In November of 2000, John Pultorak got to thinking about building a replica of a 60’s or 70’s era digital computer from scratch. By 2001, he started placing orders for technical documentation and had chosen his target machine, a Block I Apollo Guidance Computer. Four years later, in September 2004, he had completed a fully […]
With an empty Pringles can and some lens and body covers, Photocritic devised a way to make a reliable extension tube for taking macro photos. You can make the tube for a few bucks worth of materials – unless you have spares, in which case it’s free. Once it’s made, you just wrap a standard […]
Christopher Finke wrote a Firefox extension called YouTube Comment Snob that hides the 90% drivel which graces the comment area beneath your favorite videos. It’s basically a YouTube spam filter that allows you to optionally weed out comments based on characteristics like excessive (or lack of) capitalization, profanity, over-punctuation and a high incidence of spelling […]
Daniel Forsythe put together a walkthrough that shows you how to disassemble your iPhone (original or 3G) and adjust the lens for taking close-up photography. The image above is from his Flickr account, demonstrating the camera focused at about 4 inches – perfect for taking project photos. You can adjust the lens to focus anywhere […]
The Synaptics TouchPad device is a common input device for many laptop brands, including models made by Acer, Toshiba, and IBM. Normally, the touchpad is used for single-finger mouse input, but the Synaptics device has rudimentary support for tracking multiple fingers at the same time. Nathan Harrington wrote an article for IBM that shows you […]
Most of the time, you can move a bunch of files from one folder to another by running a simple mv command like “mv sourcedir/* destdir/“. The problem is that when that asterisk gets expanded, each file in the directory is added as a command line parameter to the mv command. If sourcedir contains a […]
Wii Physics is a clever little homebrew app. You use the Wiimote to rotate, size and place objects on a stage. Pulleys, ropes, gears and joints can be used to connect objects together, and when you press the play button, a 2D physics system is turned on, causing the objects to fall and interact with […]
