Month: June 2007

Steampunk LCD monitor mod

Steampunk LCD monitor mod

Jake (re)made an incredible steam punk – victorian era monitor mod, he writes… The Steampunk Keyboard looked terribly anachronistic sitting in front of my Dell 1907FP flat panel monitor and while I hesitated to tear open a $300 monitor that was still under warantee, art must be served. Steampunk Flat-Panel LCD Mod – Link. Related: […]

Beginning embedded electronics

Beginning embedded electronics

Spark Fun has a new series of tutorials, here’s the first, beginning embedded electronics – This is a series of lectures written for those with mild electronics background (aka Sophomore in Electrical and Computer Engineering) to learn about the wild world of Embedded Electronics. I assume only that you know what electricity is and that […]

HOW TO – Make a cozy boat

Here’s another great video from Know How, make a cozy boat! – A little boat like a floating papasan chair. Perfect to lay in and look at the sky. Exactly big enough for two people to snuggle. The supermodels in the boat are Arwen and Saul. This boat is part umiak, part currach, part coracle, […]

HOWTO – Build a Firefox extension

HOWTO – Build a Firefox extension

Gina at Lifehacker posted a really nice rundown of what goes into making a Firefox extension: The meat of a Firefox extension is simply Javascript – the not-very-mysterious stuff of bookmarklets and regular old web pages – and a markup language called XUL (pronounced “zool.”) To build your own, you’ll need some Javascript know-how, comfort […]