Make pal I-Wei Huang, a.k.a. Crabfu, the steambots guru, was interviewed by Bonnie Burton for the Official Star Wars Blog… How do your skills as an animator help when you make these cool creations? Being an animator, you tend to see things in a different way, and can’t help but notice subtle details of how […]
You’ll probably never have the desire or need to download and watch a YouTube video on a text-only console, but doesn’t it make you feel better knowing that it can be done? The trick is to use the AAlib ascii image library as an output device for mplayer, using the -vo parameter: mplayer -vo aa […]
That was fast, Greg’s Mom knitted him an iPhone – [via] Link.
Amin Rahimi’s recorder project… Being the huge band geek that I am, I decided that my project should involve some kind of musical instrument. Given the limited time that I had to complete the project, I decided to have my computer play a simple Yamaha recorder that was sitting in one of my drawers. Because […]
Yngvarr writes – Well, I built a nixie clock in the past, so why build another one? I saw this nice clock listed on makezine recently, and really couldn’t resist…The kit arrived, well packaged. You can see below that the kit maker put a lot of personal effort into this. He supplies as much as […]
Jonas writes – A little while back i was given an iBook with a faulty screen as in not working at all. Having a hard time just throwing it away i was looking for a way to put it to use though it was a fairly old 500mhz G3 ibook. Things being as they where […]
Kit for reading digital scales usually found on eBay (and later for use with a mill)… The DRO-350 is a three-axis digital read-out (DRO) for import Chinese scales and most quadrature encoders that is designed to be as capable as commercial DROs but be a low cost alternative for the metal-working hobbyist. The DRO-350 is […]
