Month: March 2007

45 Record wreaths

Add this to the list of (possible) things you can do with old records… make wreaths – Link. Related: Animated records – Link. Glasses made from vinyl records – Link. Play Records with a Laser – Link. How phonographs records are made – Link. Digitizing Records and Tapes – Link. Convert vinyl records to MP3s… […]

Import Your Old Mail to GMail With GML

Import Your Old Mail to GMail With GML

GMail Loader is a cross-platform Python utility that can import mail messages from several mail storage formats (including mBox and MailDir) straight into your GMail account. It doesn’t currently support Outlook’s PST format, but there are utilities for converting PST to mBox format (see below). Eventually, support for direct access to IMAP will be added, […]

Twitter for Make/Craft/Hacks

Bre @ MAKE writes: Some people are obsessed with twitter these days. We’re not endorsing it, but if you’re a twitterer and you want to stay up to date with the makezine blog, the craftzine blog, and the hackszine blog, then you can follow them on twitter and get updates about posts while mobile or […]

555 timer origami

The 555 timer, part of just about every beginner electronics project is now forever paper-ized as a giant origami sculpture. The PDF is included so you can make your own! The 555 timer IC was first introduced around 1971 by the Signetics Corporation as the SE555/NE555 and was called “The IC Time Machine” and was […]