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Let's see if it works...fingers crossed!

//Z

Other jewellery

An instructable to make a belt from an old bike tire, looks cool too!

I want to make a belt from an old belt with a CPU as a buckle, how about that?

//Z

Learn to build with electronics

Make magazine has always a lot of ideas for the DIY-crowd. I want to learn how to build my own projects with electronic components and have a lot of ideas. I can see myself buying an Arduino soon to be able to facilitate this urge. Here a link with a tutorial for the Arduino enviroment, for your and my information.

//Z

Jewellery from computerparts

On multiple websites I have seen 'geeky jewellery' on offer, made from old computerparts. This interests me a lot, I have a lot of old parts available and a girl who is always looking for new and funky jewellery to wear so I want to do something with this.

Examples:
Earrings
Mac power earrings
Circuitboard earrings
fractalspin.com

I have more ideas for this myself and will be making some examples.

//Z

Back from vacation!

Well I'm back from my welldeserved vacation, with a notebook full of ideas, research and plans for the next months. I am planning to keep a little more up to date with this blog. I will be posting a lot of ideas and projects here I want to accomplish the in the near future. In this post I want to list some of these ideas and goals for myself.

For first I would like to keep my ideas, todo's and other musings in one place and I have been looking for an efficient way to do this. I have been looking in a way to be more productive and do more with the time I have available so a system would be the way to go. One of the picfalls of this line of thinking I have noticed in myself is that the looking and trying out all the ways available is an intersting exercise in itself and takes a lot of time. So at first I will go for a simple pen and paper system which will hold everything. One time a day I will have to do a review of all the items I jot down during the day and put them into this system. I mostly have multiple places I keep notes (work, home, car and other locations) and will have to consolidate this into 1 masterlist of things to do, ideas to work out and research to do.

One of the projects I have been doing in the last years has been the binding of books. I like to process of binding and there is a lot of creativity in this. In those years I have bound a surprising number of books and have learned a lot of tricks of the trade. This information is gleaned from online research and needs to be written down and published. I want to make a custom book for all the planning and goal information which is easily updated and all information will be at hand when I need it.

Online solutions would actually be a better idea to hold this information and to have access to everything on the fly, wherever I am, but this will be the next step and will be at least half a year before I implement this.

Another project idea I had is to help me in my research. It would be a way to keep all the links/bookmarks and notes for a certain subject automatically and make it searchable and indexed. This is something I am exploring requirements at the moment and you will hear more about this later.

Also I will probably make some posts about my vacation and post some of the pictures I have taken. For sure there will be a post about a phenomenon I have seen in greek licenseplates which form words in another language.

//Z