Cpikas posted up about a great looking book series- “The coolest old books — the Foxfire series. Everything from log cabin building to dressing a pig. It’s all Appalachian crafts.” Link. The Foxfire Book : Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining […]
Here’s a simple mod for iPod socks, add a couple of buttons and keep the earbuds cord in place Link. See previous iPod sock hackery here.
Here’s an interesting MP3 player, it’s a Swiss army knife music player. Supports MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG along with FM and voice recording, drag and drop music management (no weird software needed) – It also comes with a “flight mode” sleeve sans knives. Link.
A forum member named 71M seems to have created a Flash player / SWF renderer (clone) for the PSP and won the PSP SWF player coding contest on PSPHacks. This is pretty exciting, once the player is released we’ll see tons of new games, applications and more. Details are a little skimpy, but the word […]
Wayn3w pointed out this great ebook from the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation – “Things To Make by Archibald Williams – Whether you simply want to travel back into the mind of a young boy at the beginning of the twentieth century, or want to try your hand at some interesting projects in carpentry, machinery, […]
NickTASC writes – “Perfect for all makers that enjoy reading on a lazy day. 441 pages of projects from 1882 aimed at young boys looking for out door fun. Way too many projects to list, but a few of the chapters cover: War Kites, Home-made fishing tackle, Stocking and keeping a marine aquarium, Underwater telescopes, […]
Here’s a good article about managing your photos, it’s timely, a few Makers out there have emailed about managing their photos from their projects (before they put them in the MAKE Flickr photo pool!) – “The explosion of digital imaging has left professional and serious amateur photographers drowning in photographs, with little guidance on how […]
