This is one of two kits for converting your typewriter into a USB-ready keyboard. It comes with two blank PCBs and all electronic parts (unassembled), so that you can have the knowledge and satisfaction that come with wiring up this fun electronics project by yourself. The boards consist of roughly 20 through-hole components and 30 through-hole metal contacts (which you will learn how to make). It should take an experienced solderer roughly 3 or 4 hrs to assemble the electronics, and another 3 hrs to install them on the typewriter.

gonna steam punk me up a keyboard. will miss the 1 key but who cares!

--timball

DIY USB Typewriter Conversion Kit by usbtypewriter on Etsy

My original smokehouse plan was to make something big enough to cold smoke two pigs worth of hams and bacon at a time. I only butcher pigs once or twice a year for curing,....but I cook several pigs a year on my cinderblock pit.

Really want to build a smokehouse for the fall. i need to smoke my own meat. (nohomo)

--timball

Cowgirl's Country Life: Building a cold smoker (smokehouse)

Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. Follow the steps below to install Readability™ in your Web browser.

aah very clear readable webpages. Now all if i could just convince everyone that white backgrounds cause blindness i'll be set!

--timball

Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment

Recently, the Labs broke into teams and spent two days doing projects entirely of our own devising, given free rein. Our team consisted of two developers, a designer, and Sunlight's prized sysadmin. So for our project, we wanted to do something for the office, that blended software and design with the physical world. Inspired by some recent internal work in inventorying items using QR codes, we thought it'd be fun to make a system that lets Sunlighters print out QR codes for anything they wanted.

we did a thing my team did not win the overall prize but we did get the coolest effects.

--timball

Labs Olympics: Sunlight 2D - Sunlight Labs: Blog

Nanoloop is a mobile music software that provides all functionality you need to create nice electronic music. With its clear, minimalistic interface it plays almost like a game while still allowing for complex musical structures as well as sheer noise.

Music synth for gameboy!

--timball

nanoloop | nanoloop

This is the symbol table. Supported symbols are listed here (alphabetically).

Symbols can also be trained here. Just click the symbol. You can see the number of trained samples in the symbol list, too, so you know which symbols need training. Or just train symbols you sometimes need but tend to forget.

If there are symbols missing be sure to drop me a line (danishkirel@gmail.com).

a quick and easy lookup for all LaTeX symbols: math, music and otherwise.

--timball

Detexify LaTeX symbol table

BUCKAROO BANZAI

bad ass.

--timball

Chipworks

got a couple of patches submitted and accepted into conky. it just tells you what wireless channel you're currently associated too. free software.

--timball

git.omp.am Git - conky.git/commit

The pH Pages
pH Measurement and Control for the Planted Aquarium
Build a simple and inexpensive pH meter. Additional circuitry enables you to control CO2 injection in a planted aquarium to stimulate plant growth.
pH Measurement and Control for the Planted Aquarium
The Simplest Possible pH Meter
You can build a super-simple pH meter with just a pH probe, an op amp, two batteries, and a voltmeter.
The Simplest Possible pH Meter
Buying a pH Meter
How to select and buy a pH meter

this may become useful in the future.

--timball

The pH Pages   •   66pacific.com

Major Lazer and La Roux

LAZERPROOF

La Roux, the British synth-pop duo, and Major Lazer, a hipster dancehall vanity project helmed by producer-DJs Diplo and Switch, don't share any obvious aesthetics. But their respective bodies of work -- just one 2009 LP, each -- are a jumping-off point for "Lazerproof," a mix tape as chaotic as it is cohesive. Like M.I.A.'s Diplo-helmed "Piracy Funds Terrorism, Volume 1" mix tape, it succeeds by acting more like a broad survey of emerging music trends than a compilation of remixes and mash-ups.

these guys are great and you can download the music for free at:
http://maddecent.bandcamp.com/releases

--timball

Review of Major Lazer and La Roux's album 'Lazerproof'