Take control of your lens cap!
Here’s a clever way to store your lens cap with a bit of velcro – Link.
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MAKE @ the 1 millionth DIGG user party! & the Digg kit!
MAKE is at the 1 millionth Digg user party in San Francisco, there’s a laser cutter here etching laptops from Ghostmarking and Adafruit released the Digg button electronics kit – we have soldering stations here and Diggers are building electronics as I type this, using the instructions on an OLPC – You can get the […]
News from the future: Universal blood
Soon, blood cells from donated blood will be universally compatible – Researchers led by Henrik Clausen of the University of Copenhagen have discovered two enzymes that efficiently chop the A and B sugars off of red blood cells, making them universal. The company ZymeQuest, based in Beverly, MA, has licensed the enzymes and developed a […]
REMINDER: Nerd Pride Movie Night: Real Genius, 8pm Friday 4/20 at Instructables HQ
REMINDER: Tonight is Nerd Pride Movie Night: Real Genius, 8pm Friday 4/20 at Instructables HQ – We’re hosting Nerd Pride Movie Night here at Instructables HQ at 8pm Friday the 20th of April. First movie: Real Genius starring a young Val Kilmer. A fabulous nerd comedy classic from 1985- see it and recognize the source […]
DIY Teatimer
Martin writes – This is a short time timer made with an AT89C1051. It is supporting times from 1 minute to 12 minutes. You have been a lazy bone and now you have to work all night. So there is a need for strong tea. You start to make the tea, but you forget the […]
Made in France Softies
Terry at Softies Central has a round up of cute softies that are made in France. The French have an amazing history in embroidery (and cross-stitch, needlepoint) so it’s nice to see this softie of Marcel the French wrestling guy (by emmachoc) with his embroidered curly mustache and body. See the rest of the cute […]
Google Web History: Give Google Your Entire Browsing History
Google released a new feature called Google Web History. Once you’ve enabled it, Google will start recording your entire browsing history. It does this by using grabbing information from the Google toolbar that is sent for every page you access when you have Pagerank enabled. I’m not sure how comfortable I am with giving Google […]