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Michael sent in another old Maker-type book keeping with our theme over the weekend – Forgotten Arts and Crafts: rediscovering natural ways of making tools, shoes, furniture, and a variety of other items using methods that follow the grain of wood or the idiosyncrasies of a piece of stone.” Link. Have old Maker-ish books or […]
Here’s a dot matrix web printer, it prints whatever you have to say on a printer in Switzerland. It has live video and audio so it’s some weird retro / futuristic chat with atoms. Webtruck sent in this technical info & Link to print.
Good how to on securing your data on a usb thumb drive – Simon writes “I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro USB thumb drive that I carry around with me. Last weekend I spent a bit of time setting it so that all my data is securely encrypted using the some excellent open source software […]
Steve DeGroof built a MAME cabinet almost entirely from materials found around his house. Total cost of purchased materials: ~$100. Check out the build photos and comments on how he did it. Link. Previous MAME project here.
Zonetag is an automatic geocode phone application for Nokia series 60 phones. Some of the features –“2-click photo upload to Flickr. Easily find your photos using location-based search When you upload your photos, ZoneTag will automatically tag the photo with the location where the photo was taken. ZoneTag can also connect via Bluetooth to a […]
This looks like a fun way to turn your computer into an instrument – “BackToBasics allows you to import sounds and assign them to the 47 alpha numeric keys on the standard computer keyboard so that they can be played in much the same way as a MIDI keyboard and sampler. Each of the 47 […]
An enzyme based computer could live inside you and release drugs based on conditions going on – “The enzyme computer was used to perform two fundamental logic computations known as AND (where A and B must both equal one) and XOR (where A and B must have different values). The addition of two further enzymes […]
