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Jimmie has this followup on his announcement for Maker Revolution in Boston this Saturday and Sunday: The event can pretty much be summed up as a two day extravaganza of makers, hackers, and artists getting together to share cool things they’ve made, and how to make them. There will be installation art pieces, workshops, and […]
Floppy Disk Notepad – More DIY How To Projects Pocket notes are such a better way to remember than depending only on the gray matter software. Maybe you have a box or twelve of old floppy disks. If you can find the ones with software labels like Aldus Pagemaker, or the like, all the better. […]
Tweet A Sound let’s you design and share synth patches by way of the ever-popular Twitter. The software represents your patch via a compact string of numbers. The 140 character limit keeps your tweakable parameter count relatively low, but this could be welcome if you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed by the deluge of options common […]
Picture from Landon Cox, 360VL, Inc. Landon has a great site with loads of evidence from his hardware and software explorations. Looking for a way to fly your Green Geek flag a bit? Check out the network controlled AC outlet: The impetus for this came when I was at work at a client…their offices are […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Alan from Hacked Gadgets has a clever way of repurposing a video cassette tape. This is a pretty good project, and he has a nice cave setup, too. His video shows what the project does, and he does a decent job explaining the reasons and theory behind the build. This […]
Jordan Terrell sent in this link to a DHCP library he’s been writing for Arduino Ethernet. It’s part of a larger RFID door lock project he’s working on. I knew that the Arduino Ethernet hardware and supporting library didn’t directly support getting an IP address (and other supporting information) via DHCP. I began to look […]
Johannes decided to try pushing the limits of Arduino as a desktop computing platform – I have resently been working on a project for the arduino, called Arduputer. With the project i intended to see how much the arduino could do. The current sketch is about 13kB. On the arduputer I have several programs including […]
