Make pal Cory Doctorow’s latest book is out- right up the MAKE alley- the story revolves around a guy who dumpster-dives parts to build WiFi repeaters for a community wireless network that he’s hacking together through Toronto! I’ll be reviewing Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town soon, along with making some ebook versions out of the Creative Commons text Cory puts out there. As an ebook proponent, I really love that he does this. Link.
This site has some pretty neat electronic projects and schematics. Tons of photos, step by steps and more- the parallel port stepper motor might come in handy for a bot I’m working on- Build an easy stepper motor driver that will allow you to precisely control a unipolar stepper motor through your computer’s parallel port. Link.
Many people have likely seen Julian’s work, but if you haven’t- check it out. Julian Beever has made pavement drawings for over ten years. He has worked in the U.K., Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Australia. The pavement drawings have included both renderings of old masters plus a wealth of original inventive pieces of work. Link.
The moon is looking creepy big at the moment. Here’s why…Step outside any evening at sunset and look around. You’ll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth’s moon, round and cratered; the Man in the Moon is in his usual place. But something’s wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It’s huge! You’ve just experienced the Moon Illusion. [via] Link.
This site has a lot of good (free) PDFs of electronics projects. Digital voltmeters, light relays, LED flashers, voice controlled switches, tesla coils, input mixers, bcd counters, touch switch, telephone ring detectors, power supply failure alarms, motion detectors, tv remote jammers, deer repellents and more. Link.
Delete party last Saturday- next get together, I’m going to do this. Accompanied by contemporary alternative mainstream rhythms and using several heavy-duty neodym magnets, monochrom will delete all the data carriers that can be found. Naturally the public is invited to bring data carriers themselves. The destruction of magnetic storage media is a form of destruction that can reasonably be called unspectacular. But it is important. Delete is just another word for nothing left to lose. [via]. Link.
Clever hack…make a PSP pirate radio station! Here’s a cool hack which will allow you to stream FM radio using your PSP with the iPod iTrip (FM transmitter for the iPod). This is what happens when an iTrip (fm transmitter for iPod) and a PSP get together. [