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This Instructable details a simple little hack to get USB power out of a VGA port, to power external disc drives, DVD players, and the like. All you need is a male to male VGA gender changer and a female plug from any old USB extension cable. VGA to USB power! Best Of Instructables Our […]
Photography courtesy of Terry A. Perdue – The Soul of an old heathkit by Dale Dougherty. Howard Nurse built hundreds of Heathkits, starting in the 1950s with a ham radio transmitter kit, the DX-40. As a kid, he loved to go to sleep reading the catalog, which was a window into the world of electronics […]
Flowers by Jan van Nuenen was created using a Monome controlling Ableton Live via a max/msp patch called boiingg. I really like the combining of music and video into one piece of performance art. Live generates a string of midinotes with velocity 0 to 20 and back to 0. The velocity channel is used to […]
Check it out – Makezine searching in the USA – Ranked by state with StateStats. This tool shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state, giving a ranking like the one you see in the left column. It then compares this ranking with other ways of ranking states, like average […]
Processing is officially out of Beta! Yep, after 162 iterations of the ever-so-popular open-source programming environment, they have officially released version1.0. Check out the link at the end of the post to download your copy today and start learning about this amazing program. [image: Solar demo, 2008. Robert Hodgin] Editors note: We posted about this […]
Paper based designs can lead to paper clip designs. It is good how he has each of the parts he needs ready to show. Look ma, no pliers! This one has a good narrative explaining the choices involved. The video in this one is blurry, but the design is neat, and the subtitles definitely help. […]
Unsatisfied with pricey iPhone docks Gekky Gadgets shows you how to make your own – The 3G iPhone doesn’t come with a dock , unlike the 2G version, instead you have to spend an extra $29 on an Apple iPhone 3G Dock. So we decided to make our own iPhone dock, that was easy for […]
