Month: March 2007

Atmel AVR design contest 2006

Atmel AVR design contest 2006

The winners of the Atmel AVR design contest were recently posted, here’s a really interesting one, Doggie 911 – The code from the projects are included too. The Doggie 911 electronic monitoring system enables dog owners and vets to monitor the patterns of epileptic seizures in dogs. The real-time, ATmega32-based system logs the number of […]

Homemade laundry detergent

Homemade laundry detergent

This is neat, how to make your own phosphate free laundry detergent Gowithflo writes – I wanted to A. Save money B. Be ecologically phosphate free If you learn from my mistakes your results will surpass mine in both respects, I am sure.In addition to my clothes coming out “so fresh and so clean, clean” […]

Colbert Report Recap

You can check out last night’s segment on the Colbert Report with Mark Frauenfelder, Editor in Chief of MAKE via Comedy Central. – Link. From Phil @ MAKE: Hello heros (fans of the Colbert report) – Today Mark Frauenfelder our editor-in-chief @ MAKE was on the show. Here’s a bit about us… MAKE brings the […]

TNT, Round 15: Shoot for the Moon

TNT, Round 15: Shoot for the Moon

The latest TNT (Tips-N-Tools) is up, this one includes a wonderful hour-long video of Erin McKean, editor of the New American Oxford Dictionary, talking about dictionaries (it may not sound like the most exciting topic on the planet, but it’s really worth checking out!), a great service for making your own books, encouragement to relive […]