It looks like taking your digital photos to the photo mart for printing might be a bit cheaper than printing it yourself at home. The printer companies make a lot of coin on the the ink, so in the end you pay more. As this is going on, more people are sharing photos online and may later use print services from those sites. How do you Makers out there print your photos? [via] Link.
Yahoo! enters the podcast arena with their own podcast directory and service – if you use the Yahoo! Music engine (our review here) or anything else it seems, you can sync to your music player too. I’ll give it a spin soon, looks promising. It’s pretty incredible that the DIY audio scene has so many options now – ODEO, iTunes, all the podcatcher applications… Link and here’s the MAKE audio show, which we’ll have more of soon, promise!
Go Stanley! Three driverless robotic vehicles led by Stanford University on Saturday crossed the finish line of a $2 million Pentagon-sponsored robot race across the rugged Mojave Desert. The race announcer did not immediately declare a winner because 22 out of the 23 robots left the starting line at staggered times at dawn, racing against the clock rather than each other. Link.
Neat HOW TO for keeping the mouse quieter if you have roommates – “Having used my silenced rodent for nearly 1/2 year at home, I finally decided to get rid of the clicking noise at work too and here’s the how-to. Some people wanted me to translate the original article, but I guess it’s better to start afresh with a revised and simplified approach”. Link.
Here’s a site with 1000 things made from Bamboo; once I looked at all the photos, the only thing I could think of is what can’t be made from bamboo. The gallery is pretty fun: the bike and mutli-story car park are my favorites. Link.
Nice HOW TO for making a Mac mini into a sweet TV recorder “No, this isn’t the first Mac mini – PVR tutorial, but new products hand software have made this more interesting than ever before. And, with the best options available, this will be the last Mac PVR tutorial you’ll need to read”. The best part is the encoding happens off the mini in this example. [via] Link.
leadingzero writes “The following is a fairly detailed explanation of the making of the rumble mouse. In this explanation I assume that the reader has some understanding of basic circuits and soldering. If you just want to see the final product in video form you can go ahead and skip to the bottom, I don’t mind”. Link.
