HOW TO – Make a “Chicken Moat”
Lower the drawbridge! Build your own chicken moat. Surround your veggie garden with a moat full of hungry chickens ready to eat bad bugs and protect your garden [via] Link.
Month: February 2006
HOW TO – Make the continents on a big metal globe
Hal writes – “I’ve written an article about how to make the continents on a big metal globe. I suppose the interesting part is getting data imported from NOAA and then turning it into vectors so you can cut it out.” Link.
Encrypt your text files…
I store most of my important stuff in a series of text files, always have, and likely always will – on my Windows machine I’ve been trying this out – “Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is […]
Sony portable reader system – almost on sale
Sony has more information and pricing for their E-ink reader on SonyStyle – it’s going to cost $349 and “should” ship spring of 2006. [via] Link & info sheet. If you want to read ebooks now on a Sony reader, you can pick up the discontinued Japanese version (called the Librie), change the firmware and […]
Rip, mix, burn – your phone calls
$900 is crazy expensive, but this is a really neat idea – “The FeaturePhone 175 can be used as an ordinary recorder at any time. It can be used as a dictating device and to record meetings by using the internal microphone, but it can also be connected to a special conference microphone, available as […]
Homemade water cooling for everyone
Tom writes – “A guy in Croatia is hand-building a water cooling system for a PC, starting with a mockup render, then building a huge copper radiator from scratch. He’s just finished polishing the blocks for cooling the various chips.” Link. The copper work is amazing!
The Boy Mechanic by Popular Mechanics
Here’s another old Maker book – “The Boy Mechanic” published by Popular Mechanics, last printed in 1952. Offered thru Project Gutenberg, 700 Things for Boys to Do. First published in 1913, the PDF version is richly illustrated. You can download it from project Gutenberg here – Thanks Justin! Previous Maker-books here.