Alex sent in this short “make a record” article from Germany, it looks like they reproduced a record and the cloned copy lasts around 2 days, if anyone knows anything more about this, let us know, looks like a good project – Link & translated site.
Philo made a great wall following LEGO bot, he writes – “As a direct application to my GP2D12 distance sensor, I built this wall follower. Its base is the Constructopedia RoverBot, I only added a turret bearing the sensor. The trick here is to direct sensor beam 45° away to also detect walls in front […]
Leevonk has an Instructable on making your own fablab of sorts – A good way to make 3D plastic models easily.. You’ll need: an EGX-300 engraver machine (we will use it for milling). I saw it on ebay for $2000 at some point. If you buy from Roland, costs $5000 unless you’re using it for […]
Ryan and his fellow students built a 15 foot tall (30 foot extended) trebuchet, it fires water balloons and other similar projectiles. [via] – Link.
Kim writes – “I have to admit, I am tired of using Photoshop to create a pseudo Holga shot using javascripts found in flickr.com so I decided to just go ahead and hack my Holga CFN and give it a second life since all it has been doing is gathering dust. My plan–to hack the […]
If making Tamiflu is a little too intense for you, David, a professor of biology and chemistry at U.C. Clermont college has a yogurt making how-to using commercial yogurt as a starter and a cooler as an incubator – “Yogurt is a fermented milk product which originated in Turkey in which a mixed culture of […]
The BBC has an article about a better way to make Tamiflu, the ant-viral drug a lot of the world might need if/when we have a pandemic flu. The new approach uses the plant star anise, grown in the mountains in China – “A Nobel laureate has devised a new way to make the anti-flu […]
