How-To: Flat-Felled Seam
Instructables user Rachel has created this excellent tutorial for three different ways to achieve a flat-felled-type seam (like the one on the inseam of your jeans).
Year: 2009
Irish Soda Bread and Homemade Butter
I’ve got some brisket corning in my fridge from the corned beef recipe that Natalie posted last week, but if you’re vegetarian or didn’t plan in advance, you can still add a bit of Irish flair to your dinner tonight! Above is a short video explaining how to make traditional Irish soda bread, and here’s […]
Unofficial Propeller Expo
If you’re interested in learning more about the Parallax Propeller, or already a die-hard Propeller head, you may want to check out the Unofficial Propeller Expo being held on June 27-28, put on by one of Parallax’s forum members, Jeff Ledger. Bring your projects to show off, tools to work on collaborative projects, or just […]
HOWTO upgrade the XO Laptop’s operating system
If you’ve visited the OLPC Wiki, you’ve probably noticed the box on the right hand side that shows the latest releases (stable and development builds). Although the current stable build listed is 650, there’s a newer one (653) that you might want to upgrade to. But if you want the latest, greatest, bleeding edge XO […]
Arduino-powered holiday lights
I wanted to take control of the lights on my Christmas tree this year, so I read everything I could about interfacing an LED matrix. The idea was to have a setup where I could turn individual lights on and off, and run a little program that did something more than your typical strand of […]
Heap-based buffer overflow: how the iPhone and iPod Touch could be hacked
The recent scuttlebutt in the iPhone and iPod Touch developer forums is that there is a buffer overflow bug in the code used to load TIFF images in Safari (libtiff). The letdown is that the stack is not executable on the devices, leading many to think this is a dead end. The heap, however, _is_ […]
HOWTO – use Gmail with your Windows Mobile Smartphone
An anonymous reader sent us a few hacks today for the Samsung SGH-i600 phone – Link. This is basically the US Blackjack, except that it’s released in the UK with Orange’s branding and a bit of crippleware. One of the hacks that’s mentioned is using GMail with the device, and it’s a cool hack that […]