The vacation period is around the season. There are lots of cards and gifts being exchanged, with lots of lolly being wearied in the air. This is the salt to be jubilant, and also to discover others jolly fully greetings card cards and phone calls.
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Send Task greeting easter card this holiday occasion
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 22, contains an automated chicken coop door opener project, by Alan Graham (Portland, OR). My geek BFF, Jeri Ellsworth, sent me a link to another, clever remote-controlled coop opener, put together by her friend “Slinky.” It uses a $5 power drill as the door winch and a Seeduino as the controller.
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Automatic coop door opener
Don’t miss NYU’s ITP spring show 2010 : ITP’s graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars. ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible.
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ITP spring show at NYU
I just love checking out other people’s workshops for those little flashes of inspiration. Make: Online reader Kaas of Ashland, WI wrote in with some excellent tactics for storing hardware. First, she uses chocolate milk containers to store screws and then tapes an example onto the outside of each one so she know’s what’s inside — no labels necessary
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Make: Time & Space: More workshop organization ideas
OK, so, Gareth may not like it, but this video of Honda’s prototype U3-X omni-wheeled personal vehicle my brother just sent me is rather more persuasive than the shaky hand-cam footage of nervous American riders Gar posted back in 2009. Although I agree the butt-pads are kind of creepy
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Honda’s answer to Segway looks a lot like Serge
I’m building an Arduino-controlled Nerf sentry gun. Rather than build it and present the finished project all at once, I’m going to chronicle the build here on Make: Online. The first step was to add wiring and a two-wire connector to control the trigger circuit.
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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: wiring the trigger
I don’t etch circuit boards very often, so I can’t really justify purchasing or even storing much specialized equipment for it. Once in a while, though, I do need to produce a batch of boards, and having something as simple as an automatic agitator for the etchant tank can make the job much easier
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The 5-minute circuit board agitator, or, making temporary tools
Dave Clausen of NYC Resistor wanted a powerful battery pack to recharge his energy-hungry iPhone 3GS and myriad ham radio equipment, so he designed the Mintybuck to handle the job with ease. Rather than using AA batteries and a boost converter to raise the output voltage to 5v, he swapped in a 12v lithium cell and a LM2674-5.0 -based buck converter to efficiently drop the voltage down to 5v.
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Mintybuck USB charger is like a supercharged Mintyboost
Google Will Start Selling Digital Books This Summer [Google] “According to the Wall Street Journal , Google’s going to join the ebook fray as early as this June. If Amazon thought the iBookstore was crowding their turf already, wait until they have to fight off Google Editions
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Google Will Start Selling Digital Books This Summer [Google]
File-Syncing Service Dropbox Now Has An iPad App [IPad Apps] There’s now an iPad app for popular file-syncing service Dropbox. It’ll allow you to access, edit, sync, download, upload, and share Dropbox contents on your iPad.
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File-Syncing Service Dropbox Now Has An iPad App [IPad Apps]
Summary: The Fargo Support website can assist you in obtaining support for your Fargo based printer and software products. Their database of fixes is very simple to use and navigate. You can simply seek out drivers and support guides based on a drop down menu. You can search directly for these fixes based on the model number of your printer or software. You can even download printer drivers directly from the website in order to immediately rectify any of your printer issues. Additionally, if you are unable to obtain your fix on the Fargo Support website, they can assist you with finding a repair service and technician in your area who can assist you in rectifying your problems with ease and at a price you can afford. Unique Features: The simplicity of the Fargo Support website is what sets it apart form other professionally operated printer based websites. For starters you are not required to join the website or prove the printer purchases that you have made before downloading the software or drivers that you need. The website is simply to use and you can easily seek out technicians based on your area. Pros And Cons: Tech support can also easily be gained from Fargo Support. You can speak to an agent via email or can browse through their database of troubleshooting help. You can also register your printer and printer supplies via their website for warranties. On top of this you can find contact information for Fargo Support via telephone or can contact them using a simple automated form.
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Let’s Review the Best Review Websites Series: FargoSupport.com
Seventeen year-old Krysta Moulton of Athens, Maine, was among a hundred top youth volunteers in the country who were recognized in Washington, D.C. during the 2010 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, as shared in a feature on Bradenton.com. Krysta was named as the top high school youth volunteer in Maine in February for her work towards raising money and awareness regarding the AIDS crisis in Africa
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Teenager Recognized for Volunteer Efforts Receives $1,000 Award
We found this tip from PrinterComparison’s Sarah Meyer regarding the Lexmark Prestige Pro805 All-In-One web connected printer: Office Depot is offering the machine on sale this week. Interested consumers can save a significant $120 off its regular list price of $299.99, as Office Depot is offering the Lexmark Prestige Pro805 for $179.99. At this price, the Prestige Pro805 is certainly a good buy, considering the features that the machine is equipped with
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Lexmark Prestige Pro805 on Sale at Office Depot!
When, a four of years ago, I wrote an article thither my trepidation complaint, I still had not fully comprehended how disabling Perminant Progressive MS can become. I had come to comprehend that my contradiction had delayed acceptance of the diagnosis, my fear had stampeded me to slow-witted decisions, and had found ~ by letters a fresh ~ I could dispel depression
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Perminant Avant-garde MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Rhyme Victim’s Dated Story
Kenya-based maker Babamzungu designed and built this proof of concept one-stage anaerobic digester to convert waste organic material into useful methane gas. Anarobic digesters work by placing organic material in an oxygen-free environment, where naturally occurring microorganisms digest the matter and turn it into methane and carbon dioxide.
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Building a (one-stage) Anaerobic Digester
Make: Online reader Richard Kline (Dayton, OH) wrote in to remind us of this excellent ham radio convention: I thought I would send a heads-up in case nobody else had about Hamvention 2010, a huge electronics and ham radio convention in Dayton Ohio, which takes place in about two weeks (May 14, 15, and 16th). Hamvention usually has attendance of about 20,000 people and is loads of fun for anyone who is interested in electronics or ham radio… there is an outdoor electronics flea market with thousands of vendors selling all variety of electronic tools and components and a myriad more ham-radio vendors indoors showing off their latest and greatest stuff
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Dayton Hamvention, May 14-16
This Is What Happens When You Microwave an iPad [Apple] With every new Apple gadget, there’s always an imbecile who wants to destroy it on video to get his Warhol moment. This one put an iPad 3G 64GB in a microwave but, instead of a Warhol, he got a Pollock
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This Is What Happens When You Microwave an iPad [Apple]
One of my favorite ham radio activities is making contacts on satellites. It’s really fun to know that you’re controlling something that’s receiving and sending communications from space. But communicating with satellites means carrying a big Yagi antenna around.
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Collapsible fabric Yagi antenna
iPhone, iPad “Spirit” Jailbreak Available for Download [Jailbreak] The iPad/iPhone jailbreak we learned about on iPad launch day is now available for download. The untethered hack works with activated iPhone OS gear running versions 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.2. As for the iPad, users should proceed with caution, as any errors, crashes or other unforeseen issues will require a restore for things to work like normal again.
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iPhone, iPad “Spirit” Jailbreak Available for Download [Jailbreak]
May is here, spring’s in full swing, and folks are in happy circulation. From my home office window, it’s a steady stream of people on leisurely walks, kids and adults on bikes, kids on skates n’ skateboards, and the old guy down the street who proudly rides his Segway to the 7-Eleven. With gas prices and the economy being what they are, growing concern over environmental impacts, and a greater public harangue over obesity and health issues, I’ve definitely seen an increase in neighborhood biking in the past few years.
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It’s Alt.Transportation month!