Qui è la a realmente raffreddi DIY gli che mostra come costruire un dispositivo d'esplorazione di laser del disco rigido fatto dal mazzo di vecchi dischi rigidi.

I miei ultimi fissaggi di tinkery e progetto incluso dei sistemi sono un dispositivo d'esplorazione di laser del homebrew. Sapete, il genere che vedete ai planetariums- per scopare un fascio laser intorno sulla parete realmente veloce e tracciate i grafici di vettore. I dispositivi d'esplorazione di laser commerciali hanno avuti luogo ora intorno per le decadi, ma comprare un sistema completo è ancora realmente pricy, anche su eBay. Inoltre, dove è il divertimento in quanto?

Ci è abbondanza degli esempi dei dispositivi d'esplorazione di laser del homebrew sul Internet. Molta gente ha legato su un accoppiamento degli altoparlanti, degli azionatori del disco rigido, o di altri meccanismi disponibili facilmente ad un amplificatore e li ha usati per i grafici semplici del laser. Ciò farà alcuni modelli wiggly graziosi sulla parete, ma non è un dispositivo grafico di vettore reale. L'esempio I migliore sa per dell'completamente costru-da-graffia il proiettore del laser (che non per mezzo degli azionatori commerciali di galvo) realmente utilizza i galvanometri su ordinazione della mano-ferita. Molto piacevole.

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A Lithuanian builds a car from scratch using polyurethane foam.  It’s an amazing work of an art.  Perhaps he did it because foam weighs less than other meterials?

The car is probably not your daily driver but still, with the 30″ chrome wheels, you can at least look good in it.

Continue reading ‘Foam Car built by a Lithuanian!’

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Here’s a good DIY on how to make your own heater pad from scratch with acetate. This should save couple bills for your next sking/snowboarding trip. I do prefer snowboarding of course, people in general are way more laid back. (no offense to you skiers…sorry about that last time I went between your legs at 60mph downhill and made you flip like a dog) :p

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You know I ran into this post today, it’s a Ford Bronco PC. Well, the first thing it reminded me was OJ Simpson. Weird what the media could do to your mind. I try to stay off TV and any real news these days for that reason. Maybe one day I will buy my own island and live there with a dog and a cool boat.

Anyways, check out the Ford Bronco PC, all custom built from scratch, lovin’ the pics.

I started with the idea of an mp3 player for my garage because all my CD’s were getting scratched and dirty. At the time (Jan. 2004) I was planning an upgrade to my gaming computer and figured I would have extra parts left over. So I tried thinking of something that would ”fit in” in a garage setting. Since I had recently finished working on my ‘69 Ford Bronco, I decided that would make a cool looking computer case and began taking measurements of the Bronco and major computer parts to find a scale that would work well. I found that 1/5th scale worked great. I also wanted it to be self contained and compact as possible and still use desktop components.

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Here’s a short video clip of what DynamicToolbar does. Basically they are a professional development company that specializes in building toolbars for companies who are looking for a customized service. Although I am building my SiteHoppin Toolbar from scratch by reading books, this might be a great way for companies that want a nice professional “customized” version.

There are lots of free tools out there to build a toolbar, but they usually come with extraneous stuff you don’t need and those free toolbars run really slow.

So check out DynamicToolbar if you are looking for a professional-grade toolbar done right.

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Well, I ran into this nice lady who explained how VisualCV works at the Web 2.0 Expo.

I think it’s a really good idea that they’ve actually made resume into a Web2.0ish interactive media.

It’s basically a free service that let’s you build resumes for yourself or even companies.

Instead of sending attachments, now you can simply point to your online resume as mine here:

http://www.visualcv.com/zedomax

(I made it in about 5 minutes)

Here’s a screenshot:

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The greatest part about this VisualCV is that it comes loaded with widgets and AJAX drag and drop technology, so you can easily build a cool looking resume in just 5 minutes. (provided you already have an offline resume to copy and paste like me)

Anyways, check it out as these guys also even let you embed YouTube videos into your resume, how cool is that?  Another great feature is that there’s a PDF converter so your new employers can download the resume as PDF in a snap.

Of course, some of you guys are good enough to create all this from scratch but you do also get good online visibility of your resume on the site itself as VisualCV grows.

Warning, please read Part I of How to make your own Firefox extension from scratch before trying this DIY.

In this Part II of How to make your own Firefox extension, we will change the icon button to something we like instead of the dumb looking blue default button.

Now, you will want to open up the overlay.css file under the skin directory of where you unzipped your extension files.

The default should look somewhat like this:

/* This is just an example. You shouldn’t do this. */
#shtoolbar-hello
{
color: red ! important;
}
#shtoolbar-toolbar-button
{
list-style-image: url(”chrome://shtoolbar/skin/toolbar-button.png”);
-moz-image-region: rect(0px 24px 24px 0px);
}
#shtoolbar-toolbar-button:hover
{
-moz-image-region: rect(24px 24px 48px 0px);
}
[iconsize="small"] #shtoolbar-toolbar-button
{
-moz-image-region: rect( 0px 40px 16px 24px);
}
[iconsize="small"] #shtoolbar-toolbar-button:hover
{
-moz-image-region: rect(24px 40px 40px 24px);
}

Now, you can change the button’s image by editing the toolbar-button.png. I actually simply replaced with another file name.

So first, I made my own logo. You will need one with height of 24 pixels and the other with 16 pixels.

I also made a “hovering” graphic so the logo will change and have the kangaroo holding a beer when you hover the mouse over it.

Here’s an example Png file I made using Photoshop:

As you can see, you the can use just 1 file to store all the logo images you need.

In my case, I made a 165×24 pixel icon button and 100×16 pixel icon button.

The 100×16 pixel icon button is actually used for the toolbar and the 165×24 pixel icon button is used when you tried to customize your toolbar.

So in total, the size of my file was 265×48 pixels.

Now comes the fun part. You simply need to mess with the -moz-image-region values so you grab the right parts of your customized PNG file.

So after all that, here’s the file I have for overlay.css:

/* This is just an example. You shouldn’t do this. */
#shtoolbar-hello
{
color: black ! important;
}
#shtoolbar-toolbar-button
{
list-style-image: url(”chrome://shtoolbar/skin/shtoolbar.png“);
-moz-image-region: rect(0px 165px 24px 0px);
}
#shtoolbar-toolbar-button:hover
{
-moz-image-region: rect(24px 165px 48px 0px);
}
[iconsize="small"] #shtoolbar-toolbar-button
{
-moz-image-region: rect( 0px 275px 16px 165px);
}
[iconsize="small"] #shtoolbar-toolbar-button:hover
{
-moz-image-region: rect(24px 275px 40px 165px);
}

I’ve highlighted the changes I made in BOLD.

You simply need to remember 4 things when editing the -moz-image-region:

TOP RIGHT BOTTOM LEFT

That’s right, for the first line:

-moz-image-region: rect(0px 165px 24px 0px);

I am simply telling the CSS file to grab the portion of the image from 0 to 24px from TOP to BOTTOM, and from 0 to 165px from LEFT to RIGHT.

Now you do the same for the hovering and the smaller image.

After you made those changes, Save and then restart the browser.

Your default blue button should now look like this:

Looks great doesn’t it?

And when you hover the mouse, you get a nice beer bottle for the sober kangaroo.

Next time, we will mess with more Javascripts that can be used for the icon button to actually do something…

Have fun and have a greeeeat weekend!

You’ve been wondering why there were so few posts on Zedomax.com over the last 3 weeks, we have been working around the clock, through Christmas Eve and New Years to bring you brand new sites.

While they are in heavy development, you can check out our “live” progresses.

You are welcome to register for a username and play around with it until we get our new “tag browsing” function implemented and bunch of other stuff being added on.

You can check our .Net post for more details.

If you want to invest in the new SiteHoppin.com, shoot us an e-mail at zedomax [at] gmail.com. We are looking for some VC funding for this new big project.  Basically, you will get pre-paid advertising for your investment.  Although this idea is not fully cemented yet, you will be added to our priority list of investors to be alerted when the opportunity knocks.

On another bright 2008 New Years 4:30AM note, we are developing the domain name we bought, KnolProject.Net, to build a community of open source developers dedicated to making new “paid wiki” or “social networking wiki” sites using MediaWiki. Google’s new Knol Project is a great site but we will show you how to make something similar from scratch using MediaWiki and your imaginations and keyboard.

Budding David Beckams can get their skills up scratch and show the man that they have what takes to be a super star. Get practicing with this small soccer ball and you can never tell.

Features:

Ages: - 6 +
Batteries: - Requires three XAG13 batteries (included)
Dimensions: - 7.68″ L x 7.68″ W x 10″ H
Weight: - 1 Pound
Made In: - China
Made Of: - Foam
Model Number: - 1780
Gift Wrap: - Available
Digital display keeps track of how long you can keep the ball in the air
Includes an invisible sensor that counts how many times you juggle the ball
Design and colors resemble a regular soccer ball, but with a hi-tech edge
Great for one or multiple players

This is an excellent way of learning to play the game of soccer, and being able to practice when you are alone, means that you have no excuse not to be a soccer star.

Priced at $24.95

Source [Oh Gizmo]

Here’s a cool site on how to build linux from scratch!

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