Steve Chamberlain [LINK] has achieved the ultimate in home-brew electronics: Creating his own CPU from basic logic chips. Absolutely amazing. The photos alone are a thing of beauty but to know this thing actually works is incredible.
From Steve’s site:
“Big Mess o’ Wires 1 is an original CPU design. It does not use any commercial CPU, but instead has a custom CPU constructed from dozens of simple logic chips. Around this foundation is built a full computer with support for a keyboard, sound, video, and external peripherals.
My original goals were:

Build the …

Lena Antaramian is a good friend of mine and has launched her own Photography business: http://livelovelaughphotos.com/.
From her site “For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a passion for photography. On my world travels and adventures I have taken thousands of pictures of landscapes and citiscapes – covering 36 countries on all six continents. But always, my favorite subjects were people. From Buddhist monks in Bhutan, to native Himba of Namibia, to a smiling groom closer to home. After my twin daughters were born, I turned my passion into …

A while ago I designed a circuit that would power an 8×8 RGB LED Matrix (192 LEDs in all) using only 3 pins from an Arduino Diecimila and supporting Pulse Width Modulation. I’ve uploaded some videos of this project on Youtube and folks have been emailing me with questions on how it works. In this post I’ll try to answer all those questions so you can build your own.
I started with the LED Matrix component itself. I used an RGB 8×8 common anode matrix from LedSee (only $10 on ebay). …

A number of folks have asked for detailed step-by-step instructions so here’s how I added a nice Carousel to the Arthemia theme running under Wordpress. I use the free version of the Arthemia theme which doesn’t have a carousel out of the box. It’s easy to add one though and of course these instructions apply regardless of the theme you’re using so here goes.
I’ll assume you have Wordpress installed, doesn’t matter which version.
Depending on the theme you use, the pages you’ll need to edit are located in a folder under …

There’s more to Running than meets the eye. Just as some folks enjoy Trail Running, Cross Country, Long Distance and so on, there is a school of runners who enjoy running barefoot.
I guess some folks really do run barefoot but if you’re not sure or don’t have the feet for it you can always grab a pair of “Vibram Five Fingers” shown here.
These are probably the strangest looking things I’ve seen, like gloves for your feet. I guess that makes traditional sneakers more like mittens for your feet. …