Unxmaal writes “Shadowstitch made this awesome car-DC-port-powered Halloween pumpkin – Wandered around the dollar store, bought a little plastic pumpkin and a cheap Discman car power supply. Wired up a few orange and yellow LEDs to oscillate inside the pumpkin. Voila. (nearly) Instant Halloween car decoration! Not bad for two dollars, some change, and a few spare LEDs”. Link. If you like this our 3rd volume has a lot of fun Halloween projects.
On Saturday, September 17th, MAKE will present Podcasting 101: How to Make, Produce and Publish Podcasts – 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Learn what a podcast is and how to make them using your Mac and GarageBand. Also learn how to get listed in iTunes, RSS and more. I’ll also show how we make our enhanced podcasts, add videos and PDFs… Link.
Nice to see articles like this from the NYTimes…Many new multimedia notebooks include built-in television tuner cards and software that let them double as digital video recorders. But you don’t have to buy a whole new laptop just to record your favorite shows… Not bad for $90. Link.
Soon, Romania, Colombia and a high school in San Jose, Calif., will join the space race. An ambitious program called CubeSat, developed at Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is giving students and companies the opportunity to build and launch functional satellites into low Earth orbit, or about 240 to 360 miles above the planet. Link.
Users of Lego Factory and Lego Digital Designer can design their own customizable models using the 3D modeling software. Users have figured out a way to modify the software that allows them to build the models in a more cost-efficient way. All it took was being open-minded enough to see that their biggest fans weren’t trying to rip them off; they were trying to improve Lego’s products in a way that, just maybe, the company’s own designers hadn’t thought of. Link.
Something for our MAKE pals in Germany – Hans writes “This is a detailed step-by-step guide to: (1) checking your DVD drive’s coding, (2) finding, (3) downloading and (4) using a DVD code-switching utility (not to be confused with the more complicated process of making your drive code-free). Then just sit back and watch that maker Wallace and is Dog Gromit in German”… Link.
I’ll go and check this out this weekend! Non-fiction books checked out and returned at the Seattle Central Library amount to approximately 37000 items per day. From now on, the circulation of books will float in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens located on a glass wall behind the librarians’ main information desk. Link.
