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Free Technology Ebooks. How To Draw. "How to Draw" is a collection of tutorials that will teach you everything from perspective basics to shading chrome. Never picked up a pencil before? Fear not! From simple line drawings to modern art and easy animations, we've got you covered. All projects come from Instructables.com and contain pictures for each step so you can start your masterpiece today! Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Arduino WiFi Garage Door Opener. Ever come home in the rain to find the door locked and your keys elsewhere? No? Lucky you then! For those who have had such an experience or never wish to, this project will let you open your garage door with nay but a smartphone/tablet/laptop/WiFi-thing and your super secret password! After all, who leaves their smartphone at home nowadays. The very idea! All it takes is a network capable Arduino, a relay, a long network cable and a few other bits 'n bobs like wire and a soldering iron.

So how does it work? So, shall we get started then?... How to Solve a Rubik's Cube - NIKDAUM.COM. The Rubik's Cube (also spelled Rubick's Cube, or Rubix Cube) is one of the most puzzling toys of all time. It ranks as one of the most cherished 80s icons and few people have ever claimed to solve it on their own, not even warlocks. In fact, most solutions have come from mathematicians using group theory.

But the cube is solvable. Trial and error will get you nowhere, so below is a 7 step process that will get you to sweet, sweet resolution. And if you find this page helpful, feel free to click on any of the ads. Seven Step Method Using this method, even a certified idiot can solve a Rubik's Cube in seven basic steps. 1: Solve the Upper Green Cross To solve the green cross, you have to solve the green edge pieces on their own. 2: Solve the Green Corners Find the corner piece in the bottom layer that belongs on top. 3: Solve the Middle Layer Edges Flip the cube so green is on the bottom. 4: Solve the Upper Blue Cross Turn the top layer until the edges match one of the diagrams.

About the Cube. Teach yourself typing at the speed of thought! Typing lessons that work. This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides.

This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it.

So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ? How to Make a Cheap Multitouch Pad. Michael Cerdeiros - Cerious Productions | 25 Clever Websites that will make you look like a Genius. 1. Khan Academy Have you ever wanted to pick up a subject you’re not well-versed in, but you didn’t have the money to invest in a college course? Khan Academy aims to provide education at the collegiate level for anyone who wants it. They provide resources for learning pretty much every subject out there, including math, science, history and more.

As you learn, the platform will even assess your progress and help you gauge what you’ve learned. 2. This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 3. Guitar is one of the few instruments out there that’s actually pretty easy to learn if you’re a little older, making it one of the most accessible instruments. 4.

Founded by Michael Chu, Cooking for Engineers goes further than just providing recipes. 5. Or Nick the Dating Specialist is a website that wants to help guys be better dates. 6. 7. As much as I would love an education at MIT, that isn’t really in the cards. 8. 9. How to make Girl Scout cookie favorites at home. Spinner / Jog Wheel Inside of a VCR Head.

A number of months ago we were tossing some stuff out at work, included were 2 SONY security tape recorders, so I nabbed one for parts. Inside I found the usual VCR goodies including a ton of good hookup wire, a decent selection of random electronic parts, motors gears and connectors. Before disposing of the pillaged shell I decided to grab the video tape head and the bracket it was mounted on, just to make a cool spinner wheel. And its been sitting in the bottom of my junk drawer since last summer ... Anyway this is hardly a new idea, but most of the time when people make these out of VCR heads they end up with a bunch of junk glued, taped, screwed, and wired to the outside of the head, making for a functional but unattractive device. I wanted mine to be as nice looking as possible (considering my limited tools and workspace) and for me that meant one thing, all the junk needs to be in the tiny space inside the VCR head Okay then why do you want one?

Is it for everybody?