Arduino powered LED sculpture
NateBu’s interactive sculpture for public space, powered by Arduino… Link.
Technology
TV Remote jammer!
Kipkay writes – I’ve had a few scuffles in my house over the TV remote so I decided to do something about it. I built a circuit that will block my TV and any device I choose from getting a signal from the normal remote control. I turn an ordinary remote into a jammer and […]
Do robot dinosaurs dream of electric sheep? Austin Maker Faire 2007 photos
Maker Faire photos from Steevithak including this pleo dresses in sheep’s clothing… – [via] Link.
OS X Finder.app string tweaks
If you want new folders instead of untitled ones, or if you prefer to have a copy of a file instead of a file copy, it’s pretty simple to tweak some of the localization text that Finder.app uses. Just view the package contents of /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder, and then open Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings in TextEdit. Inside, you’ll find the […]
Carl & Jerry: Their Complete Adventures, Volume 4 by John T. Frye
Jeff writes in with a new Carl & Jerry! – After a lot of delays this summer, I finally got the fourth (of five) volumes of Carl & Jerry stories up on Lulu and ready to sell…I also pinched off the first free story from Volume 4: The story presents a fascinating concept: An “infrasonic” […]
HOW TO – Make a fridge alert
The latest “Gadget Freak” from Design news is a fridge alert! – When you’ve popped in your fridge alarm, getting peckish in the middle of the night and forgetting to close the door — along with escalating electricity bills — will be a thing of the past. Italian inventor Flavio Dellepiane has designed a 3V […]
Microcontroller link for under $20
A follow up from James, he writes in – Thank you for putting up the link to the PC controller article. I’ve published part two now, which is to link two microcontrollers with each other using the internet for under $20. It has been a work in progress for the last few months and actually […]