Evil teddy is ALIVE
Bender Rodriguez used an Arduino motor shield to do some really terrifying toy hacking More here ! via Ladyada. Made with the motor shield from the Maker Shed!
Month: July 2008
Barcode plantage
BARCODE PLANTAGE via NOTCOT (made with processing). BARCODE PLANTAGE transforms a simple product bar code into a unique tree in the garden of globalisation. One can find it on almost all products: the bar code. Everyone knows that the bar code is used to facilitate the cashing and recording of goods in stores. But which […]
LED vs CFL
NYTimes article about LED lighting, it’s interesting that Philips is pretty much only betting on one horse… The problem, though, is the price. A standard 60-watt incandescent usually costs less than $1. An equivalent compact fluorescent is about $2. But in Europe this September, Philips, the Dutch company dealing in consumer electronics, health care machines […]
Cold war era hacks…
JR writes in – I thought this was a cool story that didn’t get wide pickup. I like #9 especially: IBM SELECTRIC TYPEWRITER… Because the Selectric coupled a motor to a mechanical assembly, pressing different keys caused the motor to draw different amounts of current specific to each key. By closely measuring the current used […]
Monster beetle!
Gigantic (literally) gallery of a modded monster Beetle! More: Street-legal jet powered VW Beetle. Mystery Beetle identified.
Web application hotkeys with Javascript
It’s unfortunate, but there are only a few sites that have done a good job of enhancing the user experience with hotkey support. In searching for the easiest way to do this in my own applications, I stumbled across the Hotkeys plugin for jQuery. In typical jQuery form it lets you do something moderately complicated, […]
Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa, CA – Call for Crafty Vendors
Hi Crafters! The Handcar Regatta is an event happening on Sept 28 in Santa Rosa, CA. (MAKE is a sponsor.) If you are interested in becoming a vendor at the event, please download the Steam Trunk Craft Show Vendor form (PDF). For other forms and vending information, visit the requisition section of the site.