Top 10 Things You Can Upgrade with a Little Electronics Hacking
it is a skill to do a good solder joint, it comes with LOTS of practice. so most people who rarely do it will ever get good at it. Bingo. Of course, part of the issue is having a soldering iron at the right temp with a properly tinned tip. I don't expect to ever master tricky stuff like smts or even multilayer pcbs so I'm not much better then a newbie, anyway - and I totally suck at sweating pipe joints. Ah, well... SMT is actually a bit better than through-hole once you get the hang of it.
The artists artist: cellists
Julian Lloyd Webber on Mischa Maisky Maisky's supercharged style of playing grabs you by the collar. He can be strong, passionate and powerful – but he can also make love to you with a pianissimo. I've been strongly influenced by the Russian school of cello-playing and Maisky is very much part of that. He studied with the late Rostropovich, who made the greatest impact on me; like Rostropovich, Maisky's playing is all about the heart and the soul. In the digital age, recordings can often sound clinical; everything is perfect. Julian Lloyd Webber is a British soloist. Steven Isserlis on Anner Bylsma Bylsma is a beloved figure in the musical world. Then I heard Anner giving a recital at the Wigmore Hall, in London, with the pianist Melvyn Tan. Steven Isserlis is a British cellist who won a CBE for services to music in 1998. Natalie Clein on Heinrich Schiff Schiff is a true cello animal. Mischa Maisky on Natalia Gutman Guy Johnston on Steven Doane
Learning How to Code Has Never Been Easier
Programming isn’t just a niche specialization anymore, rather a necessity for tech-professionals regardless of the industry in which they work. Thankfully for them, it couldn’t be any easier.As such, there’s a big push lately to make coding literacy more widespread among the general populace. Even Mayor Bloomberg is getting in on the act, pledging to learn basic coding in 2012 as his New Year’s resolution. For those who want to learn to code, there are a number of online school coding programs that can guide them through the process. The main players are Codecademy, Team Tree House and Code Year, each with their own strengths, weaknesses and selling points—all who make it easy. Codecademy Probably the most popular website at the moment for those looking to learn coding is Codecademy, a platform that emphasizes doing while learning. Treehouse Though it doesn’t have the name recognition of Codecademy just yet, Team Tree House is nevertheless a powerful way to learn coding. Code Year
Lesson Plan for Making a Speaker Laboratory
©1995 The Regents of the University of California by Regan Lum Introduction: A speaker is a device that converts an electronic signal into sound. figure 1 Purpose: In this laboratory, you will explore how a speaker works. Materials: 1 permanent magnet 2 feet of wire 1 pencil tape or glue 1 Styrofoam or paper cup 1 signal source (tape player) 1 plug with alligator clips for tape player Procedure: Assemble material as shown in figure 1. Leaving about 10 centimeters on the end, wrap the wire around a pencil to make a wire coil and tape or glue it to the bottom of the cup. Conclusion Does the volume control on the tape player work on your speaker? Return to CEA Science Education Home Page
Giving Identity to Hundreds of Unique Faces
Have you ever felt lost in the crowd, a nameless face wandering in the masses? Well, Brazilian artist Guilherme Kramer decided to eliminate those feelings of loneliness by giving each nameless face that he saw proper recognition. Across the course of one year, Kramer was inspired to draw the faces that he saw in his daily life onto a giant blank wall of an office in São Paulo, Brazil. The piece, entitled We See People In the Crowd, grew face-by-face until the wall was completely covered. Kramer's extremely detailed black ink line drawings give character and identity to each person within the massive crowd. Guilherme Kramer's website via [Illusion]
How to make Char Cord / Char Rope
Create Music Beats - The online music factory
JamStudio for 2021! Download the Windows App or Mac App to keep using JamStudio! DO IT NOW! This app will work after Flash is removed from browsers in 2021! Windows AppMac App Thanks for using JamStudio. After downloading the app, copy it to your desktop and run it. The online music factory - Jam, remix, arrange chords and loops - Free online band, free online mixer, desktop arranger, music arranger, music arrangement, music creator, online producing, band arrangement, garage band composer, sony acid...
How to make a tool set
Life without tools is barbaric. But even simple tools can be expensive in rural parts of developing countries. Import duties bump the costs up higher than they are in the States or elsewhere, and sometimes only low-quality brands are available anyway. So, to hold off future barbarians, we'd like to show how to build a simple tool set on a very low budget. Larry Bentley, the man who figured out how to make these tools, said a wise thing: "Without tools, kids don't take stuff apart, and without taking stuff apart, you don't learn how things work." These tools, Bentley says, could be in the hands of the next William Kamkambwa,who made a working wind power generator from backyard scraps in a village in Malawi. Here's Larry's quick guide to DIY tools. The tools in this guide: Saw Pliers Wooden vice Wood drill bit / star drill bit Chisel Strap hinge vice
Banksy Goes To The Olympics And Challenges London Authorities [4 High Quality Photos]
In an effort to clean up London’s graffiti city authorities have threatened to power wash any Olympics-related graffiti that shows up during the games. Sensing a growing controversy secretive artist Banksy challenged the authorities the only way he knows how, by daring the city to carry out it’s threat on two new piece he created and posted on his website. Banksy is one of London’s most well-known artists and his creations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars so it will be interesting to see what the city decides to do. From The Web Leave a comment comments Tags: banksy, banksy art london, banksy london, banksy olympics
How to Make Char-Twine
