Good-ish news, looks like model rockets may get an exemption from being regulated to death – “Senator Enzi issued a press release that stated, “People who build and launch model rockets for fun should not have to give up their hobby due to an unnecessary set of obstacles and an unjustified claim which classifies rocket […]
Ignacio writes – “After drawling over those japanese robo-one bipeds I decided to make my own. Tried to use cheap and easy to find materails. Certainly more fun than buying a ready made kit.” – Link.
Don writes – “If I had to put it succinctly, I would describe it like this: The Seeing-Eye-Mouse is “glue” – it gives you a simple to use interface to a computer mouse’s operation to make it easy to use the mouse in various ways for various purposes. The simplest method of operation lights 4 […]
Brian writes – “This afternoon I’ve got a how-to for you. The garden blogs have been commenting on, and I’ve been scouring out pricing for, the Topsy-Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter. For those of you who haven’t seen this, it is a “system” for growing tomatoes, or any other plant really, in a hanging upside […]
Here’s how to make a pretty low cost, but impressive, homemade projector – [via] – Link.
Retro gear in Japan is safe for now – “Responding to an outcry from dealers in used goods and musicians, the government said Friday it will relax regulations on trade in noncertified used electrical items that were set to take effect April 1. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry backed off from its earlier […]
Michiel writes – “GPS Visualizer allows you to upload from GPX, OziExplorer, Geocaching.com (.loc), IGC sailplane logs, Garmin Forerunner (.xml/.hst), Timex Trainer (v1.3+), Cetus GPS, PathAway, cotoGPS, CompeGPS, TomTom (.pgl), IGN Rando (.rdn), Emtac Trine, Suunto X9/X9i (.sdf), NetStumbler/WiFiFoFum, and of course tab-delimited or comma-separated text. (phew) The outputs are GPS SVG, JPEG/PNG, and Google […]
