Hacks

MAKE’s Collin Cunningham really impressed me with this short film “A Date With Peggy,” a story of an overworked hacker finding relaxation through his craft. After a frustrating day at the office, it feels good to go make something that simply works. (playing with a bunch of ultra-bright LEDs doesn’t hurt either) The Peggy kit […]

Equal parts hydroponic garden, aquarium, and interactive art, the Farm Fountain is an experiment in self-contained, indoor ecosystem design created by artists Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs. The idea is that you can raise edible fish and cycle their waste nutrients through a hanging garden which filters the water before returning it to the aquarium. […]

The NTFS file system has support for additional data, called Alternate Data Streams (ADS), to be attached to any file. Normally this is used by the operating system and file explorer to bind extra data to a file, such as the file’s access control information, searchable file meta-data like keywords, comments and revision history, and […]

The NTFS file system has support for additional data, called Alternate Data Streams (ADS), to be attached to any file. Normally this is used by the operating system and file explorer to bind extra data to a file, such as the file’s access control information, searchable file meta-data like keywords, comments and revision history, and […]

Here’s a clever way to fold an 8.5×11 sheet of paper into a small book. The way it’s folded, all of the book’s 8 outward-facing pages are from the same side of the sheet of paper. This allows you to easily construct a handy little daily planner by printing a single sheet of paper. When […]

Your iPhone can connect you to the web from just about anywhere, but sometimes browsing on a tiny screen isn’t enough. With jailbroken 3G and some free software, it’s pretty easy to bring that internet-anywhere access to your laptop. Nate True put together a howto that will guide you through the steps for configuring your […]