The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Carl writes – “Easter’s coming up! And you know what really hits the spot around those tricky Easter parties? A CORPSE CAKE! Check out the site for the two earlier corpse cakes I’ve made (ghost and santa!). Yes, that’s right! Now you too can make your very own corpsalicious easter fiasco bunny. It’s really a […]
Mark Wallace over at the excellent new 3pointd blog has a great real-virtual world blurring mapping “mashup” – he also has some interesting examples and glimpses of future applications – “A local clothing designer has a small shop in a neighborhood across town. You want to shop there, but you don’t have time. So you […]
Will O’Brien shows you how to make your own DIY sound dampeners – “Have you been yelled at for watching your latest Superbit DVD “too loud” by your mom / dad / child / spouse / neighbor? Tired of having the Tiki-bar TV guys next door in the background of your podcast recording session? In […]
Bert writes – “The Devantech SFR04 Ultrasonic Range Finder indicates the distance to the closest object within range. Echo’s that arrive later are received and processed, but subsequently ignored. For a true radar all signals should be taken into account. So, time to heat up the old soldering iron and make some modifications to the […]
Neil writes – “Here is an inexpensive way to create a three dimensional pointing device. Take a working mechanical wheel mouse (the type with a scrolling wheel). Remove the ball. Drill some holes in the sides and run a string into the mouse, around the horizontal roller, and out the other side. Reroute the sensors […]
Washington Post has a good overview of MythTV – “In 2002, amidst a bulky, advertising-laden digital television experience, programmer Isaac Richards took matters into his own hands — he began to build his own digital video recorder system from scratch. Now known as the MythTV project (http://www.mythtv.com), Richards’s effort to create DVR systems from commonly […]
This is pretty neat – control WoW with an Xbox 360 controller, it use a “router” that turns the Xbox 360 controller into mouse and keyboard inputs, I haven’t tried this yet, but it might work with other games/apps too – [via] – Link.
