"The hackable, digital synth": cheap, build-your-own virtual analogue. Interesting.

"The Shruthi-1 is a hybrid digital/analog monosynth. Its hardware design is deceptively simple, but the sonic range is wide: sometimes grungily digital like a PPG-Wave, fat and funky like a SH-101, videogame-y like a Commodore 64, weird and warm like an ESQ-1 ; but more often than not, truly original." Looks nice, not expensive at all.

Looks like I'm going to have to go get me an Ordning Timer soon, to go with the intervalometer.

"You send an old sweater to my mom. She unravels it... and knits you a scarf." This is brilliant.

"It is time you took that game you created and publish it. No more homemade board or cards. You have arrived. Now, publish it!" Ooh. Cafepress/Spreadshirt but for boardgames. Nifty - wonder what the quality's like.

Retrospective on Pinball Construction Set, as well as EA's subsequent forays into "construction kit" territory, as a brief history of accessible, mainstream game-creation tools.

"The EnerJar is an easy-to-build device that accurately measures the power draw of electrical appliances" Delightful - lovely form-factor (in itself, an act of recycling), simple to build, genuine usefulness. More like this, please.

Ingenious home-made ringlight for macro work.

Wow: $300 perfect usb/midi clone of a 303. DIY; want.

diy ramjet for $60, using two thermos mugs. wicked.