HOW TO: Make Roach Clip Memo/Picture Clips
DIY Maven on Curbly has a tutorial on how to make handy memo or picture clips. I love the use of vintage or old thead spools too! Link.
Month: March 2007
Peter Callesen’s Papercut Art
It’s amazing to think that artist Peter Callesen’s can create such intricate worlds all from sheets of plain white paper which can be large scale like Castle (2007) above, or small scale from a single sheet of sized A4 paper. From the site, “A common theme in many of my works is a reinterpretation of […]
HOW TO – Set up your own chemistry lab
CHEMISTRY: An exciting and profitable hobby, Popular Science 1932 WITH simple equipment requiring surprisingly little financial outlay, you can build in your home a small chemical laboratory that will provide a fascinating hobby. Here you may amaze your friends with seemingly magical chemical tricks, as by the manufacture of paint that shines in the dark […]
Apple Lisa Emulator Released
Forget Y2K or the 2007 Daylight Savings Time change, fire up an Apple Lisa, and experience life as it was meant to be lived between 1981 and 1995. Ted Hodges of Low End Mac has a complete writeup on the recently-released Lisa emulator: I had heard about the Lisa, but I had never had a […]
DIY laptop
Chris writes – Ever thought to yourself, “Hey, I could probably build my own computer if I really tried.” Or maybe, “Man, I really need a laptop with an embarrassingly low-resolution display, a processor that goes at 256 Instructions/sec, and I’ve only got $50 to spend!” Well, that’s how I got here! It took me […]
Sleep Your Mac by Email
With a combination of Automator actions, one line of Apple Script, and a Mail rule, you can make your Mac sleep by sending your account an email with “sleeper” in the subject line. Of course, you could use this same trick to do a number of things via email remote control. Sleep your mac by […]
Make: Space – Tethered Test
After getting a few winks at the banks lake motel our posse headed out to a remote undisclosed location. Our team of crackerjack location planners used balloon tracking software to compile weather and windspeed data to simulate our flight and picked a location out the flight maps that would keep us from landing on railroad […]