Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Another wonderful illustration by my friend in Seattle. I’m thinking of asking permission to have a few printed and getting them laminated and leaving few on the flight I’m on.
snakes. are now out of my system. and on a plane on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
I saw this and just smiled… You have to read the entire story on to fully understand the big joke. Normal people are so much fun to mess with!
I’ve had to temporally pull my Google based ads off my site because they just don’t load. Whatever servers normally serve up those little potential pennies are having a bit of a rest. Could this be the mark of a system wide problem with the 800 pound search gorilla? Maybe it’s just a local thing, someone forgot to plug a router back in or perhaps it’s the work of a group looking to get in the news. Anyway, you all get a break form the ads for a while. Keep coming back though if that’s why you were here in the first place. 🙂
This is on hell of a cool device. It lets you link up a vector monitor, that’s a TV with X and Y inputs.. Oh wait, you say you don’t have one of those? No problem, you can use a two channel oscilloscope. Huh? You don’t have one of those either? OK, well your a little low on luck, but if you look around I’m sure you can find one. If your truly hard core you could pony up the bucks and buy a classic Vectrex game system. These can be driven by the ZVG. I used to own a Vectrex… Pardon me, I get a little emotional about that. I wish I’d never sold it. Anyway, where was I, oh yeah. The ZVG takes a vector monitor and lets you run vector MAME games on it vie you computer. So you can have the stunning quality of a crisp vector display while you kick some Fuseball ass
[via Retro Thing]
If you like to make 3D images with your camera this tip on the ‘stereo window’ will help you out quite a bit. I know I should go back through many of my images and nudge them around a but but you know how those things go… By the way, if your looking for a smashing (and free) program to make you images, go get the latest version of StereoPhoro Maker.
I have all the parts to make one pf these, I just have to get off my rear and put everything together. The project uses LEDs (red, green, blue) and a PIC miceocontroller to cycle through combinations that are set via three DIP switches. in fact, this is exactly what you need:
– 3 transistors
– one PIC 16F628 and a programmer
– a small perforated circuit board
– some resistors
– a battery holder (4 x AAA)
– a nice casing
– diy silicons (clear caulking – John)
– red, green and blue extra bright leds
Easy, eh?
[via MAKE]