99% Partspriation
Thomas Edison once said that genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. That doesn’t leave much room for partspriation. I’m working on a top-secret project, and had to place a …read more Continue reading 99% Partspriation
Category Archives: inspiration
Badminton Inspired Heat Shield Aims to Fly This Year
Badminton is not a sport that most of us think about often, and extremely rarely outside of every four years at the summer Olympics and maybe at the odd cookout …read more Continue reading Badminton Inspired Heat Shield Aims to Fly This Year
Honor Your Hacker Heroes
We recently ran an article on a sweet percussion device made by minimal-hardware-synth-madman [Gijs Gieskes]. Basically, it amplifies up an analog meter movement and plays it by slamming it into …read more Continue reading Honor Your Hacker Heroes
Inspiring Hacks, Unfinished Hacks
We got a tip this week, and the tipster’s comments were along the lines of “this doesn’t look like it’s a finished work yet, but I think it’s pretty cool …read more Continue reading Inspiring Hacks, Unfinished Hacks
Finding the Right Hack is Half the Battle
Sometimes you just get lucky. I had a project on my list for a long time, and it was one that I had been putting off for a few months …read more Continue reading Finding the Right Hack is Half the Battle
Pick Up the Ball and Run With It
Once in a while we get to glimpse how people build on each other’s work in unexpected and interesting ways. So it is with the GateBoy project, a gate-level emulator …read more Continue reading Pick Up the Ball and Run With It
99% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration, and 99% Collaboration
I was watching an oldish TEDx talk with Rodney Mullen, probably the most innovative street skater ever, but that’s not the point, and it’s not his best talk either. Along the way, he makes a claim that ideas — in …read more
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Printing Yoda Heads: Re-Makers Riffing!
We had a comment recently from a nasty little troll (gasp! on the Internet!). The claim was that most makers are really just “copiers” because they’re not doing original work, whatever that would mean, but instead just re-making projects that …read more
Why You Need to Finish
Mike and I were talking about an interesting smart-glasses hack on the podcast. This was one of those projects where, even if you don’t need a pair of glasses with LEDs on them to help you navigate around, you just couldn’t help but marvel at a lot of the little …read more
Harnessing Your Creativity Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th at noon Pacific for the Harnessing Your Creativity Hack Chat with Leo Fernekes!
(Note: this Hack Chat was rescheduled from 10/14/2020.)
You’re sitting at your bench, surrounded by the tools of the trade — meters and scopes, power supplies and hand tools, …read more