Here is an interesting little video that shows a little ingenuity. Without a normal power source and you want to McGuyver a charge for your ipod?
The world’s most famous puzzle, simultaneously beloved and despised for it’s beautiful simple complexity, the Rubiks Cube has been frustrating gamers since Erno Rubik invented it back in 1974. Over the years many brave gamers have whole-heartedly taken up the challenge to restore a mixed Rubik’s cube to it’s colorful and perfect original configuration, only [...]
Some sci-fi props are cool, some are neat, and some are just plain corny. To qualify for cool, the prop has to strike a special nerve for me. The M41-A Pulse Rifle is such a prop. As seen in the 1986 movie “Aliens”, this prop became an instant classic. With is fully functional hero models [...]
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After going through the Napa Home and Garden Show this weekend. And then reading and looking at all the great pictures of the MakerFaire (Post with links next), I ran across this great tutorial on building a treehouse.
FamilyFun.com has a great step by step set of instructions to help you build a simple treehouse.
How [...]
I had seen pictures of this keyboard a number of times last week. But there where no write ups. So after seeing the upteenth note about it on a site or blog, I’m happy to point you to a nice detailed write up on how it was made. Complete with videos this [...]
AHHHHH! Oy! Alien Invasion! A Photoshop Tutorial…
Time again to talk about aliens! No, not the illegal kind. The green kind! What better way to kickoff the summer spirit than with explosions, death rays, and a little stormy weather - thanks to our friend, Photoshop.
Speaking of stormy weather - recently, in my hometown of Manchester, [...]
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I AM LOOKING TO VOLUNTEER IN THE GULF STATES DOING WORK FOR THE POOREST OF THE POOR> I SERVED IN CALCUTTER INDIA FOR TWO YEARS IN MOTHER TERESA HOSPITAL AND IN THE TRADE SCHOOL. BUILDING HANDS ON TEACHING LAB. I AM A PRACTICAL ENG I HAVE LIC. TO RUN SMALL POWER STATIONS> NOW RETIRED [...]
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Cool walk through how to create a LED Display for your PC for less then $20, includes directions, wiring diagrams (full and simplified) and sample code for running it. I like the simplicity, it’ll be easy to modify.
Chris comes through with a cool way to add some “bling” or additional functionality to a Computer [...]
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I ran acrossed this article titled High Performance WordPress on Asymptomatic. noting different ideas in which you can use caching to reduce the strain on your site, and survive a huge influx of traffic from a site such as Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, BoingBoing or Fark.
The main options (in which he goes indepth about) are using [...]
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I’ve been restoring an old 1942 Arcade Cabinet (now it seems for years), and have been frustrated for lack of time. But I’m always interested in similar projects.
Going through the Make: blog, I ran acrossed a Mini Galaga Arcade cabinet someone had made. And he finnally updated with more pictures. Turns out [...]
