Hard drive laser shutter
Medix’s hard drive laser shutter via Hacked Gadgets.
Month: November 2008
First video game honored at Brookhaven lab birthplace
Retro Tennis for Two on display at the Brookhaven Lab in celebration of its 50th anniversary @ The NY Times… “I BRAG to people that I was probably the first kid to play a video game,†said Robert Dvorak Jr. That happened half a century ago here at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where Mr. Dvorak’s father […]
Inside the Nintendo DSi
Bunnie (Chumby engineer and all around hardware hacker) got a Nintendo DSi… and took it apart… I couldn’t help myself from buying one of these…and taking it apart. The DSi is pretty cool: it has not one, but two, cameras embedded in it. One faces forward so you can see yourself, and the other can […]
HOW TO: Sweater to Mittens and Cloche Hat
One Pearl Button has posted a great tutorial on creating a pair of mittens and a cozy hat from an old sweater.
Business card AVR breakout boards – Version 1.1
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories released a new version of their AVR breakout board… We’ve just released a new version of our super-handy business card sized target board for programming 28-pin AVR microcontrollers like the ATmega168 and ATmega328. These are just the thing for programming these chips through an ISP programmer like the USBtinyISP.
HOW TO – Cardigan Revamp
Check out the cool cardigan revamp Shari Bonnin did! What started as a perfectly pleasant but boring GAP sweater is now a girly, beautifully embellished showpiece.
Reflections on Tinkering
AskPang has an thoughtful reflection on Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge: Production in the Digital Age, a conference presented by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Tinkering isn’t so much a specific set of technical skills: there tends to be a pretty instrumental view of knowledge. You pick up just enough knowledge […]