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Neat! This website has a Google maps object that lets you select a particular wall of a particular building on the face of the Earth, and then generates a custom sundial accurate for that latitude and longitude that you can print, cut, fold, and attach. Haven’t tried it yet, so I can’t vouch, but a cool idea in any case. [via Hacked Gadgets]
Amongst other emerging tools the Arduino platform has made building cheap sensor platforms within the easy reach of amateurs, and professionals, alike. One of the projects I’ll be talking about in the book is a pollution detecting hoodie which live logs geo-located level of pollutants to the Internet and alerts you to increased local pollution with embedded LEDs.
Very cool design from Thingiverse user msruggles, printed as shown above by user Linkreincarnate, who reports some reification issues with the model requiring hand finishing. Gonna keep an eye on this as it develops.
And we’re back with our eighteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. DanYHKim reminded us that junk can be a useful Tool for Creativity: Well, I really mean ‘junk’. That is, junk is the stuff you can’t figure out what to […]
Discover the inner workings of a mortise and cylinder lock, first developed by the Egyptians over 4000 years ago, with the Beginners lock-picking blend set by TOOOL.
DXF files freely available from Thingiverse user freakinhuge. Been thinking about designing one kinda like this myself, but with a release trigger.
Yus of ProjectPronto built this excellent looking oscilloscope attachment for Android. Using a dsPIC microcontroller, he designed device capable of capturing two channels of data at 2MSps
