The Elizabethan Costumer’s Guide To Home Depot
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.
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. [
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 [
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. 
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. [
It seems that the PVC company has a different outlook on thing than 
The idea of coaxing multiple machines to gang up on one graphics-processing job is old; but the feasibility of configuring such a system on a shoestring budget is rather new. With open-source solutions proliferating on the Web and businesses kicking decent PCs to the curb like so many red-headed stepchildren, money’s no longer an obstacle. Only one question remains, really: Are you a big enough geek to put it all together?