TINYenormous – Build it up to break it down again

here's a quick video I put together with my new dslr: the Canon 7d. I'll run down my gear and workflow in a lil bit, but for now, here's the vid. Canon 7d test / Coffee facts

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UPDATE - I just spoke with the VP of customer service at media temple. It seems as though there is a lot in the works. He wanted to reassure me that their reaction to this has been very carefully thought out, and that they are currently investigating the hacks. While I generally want to know [...]

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Introduction - just in case you haven't renewed your geek card for the past year (decade?) Arduino is a term that refers to a microcontroller on a board that has certain hardware and software 'shortcuts' figured out. It was designed to be as plug and play as possible, and to lower the barrier to entry [...]

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I have really had a lot of fun shooting pictures of things and learning about photography in the last few years. One thing I love about digital photography is that you don't need to spend a lot of money to take a lot of pictures. I have had an absolute blast playing around making pinhole [...]

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A while ago I decided to jump in and upgrade to 10.6 on my HP mini 1030. It had been a while since I did 10.5, and I was in the mood for a bit of hackery. I initially followed the first set of directions from mymacbookmini.com and I had very mixed results. The terminal commands [...]

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There really are few magazines that I eagerly look forward to. There are even fewer that I can't hold back from reading in the bookstore BEFORE my subscription arrives (I just can't hold back!) MAKE is chock full of cool projects, ideas, and people. They have detailed build plans for some of their projects, and [...]

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One gift that geeks undeniably love are tools. The tricky thing is finding ones that not only they don't have, but also need. I can't imagine anyone interested in electronics NOT owning a soldering iron, but almost all beginners start out with a really useless $8 radioshack iron. That thing usually has a very blunt [...]

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I am going to do a series of posts on things that geeks might need for Christmas / the holiday season. It will be a learning process, as I am going to rely on the collective wisdom of the internet to pick between a few similar products. Some might be big and some might be [...]

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