One of our readers pointed us to Eurekazone, it’s a company that makes low cost guide systems for power tools. The one I’m most interested in is the “Smart Router” kit, it attaches to your router turning it into a CNC-like tool. Anyone out there try these? Thanks Chuck! Link.
CNET has another great picture series (with video) of super-computers starting with the 1946 ENIAC – “This computer, unfurled to scientists on February 14, helped launch the computer revolution and the U.S. tech dominance for 50 years.” Link.
Due to the snowstorm this weekend in NY, the Swap-O-Rama-Rama event we told you about last week is now rescheduled for Presidents Day, Monday Feb 20th. Link.
Ruth Borgenicht is an artist who creates ceramic pieces of chain mail into various works of art. From her site,”Worn under Medieval armor, chain mail is made of tiny interlocking metal rings designed to protect a body in motion. I use the chain mail pattern and other woven patterns to create ceramic works that conjure […]
Modifications for everything from browsers to cellphones, an article by Hiawatha Bray in the Bostin globe – “We are all hackers now. At least, we can be. Americans have built our lives on a foundation of silicon and software, with computers in millions of homes and digital music players in millions of shirt pockets. They’re […]
Robotis of South Korea developed a low(er) cost version of the QRIO and ASIMO that can also run, they call him…HUBO. [via] Link.
Smouldering-Dog writes – “This is from my site. It describes construction of a simple microcontroller circuit that has user I/O, two seven segment LEDs, a buzzer and A/D converter. It was originally made to drive a CO2 laser but the new firmware can be installed on the microcontroller to program the board to perform other […]
