Finkbuilt has a great draw bot that’s not only a great project for kids, but adults too! Steve writes – “As far as I’m concerned, you’re never too young to start mixing art with robotics. So, next time you and your budding young tinkerers need something to do on a rainy day, you should have […]
A towel, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady […]
Sweet, here’s how to enable geotagging in iPhoto – “By slightly changing the InfoPanel.nib file in the iPhoto 6.0.5 app bundle, you can see how this hidden feature works. Check the step-by-step on how to do this here…” [via] – Link. Related: HOW TO GPS Tag Photos: Flickr, Mappr, Google Earth…. – Link. Flickr Geotagging […]
Here’s a really bright building based Luxeon LXHL-LR3C Royal Blue LED system with schematic and code included… A MAKE reader writes… – “A giant 2-story-high LED display was constructed using amazingly powerful Luxeon LEDs in a 6×6 grid of windows at the architecturally renowned Simmons Hall undergraduate dormitory at MIT. It’s a fairly simple circuit […]
Cowlacious Designs shows you how to make “cave eyes”, schematic, code, circuit board layout, and parts list included or you can buy a kit/complete unit… – “This is a little microcontroller circuit that has 15 pairs of L.E.D.’s that look like rodent eyes. The pairs of eyes blink in a semi-random fashion. So, what you […]
Gina @ Lifehacker pointed to this interesting Web 2.0y site that helps you pick and find costumes, I usually don’t use “tag clouds” but these are kinda useful… – “Dying to find a unique costume idea? Costumzee will help you find great costume ideas! Browse through thousands of popular costume ideas, search by keyword (i.e., […]
Max writes – “Okay, yesterday through the instructable, we made a simple hovercraft. Today, we are going to take it to another level by taking FOUR PC fan coolers and running the FANS at 24VDC instead of the 12V DC rating. I think they are okay up to 30VDC, well, our fans are still running…” […]
