From the MAKE Flickr pool Zackaholic made this rather unique powered desktop speaker with some neat features – It’s a speaker… in a phone! The kind of cool thing is that the power switch is wired to the phone cradle switch so to turn it on you just take the phone off the hook. It […]
DAAP industrial design student Kyle A Koch designed and fabricated this useful flat pack copy stand for the iPhone. It will copy a standard letter-sized sheet with reasonable fidelity.
On Noah Zerkin’s blog, he has a round-up of augmented reality (AR) project videos that have been floating through the aetherweb in the last few months. In the above vid, Aaron Meyers and Jeff Crouse, both involved with Eyebeam, the OpenFrameworks community, and interactive art in general, explain to RocketBoom their “World Series of ‘Tubing,” […]
Here’s a charming, inspiring little intro to the documentary about William Kamkwamba, the Malawian teen who got a book out of the library on windmills (which had pictures of the them, but no tech details) and figured out how to build his own to bring electrical power to his family. William will be participating in […]
Whew! All of that soldering and kid-wrangling worked up a powerful thirst. So, you drag over the ol’ Coleman and crack open a few cold ones. Sitting there drinking your beers (be they root or hops) with your newly-trained team of solder-droids, you all start contemplating that old faithful camping cooler. Maybe it needs some […]
PaperBack – paper based backups an “open source joke”… PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on the ordinary paper in the form of the oversized bitmaps. If you have a good laser printer with the 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes of uncompressed […]
Stuart Breidenstein of Go Robot! gave me a demo of his working stove necklace at Urban Craft Uprising this weekend in Seattle. It’s a hand-crafted brass and copper alcohol burner with a fuel line and tank. Alcohol stoves are popular for light-traveling hikers, as the fuel is readily available at hardware stores and it burns […]
