple adapter to program and AVR, and this is what I found. – Link You could always buy a USB – TTL cable in the MAKE store […]
Gareth @ MAKE writes: Somebody clandestinely snapped these pics of Buddha heads carved out of phone books at the recent TED conference (where cameras are forbidden). More photos – Link.
“Now you can get your favorite hexadecimal shade of light green in a can!” — “source included”… Link & store.
Polly Verity’s polypropylene origami is breathtaking – [via] Link.
Matt Mets has been playing around with a hacked camera flash to control it with some other electronics and has some nice documentation up – Link.
As many of you know, we celebrated the release of CRAFT: 06 with six nationwide release parties last Sunday. The parties were a big hit, so I wanted to give you guys a city by city wrap-up here on the blog. Our Atlanta party was hosted by Christy Petterson of Indie Craft Experience fame and […]
