While it may not be a masterpiece of information design, Jeff Breakey’s complete sprouting chart does tell you what you need to know about sprouting everything from Aduki to Wheat. Here’s an excerpt: And here’s the full version. (via Mother Earth News) It is from 1981, so expect prices to be a bit off… For […]
Want to make your own Arduino shields? Garrett at Macetech has an Eagle file to make your life a little easier: I created a very basic Arduino shield scaffold; the schematic has only the standard Arduino headers, and the PCB has the correct header spacing and labels. The PCB headers are locked so they can’t […]
I have a love of free materials for many reasons, not least of which is that I feel fine having dozens of non-working prototypes when I’m building with garbage. It doesn’t get much “freer” than wooden pallets. Here are a few pallet projects I’ve found: Mikey and Wendy’s pallet chair, made in an afternoon and […]
Check out TiTON’s IRON MAN PC mod… Goes perfect with the recent Iron Man suit powered by BeagleBoard and Arduino!
Here’s an interesting contest: recycle discarded mattresses into useful products! Deadline has been extended to December 19: The competition aims to encourage entrants to form groups capable of creating a consumer product, instructions detailing how to make the product, and a plan for production on a larger scale. Entrants must create designs that take into […]
Probably the best way for you to make rapid effective progress on your project is to have a good idea of how you want the project to end up, and then identify the Simplest Problem that you can solve Quickly. In computer science, almost every first program is some variation on Hello World. Essentially, it […]
This “Magnetic Levitation Light Bulb” uses wireless energy transfer to power the floating bulb.The bulb is connected in parallel with a 100nF capacitor and copper wire coil and draws about 0.5 amps of current from the circuit below it. Check out the link below for the details on this interesting hack. via Hacked Gadgets
