FrankG writes – “Pimp your ride with a custom lighting kit with some “Red-Neck” attitude…” – Link. Related: Mod your Rod. James Bond depended on Q to trick out his cars. But with Make’s guide to car hacking, you’ll learn how to turn your ride into a fully loaded, grease-eating, MP3-blasting, Wi-Fi-transmitting monster machine. MAKE […]
Colin sent in this how-to on making your own Ferrofluid – “Ferrofluids are a stable (meaning inseparable) suspension of nanometer sized solid magnetic particles in a carrier fluid. The particles are coated with a surfactant; a chemical which prevents the particles from clumping together and forming a solid mass. The most common type of ferrofluid, […]
Katherine Salant / Washington Post on building a “green home” with a new DVD series – “If you will sit for several hours to read a book about home building, will you sit for several hours to watch a book-length DVD on the subject? After watching “Building With Awareness” and “Green Building,” two recent DVDs, […]
Pink Tentacle has a story about a living light national monument – “Toyama Bay is the habitat of the world-famous glowing firefly squid, which surface in large numbers every spring in a phenomenon that has been designated a special natural monument. Peak season for the firefly squid means big business for sightseeing boats that provide […]
Chris writes – “The 3D LED Cube was a project started by Gene Foulk and I to create a large, animated, self contained visualization cube of LEDs, mostly for artistic purposes, but it also would have other uses.” – Link.
G.E.O writes, “Thousands of pages cut and bound into bound book sculpture! Phenomenal!” Phenomenal, indeed. Artist Nicholas Galanin explores his own Thingit culture and art derived from the people of Alaska. Creating forms of faces from books, Galanin brings a new medium to the art form of sculpture. Link. Related: “What Have We Become” Book […]
Jim writes – “In 1983 it ruled the world. By 1993, it was buried in scorn, the victim of cheap knockoffs. But FM synthesis has a sparkly magic that today is stronger than ever, thanks to powerful new software instruments. Jim Aikin explores the top four FM synths and explains how FM can make your […]
