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MAKEcation Cooler Hacking Challenge

MAKEcation Cooler Hacking Challenge

Whew! All of that soldering and kid-wrangling worked up a powerful thirst. So, you drag over the ol’ Coleman and crack open a few cold ones. Sitting there drinking your beers (be they root or hops) with your newly-trained team of solder-droids, you all start contemplating that old faithful camping cooler. Maybe it needs some […]

Kingpin’s Defcon 17 badge

Kingpin’s Defcon 17 badge

Every year, Joe Grand, aka Kingpin, aka The Sultan of Solder, and hardware hacker extraordinaire, designs the badges for Defcon, the annual hacker convention in Vegas. The badges are more than just conference ID badges, they have electronics on-board that do something, and conferees have to figure out what that something is. There’s also a […]

DIY tilt-shift lens

DIY tilt-shift lens

Maker Bhautik Joshi built this excellent tilt-shift lens using a T-mount adapter, rubber plumbing coupling, and a medium format lens found on eBay. It may not be as precise as a conventional tilt-shift lens, but it does produce an excellent image at a fraction of the cost.