With a little Photoshop, the Icon Composer from the OS X install disk, and a program called Icns2Rsrc, it’s pretty easy to make custom icons for OS X. There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this (custom app icon, etc.), but for me it seems really useful for easily distinguising […]
Jon Udell mentions a great add-on for Internet Explorer, Reify Software’s Turnabout, which gives you the ability to run some Greasemonkey scripts in Internet Explorer: …it comes in two versions: basic and advanced. If you download the basic version it only runs a small set of scripts that the Reify folks have blessed. You have […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – We made a laser-cut plywood mount to hold the sugar-heating hot air gun for the 3D printer, and it turned out to be a neato project on its own; check out our cool little laser-cut parts! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories – A laser-cut mount for a hot air gun […]
Weller (they make some of the best soldering irons) has a new air rework station. We covered some hot air tools today, and this just popped up from the Weller blog. Price: $499 — The WHA900 maintains nozzle temperature, regardless of the air flow rate. That’s because the built-in closed-loop temperature feedback control, which uses […]
Kevin Kelly has a great round up of crystal radio builds, free plans and kits (some I haven’t seen either) – Link. Inspired related round up: HOW TO – Building a crystal radio out of household items – Link. Refugee Radio – An energy-independent AM-receiver radio… – Link. Building a radio in 10 minutes – […]
fpga4fun.com shows how to make a single channel 100MHz/100MSPS (100 mega-samples-per-second) RS-232 based (and USB) digital oscilloscope (an oscilloscope allows you to view signal voltages) – Link. Related: Oscilloscope art – Link. Oscilloscope clock – Link. PIC Based Oscilloscope with LCD – Link. ScopeOnPC – Turn your PC into a an oscilloscope – Link. Using […]
Here’s a really cool AVR based MINI recorder that uses SD, and LCD and IR (remote) – [via] Link.
