Indie Fixx has started Tutorial Tuesday with a brand new Flickr group. It will feature tutorials, how-tos and other fun DIY stuff from the indie crafters, artists and designers that are featured on Indie Fixx. Share your own creations by joining the group and share photos of your projects based on the tutorials from Tutorial […]
Scienceblogs has an interesting post up explaining how to maximize the benefits of caffeine for everyday use – A landmark 2004 study showed that small hourly doses of caffeine (.3mg per kg of body weight [approx 20 mg per hour; thanks digg!]) can support extended wakefulness, potentially by counteracting the homeostatic sleep pressure, which builds […]
The death of BeOS was an incredible shame. I sometimes wonder what modern operating systems, developer interfaces, and hardware hacking tools (remember the geek port?) would be commonplace today if this weird tangent in computing history had really taken off. An Ars Technica article about the open source BeOS “Haiku” project caught my eye today, […]
Dot at Dabbled’s husband made this neat wooden play stove for their son out of an old side table. I assume the third knob is for oven temperature. – Link.
Next Meeting: Tuesday 26 February 2008 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Katie Bechtold : The MESSENGER Project Katie, a spacecraft flight software developer and controller, will discuss MESSENGER, the first mission to visit Mercury in […]
I had doubts that Matt Mets could pull off an awesome hardware project every day for Thing-a-Day, but he’s doing a pretty stellar job so far; keep it up! He made this drum loop recorder that records physical inputs and plays them back in a loop using an Arduino Barebones board. Source code and schematic […]
Missy from Crafty Carnival shares her step-by-step instructions on how to make one of these sweet patchwork pillows, complete with a pocket full of bunnies! Link.
