I Make Projects shows you how to make some electronic critter art – Years ago when I was in school, I got most of my parts from snipping or desoldering them off of junked curcuitboards, or from taking apart old equipment. One day I took some of the parts and soldered them into what I […]
Scott sent this question in (Makers correct me if I’m wrong in my response and/or debate the merits of CFL, you know you want to!)… Hi Phillip – I thought you might be able to either answer this question or suggest someone (or somewhere) that could. I have had a hard time getting a straight […]
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 – […]
