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Etsy is a website where people can sell anything they want, as long as it’s handmade. Etsy is a site by crafters for crafters. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for people to sell their handmade items, without the hassle of setting up an entire website and with much lower fees than eBay. Etsy is for selling anything that is handmade, from clothes to furniture to computer cases, so let your crafting run wild. [via] Link.
This page has a ton of HOW TOs on upgrading that old Palm that’s likely in some box packed away. Palm IIs, m100s, Palm Vs – while it might not be that useful as a PDA, it could be a great way to learn how to solder better, uplocking and how the guts of a Palm work. Link.
I know there’s a lot of you costumers out there who have touted cheap and effective alternatives to traditional costuming supplies, who don’t believe that “cheap alternative” means “crappy substitute”. Many of you reading this may already be familiar with some of these tricks, or you might have your own dirty little secret about where you get your costuming supplies (and please do tell me). My personal favorite place to get costuming goods is Home Depot… Link.
On a warm summerday, with 50 euro worth of helium in three balloons…aerial photography using digital cameras. The setup was relatively simpel: A 3.1 megapixel camera, hanging from three balloons (50-70cm). Total weight of the setup was somewhere around 450 gram, the balloons had a pull of about double that. Two threads of 100 meters connected the ballons to us, so that we could get the camera to land again [via] Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Nicrosin writes “Hard drive art: A simple art piece, I loved the way it looked so had to hang it up. Just take apart an old hard drive, remove the magnets, and mount it on the wall”. Neat. Anyone can join the MAKE photo pool and post your own MAKE-like projects, art or whatever. Link.
Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away. Ron Gremban says such a car is parked in his garage. It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret — a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car’s high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel. Gremban, an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist, spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car. [via] Link.
Here’s a cool picture of the moon, and how it was made (on the cheap)…So I came home today and stuck a cheap C90 Mak spotting scope onto my neglected Canon s400 4MP …together with a Universal Camera Adaper that I found online last week. Perfect fit. [