Here’s a weird arc-welding meets soldering hack. You can use a 12 volt car battery (or charger) and a length of graphite pencil to solder connections. The graphite is connected to one jumper cable and a length of solder to the other. Touching them both to the connection closes the circuit, heats up the connection […]
Inspired by Jake von Slatt and Datamancer’s steampunk keyboards, Quentin Regnier, Of Small Wonders… blog, fabricated this crazy input contraption, built from Remington typewriter parts. The Remington keyboard – Link Realted: A treasure-trove of MAKE steampunk coverage – Link
Rod wrote: I have a Pioneer DVR-531H and I recently subscribed to Verizon FIOS TV, that uses a cable box (Motorola QIP2500-3). The Pioneer DVR is like Tivo in that it has a built-in TV Guide, but this doesn’t work with the cable box and Pioneer doesn’t make an IR blaster so that the DVR […]
Sixty-seven people in home-made Dalek costumes converged last Sunday at The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England. They were attempting to set a world record for the largest assembly of the extraterrestrial borg bad guys, featured in the beloved BBC TV series Dr. Who. Dalek Invasion of Earth – Link Day of the […]
Nearly ten years after the invention of Napster, there’s more file sharing than ever.
Mark writes in with another Arduino project! It’s Arduino Tuesday! – Rather than driving a video display, I took the Arduino in the opposite direction, driving the SparkFun RGB LED Matrix Backpack. This is paired with a Python program (running on a rather more powerful computer) which is downsampling video files and sending them to […]
Flemming writes – There has been some stirring lately about using Gold Phoenix for hobby projects, all kicked off by a blog entry by Julian Bleeker, so as my favorite board house was on holiday I tried this newfangled Chinese outsourcing and compared it to Olimex. Gold Phoenix vs. Olimex – Link. For folks who […]
