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If you have multiple PCs that are all running Windows 7, you can share a printer fairly easily between them. But what if your network also comprises older versions of Windows, or Macs? Tricky, but still possible, thanks to some great instructions from PC World’s Zack Stern , who gives good step-by-step instructions on how to get various computers to work together so that printers and other peripherals can be shared

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How to Share a Printer on a Home Network with Windows 7

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Extra Application Process Is Way Too 20th Century [Lord Of The Rings] Quick, grab the ent-draught and gather ’round, for I have some exciting news from Middle-Earth! Peter Jackson has put out word that extras for The Hobbit are in dire need.

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Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Extra Application Process Is Way Too 20th Century [Lord Of The Rings]

Mike Rotondo created an instrument using an Arduino, Max/MSP and some sensors for a Physical Interaction Design workshop at Stanford’s CCRMA . As he puts it: “When the guitar is too sexy and the piano makes too much sense, it’s time to stick a bunch of sensors to your body with electrical tape and plug it all into your computer!” How it works: There’s a small electret microphone attached to my foot, and two bend sensors on my arm: one in my elbow, and one on my finger.

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Turn your body into an instrument with the Stompolin

From Wired’s Autopia blog: China is home to a widespread DIY culture fed by necessity (the mother of all invention) and innovation. These garage builders and innovators are, like their products, often called shanzhai. Literally translated, it means “mountain strongholds,” but it has come to mean nonprofessional or clandestine manufacturers turning out products from the basic to the highly sophisticated

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China’s DIY aviation community

Make: Online’s space correspondent, Rachel Hobson, points us to this article in Florida Today : After months of searching for a new home for a full-scale model of the space shuttle’s crew compartment, Chuck Ryan is beginning to accept the replica he spent almost 15 years building may soon be destroyed. He is now trying to find takers for 1,000 toggle switches, 50 gallons of paint, 40 gallons of fiberglass resin, plywood, tools and other never-used materials.

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Shuttle replica and supplies looking for a home

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why) [Remainders] The holiday hangover days between Christmas and New Year’s are sort of the year’s remainders to begin with, so it’s a perfectly appropriate time to check out these remainders: Google phones, space probes, misspellings, and one serious party popper. Google Phone On Wheels You can count on Engadget to watch the FCC website like a hawk, and today they spotted a tasty little critter: a bluetooth car dock for the HTC Nexus One. We can’t blame you if you’re a little tired of hearing about the Nexus One by now, but you might not have to hear that name much longer.

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Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn’t Post (and Why) [Remainders]

Wow, an incredible Instructable fromKyle McDonald: The same technique used for Thom’s face in the Radiohead “House of Cards” video. I’ll walk you through setting up your projector and camera, and capturing images that can be decoded into a 3D point cloud using a Processing application. Most 3D scanning is based on triangulation (the exception being time-of-flight systems like Microsoft’s “Natal “)

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How-To: Structured light 3D scanning

From the MAKE Flickr pool Mark Demers shows off the latest from Spikenzie Labs, Four in a line – a laser-cut Connect Four style game which looks a heckuva lot slicker than its retail counterpart. I’ve always been a last minute Christmas shopper and it has usually worked out. This year I had a request to get a Connect Four game, but I couldn’t find it in stock anywhere

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Laser-cut Connect Four game looks mighty fine

Getting a “printer driver” error can be one of the most frustrating of all error messages, in part because there are a lot of reasons that printer drivers can go bad. As Susanne Bullo points out in her article, How to Fix a Printer Driver Error , problems with drivers can be caused by issues with Windows registry, faulty driver files, missing resources leading to conflicts, and so on.

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How to Fix a Printer Driver Error

The official Cartoon Network Shop at cartoonnetworkshop.com. The best place for official Cartoon Network merchandise online: tons of cartoon network merchandise, cartoon network gifts, collectibles, t-shirts, toys, games, calendars, DVDs, videos, clothing, accessories; featuring the world’s biggest cartoon stars like foster’s imaginary friends, Ben 10, Naruto, My gym partner’s a monkey, camp lazlo, class of 3000 and more.

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Holiday sale at CartoonNetworkShop.com

Camangi WebStation Android Tablet Reviewed [Review] Michael Smith received his Camangi WebStation tablet yesterday, and spent all night turning out a review. If you were at all considering buying one, you’ll definitely want to hear what he has to say. We called in one of our own, and it’s quite possible our impressions will differ.

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Camangi WebStation Android Tablet Reviewed [Review]

World-renowned PowerDVD 9 delivers outstanding Blu-ray and DVD movie playback quality on your PC. Explore your favorite movies with cool and exciting smart features including two new innovations that make the PowerDVD movie experience even more memorable—FancyView for animated browsing and the Cinema playback mode tailored for home theater environments.

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2010 New Year’s Sale at CyberLink.com

Plywood and Cork Laptop Case Slides To Stow [Cases] With their innovative furniture design, Charles and Ray Eames showed the world that plywood could be both beautiful and functional. Brian Kelly’s plywood laptop case is at least one of those two things. While I’m not quite sold on the idea of pulling apart my entire case every time I need to schlep my machine somewhere, designer and woodworker Brian Kelly’s two-piece take on portable protection is certainly easy on the eyes.

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Plywood and Cork Laptop Case Slides To Stow [Cases]

Pedro Mealha was inspired by those 3D plywood dinosaur kits when he designed this lamp, called rhizome , the armature of which is a great example of the emerging “router aesthetics” Bruce Sterling wrote about back in MAKE Volume 11 . I also like the wooden race and exposed ball-bearings that let it pivot at the base. Now if we can just persuade him to post the DXF files on Thingiverse…

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Cool CNC-friendly desk lamp design

Because of its classic sounds & serial-controllability, the Commodore 64′s Sound Interface Device ( SID ) chip is much sought after by many synth DIYers. Instead of plucking one from a vintage piece of computing history, Christoph recreated the SID’s functionality in firmware using an ATMega8 chip. The resulting emulator can be controlled via serial protocol – an Arduino shield was even designed to do just that.

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Commodore 64 synth chip emulated on an AVR

There were concerns raised over the weekend over the unavailability of the iPhone in New York City, when consumers attempting to purchase the device through the AT&T website using Manhattan zip codes received a message that said that the device was not available. All that is over, though; a test by Reuters yielded the same response on Monday morning, but sales were said to have resumed in the afternoon.

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iPhone Back in the Big Apple!

Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster with the new Thingamagoop 2 kit from the Maker Shed! It’s a great kit for beginners, since it includes detailed instructions and photos of each step of the build. Advanced users can taking advantage of the Arduino integration, control voltage in and out, or just bend it like crazy! Features Analog VCO controlled by analog or digital signal from Arduino. (A separate Arduino board is not required) Sample and hold, Arpeggios, noise, and bit crush effects with open source code so you can program your own sounds! All the analog sounds of the original Thingamagoop

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New in the Maker Shed: Thingamagoop 2

Jeff writes in with a quickie solar project… I recently purchased two remote control cars for my nephews from a dollar store.  The cars came with three rechargeable AA batteries and also a cheap AC charger that connects to the car, but unfortunately grew hot when plugged in (a classic wall wart). So I’m giving them the cars with a solar panel and withholding the AC chargers.

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Solar charge battery powered toys…

It’s probably no surprise to anyone who hangs out here that we love what we do at Maker Media and we’re always looking to do it better, to reinvent ourselves, to grow and expand, while staying creative and true to our mission, which is, ultimately, to serve YOU, the greater maker community. We’re now in the process of planning what we want to do on Make: Online for 2010

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Ordinary copy paper can be made highly conductive by treating it with a simple water-based dispersion of carbon nanotubes. Bing Hu and other graduate students under Stanford researcher Yi Cui published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) describing the use of such conductive paper to create high-performing prototype supercapacitors, batteries, and fuel cells

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Make paper conductive using simple carbon nanotube ink