HOWTO bake an apple pie with no apples

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HOWTO bake an apple pie with no apples by Cory Doctorow

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Stephany Aulenback tried out a recipe for “Chemical Apple Pie,” a beloved science experiment that uses cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate) to trick the human tongue into tasting apples, though [...]

Laser-Cut Gear Clock

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Laser-Cut Gear Clock by John Baichtal

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Brian Wagner of Louisville, KY’s hackerspace LVL1 built this gear clock with the help of a Macetech Chronodot. Wanna build your own? Brian posted an Instructable showing how.

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Roland 808 synced to MIDI

Roland 808 synced to MIDI by Brian Benchoff

Reading this week’s ATtiny-themed builds, [Thomas] was reminded one of his coolest builds. His midi808project used an ATtiny2313 to sync a vintage Roland 808 drum machine to his Logic workstation.

Even though MIDI had been around for a few years when 808s were being made, the CPU in [...]

Spielberg Repents for Changes He Made to E.T.

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Spielberg Repents for Changes He Made to E.T. by Dave Banks

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Today is a special day for Star Wars geeks. Not only do the Clone Wars return for season four, but the original trilogy is being released on Blu-ray. You may not have heard (if you’ve been in hiding [...]

Continuous ink supply printer mod…

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Continuous ink supply printer mod… by adafruit

Cool Tools: Cobra Ink System. Kevin writes -

After much research and trial and error I found that the easiest cheapest method of printing is a continuous ink supply built into a printer. Once you are set up you [...]