Gradient text effect in CSS 12/27/2008 Using a 1px gradient PNG image and a solid background, you can create a snazzy gradient text effect. It looks...
Das DereLicht – ham radio transmitter from a CFL bulb 12/26/2008 They usually work so well, it’s easy to forget about all the electronics crammed inside a compact fluorescent light bulb....
Using Google App Engine as a personal CDN 12/25/2008 Distributing a website over a content delivery network is typically an expensive proposition, but since the release of the Google...
Route-me – Open Source mapping library for iPhone 12/24/2008 Route-me is an Open Source (BSD license) mapping library for the iPhone. It’s written in native Objective C and can...
Gravitron – ping pong ball LED toy 12/23/2008 Marcus wrote in to tell us about his latest ping pong ball electronics project, the Gravitron. In half of a...
Pixastic – Javascript image processing library 12/22/2008 PIxastic is a Javascript library that provides low level image processing capabilities to your web applications. Jacob Seidelin has been...
CMU Snackbot 12/21/2008 Travis Deyle wrote in about Snackbot, an in-progress human-robot interaction project at Carnegie Mellon: Back in May 2008 it was...
DIY USB microscope for $15 12/20/2008 You can make your own USB microscope using an old webcam and a cheap toy microscope. All it takes is...
Boink! – papercraft robots heart MAKE subscriptions 12/19/2008 The holidays are quickly approaching, but it’s not too late to give a year subscription to MAKE or a gift...
DNS Dead Drop – send secret messages with DNS 12/19/2008 Landon Fuller put together a secret message passing system that exploits a feature of DNS servers. It’s based on a...
