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We’re going to be dropping into maintenance mode for about 15-30 minutes, Saturday night at ~11:30pm PST. A new version of WordPress dropped a few days ago and we want to update, as well as take care of some legacy data that’s missing from our pre-2008 posts. We should be back up and running, and […]
Anybody else heard of this Google thing? Apparently it’s some kind of search engine, or something. Anyway, looks like they occasionally riff on their own logo to mark certain events, and today they’ve got a cool one for Thomas Edison’s birthday. Michael Cavna has written a little puff piece at The Washington Post, and I thought this line was worth repeating:
[N]ote to Google: What we really want to see on July 10 is a doodled birthday tribute to the mad and mighty Nikola Tesla, whose electrical developments arguably hold even greater common currency today.
I concur. Yay for Edison’s inventive spirit, worth ethic, and triumph over disability! Boo for his thunder-stealing, cruelty to animals, and Homer-Simpson-esque shameless self-promotion! And yay Tesla, for his genius, humility, and kindness to animals. And yay Google, whatever the heck it may be! [Thanks, Lish!]
From Home Gunsmith Forum user rhmc24: Using chambers cut off 12 ga. scrap barrels and a new $10 bbl for an Italian auto shotgun, the only other gun part is a scrapped hammer from a 1857 Remington perc revolver. Loads like a SAA Colt but underlever rotates and cocks it. Blow-by is negligible, hardly noticeable […]
Just saw these in a magazine and, although have never tried a pair, I am intrigued. If, like me, you’ve spent a lot of time fumbling with cheap tweezers, I might humbly suggest that, like me, you will discover that a bit of extra scratch spent on a quality pair will prove well worth it. And if, like me, you’ve ever ruined a pair of nice tweezers by tossing them carelessly in your luggage, you may, like me, also be curious about these folding precision tweezers from pocketweez.com. I’m gonna spring for a pair, I think, and I’ll let you know how it works out. In the meantime, if anybody’s got any first-hand experience or opinions, kindly let us know, below!
Are you sick of bumping into your tripod when you’re shooting video or taking a picture of a project you’re currently working on? Wouldn’t it be great if there was something that could get your camera right where the action is so you can live stream your work area without breaking the bank? If you answered yes, check out this easy to assemble Mobile Document Camera Stand in Make Projects.
I have a little box in the top drawer of my workbench that I think of as a kind of miniature trophy room. Every time I successfully remove a tamper-resistant, “security,” or other PITA fastener, I toss it in the box.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
B.Light Design’s successful test of chalk in an Egg-Bot.
Wonderground’s first thing-a-day: resistor dodecahedra!
Pete Prodoehl’s panorama of the main room at Milwaukee Makerspace.
Alex Finn’s LED Matrix.
The interior of Copper Pete’s Switch-toid.
