Watching TV, one drop a time… – “Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system: […]
Kabukistar writes – “This instructable will show you how to make those nifty 3D virtual-reality “tours,” that you see on some web-pages, in Windows, using entirely free software. If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, this is a VR panorama from WWU’s campus, which I’ll be making for an example in this instructable…” […]
MAKE reader cparada writes in with this addition to our previous maker “workshops” post… – “Here’s an interesting variation: Garages in Baltic Russia. [These are in Murmansk (МýрманÑк), per Wikipedia: “a city in the extreme northwest of Russia with a seaport on the Kola Bay, 12km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of […]
Red Scorpion writes – “I have always been frustrated with the performance of my laptop Wi-Fi. I tried many solutions to improve the signal from far away routers, but few of these worked. I’ll cover a solution that I came up with that finally did yield some results for me.” [via] – Link. Related: MAKE: […]
One of my favorite sites, Ping Mag, has an overview of a lot of neat art and design projects from Tokyo Design Week 2006 – I like this pewter table cast on the beach from Max Lamb – [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member sparktography has some nice shots of the MAKE draw bot! – “Taken at Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 – Seattle’s premiere un-conference featuring the best and brightest of technology all under the same roof for 24 hours learning from each other, and exploring our passions. Most shots taken with a Lensbaby […]
MAKE reader Cuthbert writes – “If you don’t like carrying two headsets with you (one for using Skype on your laptop and another for your cell phone) then here is a small adapter that will convert a cell phone headset with a 2.5mm jack plug to the 2x 3.5mm jack plugs used by PCs.” – […]
