Month: February 2007

Dorkbake Wrap Up

Carla Sinclair of CRAFT and Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE were judges at the first dorkbot this past Saturday night at Machine Project in LA. Mark says, “It wasn’t easy choosing the best oven out of the eight that made it to the finals. Each oven was unique: a cardboard box with foam insulation, a disk […]

Bypass Pay WiFi With Ping Tunnel

Bypass Pay WiFi With Ping Tunnel

A lot of hotels, coffee shops, and airports are sporting pay-per-hour 802.11 service these days. In most cases, you’ll be presented with what appears to be an open hotspot and a DHCP server will give you an IP address. When you open your web browser, though, a transparent proxy will deliver you a page that […]

Egg Drop Strategies

Egg Drop Strategies

Update: I’ll be testing firing contraptions this week, wait to build your egg drop safety container until after Friday so that you can see the firing contraption in the podcast. Rules may change at that time to accomadate something like a giant crossbow! On February 13th, Brady and I will be hosting Ignite Seattle, a […]