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This Flickr contest challenges you to create the most off-the-wall USB peripheral you can think of. Check out the URL above and tag your photos for the USB Flickr group. Note – it should say “prizes” not “prices” above. USB-ish contest, [via]
Besides the venerable Jake von Slatt, one of the other retro-tech fabricators whose work always tickles my brass is Richard “Doc” Nagy, who self-deprecatingly introduces his online moniker with: “Datamancer” is my dorkish, haXor-sexy, 1337 Interweb nickname. Yeah I’m a dweeb…” Honestly, I don’t know many dweebs with such serious shop chops. What is a […]
Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
Jake looks to the future of making modern tech look like it’s from the past, and as usual, the attention to detail from his Steampunk Workshop is stunning. The inexorable march of technology has rendered my 4:3 aspect ratio 19″ LCD mod and my pump-less water cooled PC obsolete, so when I saw at 24″ […]
These students came up with a great solution for expanding their wireless network. Apparently there wasn’t any power source available for the network repeater, so they build a wind turbine. These should be on every rooftop, in every city. Dan built the charging circuit himself. Essentially the windmill recharges two 12V batteries and the circuit […]
uC Hobby has a review of six prototyping boards available from Wright Hobbies. Wright is a new sponsor of uC Hobby and the boards will be given away as prizes for contests on the site. The board seen here can either be used in its square format or broken into a round board for round […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr pool member Planetwrite, furthered the rickroll meme the best way a maker could – by fixing up a fresh batch of laser emblazoned rick rolls! It seems no medium is safe from this phenomenon. – Rick rolls on Flickr Related: RollTube rick rolls every YouTube video CRAFT:Blog – […]
