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Great article for salvaging parts from a camera for robots…how-to steps for getting the SONAR unit safely out of the camera and how to modify it so you can use it in your projects. There is minimal electronics knowledge needed and in fact I got much of this information right from the “horses mouth”, Polaroid. [via] Link.
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.
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. [