The Blog of James Foreman, Fiction Writer and Pittsburgh Blogger
Your shiny new iPhone doesn’t have GPS, and therefore you must actually push buttons in order to advance to the next leg of your journey. Fear not, dear readers, for I have a solution: The Hipster GPS.Inspired by 43Folders’s Hipster PDA, the Hipster GPS takes [...]
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Free printable cardboard lens hoods
This site contains PDF documents that can be printed and cut out to make lens hoods for a variety of 35mm and digital SLR camera lenses. Lens hoods give better quality photographs by reducing flare caused by nonimageforming light.
Very cool idea.
Cool Looking Recumbent Bike
CoilOsapien
CoilOsapien video now available on YouTube!
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME…
CoilOsapien is an electric shock hazard. Caution must be taken when dealing with high voltages, laser diodes and fast moving projectiles.
A Robosapien with a rail gun and flame thrower.
Gauss Pistol Home
A Real Electromagnetic Pistol!
* Two coils are precisely pulsed in sequence
(350 Amp peak) to fire a steel projectile
* Two infrared sensors detect the projectile
position within the firing tube
* Controlled [...]
The Sect of Rama
This afternoon I gave the homemade smoker v2.0 a run with something relatively quick: smoked chinook salmon. If you haven’t read my earlier entry, v2.0 is basically the gutting of the electric internals, and replacing it with charcoal and a Stoker system. It worked *remarkably* well!
Cool and somewhat cheap DIY smoker.
Undead Santa Snow Globe – a photoset on Flickr
Yay, I won first place in the 2006 Rackspace costume contest
Demo: Cloning a Verichip Yourself
This device can read and replay a Verichip’s ID. If you can get the antenna close to your victim’s shoulder, then your circuit board is electrically indistinguishable from their implanted chip forever after. Full schematics and documentation are given below.
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » “Hotel Minibar†Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that [...]
Hackers can Turn Your Home Computer into a Bomb!
