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A small collection of electronic circuits for the hobbyist or student. Site includes over 100 circuit diagrams, links to related sites, commercial kits and projects, newsgroups and educational areas. Most of the circuits can be built with common components available from Radio Shack or salvaged from scrap electronic equipment. Most all of the circuits have been built and tested and believed to perform as described, however possible mistakes may be found. Link.

In the first volume of MAKE we had our aerial kite photography article- if you liked that, you’ve got to check out these aerial kite photography panoramas. Not only are they stunning, but Scott shows you how he made them (you only need to take two photos). Link.

Here’s how they make LEGOs, this little Flash movie shows the entire process from beginning to end. As an added bonus, the entire application is made in pixel art. Navigate, roll over and click the different steps in the LEGO making. Link.

….note planes, the site dedicated to making paper aeroplanes out of sticky notes :) A preliminary testing ground has been constructed in the office for the purpose of testing the planes for a number of attributes – speed, accuracy, stability and sexiness. Once the tests are complete, rest assured, the results will be posted here. Link.

Ashmore altered this NES ROM by removing all the enemies, prizes, architecture within the game. Now as a game player, all you can do is go for a walk. Eventually you run out of time and die. Users will need to download a NES emulator to play, if they don’t already have one. [via] Link.

Another board project…this one is HOW TO make a folding board game. Cut 4 7½”x7½ squares from pressed cardboard. I used Bienfang illustration board but any pressed (not corrugated) cardboard that’s about 1/16″ thick will do. When you’re done, you add all the images. Link.

Marko Bolowski, the chap behind the Sony Librie translation project, gave in to our desire to explore the Librie’s internals and released a tool which allows us to open a root console via USB to the Sony device. USBPD consists of a console program (that runs on the USBPD host device, i.e. any Linux computer) and a server program (that runs on the USBPD target device, i.e. our Sony Librie); the precompiled binaries (including sources, of course) can be downloaded here- Link.