bf5man writes – Remember the Gever Tulley Ted conference talk about dangerous things you should let your kids do? Well, letting them have a pocket knife was one of the things. Here’s some projects I’ve scanned from a vintage book to get them some cool projects to whittle! Whittling is easy – Link.
You knew somebody was going to do it. This is a Macintosh 512k which I upgraded to run OS X by replacing the innards with a modern Mac Mini and various supporting components, including a grayscale CRT monitor, an LS-120 floppy disk drive, and a microcontroller-based USB device that interfaces the Mini to the original […]
Seems like every couple years a vinyl comeback article makes the rounds, maybe it’s really going to happen! – From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock […]
A different kind of wall clock. Autodesk Labs Sun Dial for a Green Clock – [via] Link
Automatomania is a site run by a UK couple who restore antique automata and wind-up signing birds. The site has videos of the wind-up machines in action, a gallery of their restoration work, and a workshop, which so far, has precious-little content. Automatomania – [Thanks, Patti!] Link
Telstar Logistics writes – While paying a visit to the studio of San Francisco artist Alanna Spence recently, Telstar Logistics was introduced to a lost gem of a book called “Flight thru Instruments.” Flightthruinstr09_2 Published as a pilot-training manual by the US Navy in 1945, “Flight thru Instruments” teaches proper aeronautical navigation techniques through the […]
Bill writes – I recently came across a 4-volume set of the Popular Mechanics Illustrated Home Handyman Encyclopedia & Guide (from 1961) in the bargain bin at a local used book store. Of course, I grabbed them. The ~4000 pages of projects are amazing – it’s basically your grandparents’ equivalent of MAKE Magazine. Tons of […]
