I’ll try this. Steep a full pound of coarsely ground coffee in 9 cups of cold water in a sort of plastic pail and allow the “mulch” to soak for 12 hours. With the pull of a plug, a thickish coffee syrup drains through a filter into a glass carafe which you then store in the refrigerator. When you want coffee, you measure some into your mug and add hot water or milk. Link.
If you are the owner of a Bluetooth headset, you will be glad to know that besides using it with your cellular phone, you can also use it together with your Windows XP PC. However, you may have attempted to pair up the headset with your PC only to find out that the built-in Bluetooth stack in Windows XP Service Pack 2 does not support the headset. Link.
Everything is contained in a standard, run of the mill, metal toolbox. The bottom drawer contains a working computer with a VIA EPIA V motherboard & cpu, memory, hard drive, cd rom drive, fans, power supply, and cables. The middle drawer contains a usb audio interface, roll-up keyboard, mouse, and a Gameboy running Sludgeon2. The top contains a midi controller, power cables, surge protector, and a crappy lcd screen mounted to the bottom of the lid. Holes were drilled so that the power cables in the top could be connected to their respective devices in the middle and bottom drawers and would not impede the opening and closing of these drawers. [via] Link.
Noah Vawter (part of the team behind the the Chiclet DSP Music Box, and loads of other cool stuff) and Nathan Wray have developed PSPKick, a sample-based drum machine for the PSP. Looks like a 12 track xoxox inteface, and can output drum loops into wav files on the memory stick. Fun fun fun Link.
Using a grill to heat a pool. The device heats water 30 to 35 degrees at 3 to 4 gallons per minute flow. I find I get a 7 degree increase in my 8000 gallon pool for each 5 gallon tank of propane. Each tank will burn for about 13 to 15 hours on high. A pool cover is required. Thanks Sean! Link.
This is the raw material for my school bus conversion project it’s a 1989 Thomas Saf-T-Liner MVP with a rear mounted CAT 3208 engine. It was originally built for 75 Passengers with a GVWR 30,000 lbs. It’s got about 80K miles on it and originally came from Montrose, NY. The interior dimensions are 35′ x 7.5′ x 6.5′ Over the next several months I will be converting this old school bus into a family camper and documenting each step of the conversion process here. Thanks Jake! Link.
“Unfortunately, Verizon Wireless cripples their phones so that you have to use their fee-based service in order to add new ringtones, or to transfer the pictures you take with the camera. The Verizon logo conceals the date display on the main screen and covers over the top portion of the background, among various other corporate silliness. Selling a device that is intentionally crippled is just plain ridiculous. Of course, the only natural thing to do in a situation like this is to hack it.” [via] Link.
