Online drawing lessons
Brenda Hoddinott created an incredibly comprehensive drawing tutorial site with sections for beginners, intermediates and advanced – I dusted off my tablet awhile back, but nothing beats real graphite and paper… [via] – Link.
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Free 3D CAD tools & tutorials
Alibre has free downloads (Alibre Design Xpress – free, Alibre Design Software -30 day trial) of 3D CAD software along with a great series of step-by-step tutorials on Instructables. So, if you’ve always wanted to learn CAD, check out the how-tos, get the software and show us what you MAKE! More: The new CAD section […]
DIY Cardboard sets for Playmobile
Steve from Finkbuilt has a clever way to make really nice play sets for kids, he writes – “Lately, Harlan (4) and I have been using google images to find textures, then printing out inkjets to use in the construction of simple carboard sets for our PlayMobil games. Kids seem to like these homemade buildings […]
Free book trading and exchange community – BookMooch
What a great idea, BookMooch has an easy to enter system for all the books you want to give away (I typed in our MAKE ISBNs), you then receive requests for the books, when you mail the books you get points and then you can ask for books – Link & to help them get […]
Bikely – Discover and share bicycle routes
We’ve had a good run of bicycle how-tos, mods, hacks and projects lately on MAKE – so here’s a new tool that you can use to plot and share your bike routes, you can even download the .GPX (GPS Exchange Format) files – [via] – Link.
WEB2DNA – Convert your website into DNA art
Neato, MAKE as DNA – “WEB2DNA will take you website, analyze it, crunch it to little bits and spit it out as a graphic representation of a human DNA. The brightness of the lines is determined by the importance of the tags in terms of structure. “ [via] – Link. Previous: HTML to MIDI – […]
HOW TO – Dial out using an ATA and SkypeOut
Kurced @ Oldskoolphreak has a how-to I’m going to if I can get working with Asterisk – “As most of you know SkypeOut is free until the end of 2006, and using headsets is all nice and fun, but I know I’d rather use a real phone. Cordless or otherwise, here’s a way to use […]
