Month: June 2007

USB Temperature sensors and more

USB Temperature sensors and more

Raph writes – This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces. At the moment, temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure can be measured, logged and graphed. USBTenki: USB Temperature sensors and more – Link.

Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson #4

This week’s crochet lesson at Crafty Daisies will cover two very important techniques: increasing and decreasing. Homework will be working on this 4X4 wrist pouch designed by Catherine Lindsay. Link. Related: Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson #1 – Link. Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson #2 – Link. Crafty Daisies: Learn to Crochet Lesson […]

Homemade water sprinkler

Homemade water sprinkler

Have left over PVC pipes from all those marshmallow shooters? Make a sprinkler (just drill holes and attach to a hose) – Link. Related: Killer marshmallow gun – Link. From the pages of MAKE: HowToons. MAKE 02 – page 172. Make a marshmallow shooter. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE […]

Surf privately and anonymously with JanusVM

JanusVM is an open source VMware image that combines Ubuntu, Tor, dns-proxy-tor, Squid, Privoxy, and openvpn all into a convenient little package. Just load up the appliance in VMware and make a VPN connection to the virtual machine’s IP. Once you’ve connected, all of your traffic (including DNS) will be localy encrypted and anonymized over […]