The “Unique Monster” is a strange car mod that puts monster truck tires onto the Smart car, which is known as one of the smallest, most fuel efficient cars around. We like how this maker decided to turn this unassuming car into a road warrior and hope they don’t have any evil motives for this […]
During a quiet moment on Sunday afternoon at Maker Faire Austin 2008, I had a nice conversation with Mitch Altman. At the end of a very busy weekend, he was pretty beat, but I was struck with what a wonderful and peaceful guy Mitch is. Mitch Altman creates kits that inspire people to make things. […]
Funnypolynomial framed up the Game of Life kit, nice! via Ladyada. I’ve been fascinated by Life since I first read of it in Scientific American, many years ago (October 1970!). The Maker Shed store had a couple of sales so I bought a total of 6 Game of Life boards. I assembled them as a […]
Have a G1 Android Google phone? If you want to get hours and hours of extra talk, stand by, web and video time the do-it-yourself open source MintyBoost charger works great with it! via Ladyada. More: Mac and T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) phone syncing. Android Proxy App – Use your Android G1 for net access. […]
Maybe you like Neil Young’s music. You might have heard about his opinions, but how about his car? Neil got his hands on one of the heaviest production automobiles, a Lincoln Continental Mark IV convertible, and has set out to make it into a more earth friendly transportation alternative. The car will be entered into […]
I’m swooning over this woodland count down calendar from Green Kitchen. She’s still working on it, and deciding how to use it, but it is shaping up beautifully. With tiny rock pockets to store goodies, and wee felted owls perched inside it is simply gorgeous no matter how it’s used.
If you’ve ever had to move a huge directory containing many files from one server to another, you may have encountered a situation where the copy rate was significantly less that what you’d expect your network could support. Rsync does a fantastic job of quickly syncing two relatively similar directory structures, but the initial clone […]
