Steam turtle vs steam hare
Crabfu SteamWorks writes – “A simple hack of the Tamiya turtle kit, to be powered by steam. Including a video of the race between steam turtle and steam walker(hare) -see who wins!” – Link.
Month: May 2006
How paper is made
We’re catching up with the “Cool stuff being made” videos, here is the first one – “Years ago, with the advances in electronic communications and commerce, the futurists all predicted that we would soon be in a “paper-less” society. Yet here we are in 2006, using a s much paper as ever. Way back when, […]
How tennis balls are made
The second video from Pat – “For the outdoor tennis players out there, the season here in the Mid-Atlantic is in full swing (get it…?), so our thoughts turn to whacking the fuzzy ball. This is another video from our friends at South Carolina Educational TV. It’s a 7-1/2-minute tour of a Wilson tennis ball […]
HOW TO – Fix an Apple Mighty Mouse
Macfreak writes – “My Mighty Mouse stopped scrolling down, only upwards. The cleaning method as mentioned on the ‘Apple website’ didn’t solve the problem, so as a last resort: operation Mouse!” – Link.
Fixing a Durabrand PVS-1960 DVD player
While this might not be that useful for most folks, it’s always good to hear about someone fixing something as opposed to just tossing it… John sent in his how to on fixing a burned-up Durabrand PVS-1960 portable DVD player – Link.
XBOX Controller Controller
Tony has a great Xbox controller controller project! – “What is this? It’s a system that will allow basically anything that can talk udp to control an Xbox. Why would you want to do this? I have no idea. I have my reasons, maybe you have some too. How this works: The XBOX buttons are […]
Shadow oil lamp… To MAKE LED shadow lamp…
These acid-etched, stainless steel, oil lamp shadow projectors look pretty neat, you light them and they cast a shadow from a cut shape – I’m thinking of remaking these using the 9V LED battery project and cutting some metal, not sure what the shape(s) will be and what will be the best/cheaperst way to do […]