From the MAKE Flickr Pool: user fibra has refilled dental floss containers with soldering wire! Perfect for keeping your shop organized, but be sure not to mix it up with the one in the bathroom. For all the time it must take to wind this, I dare say there’s a market for these things.
Perfect use for an old hard drive, a grinder! via Hackaday. More: HOW TO – Making a hard drive laser oscilloscope. HOW TO – Build a 15000 rpm Tesla Turbine using hard drives … HOW TO – Make hard drive speakers. Hard drive art… Old hard drive orchestra. Make – Volume 12 – $1000 Wind […]
On Street Use, Kevin Kelly has a few pics of hand-made bike-building tools, spotted in bike shops in Rwanda. Rwandan Hammers
Now you can add “grinder/sander” to the list of goofy things you can do with a corrupted hard disk drive. Turn a Dead Hard Drive into a Grinder or Sander
The fine fellows at GeekDad wrote a lovely review of the Maker’s Notebook. Here are some excerpts: The front and back cover are pure cyan with a white dashed grid — basically, a canvas for your creativity (see photo). Maybe you want to color-code the covers by topic or date, maybe you just want to […]
I love all of the beginner electronics kits, components, and building systems that cottage industrialists are developing. Here’s an early prototype page for a component system being devised by Media Lab grad and Eyebeam-er Ayah Bdeir and NY interaction designer Jeff Hoefs. The project is sponsored by SmartDesign. I love the use of magnets to […]
20 Mhz Baud UBRR % of error 300 4166 0.0 600 2082 0.0 1200 1041 0.0 2400 520 0.0 4800 259 0.2 9600 129 0.2 14400 86 0.2 19200 64 0.2 28800 42 0.9 38400 32 1.4 57600 21 1.4 76800 15 1.7 115200 10 1.4 Lady Ada Rants: Yes, you could always use the […]
