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This [Dwight Shrute]-esque project will let you try out your taxidermy skills. Apparently you can acquire a 'wetware' mouse fresh or frozen from pet stores. We just need to wait until fall when our pantry is visited by the less-domesticated variety. A travel-sized optical mouse acts as the replacement guts. Some creative dremeling brings the plastic housing down to a more acceptable shape. The … [Read more...]
It's easy to throw around the accusation that you waste time throughout the day. Now you can prove it by reviewing everything you did on your computer, all in just one minute. [Dan Paluska] ground out some code to take screenshots and assemble them into a video. His script ties together the open source tools FFmpeg, ImageMagick, and scrot. It takes a snap every 15 seconds in a 10 hour period … [Read more...]
I Heart Robotics has posted a guide for building your own clean room. They've been clever with their materials, starting with heavy-duty shelving to provide the framework. We like that idea, it allows you to position your workspace at whatever height you desire. The side walls are MDF painted with white enamel. Light, power, and tools are mounted to these walls. To keep things clean, a … [Read more...]
[Yoshi Akai] built a sequencer that is part steampunk, part injection molded plastic. The LEGO sequencer MR II has eight steps in a loop that is manipulated by adding the colorful blocks to a green base plate. Each color corresponds to one particular sound which can be modified by building skyward. On the other side of things he's added a beautifully crafted control area for knobs and switches. We … [Read more...]
[Brian] wrote in to show us a site he's been working on for a while. He's been building a tube clock database. We didn't realize there was actually a big enough draw for such a site, but we have to admit that we spent more than a few minutes browsing through the different clocks. There isn't a ton of data for each clock, but there are links to individual project pages wherever available. There is … [Read more...]
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