Hello there, I am Benjamin J Heckendorn, video game modder, author and part-time karaoke aficionado. You may have seen my site before located at www.benheck.com. I have been asked by MAKE to blog about some of the best PC mods I have seen, and so over the next few weeks I shall take you all […]
Check out TiTON’s IRON MAN PC mod… Goes perfect with the recent Iron Man suit powered by BeagleBoard and Arduino!
Plat’Home, makers of the awesome OpenBlockS MicroServer, had kind words (and an update for readers of the book!) for our Small Form Factor PCs book (by Matthew Weaver and Duane Wessels): The explanations are detailed and hands-on. Even though it’s filled to the brim with shell commands and console output the text is informative and […]
Paul writes – Structure Synth is an application for creating complex three-dimensional structures using simple rule sets. Using a few line of code, with statements condensed to a few characters, iterated multiforms can be generated consisting of thousands of individual objects. Developed by Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen, this free software is a direct attempt to produce […]
This is a wonderful confluence of two personal favorites: a ShareBrained Chronulator meter clock kit, and the artistic vision of clockmaker Roger Wood. I don’t know if this one is for sale or already spoken for. Side note on the Chronulator kit: they’ve been sold out for a while now, but Jared is hard at […]
We have a few cool resources for PC modding in addition to all the posts on MAKE and the articles in MAKE (print & digital edition)… One is a PDF (and book), the other a great book. Check’em out– Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs (PDF) – book too… Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs […]
Florence Nightingale: The Passionate Statistician… Nightingale created many novel graphics to present statistics that would persuade Queen Victoria of the need to improve sanitary conditions in military hospitals. The area of each region shows the number of soldiers who died of wounds, disease, or other causes, during each month of the Crimean War– When Florence […]
