NerdKits - DIY Marquee LED Array Display
http://www.nerdkits.com/videos/ledarray2/

double your addressable LEDs

Very cool night time portraits.

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we list several great applications for project and time management as well as collaboration between you and your clients. There are free and commercial options available.

Kourallinen hyviä, helppokäyttöisiä ja ilmaisia projektinhallinnan ja yhteistyön online-työkaluja.

Unclutterer is the blog about getting and staying organized. A place for everything, and everything in its place is our gospel.

First time I saw these shelves was in Budapest, at a friends apartment. I was told they had been designed by a physicist. That's why I think they are safe. The ones in the photos have been up for more than a year now.

Enigma ported to Linux Inspired by the wonderful Enigma desktop by Kaelri, featured at Lifehacker, I decided to port at least some of the beautiful design to my Linux desktop.

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I bought a wardrobe from ikea to store my work clothes in. While walking around at ikea, I came across a Pax wardrobe w...

Clever idea to control computer with the use of a USB remote control

LIRC

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kitchen pc

photographers art portal

Very cool project with some amazing pictures. The results from the first assignment is now live.

The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA. Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and the State in which they live. The first assignment, ("People"), was sent on 2nd January 2009. The second, ("Habitat"), was sent on 1st March 2009. The remaining 4 assignments will be announced on 1st May, 1st July, 1st September and 1st November 2009 respectively.

"Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and the State in which they live."

Photographers from all 50 states make photographs around specific ideas and topics

The Best of Instructables Volume 1 Instructables is a place where artists, bicyclists, crafters, engineers, modders, co...

google labs experimentals

would make a cute apron

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littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.

modular circuit boards

Electronic modules that stick together with magnets to make complete circuits

Check out projects,especially hard drive cleanout and bottle lights

games for fw student life

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs.

An awesome resource for how-tos in technology and exploration online. It is geared towards teens, but why can't teachers use it for quick lessons for themselves or their class?

Technology for students

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.

50 Dollar Greenhouse

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"Lifehacker reader agmk and his girlfriend hated the look of their cluttered home office and computer den. It seemed like even when the rest of their place was clean, their home office was always a little bit too messy. In an effort to make it easier to hide the nook that served as their home office they turned some Ikea bookshelves they scored off Craigslist into a pretty awesome office-concealing secret doorway."

Dude makes a batman-style hiding passageway on the cheap

open source project manager built on ruby on rails

Teambox | Project management and collaboration software

This project is my dad's $10 solution to a $500 solution to a $25,000 problem. As I have previously mentioned around the site, my Dad owns an electric 1979 Ford Courier pickup, and is cool enough to let me drive it around. We absolutely love it, and wouldn't trade it for a Tesla Roadster, but one of the few problems with electric cars is heating and cooling. In a gas car, heat is provided by the 80% of the gas that is wasted as heat, and air conditioning is provided by a crankshaft-driven compressor system. Many EVs use hair dryer elements and fans for heat, and some, ours included, feature a powerful gasoline-burning heater.

This project is my dad's $10 solution to a $500 solution to a $25,000 problem. As I have previously mentioned around the...

This project is my dad's $10 solution to a $500 solution to a $25,000 problem. As I have previously mentioned around the...

DIY air conditioner

For Bunny

Tired of assigning the same old boring PowerPoint presentations again and again? Want to challenge your students a bit more than the traditional tri-fold or poster project? Come learn a whole host of new tools to spice up your students' projects and your lessons. Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video, and the web resources that will serve as "containers" for the different elements. Check out the pages to the left to navigate through the different elements to learn how you can re-invent your teaching and your students' learning with the use of a few engaging, motivating, and fun resources.

wiki with a lot of ways to integrate tech in the classroom

Interesting points about demos, pricing infrastructure, release schedules etc

This is a resource to share K-12 projects that have integrated student cell phones into classroom learning

chart of examples for how K-12 teachers are using cell phones in class

This is a resource to share K-12 projects that have integrated student cell phones

cellphone project

A collection of awesome Google-related projects from people around the world

great photography project ideas

It's the last day of an unusually long weekend, and there's absolutely nothing on the schedule. Break out the tools and pull up one of these nifty DIY projects to improve your living space and boost your can-do cred.

We write papers and have talks mainly to impress others, gain respect, and get promoted.

How to write a research paper

Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

For $150 these MIT students took a balloon 17.5 miles high into the uppermost parts of the stratosphere and returned 5 hours later some 20 miles away from the launch site.

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would LOVE to do this

Ever taken a picture of a cough? Not just somebody coughing. No, we mean the actual air currents as they’re being expelled. Well, they just did it at Penn State, thanks to the magic of schlieren photography.

Schlieren Photography: How to Photograph the Invisible

Detailed description on how pricing for web projects can be done. Important: calculate reasonable prices that can be broken down into several components. Communicate all your assumptions involved. Know your hourly rates. Make transparent what your customer will get.

Graphic Artist Guild Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines

MaximumPC.com is the best online resource for PC Features. Visit Maximum PC and read about 9 Kick-Ass DIY Projects to Get Your Hack On.

Techies are too often tempted by the lure of new technology, leaving perfectly good hardware drifting in the wake of compulsive upgrading. And while we love getting new gadgets as much as the next geek, we also like how a new purchase gives us the opportunity to take apart and tinker with our older gear in the Lab. Whether it’s by soldering circuit boards or loading open-source firmware, we pride ourselves on being able to stretch the lifespan of older electronics by performing undocumented (and sometimes warranty-breaking) hardware hacks.

ruffles from several circles

throw pillow

How to build a Nintendo arcade

This is a quick project to tell the time using words. I saw a cool clock on the Make Blog the other day (http://blog....

LED + microcontroller clock which spells out the time in 5-min increments. Sweet..

english clock

Hi everyone,This is a quick instruction guide on creating a fiber-optic starfield ceiling. The stars have a very natura...

this is -SO- on the to do list!! you have NO idea!!

camera diy

Greetings citizen scientists, budding biohackers, and backyard explorers! We think you'll find the Make: Science Room a fun and useful resource. We hope you'll use it as your DIY science classroom, virtual laboratory, and a place to share your projects, hacks, and laboratory tips with other amateur scientists. Your Make: Science Room host is Robert Bruce Thompson, author of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture. (Make: Books, 2008) and Illustrated Guide to Forensics Investigations: Uncover Evidence in Your Home, Lab, or Basement (not yet published). We'll be drawing material from these titles first, but will soon branch out into biology, astrononmy, Earth sciences, and other disciplines. We'll be adding lots of material on a regular basis, so check back often. For more info on the site, see Introducing the Make: Science Room.

Make Magazine

DIY Brasil - Comunidade DIY brasileira.

Um site com dicas de faça você mesmo brasileiro

Do it yourself!

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Bra backup lösning.

Although wireless is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on my home network and my slight ...

reviews, articles, features, rant and raves on all things design related. product, furniture, jewelry and graphic design. specializing in independent and local brooklyn and new york design.

There are lots of tutorials for terrariums floating around these days, but this one the terrarium turned on it’s head. Inspired by a pickle jar terrarium concocted by the warymeyers team, there are no fancy glass domes to buy and no scouring your local nursery for plants small enough to fit under them. In fact, there’s no buying at all. Everything you need is most likely located within a walk around the block, no matter where you live.

There are many methods for laminating wood -- this project focuses on a down-and-dirty method for those of us who do not own a lot of pipe clamps and other heavy duty hardware for wrestling with wild wood.  It is about ten feet long by thirty inches wide, sitting about thirty inches off the ground.  If you can salvage the wood, the other materials aren't too expensive: five threaded rods, about four bucks each; nuts, washers, and screws; a gallon or so of wood glue; sandpaper; and polyurethane.  All told, it was less than one hundred dollars.

There's a lot of wood out in the world free for the taking -- in dumpsters, back alleys, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, recycling yards, and architectural salvage centers. Most wood, if free from rot, is just as strong, durable, and good to use as new wood, once you sand off the weathering. This table was made from all salvaged wood -- both dimensional lumber and plywood, mostly taken from decaying buildings in and around Hale County, Alabama.

recycled wood

Download the howto in a pdf. Window farm built from 1.5 liter bottles and pvc.

Simple instructions for creating a simple folding wooden table from a single plank and some small hardware bits.

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"We know these things to be true"... about software engineering

grumpy old men ...

Everyone involved in the production, design and specification of software should be required to read and understand every item on this list.

Each year we do a guide to all open source hardware and this year there are over 125 unique projects/kits in 19 categories, up from about 60 in 2008, more than doubling the projects out there!

These are projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source software like Linux, but this hardware centric

Welcome to definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009. First up - What is open source hardware? These are projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of...

Open source hardware projects

DIY Speaker Wall Mounts.

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Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system by allowing and encouraging input from the community. The project includes not only the airborne hardware and software, from voltage regulators and GPS receivers to Kalman filtering code, but also a powerful and ever-expanding array of ground hardware and software including modems, antennas, and a highly evolved user-friendly ground control software interface.

Another amateur UAV site. This thing has already happened.

Awesome.

"I for one, welcome our new overlords"

scratch projects from EME 4401- all projects labeled with WendyDG

I've ignored Bing because my first experiences were really lame, but some of these tricks are kinda cool. Most of them work on Google, too.

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Ever looked at a wine bottle to admire its shape, color, or translucent qualities? These features shouldn't go to waste in the recycling bin. Here's a fun how-to that can reuse and transform wine bottles into something REALLY worth eyeballing.

Turning old wine bottles into glasses with a bottle cutter and a sander

nice blog with helpfull information to work on yourself.

This site has tips on how to make book reports more fun for students.

Construção de flores

Como hacer una flor Kusudama

TIN! ALTOIDS! YAY!

87 projects. 10 further resources. 52 applications. 94 contributors. The benefits of using Web 2.0 applications. The challenges of using Web 2.0 applications. How the folk who ran these projects handled the issues... ... And what they recommend you do if you run them. What were the learning outcomes? And did I mention that this is free?!

the site for leaders and managers of educational ICT

As low as $1k, still out of my hobby budget.

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The Big List of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML Development Tools, Libraries, Projects, and Books I’ve been meaning to do a roll-up of top JavaScript, CSS & HTML development tools that I use or have been recommended to me and after having lunch with my bud Brian Wilpon today, I realized I just needed to do it. He asked me what some of the newer tools are and I think this is the best way to help him (and the community in general). It’s definitely not an all-inclusive list so if you see some that you feel I should add or remove, let me know in the comments.

Digital Storage Oscilloscope

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Web 2.0 PDF Book

Note: Free eBook Edited by Terry Freedman. * 87 projects. * 10 further resources. * 52 applications. * 94 contributors. * The benefits of using Web 2.0 applications. * The challenges of using Web 2.0 applications. * How the folk who ran these projects handled the issues... * ... And what they recommend you do if you run them. * What were the learning outcomes?

RT @draenews: Del 6 Cool Websites To Unleash The Mad Scientist Within You | MakeUseOf.com: http://bit.ly/a0SazI

A list of websites and prograns that let you try out crazy science experiments.

reviews, articles, features, rant and raves on all things design related. product, furniture, jewelry and graphic design. specializing in independent and local brooklyn and new york design.

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things to cook or make

LA Times 50 homemade gifts

Learn how to make fake snot or mucous.

wikiHow article about How to Make Hot Ice.

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How to Maintain a Project List that Doesn't Crush Your Soul

Whether you're an adherent of David Allen's Getting Things Done or any other system that encourages you to capture all the ideas floating around in your head and commit them to paper (or a digital medium), it's likely you've gotten pretty good at the capture side of things. It's on the other end of the conveyor belt, where the ideas get sorted, categorized, and made useful, that things tend to get murky. In my productivity workflow, the capture side of things has always been the most enjoyable and easiest—all it really takes is a stack of index cards, a pen, and a wandering mind! Even though ubiquitous capture is an awesome habit to have, it has an often overlooked downside. The more ideas or to-dos you increase, the more things you have floating around in your potential workflow. If you don't effectively deal with those things, you end up with a stagnant pool of ideas and the feeling that you'll never do anything with all these ideas/tasks/to-dos you've captured.

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