Month: August 2005
We covered the Sony 
HOW TO read mailing lists as RSS feeds hack…
Here’s an overview of a clever email-to-RSS hack I was forwarded. If you subscribe to an email mailing list, you can set blogger.com posting to the email address you signed up with. So, each time you get an email, it’ll post that to a blog you have set up. Then blogger.com automatically has a feed you can subscribe to. (Make sure it’s not a private mailing list of course.)
HOW TO Build a Helmet Light
It’s that time of year again…time to bust out the headlight for a midweek-after-work-night ride! But, in order to have a fun and safe nighttime mountain bike adventure you need one critical piece of equipment…a bright light to adorn your helmet and illuminate the trail ahead. The only dilemma is, a good light system can run between $200-$300 bucks. I don’t know about the rest of you, but that’s a little rich for my blood. That’s why last year I decided to take the MacGyver approach and build my own Link.
Transform bad Ikea speaker stands into good speaker stands
A simple project to add a platform to Ikea speaker stands, so they can actually be used with decent speakers. I’m starting to see a trend with Ikea mods, folks are buying them as cheap parts for other projects. Thanks fluffy! Link.
MAKE @ OSCON
MAKE will be at OSCON for the rest of the week. OSCON is the annual open source convention, looks like over 2,000 people are here. MAKE will be presenting at the O’Reilly booth throughout the week (Linux devices, PSP hacking…) and doing a presentation on Friday (DIY culture stuff). Here are some quick photos I took before anyone got here. Link. Oh, if there are any sessions or MAKER-like people you want me to interview post up in the comments.
HOW TO make Beer! From the shadows…
MAKE pals -from the shadows- have a new episode out. “Box 5.0: Beer! Science. Art. Technology”. This episode kicks it off with the science of beer at the Anchor Brewing Company, then moves on to “Home Brewing 101”, and tops it off with an exclusive look at the KegBot! Link.
Play Wolfenstein83 on a TI-83 Calculator
Is there anything the TI’s can’t do?…it’s not one of those slow and unplayable basic games. This is a real-time 3d-raycaster based on the game by id. Also includes an on-calc mapeditor. Link.
