Free bricks on Craigslist + mud + straw + 3 hrs of work = lots of delicious pizzas. Three days ago I got some free bricks on Craigslist here at our new “offices” in Palo Alto, and built a brick oven so we can have totally sweet pizza parties all summer long. I took some pictures – it looks kind of shabby but makes deliciously wonderful pizzas. Adobe mortar used liberally. Link.
What self-respecting geek doesn’t get the warm fuzzies at the mere mention of the RAID. With the rising GB to Dollar ratio, we felt it was a good time to feature a project that takes Pure Geekieness(TM) and mixes in a good helping of do it your self. Where else are you going to store all those MP3s (legally obtained, of course)? On a single 200 GB Drive? Or a RAID 5 Array? Take you pick, I know where I will be storing mine. Link.
Converting home videos to DVD is a great way to preserve, share and enhance those old tapes that may be aging not too gracefully and “do it yourself” tape to DVD conversion can be easy and affordable. If you want to transfer VHS to DVD, several options exist for the VHS to DVD conversion and, if done right, the DVD’s can look even better than the original VHS tapes (for simplicity sake I use VHS, but this process also applies to VHS-C, SVHS, Hi8, regular, even Beta). Link.
Dave5 has a really interesting post about using the Sony Librie e-Ink device as a universal game machine. In his examples he uses the screen as a chess, checker, Ludo and other game board images as the display so the games can be played on top of the screen of the device- you could really create any game board with an e-ink device. He then goes in to what could happen with a bigger screen, e-ink pieces and networking. It’s a little glimpse of what’s to come I think. Link.
I’ve been setting up a Newton and an Emate here for a couple articles- This IM client looks really good. NewtonIM is a jabber client for the Newton Message Pad 2×000. It requires Newton Internet Enabler. Any Makers out there using a Wifi’d Newton? Link.
Here’s a good step by step on running Mac OS X on an Xbox, it’s pretty slow as you’d expect- but it’ll help pass the time until we get those new MacTels. You’ll need to software mod your Xbox and put Xebian Linux on it, have a purchased a copy of Mac OS X and made an image of it… Link.
#12 out of 17,500 Magazines! Make. This new quarterly hopes to turn digital living from a spectator sport to a participant sport. The first two issues captured the do-it-your-self-as-entertainment vibe with instructions for building a kite that takes bird’s-eye view pictures of your neighborhood and another for creating a cheap camcorder stand that takes the jumpiness out of fast-moving home videos. Even those of us who aren’t tech-inclined can appreciate the clear photos and step-by-step directions that meld Popular Mechanics magazine with a Sharper Image catalog. Link.
