Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Every now and then a paper project catches my eye and I just know I have to share. This is one of them. Here is a 1/48th scale paper model of the Apollo lunar lander that will blow your mind. the detail is breath taking. He’s got more paper spaceships (or links to them) on his site as well. This is going to keep me busy for a while…
Over on Boing Boing I saw a group on Flicker I just had to join. It’s a group for people that like to put stickers on their laptops. Here I thought I was the only one that ever did that. Anyway, I joined up and posted two photos of my stickered laptops. I traded the Gateway away for an old Mac Powerbook that made it’s way to a happier home via Ebay years ago but the Toshiba I still use. It’s getting pretty old and tired these days, a 1.2 GHz Celeron just can’t cope with XP. I’m hoping to get rid of it soon so I’m not going to add any more stickers to it. Yeah, I value the stickers more than the laptop I guess. Anyway, go have a look at the Flickr group and see all the gummed goodness.
[via Boingboing]
I was doing research for an LED project and I ran across this site that sells all sorts of LEDs, fluorescent lamps, and very cool nixie tubes. Just thought I’d mention this because nixie tubes look real cool. So if you need some for a project you know where to go now.
LEDsales. LEDs, nixies and other cool stuff. – Nixie tubes and accessories
A few months ago a co-worker received an iPod
I just pinched two large clips together to for a back rest and used a small clip at a foot so the iPod won’t slide off.
The Post-it notes are on there to keep the finish on the Ipod looking good, I hear they scratch pretty easy.
So with just stuff around the office I saved my friend a few bucks and let him view his iPod in true hacker style.
If you every play with webcams you quickly discover that the field of view just isn’t what is should be. These guys have put together a nice little hacking tutorial on how to mate a door peephole lens with an ordinary low end digital camera. Now I’ve been doing this for some time, either with peepholes like these guys or with some random lenses that I happen to have in my junk box (meniscus, plano convex, convex, etc.). Years ago I used to have a web cam pointed at a TV with a plano concave lens taped in front of it to expand the field of view. Worked great, it was fun to mess with. Adding a super wide angle lens to a low end camera will yield some pretty cool results, I suggest that you run out and pick a few peepholes up, they don’t cost much. I got mine and Home Depot for around $5USD. Heat up the hot glue gun and have fun!
[via Hack-a-day]
The Aggregate: Fisheye Digital Imaging For Under Twenty Dollars
