DPN Project Holder Tutorial
Jessica points us to Sweet Little Domestic Life where Robyn shows us how to make double pointed needle holders out of finger puppets and pencil toppers. Link.
Month: September 2007
Bat/Dragon wing fan blades
In plenty of time for Halloween, Etsy seller TheAtomicLounge offers these wing-like fan blades in sets for your ceiling fan – [via] Link.
SlugTerm – A Terminal for a Slug
Phil writes – This page describes how I’ve solved the problem of adding an interactive terminal to my Linksys NSLU2 (aka Slug) with a USB keyboard and an LCD display. My soltuon consists of some C++ code (about 1000 lines) and some hardware to attach the display to USB. I hope that it will be […]
External enclosure with custom microcontroller
Al writes – A homebrew microcontroller to monitor a computer’s hard drive usage was originally posted on Makezine back in Feb. of 2006. This apparently generated a spark. A reader created a very attractive project based on that with some creative customizations using SATAValut from CoolDrives. External enclosure with custom microcontroller – Link.
The Black Hole – A nuclear salvage wonderland
Dave writes – Every teenager dreams of working in a giant warehouse full of discarded nuclear test equipment, well used high-pressure vacuum fittings and an endless assortment of puzzling devices which may or may not have any value in the modern era. Ok, so maybe not every teenager has this dream, I was and still […]
Pear light
Nick Foley’s gorgeous pear light… A hand forged hollow steel tree is the charging station for three urethane pear-lights. Each pear contains ten ultrabright white LEDs, an autonomous charging circuit, and rare-earth magnets that allow it to be “picked” from the tree and remain fully illuminated for over an hour Pear light – Link.
AppleCrate: An Apple II-based parallel computer
Michael writes – At the outset, when designing NadaNet, I envisioned that it could be used to support parallel computing on Apple II machines. To add more processors and save space, I decided that I would package several Apple //e main boards together, without keyboards or peripheral slot cards. (I didn’t disassemble the Apples myself, […]