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A snip from the January newsletter We’re about to send out the February Make: Newsletter (tomorrow morning). This monthly email letter has all new material you won’t find on the site or in the magazine. We try to give you the inside scoop on some of what’s going on behind the scenes at Maker Media, original columns, tool reviews, even quick n’ dirty projects! We also have sweet subscription and Shed offers, often exclusive to the newsletter

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Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool : Bryan Levin was apparently having problems with cheap computer power supplies that couldn’t handle turning all of his drives on at the same time. Rather than just buy a beefier power supply, he decided to build this SPINmaster device to turn them on one at a time. He’s got a few more photos of the project on his Flickr page

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SPINmaster, a DIY staggered hard disk spin-up manager

If you’re in DC this Thursday, Feb 4th, please stop by HacDC and catch this month’s Dorkbot DC gathering. We have two amazing presenters this month, Andy Holtin and Atau Tanka. Those involved with Maker Faire Austin may remember Andy’s involvement there (and my recent piece about his work here on the site).

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Dorkbot DC meeting, this Thursday, Feb 4 at HacDC

Although the “look” of this dancing-girl automaton by English toymaker Ron Fuller is not personally to my taste, I could not resist the fact that it is powered by a stream of falling sand, which is a trick I’ve never seen before. Thanks to YouTuber greninmotion for the video. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Toys and Games | Digg this!

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Dancing automaton powered by falling sand

Though they won’t help you communicate secretly with your significant other , these gear rings by Kinekt do look like they would be great to play with. Anyone want to figure out how to make a clock out of them? [via technabob ] More: Universe ring Pipe ring Vicodin Ring Pac Man Ring Set Zip tie ring Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!

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Gear ring is shiny, spins

Thom wrote in to share his impressive open source operating system*, Pyxis OS . Based around the Arduino hardware platform, it adds some pretty impressive features, such as the ability to run programs from an SD card, read/write to a FAT filesystem, and easily display graphics and GUI elements on a color LCD. It looks like it could be lots of fun to play with, and if you want to peer under the hood, a great way to learn how to build complex systems on tiny microcontrollers.

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Pyxis OS, an operating system for Arduino

MSI Budget C-Line Features Core i Series, ATI Radeon Graphics Cards [Laptops] There’s nothing new coming your way in terms of aesthetics from MSI’s line of “C” laptops, but under the hood we’ve got Core i Series processors. One of these fellas even sports an ATI Radeon HD5470 graphics card. The full laptop line includes the CX420, CR420 and CR720

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MSI Budget C-Line Features Core i Series, ATI Radeon Graphics Cards [Laptops]

The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books [Apple] Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT , is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15.

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The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books [Apple]

Remember when my maturing self ranted about sexting ? Well, a 14-year-old was recently arrested for allegedly spreading a nude picture of his ex (of the same age) to other students in his school. According to police, the picture has now spread among “dozens of students in at least three different schools.” Again, when did young people start thinking that sending naked photos of yourself to someone else was cool

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Teen Accused of Spreading Child Porn

MacArthur fellow and MIT Media Lab alumnus Karl Sims brings us this great tutorial on how to build your own complex harmonograph ( Wikipedia ) for making cool…um…”geometric figures?” I’m looking for a 50-cent mathematician’s word (which may or may not exist) for these periodic spirally figures. Can anybody help me out?

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How-To: Make a three-pendulum rotary harmonograph

MAKE, Volume 21 digs into desktop factories, covering a variety of ways you can get started with personal manufacturing – including: CNC kits DIY CNC milling machines Steps for building your own 3D scanner An in-depth look at the MakerBot Cupcake CNC & it’s development We also paid a visit to MakerBot HQ in Brooklyn, NY and sat down with company co-founder Bre Pettis. Be sure to check out the interview + tour of the Botcave in the above vid! Oh and of course, MAKE 21 is chock-full of step-by-step instructions for building a variety of sweet projects including – Reaction Timer Padded Swords Magic Photo Cube ESP Tester Gourd Lanterns Geared Candleholder Snow Gun + a whole bunch more! The above video is a bit of a change of pace from the usual previews we post for new volumes – let us know what you think of the new format in the comments below! Don’t forget – subscribers can always read the digital edition here . Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Announcements | Digg this!

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MAKE, Volume 21: Desktop Manufacturing – plus a visit to MakerBot HQ!

For some consumers, information on anything that will allow them to cut down on printer ink -related expenses is interesting. A press release on PR Web provides information on a new company based in Littleton, Colorado that offers users of the HP Pro printer series an opportunity to reduce printer ink costs

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Adaptive Ink Offers Printing Ink System to Reduce Costs

We just shared with you Amazon.com’s offers for Canon printers. But for those who are looking for a great deal on printers besides Canon, here are some of the sale offers from BestBuy.com. Save $60 on the Epson Stylus NX515 Wireless Multifunction Printer, which has copy and scan functions on top of printing; it is being offered at $69.99 down from $129.99

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Great Printer Deals from Best Buy!

Save up to 50% on Clearance Video Games at ToysRUs.com. Offer valid till 02/06/2010. At toysrus.com you can get Toys, Games, Action Figures & Collectibles, Baby Toys, Arts & Crafts, Book, Movies & Music, Building Sets & Blocks, Sporting Goods, Specialty Toys, Learning & More, Kids’ Room, Music Instruments, Games & Puzzles, Dolls & Stuffed Animals, Video Games, Pretend Play & Dress-Up, preschool, Electronics and more.

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Save up to 50% on Clearance Video Games at ToysRUs.com

Lots of phones nowadays come out of the box with some features disabled, and it’s a simple matter of a little tweaking to activate them. Still, why would anyone intentionally limit the amount of RAM—that piece of hardware that makes high-end phones faster and thus easier to use—available to its users? Case in point: the HTC HD2 , which has 576 MB of RAM built-in, but only 448 MB of that available by default

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How to Unlock the HTC HD2’s hidden RAM

Get $25 Off on Any Xbox Games & Accessories at ToysRUs.com. At toysrus.com you can get Toys, Games, Action Figures & Collectibles, Baby Toys, Arts & Crafts, Book, Movies & Music, Building Sets & Blocks, Sporting Goods, Specialty Toys, Learning & More, Kids’ Room, Music Instruments, Games & Puzzles, Dolls & Stuffed Animals, Video Games, Pretend Play & Dress-Up, preschool, Electronics and more.

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Get $25 Off on Any Xbox Games & Accessories at Toys R Us

This instructable will show you how to connect your Arduino to your Android G1 mobile over serial. The project assumes you’ve rooted your G1 and are comfortable using a terminal. [via hackaday ] This tutorial is intended to get you up and running to the point of being able to turn an LED on and off over wi-fi without needing an Arduino wi-fi or BlueTooth shield

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Android G1 serial to Arduino Instructable

Buy More, Save More Dinnerware – Get Up to 82% Off at Pfaltzgraff.com. Offer valid till 02/17/2010. Pfaltzgraff.com provides a complete selection of tableware, cookware and kitchen accessories that every kitchen needs.

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Buy More, Save More Dinnerware – Get Up to 82% Off at Pfaltzgraff.com

If you’re looking for a particular kind of file (and yes, you can potentially abuse this), try searching for this on Google: FILE_NAME_HERE intitle:”index.of” “parent directory” “size” “last modified” “description” [snd] (mp4|mp3|avi) -inurl:(jsp|php|html|aspx|htm|cf|shtml|lyrics|mp3s|mp3|index|null3d|listen77|indexofmp3) -gallery -intitle:”last modified” Source and explanation Post from: The Gadget Blog

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Find Files With Google

Alexander Kendrick’s project consists of a low-frequency radio allowing a person to send text messages from almost 1,000 feet underground. Read his fascinating story on NPR.com. [via Slashdot ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Wireless | Digg this!

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16-year-old’s cave radio wins the 2009 International Science Fair