Here’s a giant collection of old magazine articles, a few maker-like magazines are in there too. Three Drink Minimum (Popular Mechanics, 1912) — “In a desperate effort to stimulate egg production, a French poultry farmer turns his chickens into drinking buddies.” Ok, maybe not that one exactly…- [via] Link.
Michael writes – I thought I’d send you a link to a project I’ve been working on for the past two weeks. I’m a software guy, not a hardware guy but it might still be interesting to some of your readers that are just learning micro-controller programming. diyhandheld – DIY Handheld Electronic Game – Link.
Rob writes in with some IKEA hacking and TechShopping’ – Here is project that I did @ the Techshop. I used all IKEA parts and created a coffee table from a countertop, a planter box, desk legs and LED light strips. How 2 Point Oh: Ikea Hack Coffee Table with Reccesesd Planter and LED Light […]
If you have an iPhone and watch long movies (usually from ripped DVDs) leaving the phone in the dock doesn’t cut it, the iPhone needs to be horizontal. I usually have CNN, ABC or a few hours of news on my phone and like to leave it on my desk while I work but you […]
Here’s a great music project you can build with an Arduino… Beavis Audio Research writes – This is my first build using an arduino microcontroller. I wanted to create a simple tone output device along the lines of the 555-based atari punk console, but using solely the mcu as the tone generator. Unfortunately, that was […]
For those of you who didn’t catch our previous post about seam carving, it’s a smart image resizing algorithm, invented by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan. Where you would normally have to choose between cropping or squeezing/stretching an image to change its aspect ratio, the seam carving method will attempt to find horizontal […]
Dale has a really interesting post about ACCRC (Alameda County Computer Recycling Center). ACCRC had a great event/booth at Maker Faire this year… – Let’s imagine that you set up a non-profit to recycle electronics and divert computers from going directly into landfills or otherwise being destroyed by a grinder. You look for ways to […]
