Monthly Archives: April, 2009

links for 2009-04-27

Great Series of Animated Scrabble Ads
Ogilvy and Mather put together a beautiful series of advertisements for Scrabble in which an engaging animation illustrates the silly and sweet songs that really are just kinda random strings of words – much like Scrabble. Kudos to Scrabble on making a really creative and original ad series.
(tags: animation games [...]

links for 2009-04-25

Growing Plants With LED Lights
Growing Plants With LED Lights
In this instructable i shall be demonstrating how to grow small plants under the glorious glow of LED lights. Woop!
(tags: plants led)

Milk Bottle LED Lights, Arduino Controlled
Milk Bottle LED Lights, Arduino Controlled
Make PPE milk bottles into good looking LED lights, and use an Arduino to control them. [...]

links for 2009-04-23

Hollywood accounting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In accountancy, Hollywood accounting is the practice of distributing the money earned by a large project to corporate entities which, though legally distinct from the one responsible for the project itself, are actually owned by the same people. This substantially reduces the profit of the project proper, sometimes eliminating [...]

links for 2009-04-17

Building Electronics and Robots for the Desert – Swarmwiki
So you wanna make a robot that is going to survive in the Black Rock desert? The desert is very hard on equipment. This particular desert more than some. We've built a few robots. Maybe we can help.
If you have something to add to this document, contact [...]

links for 2009-04-14

CSS History Hack
(tags: css javascript security hack browser history programming firefox privacy)

links for 2009-04-13

MyProFolio
What is it? ProFolio is an elegantly designed portfolio for artists, designers, photographers, or anyone that has creative visual pieces to share! Whether it's used personally or professionaly, ProFolio is a simple, yet powerful tool that allows you to stunningly show off your work in a effective way that is easy to manage. ProFolio is [...]

links for 2009-04-11

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(tags: science funny Reference humor Travel time useful geek timetravel technology)

UFO-SCIENCE
No, this is not antigravitation
In fact the propeller is really rotating. Russians fix a magnet on their helicopter blades. The device sends a signal to synchronize a movie camera, allowing to visualize efforts and deformations on the blades.
(tags: video visualization film [...]

links for 2009-04-03

NModbus
NModbus is a C# 3.0 implementation of the Modbus protocol.
Provides connectivity to Modbus slave compatible devices and applications. Supports serial ASCII, serial RTU, serial over USB ASCII, serial over USB RTU, TCP, and UDP protocols.
(tags: CSharp software library free .net c# modbus)