Will writes – “Ok, so here is the scenario: working with CCTV cameras a lot you find that most of your pro-sumer nightvision cameras run on 12VDC. Turns out that all the commercial solutions for distributing 12VDC are limited to 5 amps. Not a whole lot of juice when you are wanting to drive 16 […]
Stokes writes – “Microchip’s line of PIC microcontrollers remain very popular with hobbyists, despite their development environment being more proprietary and Windows-centric than those of other microcontrollers. Enter Piklab: an open-source IDE for PIC and dsPIC development, leveraging a number of open-source tools and tying them together in a single environment. Piklab is still in […]
You don’t need to use iTunes to stream audio to an Aiport Express. You can use the Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Rhapsody, etc… oAEP – Stands for ovesen.NET Airport Express Player. This small application records the music and sound played by your pc and streams it to an Airtunes enabled Airport Express. It has never […]
As featured later on Mythbusters (and mentioned on the Make blog awhile back), Wildwood Survival shows how to make a fire without tools, using just a can of coke, a chocolate bar, and some tinder. A follow-up post provides some alternative methods for “people who would like to make a solar reflector from the bottom […]
Blissfully bitter writes – “If you’re feeling nostalgic for grade school, when you had to give Valentines to everyone in your class, WHiRR has some elementary-friendly mini cards available to download, print, and distribute. Hand them out to friends, lovers, and strangers on the street. Print them as they are or get DIY and embellish […]
In the Hacks Instructables pool, tracydanger provides a great life hack for downsizing your wallet: I got sick and tired of having a dozen little “bonus” cards to carry around, so I made this simple fix. Basically, I just scanned in all my barcodes, fit them nicely into a row in photoshop and then printed […]
There are a small but growing number of PDFs appearing in iTunes, users can subscribe to podcasts to automatically receive audio and video – and recently – PDFs. At MAKE & CRAFT we have experimented with this from the start – we have also cataloged all the podcasts that send out PDFs we could find […]
