Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Jason shows you a stone upgrade to an IDEA table, he writes -
“This Instructable shows how to transform an IKEA TORD file cabinet base into a slate top coffee table. The total cost of this project was $16, though I had some materials on hand.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Waterjets.org has an amazing set of pictures of stuff getting cut by a high pressure stream of water (with garnet) - [via] - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am
Check out this little steam candle that spins… someone could adapt the rodent powered nightlight and make it run on steam! Link
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Max shows you how to make a music syncing light up orb clock, he writes -
“Okay, we have seen some really cool Light Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock. We started with Tod’s creation and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright enough in slightest light conditions though his Light Orb is tight let us say. So we checked out RGB lights at Hackedgadgets.com. Which is cool and uses 4 Red, 3 Green, and 3 Blue LEDs.
Well during our google search for Light Orb HOWTOs, we came to the Ambient Devices schematic and their technical notes. Well it says that with the right voltage, you don’t need to use resistors.
During our breadboard testing, this proved to be costly. We went through about 20 nice High output LEDs trying to match the forward voltage of LEDs… “ - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Bjoern writes -
“I just received my first Arduino Shield PCB design in the mail from Advanced Circuits. We have lots of Phidgets sensors lying around in the lab; they may be a bit pricey, but their plug-and-play model is sure handy when you’re in a hurry. This PCB makes it easy to connect these sensors to the Arduino platform. The board has six Phidgets (aka 3 pin Molex C-GRID) connectors which are routed directly to the Arduino’s A2D ports. It also breaks out 8 bits of digital IO to .1″ headers and provides the all-important reset switch and status LED.” Thanks Kevin! - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Judith’s work replicates bird’s voices mechanically. Lots of gear wheels, bellows, little pipes, tubes and whistles - all brass, she writes -
“Taking “The Chinese Nightingale”, a tale of Hans Christian Andersen, as a startingpoint to delevop an individual view on the topic of mechanical reproduction of a living organism.
The chant of the nightingale, famous for its beautiful and unique sound, is being serialized and reduced to its very essence. The power of reproduction and massproduction is indirect porportional to the intesity of the auratic experience of the natural phenomenon.
Seperating, isolating, synthetisizing and multiplying the avian voice is resulting in deconstruction of the original experience of listening to a “singing bird” and confuses with this unusual performance.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Jesse writes -
“Brenda, my wife got me this stereoscope from an antique shop, they are pretty common. It didnt have any stereogram cards to look at or a holder for the cards. I had it for a while. Then this idea happened in my brain. I got an iRiver clix and thought, its small enough to fit on the stereoscope. Then I grabbed another clix, and made it.” - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Worst cake ever, Trebuchet03 writes -
“Instructions to Make - Kat Litter Cake. What to give to someone that works in a vet’s office and studying to become one (well, a veterinarian - not an office).
Of course, its not real cat litter. Like crab meat spelled with a “K” - so you know its not the good stuff “ - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 01:12 am 
Walter sent is this fun way to control your music, he writes -
“Today I hacked my christmas present. A Wii remote controls my xmms mp3 player in linux now. Shake the remote and it switches to a new song.
To get this working in ubunto linux you need the following packages: WMD driver 0.1.2 xmms control python files written by myself. Read the README’s in the .tar.gz’s for install instructions “ - Link.
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Dec 31st, 2006
Blogsnapper at 12:12 am 
Jake writes in with his latest project -
“I used a 19th Century technique called electrolytic etching to create brass cover plates for a set of Moleskin notebooks that I plan to give as gifts these season.” - Link.
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