MAKE Presents: The Integrated Circuit
A brief introduction to the tech that makes it possible for today’s electronics to do so much in very little space — the Integrated Circuit
Year: 2009
Decor it Yourself: Floor Make-over for Under $100
In this Decor it Yourself video, Meg shows you how-to redo your kitchen floors for under $100!
How-To: Read George Orwell’s 1984 on your Kindle
Citizen! If you bought a copy of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-four,” (1984) for your Kindle it was deleted. It appears that the publisher changed its mind about digital versions (update, they were never allowed to publish them in the first place) and Amazon reached in and removed it from your reader. Sorry for the inconvenience! […]
Make: Projects – Cord curling
I really heart coiled cords. I think coiling is a very elegant way of dealing with the problem of unsightly slack cables, and often I find myself wishing that this or that appliance had come with a coiled cord. Replacement cords that are factory-coiled can usually be purchased and installed (if necessary), but that may be an unnecessary expense because, with some simple tools, it is easy to coil a straight cord yourself.
CRAFT Fabric Blank Journals
Tyler Bender has these blank journals with CRAFT fabric (designed by Samantha Hahn and printed via Spoonflower) for sale in his Etsy shop. I just snatched one up!
Cool pop-up paper display
This video from the awesome British toy store Grand Illusions demonstrates a cool collapsing mechanism, which involves only paper and elastic bands, and allows a rigid display to be set up in about a second and easily folded away again for storage. The French company that makes these is called Marin’s. (Beware, their site is […]
Rolamite videos
Back in 2007, Mark hit on Don Wilkes’ 1960s invention (U.S. patent #3,452,175) of the so-called “rolamite”over at boing-boing, quoting a description of it as “the only ‘basic mechanism’ invented in the 20th century.” Basically, a rolamite is a very-low-friction bearing. Rex Research has posted the entirety of a 1966 Popular Science article covering their […]