Peter writes in – Tiring of South Africa’s incessant power outages, Mike built his own super DIY UPS. It’ll run multiple computers for over 5 hours and protects them from power surges. Beating brownouts: building a super UPS – Link.
Mazda celebrates its 40th Anniversary of the Rotary Engine by showing you how they’re made, the videos are incredible. Thanks Jason! – Link.
Get ready to get jealous. Holly Becker from Decor8 has posted about her trip to Sweden with pictures of all the great fabric and design items that she found. She is still there, and blogging, so check Decor8 for updates – Link.
Ansley of Bleu Arts points us to these fabulous Buccaneer’s Booty Socks knitting pattern by Anne Kuo Lukito. [ via ] Link.
Learning Arduino, programming, electronics? Here’s a MASSIVE tutorial on serial library and binary data with Arduinos – Ladyada is on a roll… Ah, Arduino, I remember when you were just crawling around and blinking LEDs. Now you’re ready to learn how to speak! In this lesson we’ll learn how to use the Serial Library to […]
Shannon points us to Crafty Daisies tutorial on how to make beaded stitch markers for knitting, using a toggle clasp (rather than a jump ring) so there’s no seam to catch on your yarn. Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rosendahl writes – I just finished this yesterday. Based on an original design that I built in college, this is an LED lightshow that plugs into any audio source. (I have it on top of our home entertainment system, so it shows whatever we’re listening to or watching.) The display […]
