HOW TO – Make a Baking Tin Calendar
Sue McGettigan of Buzz and Bloom has a tutorial up on how to make a baking tin calendar using a cookie sheet and magnets you can make yourself. Link.
Month: January 2007
Adjustable macro camera stand
Figures! FrankG already made an adjustable macro camera stand, he writes – “I thought I’d forward this link to a digital magnifier that I built a couple of years ago to help me inspect & solder circuit boards…” – Link.
Resize Photos with Flickr
This is kind of a meta hack, since it’s one I use for every post to this blog, but it also serves as a quick and easy way to resize images for a number of other purposes. Like many blogs, this one has a posting width of 500 pixels, which we try to fill with […]
Mount All Kinds of Filesystems on Mac OS X
MacFUSE is a framework for loading filesystem modules in userspace. This means that you need to install one kernel extension for all the supported filesystems (and there are a lot: sshfs, ftpfs, read/write NTFS, and more) and then load the modules for each filesystem as needed. This is a lot cleaner than having to load […]
Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Vanderlin found an Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art project, under a bridge… – Link.
Make your own digital magnifier for cheap?
One of our favorite gadget sites (Red Ferret Journal) has a bit about a $100+ digital magnifier – pricey and something not a lot of us will buy, but you could use our past tip to make your portable digital magnifier with your cell phone camera…Link. I’ve heard about a few cameras for the elderly […]
Traveling Toy “Safety Net”
When riding in the car, my toddler is always dropping his toys (sometimes by accident and other times, I’m convinced, on purpose) and saying, “Uh oh!,” which isn’t quite as cute as it is frustrating after having to reach back dangerously or stop the car safely to return his toys to him several times in […]