Weekly Make: Projects round-up |
- Weekly Make: Projects round-up
- Notes for Later is a super-fast way to email links to yourself
- Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off
- PVC skater dolly
- Clementine Is a Simple, Amarok-Inspired Music Player for All Platforms [Downloads]
- My Favorite Moment In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension [Spoiler Alert]
- ReadySteady pocket camcorder stabilizer review
- Ever Wonder How Facebook Worms Actually Work?
- An Ewok, Guile And A Moogle Try Motion Gaming [Pax]
- Billy is a truly tiny, minimalistic music player for Windows
| Weekly Make: Projects round-up Posted: 10 Sep 2010 04:00 PM PDT  In honor of Citizen Science month, here are some science-related projects available on the site. If you haven't registered yet, done a project, or posted one, here's how to get started. Also, don't forget that Evernote now offers a Make: Projects Notebook in their "Trunk" area, so you can add (select) Make: Projects to your notebooks. And here's a challenge: The first person to post a science-related piece to Make: Projects and send me the link, wins a Maker's Notebook!
 Use an off-the-shelf home air purifier to culture and grow mushrooms.
 A project from MAKE Volume 03, our car hacking issue, on converting vegetable oil into a liter of biodiesel fuel.
 Bill Gurstelle shows you how to build, in an afternoon, a simple pulsejet engine in Mason jar.
 Getting the competitive edge in Pinewood Derby by building your own wind tunnel for testing the aerodynamics of models.
 Don't forget to check out the huge sale on science-related products currently going on in the Maker Shed! 50% off of many products! Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in MAKE Projects | Digg this! |
| Notes for Later is a super-fast way to email links to yourself Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:30 PM PDT Filed under: Utilities, Browsers  The problem of "saving stuff for later reading" is a known issue, with several established solutions. You've got Read It Later, Instapaper, Delicious, Diigo (including "unread bookmarks" functionality), and a ton of other alternatives. Notes for Later differentiates itself by being super-minimalistic. Your email client is your reading list; if you use Gmail, you can just create a filter to label all of the "notes for later," and keep the ones you haven't read as "Unread" in Gmail itself. The application itself is just a snippet of JavaScript, and it's neatly packaged as a bookmarklet. You feed it with your email address, and you get a link. You then click the link to get your own personalized bookmarklet. Drag the bookmarklet onto your address bar, and every time you click it, the current page is emailed over to you. There are no prompts, no tags to feed, and no notes to enter. One click - that's all. If you happen to select any text from the page, a snippet of that text (not necessarily all of it) is included in the email. It couldn't really get much simpler or cross-browser than this! Notes for Later is a super-fast way to email links to yourself originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments         Bookmarklet - JavaScript - Download Squad - Instapaper - Delicious |
| Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:08 PM PDT coondoggie writes "Getting complicated systems onboard a single spacecraft to operate as one integrated unit can be hard enough, but some space agencies are trying to address the challenges of getting multiple spacecraft to fly in formation and operate together as one unit. Such challenges are exactly what a new European Space Agency lab in the Netherlands is set to address. The test bed addresses crucial operational factors for formation flying, including mission and vehicle management, guidance navigation, dealing with faults and communicating between satellites."
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| Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:05 PM PDT   Just spotted this cool project by the other Martin Taylor in the MAKE Flickr pool: $12 in hardware store bits & pieces, 1 old skate from the basement and a tripod head borrowed from an old tripod. My Labor-day, afternoon, quick, DIY project. It doesn't look very pretty but it works well enough with anything from my tiny camcorder to my 5D. If like, myself, you don't know what a skater dolly is used for, exactly, check the embedded vid Martin made to demonstrate. Impressive results for such an inexpensive tool. Martin, who previously brought us this slick iPhone teleprompter, seems to have a real knack for doing a lot with a little. More:
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| Clementine Is a Simple, Amarok-Inspired Music Player for All Platforms [Downloads] Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT        |
| My Favorite Moment In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension [Spoiler Alert] Posted: 10 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT       |
| ReadySteady pocket camcorder stabilizer review Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:34 PM PDT  Continue reading ReadySteady pocket camcorder stabilizer review ReadySteady pocket camcorder stabilizer review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  ReadySteady | Email this | Comments |
| Ever Wonder How Facebook Worms Actually Work? Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT
Earlier today I noticed several of my friends had been hit by a Facebook worm that updated their status, created an event, and finally invited all of their friends to the event. The purpose of the worm was to widely distribute several “work from home” and similar scams. All of this happened instantly when they clicked on a link that they had seen posted by another user that had fallen for the trap. Knowing that Facebook would fix the issue soon, I immediately opened up my HTTP debugging tools and set about discovering how it worked. Reverse engineering the latest Facebook worm [Hacking Entrepreneurship]      |
| An Ewok, Guile And A Moogle Try Motion Gaming [Pax] Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT     |
| Billy is a truly tiny, minimalistic music player for Windows Posted: 10 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Freeware  Ahh, ... feature bloat, how we love thee. There used to be a time when Foobar2000 was the scrappy, fast, agile player on the market. It was up against Winamp, which had become so bloated that it was almost a joke. Today, years later, here's Foobar2000 weighing in at 29MB of RAM on my system. That's with the stock UI, no fancy skinning, and very few add-ons enabled (just the ones that come with it, really, and maybe one or two extra). And what's up against it, consuming just 1.8MB of memory? Billy, from Sheep Friends. It's not a new application by any means; version 1.03 dates back to 2004, while this "cutting-edge" 1.04 beta was last updated in February 2008. Still, it works surprisingly well. It plays Ogg files as well as MP3s, and it scrobbles to last.fm. It has no skinning, no plug-ins, nothing. It does support customizable global hotkeys, so it works just fine with my multimedia keyboard. I must admit that I still turn to Foobar more often, but it's very nice to know there's something that gets 90% of the job done at less than 10% of the memory footprint. And like Foobar, Billy is completely free and portable. Billy is a truly tiny, minimalistic music player for Windows originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments  Winamp - Foobar2000 - Microsoft Windows - Music and Audio - Multimedia |
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