If you’ve ever had to move a huge directory containing many files from one server to another, you may have encountered a situation where the copy rate was significantly less that what you’d expect your network could support. Rsync does a fantastic job of quickly syncing two relatively similar directory structures, but the initial clone […]
Why yes indeed, I do believe these might just be the cutest knitted moccasins for babies I’ve ever laid eyes on. Pattern available at The Purl Bee.
รฏยฟยผThe “Spiral Sunrise” by Esther Polak visualizes the sun’s rising and setting through a solar-powered robot that is tethered to a tree and moves in circular rings around the tree. The robot carries an open sandglass so that when it moves, it draws a line of sand and the thickness of the line depends on […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: Something about this guy (by Flickr user loveandasandwich) is just plain making me happy today. He’s a monster. He’s an octopus. He’s a…unicorn? I dunno, but he’s awesome.
Last week at the Duxbury Student Union, Lee Pulis and I held a workshop on using trash to learn about electricity, design and mechanical devices. We used CD drives from old computers. Inside the drives we found motors, gears, switches, and lots of interesting looking stuff. The main tools were small phillips head screwdrivers and […]
I took my first stab at sewing the conductive thread from the Lilypad e-sewing kit into my Maker’s Notebook bookmark ribbon. I have gotten some great suggestions from readers on switches and wires and things, which I have yet to try. Currently, I’m just putting the coin battery into the battery holder to test out […]
Assembly of the Gakken Mini-Theremin kit @ warp-speed – complete with error correction! Mini-Theremin
