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This is fun and useful… Navigate Flickr by color! We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting†Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour
We have a few cool resources for PC modding in addition to all the posts on MAKE and the articles in MAKE (print & digital edition)… One is a PDF (and book), the other a great book. Check’em out– Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs (PDF) – book too… Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs […]
Brennon Williams sent us a link to his blog, BW Science Labs, where he explores science and technology. I really liked this LED constellation project, but you should check out the rest of his entries – he posts about microcontrollers, basic soldering, robotics, lots of stuff! Really impressive work for a 14-year-old!
This is a really interesting project that uses an AVR micro-controller to create a 1-key keyboard. I can think of a thousand uses for this type of device. The idea for a 1-key keyboard comes from the need as an interaction designer to make “cheap, quick and dirty prototypes.” When creating a quick screen-based demo […]
It seems like a lot of people still have a bunch of old diskettes lying around collecting dust. Why not make them into a geeky holiday ornament for your tree? It’s the perfect gift for your hacker friends. More about DIY: Old diskette ornaments [CraziestGadgets] In the Maker Shed: The Best of Instructables Volume I
This is an amazing collection of textbooks that will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about electronics and electricity. OK, maybe not everything, but they are FREE! You can even download all the volumes, including source code, in a single click. More about Lessons In Electric Circuits: Free textbooks about electronics
The iPhone dev team, hard at work as usual, announced a successful iPhone Linux port today. It’s still at a very early stage, but the kernel boots on first and second generation iPhones and the first generation iPod touch. A framebuffer driver and a working Busybox installation point to an exciting open source future: What […]
