Real-time spectrum analyzer powered by Arduino
Paul Bishop has created an Arduino-based real-time spectrum analyzer, that displays it’s output on a TV.
Month: November 2010
Gluten-Free Thanksgiving: Rosemary Mashed Potatoes
By Jeff Potter A recipe excerpt from Cooking for Geeks This simple mashed potato recipe uses the microwave for cooking the potatoes. If you’re in the anti-microwave category, consider this: cooking a potato or any other starchy root vegetable requires gelatinizing the starches in the vegetable. For this to occur, two things need to happen: […]
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Gifts you can make
Finding gifts for your family members and friends can be tough. Sure you love to solder, tinker, and write code, but maybe your grandma or dad can’t tell a resistor from an LED. Here are several gifts you can make: either kits you assemble/personalize or projects that are fun to make and give. Ice Tube […]
Waffles + chicklets = QR code
Big Apple hackerspace NYC Resistor recently held an edible QR code competition, including a laser-etched tortilla, waffles with chicklets and chocolate chips, and jello-cube creations. Trammell Hudson’s Flickr set of the event tells the story. Neat hackerspace event idea!
Phonekerchief Blocks Cell Signals
This new product called the Phonekerchief is meant to be wrapped around your phone during a romantic dinner to show your respect for your dining partner. $15 at Uncommon Goods starting Nov. 25: We may be sitting at the same table, but we are not together: a common condition of our over-wired world. It is […]
Phonekerchief blocks cell signals
This new product called the Phonekerchief is meant to be wrapped around your phone during a romantic dinner to show your respect for your dining partner. $15 at Uncommon Goods starting Nov 25: We may be sitting at the same table, but we are not together: a common condition of our over-wired world. It is […]
Needle Felted Hubble Space Telescope
Jen Scheer, a former space shuttle technician and founder of Project Mercury Rising, created this awesome needle-felted Hubble Space Telescope. It’s complete with tiny astronauts representing crew members from the STS-125 Hubble servicing mission during the EVA when Mike Massimino had to forcibly remove a handrail from the telescope. The details in her piece are […]
