Dangerous Laboratories is a multi-dollar firm located in the Rocky Mountains. We specialize in do-it-yourself scientific, industrial, and alternative energy projects. Their site has a lot of interesting MAKE-like projects and information about biodiesel, lasers, power generation, radiation detection, drilling and more. Link.
This is for the Makers out there that made some kids. Homemade baby wipes. There are many places on the web where you can get recipes for homemade baby wipes on the web. This, however, may be the only one which suggests making them with large shop tools. I think it adds an interesting element of excitement and danger to an otherwise mundane task. Link.
Maker Ed writes- If you every wanted to build a CNC machine, this is the site for you. This is your one stop shopping for your dream machine. From a simple plotter to a laser engraver, you will get the info you need to build it. The site is forum based with over 13,000 members and every one of them make you feel at home. A complete easy to build set of plans from a chap named “jgro” are available in the downloads section to get you started. The materials can be bought at your local home center and can be built in a week or two depending on your skill level Link.
“The Wikipedia of opensource hardware/design”. They just had a contest and got a lot of submissions so the site is well populated. The technical goal of the Invention Resource Database is to provide a medium for people to archive, share, and search for creative projects and resources. Our overall mission is to increase the efficiency of the creative development process through information management and distribution. Over 111 projects in there so far, nice. Link.
Sharon writes- Hi. I’m an American, living in Europe. I like to buy my DVD’s from America because they are in my language. I made sure that my DVD player is codefree so that I wouldn’t have a problem. Suddenly the American producers have added a new technology called RCE, whose sole purpose is to make it impossible to play American DVD’s outside of America. Anybody know how to modify a DVD player to get around that little bit of corporational nastiness? Any advice for Sharon while I research this?
Another story on music companies using SunnComm’s technology to “rein in copying by the everyday music fan” (EMI and Sony BMG executive). If you have a Mac you don’t need to worry about this, they only do this to Windows users- if you’re on Windows just hold down the Shift key before you insert one of these new CDs. So far I’ve seen a Velvet Revolver CD and a Dave Mattews CD do this, shift key easily defeats them. Link.
Ask Metafilter has a good discussion on choosing a multimeter. I’m ready to make the plunge into electronics repair/circuit building but I’m wondering what I should look for in a multimeter and electronics tool kit? Aside from auto-ranging, I’m not sure what features to look for in the multimeter, and are there any particularly good reasonably priced tool kits? Link.
