With Monday finally wrapping up, it’s time to start thinking about next weekend. Why not spend it Twitter-enabling your house plants? Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach you anywhere in the world. When your plant needs […]
I was really surprised that this simple hack doesn’t even require taking anything apart! Just use a calculator and AM radio to make a metal detector – [via] Link. UPDATE: This one might be plausible, folks. Debate in the comments; the first one to prove it’s real/fake gets a MAKE pocket ref! Related: Metal detectors […]
Check out this nifty touchkeyer (for CW or “continuous wave” Morse code) ham operator Jonathan Haynes ( KC7FYS) built into his Altoids-housed ATS-3b high-frequency CW radio transceiver: I put whiteboard marker on my fingers and pressed them on a piece of paper to get this footprint. The idea of sculpting them from PCB material came […]
Bob writes in with a rundown on how to repurpose an old USB cellphone data cable for rs232 communication. About three years ago,I bought a USB data cable to use with T610 mobile phone.I can’t remember what is model just know it is made in China.But now I have a new model mobile phone and […]
Argo electronics is one of my favorite (weekly) stops on Canal street in New York City. Canal street is historically known for tiny packed-together stores filled with goods from China and street merchants hocking knock off handbags, Rolex watches to pirated DVDs, but there are a few electronic and electronic surplus places that are a […]
Windows Home Server may seem like an unusual piece of software, but it’s worth playing around with if you are considering a home server for your Windows systems. You can get a 120-day evaluation version from Microsoft, and OEM versions are available from retailers like Newegg.com. Here’s a Windows Home Server hack from Preston Gralla’s […]
Here’s Hack #15, Reduce Workbook Bloat, from David and Raina Hawley’s Excel Hacks, 2nd Edition. Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier. Yet there are many ways to take advantage of Excel’s sophisticated capabilities without spending […]
