The winners are up from the NPR holiday craft contest are up! “Most end-of-the-year recaps include a plethora of notable news stories. Five for Friday’s recap is much easier to digest: It consists of 2006-themed ornaments and menorahs submitted for NPR’s first craft contest, from a bulb wrapped in telephone records (we’re talking about you, […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Thevampireairion made a holiday wreath from an old dead power source (everything including parts of the case), an old mouse, an extra power cable, two cds, and an extra fan cable – Link. Related: “Geek” Wreath – Link. Simon Says Christmas Wreath… – Link. Monster Wreath tutorial – Link.
Fabienne writes – “I’m doing a workshop at the 23c3 in a few weeks, Embedding a wifi detector into a backpack strap workshop, based on the original project – The new project will be removable in a velcro-ed fabric housing and uses new rechargeable via usb cheap wifi detectors as the base for the hack. […]
If you want to play your own movies on your Nintendo Wii, here are some settings that seem to work. Jack writes – “As it turns out, the Wii can play home movies as well as show pictures from your digital camera. The only trick is to get the movie in the right format, which […]
Jordan is having a lot of fun (still) with the new Google patent search… “I really love this site. I love the splash pages that show random patents. I don’t know if you were a transformer kid, but I totally had this guy megatron. Its awesome to see it in patent form, and the sketches […]
Philip Greenspun has a really funny story on EE vs CS… Ok, hardware vs. software makers! Duke it out in the comments! “Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in […]
Our friends @ Evil Mad Scientist has two open source holiday kits AND the instructions are in PDF AND made wit ComicLife, nice work! “We have written instructions for building two sweet microcontroller-based electronics projects for the holidays: an alphanumeric LED christmas tree ornament and an LED mini-menorah (hanukkiah). These are open-source projects; You can […]
