U-Handblog July Amy Butler Sewing Pattern Contest
Lisa at U-Handblog has a last call for the July Amy Butler Sewing Pattern contest with the closing date this Wednesday, July 25th. Three winners will win their choice of an Amy Butler pattern! Link.
Month: July 2007
Guerrilla flowerboxes
Instead of posters or graffiti these “guerilla gardeners” are planting flowers and shrubs around Kensington, Canada – [via] Link.
Super Mario subwoofer
Here’s a really nice subwoofer painted to look like a brick and coin box from Super Mario – [via] Link.
Power-Saving pedometer also measures speed
AVR based pedometer! – A pedometer is a device that counts the number of steps taken by a person and calculates the distance traveled by multiplying the number of steps by the length of the step. Here’s a design solution for building a pedometer using the AVR MCU. The circuit not only combines all of […]
iPhone buffer overflow exploit
Whoops. Looks like somone’s found a buffer overflow exploit on the iPhone which allows arbitrary code to be executed as root. Details won’t be released until the Blackhat convention in Vegas on August 2nd, but it looks like Safari is the culprit – [via] Link. The exploit’s authors suggest that you not use unfamilar WiFi […]
Merry-go round driven by hand
Kid powered merry-go round, Popular Science 1934 – Link. More: PlayPumps – Kid powered merry-go-round water pumps – Link. Propeller drives homemade flying merry-go-round – Link.
Sharing lists of podcasts for the iPhone, iPod, iTunes… OPML, .pcasts and more…
Here’s a quickie how-to on using and sharing “lists” of podcast subscriptions with iTunes – if you like science and news programs you might like this – Link.