Home-made hammers
On Street Use, Kevin Kelly has a few pics of hand-made bike-building tools, spotted in bike shops in Rwanda. Rwandan Hammers
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HDD grinding wheel?
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
GeekDad’s Maker’s Notebook review
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 […]
YBox2 Web2.0 dashboard (see it this Saturday@AS220 Fools Ball)
I’m assembling a collection of gadgets and gizmos to exhibit at the AS220 Fools Ball (Providence RI, Saturday June 28, 8pm), and I knew the YBox2 had to be part of it. But I’m lazy and in a hurry, so instead of writing some a new widget in Spin, I wrote a fresh backend for […]
LittleBits discrete components system prototype
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 […]
AVR baud rate calculator (and fuse calculator)
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 […]
How To – Revive scratched plastic lenses
Owners of UV coated plastic lenses take note – The last time I got glasses, I let the salesman talk me into the UV/Anti-Glare coating, which I’d never had before. After time, the coating began to develop tiny, really fine scratches, which kept building and building. They got so bad, I was going to get […]