qua 22 out 2008
On Sunday afternoon at Maker Faire Austin, the lights went out. All power was lost in one whole area of the fairgrounds. It turned out that a dome tent from the camping area had taken flight in a dust devil and crashed into the power lines. Fernando Rizo got a couple of great shots of the tent moments before impact.
The story does not end well for the tent
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qua 22 out 2008
I can has subtle spying?
Here’s an Instructable from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about tracking codes printers add to documents they print. Readers of Make learned about this back in volume 6; now, we’ve got a convenient video to send our friends:
Here’s the link to learn more on EFF’s site.
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qua 22 out 2008
Jerry shares his strategy for weather-proofing a webcam for use on his balcony. Nice video documentation – one might consider using some silicone to seal up those cable ports. You can see the results of his rig on his site.
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DIY $27 Outdoor Webcam Enclosure
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qua 22 out 2008
An epic thread on “What’s your definition of ‘open source hardware’?”. It’s all new, no one knows – this is one the most fun and exciting times of a community.
Just some background, Josh is behind the very cool Stribe project and we’ve posted about it before (and again right before Maker Faire since it was there). When it was posted up we said “open source” project, but since some folks consider “open source” as something you can sell I added an update that said, it’s actually non-commercial since that’s what the Maker (Josh) wanted, no commercial versions… Well, this sparked off a very, spirited, discussion about what “open source” is. So check out the thread and comment there (or here) with your thoughts. It’s all very new and it seems like a lot of hardware is now released under Creative Commons, folks are calling things open source hardware, open hardware or just not calling it anything… and some are releasing all but one part of a project. I think we’re going to all end up calling things “Open Hardware” and then have some indicator of the usage… This is an “Open Hardware Project” with a “Non-commercial manufacturing license”. Dive in!
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qua 22 out 2008
MIDI input added to a classic Dubreq Stylophone by by Diabolical Devices / Class A Electronics. [via Synthtopia]
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