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Once again, the Raspberry Pi is the king of retro computing with this SNES pocket games console. A complicated build and includes 3-d printing files for the case. — Douglas     Using a Raspberry Pi Zero mini PC together with a few 3D printed casing components earlier this year Thingiverse member “Nochii” revealed his Mini SNES Pi Zero Nano pocket gaming console. Equipped with a 800 mAh battery and using a 1.54 inch LCD HAT for a display, mini speaker, amplifier and charging module most of which was obtained from Aliexpress the components have been combined to create fantastically small pocket console.   Read Mini SNES Pi Zero Nano pocket games console - Geeky Gadgets via Geeky Gadgets An interesting link found among my daily reading

YouTuber MrTeslonian was asked if he could create an automatic fishing pole for someone with a serious disability. While this would seem like a daunting task, he was able to build one using a spring-loaded mechanism, a number of motors, and an Arduino board. Read An Arduino-powered fishing pole with automatic casting and reeling via Open Electronics * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! An interesting link found among my daily reading

What a great and crazy cool project! This Instructable is quite detailed and can step you through the process of building your own rig. This is something to start now so you are prepared for Halloween 2020! — Douglas What do you do when you can't decide what you want to be for Halloween? Be everything. The projection mask is comprised of a white 3D printed mask, a raspberry pi, a tiny projector and a battery pack. It is capable of projecting anything and everything onto your face. I will demonstrate some of the cool effects in my video, but I encourage you to try and come up with some of your own. Read Face Changing Projection Mask - Be Anything: 14 Steps (with Pictures) via Instructables * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! An interesting link found among my daily reading

The new Raspberry Pi is smaller, cheaper and more energy efficient—not a bad way to update a best-selling device. Whether you've taken the plunge on one of the new units or you want to put the original model to good use, we've collected together some of the most fun Pi-based projects on the planet for you to have a crack at. Read 16 Fun Projects for Your New Raspberry Pi via Gizmodo An interesting link found among my daily reading

Technology isn't just computers, networks and phones. Technology has always been part of the human experience. All of our ancestors have looked for ways to help them survive and do less work for more gain.  Archive.org has a host of old technology books (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. Many of the technologies discussed within these books are being put to use again these days in the back to the land" and homesteading movements. You might even find something that could address one of your own garden or farm issues but has been lost to time and history. Enjoy! --Douglas Historical Technology Books - 38 in a series - Railways. Papers on the mechanical and engineering operations and structure combined in the making of a railway (1846) by G. Drysdale Dempsey Seeing contemporary writing about a new technology can be quite enlightening. What problems did they face? How did they solve them? Could they solve them with current tech...

  While looking for some new and interesting wallpapers for my Apple Watch, I came across a Reddit post showing Apple Watch wallpaper that had been created from a GIF — and I simply had to create some of my own. Mostly because a) Apple’s default time lapse wallpapers felt a bit boring, and b) Live Photos I shoot with my phone aren’t as interesting as some of the glitch art you can find online. The process is very simple — you’re basically converting a GIF into a Live Photo. It does take a few steps to get it to work just right. Bear with me, though. I promise it’s worth it. Read How to turn GIFs into a wallpaper for your Apple Watch via The Verge * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! An interesting link found among my daily reading

A detailed project with an excellent build video. I am sure there are a lot of skills to learn here that could be applied to many different projects in the future. — Douglas Simplified 3D Printed Animatronic Dual Eye Mechanism via Nilheim     ​Having built a simple single-eye mechanism in the past, I wanted to improve on the design as well as making it more accessible to the maker community. The updated assembly uses parts that can easily be bought online, and almost all the components can be printed easily without supports. Designing the model in this way does sacrifice some functionality, but I'll be releasing an optimised design in the future. This project is ideal if you want to build a functional and realistic eye mechanism, but don't necessarily have access to tools like a lathe or speciality components. Read Simplified 3D Printed Animatronic Dual Eye Mechanism via Nilheim * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs ** Many of these ...

Technology isn't just computers, networks and phones. Technology has always been part of the human experience. All of our ancestors have looked for ways to help them survive and do less work for more gain.  Archive.org has a host of old technology books (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. Many of the technologies discussed within these books are being put to use again these days in the back to the land" and homesteading movements. You might even find something that could address one of your own garden or farm issues but has been lost to time and history. Enjoy! --Douglas Historical Technology Books - 37 in a series - MacWorld April 1984 Premier Issue I wrote a couple of freelance articles for Macworld over the years. It was one of my regular monthly purchases and reads during my time in the IT trenches. — Douglas Available in PDF, Text, JPG formats, and more A New World Imagine how the fifteenth-cen- tury explor...

  A lab is where experimental and research-focused tools, methods, and services are incubated. The starting premise for a lab is often wanting to spur change and make space for new practice and new people. Yet calling something a lab can also signal separation between traditional services and new approaches. Labs, and innovation in general, can seem like a passing fad that promotes shallow thinking about the application of digital technologies. Considering the limited resources and lack of cutting-edge technologies available at most galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), should GLAMs consider opening labs?  To begin to answer this question, the British Library Lab, which opened in 2013, held a meeting in September of 2018 called “Building Library Labs” to start a conversation among practitioners who were currently running a lab or thinking of opening one. There was a lively enough discussion to warrant another meeting in March of 2019 in Copenhagen. The buzz from thes...

  In the second video of the Engineering Big Ideas series, Mouser and Imahara take viewers along to Milan, Italy, for a visit to Arduino®, one of the world’s leading open-source hardware and software ecosystems. Imahara sits down with Arduino co-founder and CTO Massimo Banzi to examine the prototyping tools designers and developers use to understand and articulate the capabilities and limits of an idea. The pair also explores how the open source movement contributes to broadening access to innovation. The Engineering Big Ideas series is sponsored by Mouser’s valued suppliers Analog Devices, Intel®, Microchip Technology and Molex.   Read Mouser Electronics and Grant Imahara Explore Prototype Design with Arduino in Latest “Engineering Big Ideas” Series Video via Yahoo Finance * A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs ** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out! † Available from the LA Public Library An interesting...