Archive for the ‘diy’ Category

The Future of (un)Consumption

A new wave of Collaborative Consumption is making sense across the world:

"While it may continue to be necessary to buy certain things ‘new,'" Anderson said, "Collaborative Consumption has the potential to be an equal counterpart to other more traditional forms of consumption."

Anderson added that businesses that stick doggedly to the practices of wasteful consumption are likely to go the way of Blockbuster and Borders.

"Some industries might be slower than others in recognizing the importance of a Collaborative Consumption model," Anderson conceded. "[But] those who don’t catch up will certainly be left behind the newcomers."

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DIY : Become a Memory Champion

Memrise’s co-founder, Grandmaster of Memory Ed Cooke taught Josh Foer how to do it in one year, read about the process.

DIY: Become a Freelance Web Developer

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DIY : Homebrew Microtouch

Sure, the latest "iTouchy" gadgets are pretty cool. But who wants a locked down device?AWhy not build your own touch-screen device, with your own apps, all on open source hardware and using open source tools? OK, it can’t play MP3s, but it does have a 320×240 TFT color display with resistive touch screen, an Atmega32u4 8-bit microcontroller, lithium polymer battery charger, backlight control, micro-SD slot, and a triple-axis accelerometer. Yeah, this is the next big thing and for those of us who like to DIY, you can do a lot of cool stuff with this dev board.

This product is just the Microtouch dev board (preloaded with some demo Apps), and does not include a lithium polymer battery or a microSD card. You will need a lipoly battery with 2-pin JST connector for best performance. It can run straight from USB but due to the charger design, the backlight will be dimmed so it will not appear as bright as with a battery installed.AWe strongly suggest our medium lipoly but you can substitute another 3.7V cell.AA microSD card will be handy if you want to display images, slideshows or animations.

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DIY: Organically-Shaped Gears

DIY: Create a Successful Startup in Japan

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The 10 steps:

Know what a startup is
Have a relevant reason for being in Japan, and always evaluate location
Use the culture, learn the language
Learn to straddle timezones
Don't worry about the local economy
Figure out how to raise money
Create a hiring strategy
Consider creating a US entity
Focus
Profit!

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DIY : Plastic

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Plastic is one of the world's most commonly used items. It is used in every field and in almost any endeavor. In fact, you will probably find at least five plastic objects from where you are situated right now. This useful material is pretty abundant. You can purchase processed plastic items in most retail stores. Of course, you do not really need to buy it if you can simply make plastic yourself.

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DIY: Origami Notebook

This is the notebook where I keep my to-do list, like the one you can see in the picture inABook Review: Do It Tomorrow. A quick and cheap way to have a small multi-page notebook you can keep always with you. Of course, calling this origami is a small lie, as you have to use scissors.

I read a very good post about going the analog way (How analog rituals can amp your productivity) and this was my tool. I could have gone the Moleskine way (I have a pair of 7 odd cm sized pocket notebooks), but this is way cheaper and more handy. When you need one, you only need a A4, it can even have a side written up!

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DIY: How to Win a Nobel Prize

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I went on to work out equations of wobbles. Then I thought about how electron orbits start to move in relativity. Then there's the Dirac Equation in electrodynamics. And then quantum electrodynamics. And before I knew it (it was a very short time) I was "playing" a working, really a with the same old problem that I loved so much, that I had stopped working on when I went to Los Alamos: my thesis-type problems; all those old-fashioned, wonderful things.

It was effortless. It was easy to play with these things. It was like uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly. I almost tried to resist it! There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams andAthe whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

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