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Posted on 11.29.06 by John @ 6:03 am
I recently discovered that Air & Space magazine has a web site. Who would have thought? Filed under: Historic Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.29.06 by John @ 5:56 am
Filed under: Computers and Technology Comments: None |
As the big consumer holiday approaches we must prepare for the possible high tech gifts that we are about to receive, or at least hope to receive. If monitors are on your list you might want to familiarize yourself with the many Digital Visual Interface versions that are out there. Seems that you can’t get away with a handful of simple RCA cables these days.|
Posted on 11.29.06 by John @ 5:49 am
Filed under: Computers and News Comments: None |
I’m a big fan of Protopage mainly because I forget things. Think of it as your plastic homepage. Very versatile and flexible. There has been a new release that adds all sorts of new features to it like streaming video windows, DIY widgets, Flickr photo feeds, and an improved RSS reader. |
Posted on 11.26.06 by John @ 1:24 am
Filed under: Cool and DIY and Japan and Paper Comments: 1 Comment |
Don’t throw away those used metro cards and business cards! Make your very own fleet of paper airplanes from them. Heck, even post cards are fair game for your air force. Oh yeah, you don’t need to stick to fixed wing aircraft, you can build a |
Posted on 11.26.06 by John @ 1:03 am
Filed under: DIY and Japan and Paper Comments: None |
Celebrate the holidays with your own movable paper Santa!|
Posted on 11.25.06 by John @ 11:46 pm
Just as Christmas rounds the corner the notion of LED Christmas lights shows up on the shelves of popular stores. Those things are juts too inviting not to hack up, eh? I mean you get like 70 LEDS or various colors in pre-wired sockets. How cool is that? The obvious hack is to ween them off from AC power and let them suck on batteries. The hack listed below is pretty much for the always on non-flashing LED or old fashioned incandescent bulb strings but I’m betting that the ones with the cycle controllers can also be hacked. I’ll be doing this in a few days, I’ll let you know how it works out. Try the hack out and have fun bending them to you will. Muhahaha! Battery Christmas Lights: How to convert Xmas lights to run on batteries/DC (regular or LED) Filed under: Cool and Hacked and Mods and Technology and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.25.06 by John @ 9:54 am
[via ektopia] Filed under: Cool and Mad Science and Technology Comments: None |
‘. How cool is that? |
Posted on 11.25.06 by John @ 9:43 am
Filed under: Hacked and Mad Science and Mods and Technology and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
I got an email from the boys over at |
Posted on 11.24.06 by John @ 11:48 am
Filed under: Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.23.06 by John @ 9:04 am
Yeah, so why should you buy high tech toys when you can build your own? This is a very sweet project I hope to see other people try this as well. "This is hybrid screen/graphics tablet which makes me drool. The price however makes me weep, £2000ish for the 20" version. They also do a thing called the PL at 17" for a more reasonable £500ish. Occasionally they appear on the site in their bargain basement ex-demo section. Still hard for me to justify though. Then I had one of those "spang" moments. None of the tech involved is new and all is readily available second hand, it’s just a matter of putting it together. My Wacom at work will happily operate with the stylus off the surface, after that it’s just an LCD screen, right? Anyhow where’s the fun in just buying something? Experiment - what depth does a tablet work to? Stack of paper says 9mm before accuracy starts to suffer noticeably. An LCD with an EL film backlight has to be thinner than that. So here’s the challenge, What is the least amount of money I can build a Cintiq style device for? [via MAKE] Filed under: Computers and DIY and Design and Hacked and Mad Science and Mods Comments: 3 Comments |
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Posted on 11.23.06 by John @ 8:21 am
This brings back memories… I grew up in Fargo and I remember driving past this massive tower a number of times. All the photos you see of it just don’t do this structure justice. When I was a kid the TV station was called KTHI-11 but the name was changed a few years back to KVLY-11. The tower is still just as impressive as it once was and is once again the worlds tallest supported structure. It was pushed to second tallest by a transmitter tower in Poland in 1974 but that tower collapsed in 1991. At a height of 2,062 feet it serves the North Dakota and Minnesota area with a footprint of over 190 miles in diameter. [via digg] Filed under: Historic Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.21.06 by John @ 1:10 pm
I know these aren’t the homemade variety but they are still fantastic. Filed under: Cool and Historic and Science and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.21.06 by John @ 12:34 pm
This guy makes cathode ray tubes from scratch! This has officially buried the needle on my clever meter. Using phosphor from common florescent tubes he coats the inside of a glass tube and evacuates the air. When an electron beam exits a small hole in the discharge tube that is mounted inside the phosphor glows. He has even added deflection coils (magnets) to create an oscilloscope! You can see some videos here, here, and here. His other projects include a photo cell made from salt water and copper , a rectifier made from borax, and even a Homemade Tunnel Diode and RF Oscillator. He also has built his own vacuum tubes. Talk about hardcore! Filed under: Cool and DIY and Mad Science and Mods and Science Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 11.16.06 by John @ 6:46 pm
Why someone didn’t think of this sooner is beyond me. A towel that will turn you into a ghost. Brilliant! You can either buy one for $30 or grab some scissors and make your own. Perfect for kids that like to play at bath time or if your drying off in an Islamic country (apparently exposed skin drives them mad with uncontrollable lust). [via core77] Filed under: Cool and DIY Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 11.14.06 by John @ 10:21 pm
If your a fan of the classic Sci-fi TV series Star Trek your going to love this. StarTrek - Behind the Scenes Restoration [Shore leave and an extra ration of Romulain ale to Bill for sending me this link] Filed under: Cool and Historic and Photography Comments: None |
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