Lunar eclipse
mushmouth26 from the MAKE Flickr photo pool posted up a picture from tonight’s lunar eclipse, nice work! If you took photos, post them up in the photo pool! Lunar eclipse on Flickr – Link.
Month: March 2007
The week in tools
Chuck has this week’s installment of “The week in tools”– We looked at lots of practical tools this week, including some uber-inexpensive interlocking flooring that’s great for anywhere you stand a lot – like the workbench – and costs about a quarter as much as the tool-store standard, a five-outlet extension cord adapter that snaps […]
DIY SPACE – Make: Video Podcast
Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space! We’re using weather balloons to go up to approximately 100k feet armed with 4 cameras… 20 megapixels of […]
DIY SPACE (PDF)
This project took a bit longer than a week and a total of 16 people contributed to the project. The only way this worked was to use a wiki. Each team member posted anything they learned or links and info they found on the wiki. All this research and work is now compiled on the […]
Howto: Recover Text From Blurred Images
Every once in a while, you’ll come across an image or video where sensitive information has been redacted using a blur or mosaic filter. Just take a look at license plates on COPS or do a search for “google check” and you’ll see a few common examples. Putting an image through a blur filter is […]
DOSBox 0.70 Released
The DOSBox crew has released version 0.70, which includes a whole mess of improvements: Speed up the dynamic cpu core (certain games get much faster). Add a dynamic fpu on x86 hosts. Improve the cycle guessing code (and make it default). Better and more configurable joystick support. Improve the image and fat drives. Add nullmodem […]
Crochet Bowling Bag
Amy of the Hook and I points us to Monster Crochet’s amazing flaming hot crochet bowling-style bag. Check out the amazing detailed construction with zippers and everything! Link.