I've been wanting to take an old Sinar 4×5 camera on a backpacking trek

Mostly just because I can. I've been working on an ultralight backpacking setup knowing that this camera is HEAVY! But I don't have much practice running film through it yet. But tonight I started working on a 'digital' film holder for it. My Cell phone. CDROMs… Microscopes… various 35mm lenses where all tried. The upside …

I found a PowerPotV on ebay

Showed up on Friday. I played with it this weekend in the kitchen. So far I like it.  Hard boiled eggs, instant oatmeal, tea – which stained the pot, but I am hoping this will stop the rivets in the bottom from corroding into my water. It's not an UL item. It's big, 1.4 liters …

I gave my wife her birthday present early (I just couldn't wait to play with…

I gave my wife her birthday present early (I just couldn't wait to play with the one I got for myself too).  I got her a Qi wireless phone charger. Well, several, actually. Phones and tablets got the receivers, and there are a couple of spots that the phone routinely gets set down, so each …

I made a phone belt case

I printed some parts, sewed some leather onto the parts, hit it with a hammer a few times, and voila! Total Awesomesauce! I recently picked up a Galaxy SIII because my EVO 3d starting to get a wiggy touch screen.  My brother in law gave me a BodyGlove case for it. One of the crazy …

My wife bought me a $50 black Friday seven inch Android tablet

It charges via a barrel jack. It has USB OTG. I must connect it to an arduino. I must connect it to my RepRap! I must make a USB OTG cable. I grabbed an old USB charger and started to work with that. I broke one of the pins off. DOH! So I attacked a …

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