Michael sent in another old Maker-type book keeping with our theme over the weekend – Forgotten Arts and Crafts: rediscovering natural ways of making tools, shoes, furniture, and a variety of other items using methods that follow the grain of wood or the idiosyncrasies of a piece of stone.” Link. Have old Maker-ish books or […]
Here’s a dot matrix web printer, it prints whatever you have to say on a printer in Switzerland. It has live video and audio so it’s some weird retro / futuristic chat with atoms. Webtruck sent in this technical info & Link to print.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Guero Loco made a “barber pole” type light with standard Lytec EL wire Link. Previously: EL wire lamp project. Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light Using Open Source Tools by Mikey Sklar.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Djbones writes – “I’m building the kite aerial photography timer circuit from Make magazine vol 2, and this is the prototype. I changed the circuit a bit from the magazine, because sometimes just keeping the kite up for more than a minute is a challenge. I used a 2 ohm […]
Juiceboxfan has some photos of an XD socket hack, NAND flash hack and a MP3 kit socket extender hack for the low-cost (now hackable) kid’s toy – the Juicebox Link. If you’re interested in building your own projects with a Juicebox, here’s a good place to get started. Also, see previous Juicebox hacking posts and […]
Good how to on securing your data on a usb thumb drive – Simon writes “I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro USB thumb drive that I carry around with me. Last weekend I spent a bit of time setting it so that all my data is securely encrypted using the some excellent open source software […]
Roomba hacking is about to take off – “The robots of the future are beginning to emerge from basements and attics around the world – basements and attics with very clean floors. That’s because these new robots are being built on top of a popular automated floor cleaner, the Roomba. Designed by iRobot Corp. of […]
