Our pal Jake hit Wired! – For Jake von Slatt, steampunk mechanical hacker, both the do-it-yourself and steampunk movements are driven by the same obsession: the idea that a single mad engineer working in his lab can help change the world by having mastery over his machines. Von Slatt’s lab in western Massachusetts is hardly […]
From one of our prevous posts a couple weeks ago, we showed you the cool looking baby stroller turned into a Star Wars AT-AT. Bonnie at the Star Wars Blog now has an interview with the creator of this AT-AT baby stroller who tells how you can make one yourself! Link.
Craft Leftovers has a pattern to knit this totally cute lacy wristlet that’s fast to knit up. Link.
Hermenegilda on Instructables has a refashion tutorial on how to take an old pair of jean overalls and turn it into an apron. Link.
Ladyada released a USB AVR programmer, only $18 – A simple open-source USB AVR programmer and SPI interface. It is low cost, easy to make, works great with avrdude, is AVRStudio-compatible and tested under Windows and MacOS X. Perfect for students and beginners, or as a backup programmer. The project is based off of the […]
Check out these cool cuddly plush octopus pillows called Karakiri. The pillows are lifesize and great for cuddling with. You can read more about the Karakiri adventures on their blog here. Link.
Hackers have been hard at work on the iPhone from a couple of angles. The iPhone restore image has been making the rounds, and hackers quickly discovered two disk images in it: one is a small ramdisk image (694-5259-38.dmg) that kickstarts the other, larger, and sadly, encrypted image (694-5262-39.dmg). There are a lot of folks […]
