How-To: Roast Garlic
Here’s a great Instructable which illustrates three different ways to roast garlic. It’s great just spread on bread or in any number of other recipes. All this talk of roasted garlic is making me hungry!
Month: March 2009
Recipe: Mixed Berry Tart
Felicia Sullivan shares her recipe for mixed berry tart — a wonderful fruity treat!
A.M. Eye Candy – Vintage Beaded Collar
Melissa at Yummy Goods gave a rundown of some recent second-hand finds of hers, and I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this vintage beaded collar she happened upon. It’s stunning!
Unraveling capacitors
From the NYCResistor crew comes this action-packed crash-course in capacitors – complete with a cliffhanger ending! Here’s hoping the saga continues with a miniature rescue mission via shrink ray (they must have one in their somewhere, right?) If after that, cap functionality still seems a bit fuzzy, check out this rather helpful little web demonstration […]
SixthSense wearable data interface
The SixthSense project from the MIT Media Lab aims to seamlessly integrate digital information with our everyday physical world. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, […]
Arduino bicycle gear indicator
MAKE subscriber Dan Wagoner sent us this digital gear indicator project he spotted on the Arduino forums – I did this as a practice project for building a gear indicator for my motorcycle. The idea is that by monitoring the revolution speed of the rear wheel and of the driving pedal I can calculate which […]
Flash bridge for Facebook Connect
Pieter Michels wrote a nice actionscript/javascript bridge that allows you to use Facebook Connect services within a Flash application: It currently supports automatic login, retrieving friend list and friend information (can take a while), current application users, sharing a link on Facebook, posting a predefined story and updating your story (make sure you set the […]