StoneLion on Linux.com has a good article on putting Linux on that aging PC you might have collecting dust, he writes – “I took six distributions for a test run on an old machine, and also tried software that turns old hardware into a thin client. The bottom line: Linux is still quite suitable for […]
Michael sent in another old Maker-type book keeping with our theme over the weekend – Forgotten Arts and Crafts: rediscovering natural ways of making tools, shoes, furniture, and a variety of other items using methods that follow the grain of wood or the idiosyncrasies of a piece of stone.” Link. Have old Maker-ish books or […]
Here’s an interesting MP3 player, it’s a Swiss army knife music player. Supports MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG along with FM and voice recording, drag and drop music management (no weird software needed) – It also comes with a “flight mode” sleeve sans knives. Link.
A forum member named 71M seems to have created a Flash player / SWF renderer (clone) for the PSP and won the PSP SWF player coding contest on PSPHacks. This is pretty exciting, once the player is released we’ll see tons of new games, applications and more. Details are a little skimpy, but the word […]
Drawings and more from one of the original Makers – Leonardo da Vinci. [via] Link. Pictured here – drawing of a flying machine, 1488.
Electronics Infoline is an electronics schematic and science fair projects directory, lots of projects to build and check out. Thanks Bulan! Link. Pictured here, a filter circuit board for earthworm seismic data acquisition.
Here’s a dot matrix web printer, it prints whatever you have to say on a printer in Switzerland. It has live video and audio so it’s some weird retro / futuristic chat with atoms. Webtruck sent in this technical info & Link to print.
