About Me 0053: Making Money Guide

MAKE Volume 14, Optics, Maker Shed, $14.99 (digital version: $9.99)

Provide the gift of inspiration with this optical-focused issue of MAKE. Learn how to make a lensless microscope, scanner camera, stereo video camera with 3D view, and more! On a budget? Many of these articles have been released as "Weekend Projects" on the site, so alternatively, you could just grab the PDFs and print them out on nice paper.

PlayStation Eye, Amazon, $31

Originally designed for use with a PlayStation 3, the PlayStation Eye turns out to make a pretty excellent webcam. With it's capability to run at a high framerate, it could be the perfect accessory for that next computer vision project.

DIY Intervalometer, Instructables, ~$20

A must-have accessory for anyone who wants to get into time-lapse photography, professional intervalometers can unfortunately be pretty pricey. Save money and make a custom version by making one for them yourself!

Check out my DIY Photography Gift Guide from last year for many more photo-related gift ideas (such as the above Strobist Starving Student SX1 Lighting Kit)

More:

Kite aerial photography gift guide (KAP)

Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Tools for Makers
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Bikes
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: 3D Fabrication
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Gifts for Dads
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Gifts you can make
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Made in Japan
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Mark's Made by Hand Guide
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Project Documentation and Photography
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Cooking for Geeks

In the Maker Shed:

Want more? Stop by the Maker Shed. We've got all sorts of great holiday gift ideas, Arduino & Arduino accessories, electronic kits, science kits, smart stuff for kids, back issues of MAKE & CRAFT, box sets, books, robots, kits from Japan and more.

Holiday Shipping Deadlines in December:

15 (Wed) - Postal shipping deadline

14 (Mon) - Ground shipping deadline

18 (Sat) - 3-day shipping deadline

20 (Mon) - 2-day shipping deadline

21 (Tue) - Overnight shipping deadline

*Orders placed after these dates using these shipping methods may arrive on time; however, the dates listed are what we consider likely "safe dates."

United States Postal Service (USPS):

Due to the high volume of mail that the postal service deals with around the holidays, please order by Dec 15 if you intend to select this method. However, we have had increased reports of packages sent via USPS lost or delayed in transit during this high-volume period. Since we do not replace or refund any order placed using this shipping method, we strongly encourage you not to use this method in December.

It’s being reported by BGR that some Best Buys may be unable to activate new T-Mobile lines at their stores. Normally, you may think “What’s the big deal?” but it’s causing issue for those hoping to buy the new Nexus S superphone. With Best Buy unable to activate a new service line through T-Mobile, some BGR readers are reportedly having to pay the full retail contract-free price of the Nexus S ($530) in order to assure that nobody else nabs their phone. Brutal!

According to the reader, he couldn’t activate the new line in store, and after heading home, he called back and after repeated calls, they said that if he wanted to get a Nexus S, he would have to pay full retail for the phone. Now, this seems to be an isolated incident, and who knows if the guy was black listed by T-Mobile or something.

BGR reached out to Best Buy’s press relations people, who apparently didn’t respond to their questions. Have any of our readers had this issue? We’d love to find out. Tell us about it in the comments section.

To briefly recap the specs of the Nexus S, it’s not a bad phone, though it’s basically a Galaxy S with Google branding and a curved display:

4-inch OLED contour display
1GHZ processor
512MB RAM
16GB storage
Android 2.3
5MP Camera w/ LED flash

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Making Money Guide

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