How-To: Blender Pen Gift Tags
I’m loving these beautiful gift tags from Becka at Poppytalk. They are made by using a blender pen and toner-based images.
Year: 2009
Biohacking in the Chronicle
Tito Jankowski, who works on DNA research tools in his garage, started the San Francisco chapter of DIYbio. Over the weekend, the SF Chronicle ran a piece on biohacking, with some of the usual suspects (DIYbio, Drew Endy, Tito Jankowski) and raising some of the thornier issues involved in high-tech kitchen-table science. In a kitchen […]
Hidden ping pong gun is best office prank ever
Some enterprising pranksters at Willow Garage hid a ckBot robot in the ceiling of their office, then used it to shoot ping pong balls at an unsuspecting co-worker.
Convert Amazon’s DRM’ed eBooks to Mobi format (non-DRMed) ?
Wow! Very interesting and newsworthy! Amazon’s Kindle DRM cracked @ The Register… An Israeli hacker says he has broken copyright protections built in to Amazon’s Kindle for PC, a feat that allows ebooks stored on the application to work with other devices. The hack began as an open challenge in this (translated) forum for participants […]
Laser instrument
MAKE subscriber Jared writes in to share his latest tutorial, how to make a laser instrument. Using a set of eight laser diodes and detectors, he converted an Arduino into a nice looking instrument.
Making animations with light painting
Think making still pictures using light drawing is tough? Check out this impressive animated video for the song Lucky by All India Radio, made by Dee Pee Studios.
Knock out those RFID tags with rfiddler
Knock out those extraneous RFID tags with the rfiddler, which uses the circuit from a camera flash and a homemade coil to fry unwanted RFID tags.
