Add an integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 (1)
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Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes... So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn't want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that's what I decided to do... Interesting, I wonder if this maker's project will end up being standard issue in the next round of ...
MacGyver episodes (1)
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You can watch (at least) 5 full episodes of MacGyver on YouTube now via Lifehacker. Update: Veoh has over 100 episodes! More: The MakeShift challenge invites MAKE readers to submit their solutions to a problem posed by the author, Lee D. Zlotoff (creator of MacGyver). Check out the past MakeShifts as well as the latest, use your skills to manage an outbreak of unknown origin on a passenger plane. Read more | Permalink | Comments ...
MAKE: Blog: Making math "uncool" is hurting America... (with math is cool round up) (6)
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If you read all the articles about America falling behind in math and science you can't help but be bummed out, but that's not how we roll at MAKE... Below is a snip from a recent report about how we're collectively making math uncool, instead of pointing fingers or complaining, I'd like to ask everyone to post up in the comments on what *you're* doing with your kids to make math more fun and "cool"...
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Stolee said:
This goes along with the idea that anyone can make tons of money playing the stock market, which doesn't follow mathematical principles. If only people knew real math, they would learn to not trust such arbitrary systems and everything would be valued on a more realistic scale. Off my soapbox.
Banksy's "The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill" (1)
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Wooster Collective's review of the new Banksy show in NYC, it's a pet store with singing chicken nuggets... While New Yorkers have been consumed by the stock market meltdown, a tiny little pet store quietly opened four days ago at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City. There are no puppies or kittens in the windows here. Instead, a live leopard lounges on a tree ...
Mr Lee now fetches $ (1)
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Ladyada writes- If only all cats could make money for their owners! ;) You may remember “Mr Lee” the cat who was outfitted with a matchbook-camera that would allow the owner to ’see what the cat saw’. It was quite a popular website a few months ago, and it seems that a business opportunity presented itself. Meeting the demand for catcam technlogy, you can now outfit your pet like Mr Lee by purchasing a variety ...
BrickCon photos (4)
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Massive photo pool on Flickr with over 4,000 photos from last weekend's BrickCon, over 3,200 attended in Seattle, WA to see some of the biggest and best LEGO creations on earth. Here's a nice set via The Brother's Brick, Zombie Apocafest! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!
Hidden USB storage (4)
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Jay Walker's library (13)
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Jay Walker's Library is amazing! Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects—on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor—the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear ...
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Matthew said:
this is amazing.
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Will said:
Woah.
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Monkey said:
There is something absolutely wonderful about this that wells up desire from deep within me.
Solar roll ups (3)
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Interesting company that makes solar tubes- FREMONT, California -- Solar cells have been converting sunlight into electricity for years, but scientists have been much less successful at turning that technology into money. Now, in a staid Bay Area office park, a converted hard-drive factory with a shiny new façade has begun churning out unconventional solar tubes that could change the economics of solar power. The highly-automated factory belongs to Solyndra, a three-year-old company that has ...
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Will said:
No silicon, mass produced, very easily scalable. Sounds good to me.
Little Big Computer (3)
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Wow, upsilandre made a computer in the PS3's LittleBigPlanet beta. It's a mechanical calculator that can do addition and subtraction: 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, 70 emitters... Here's a video! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Gadgets | Digg this!
Artist has hard time getting back in to US for drawing of a crocheted SUV (5)
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What the heck is going on here? An artist had hard time getting back in to the USA for a sketch of a crocheted SUV she was working on... For copyright infringement? Keene Valley resident Jerilea Zempel was detained at the U.S. border this summer because she had a drawing of a sport-utility vehicle in her sketchbook. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers told Zempel they suspected her of copyright infringement. She was released after ...
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Dave said:
My nation is fucked and I think the rational choice for the rest of the world is not to cross our borders. Let's change this, please.
Tracking the time kids spend online - make your own internet usage tracker (1)
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Linus Torvald has a blog and out of the gate he has a great post on a kid's internet usage tracker he made, nice! Linus writes... ...I'm happy with the kids being comfy with a computer, but we've set some basic rules for it. Notably, they can't just play all those flash games all the time. And sometimes, if they don't do their homework, we disallow it entirely, or - happily more commonly - we ...
Packing material looks like a giant alien spaceship (1)
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Jason Rogenes turns packing packing material into glowing obelisks at Manuf®actured: The conspicuous transformation of everyday objects via BBG. Artist Jason Rogenes first found his raw material while living in the commerce-driven, big-box store, strip mall environment of Los Angeles where polystyrene was inexpensive and easily procured. In this abundant byproduct of consumer culture, originally designed to protect packaged electronics and other products, he saw the potential for material transformation. For Manuf®actured, he has created ...
Upgrade your Arduino projects (2)
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Ladyada writes- Running out of space in your big Arduino project? Good news! Finally, after months of backorders, one can now buy the latest improvement to the 'ATmega8′ line of chips: the ATmega328's. The '328 has 32K of flash, and 2K of SRAM. Basically its got the capacity of an ATmega32 but in a slimmer package. These chips are notable for their ability to drop-in replace the ATmega168. So that means if you have an ...
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Kevin said:
Azeem, i think its something related to our ATMega microprocessors
Anti-slip stickers (1)
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Nice skakeboard grip tape pattern made with subhead anti-slip stickers via BB. Usually used for slippery areas, designer Jesse Milden has a lot of nice patterns for keeping humans upright. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
Madonna made from dice (1)
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Robert keeps doing interesting things, when he's not making the coolest visualizer (now part of iTunes) he's making a giant Madonna out of dice... via BBG. He writes... Those that know me know I am a sucker for multitudes. Many of anything intrigues me more than single things ever could. So it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to find out that I took 2925 dice and formed them into a bitmap image of the ...
Hand grenade mouse (5)
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Very cool looking homemade / modded hand grenade mouse from a Russia modding forums. Looks pretty easy to remake... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Computers | Digg this!
Pole dance - Strain sensor+ LED experiment (2)
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This is interesting, an interactive pole dance experiment that uses strain gauges to change the lighting and colors by Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi. The best part about this video is you get to see a couple Japanese hacker/maker/engineers test it out. Well, at least that was my favorite part. Somewhat related, here's a nice exchange about using a strain gauge from a scale to weigh a keg, clever! Read more | Permalink | Comments ...
