Weigh your hive! Trerick writes: There is currently a NASA-sponsored nation-wide research project that asks volunteer beekeepers to take daily weight measurements of their bee hives. The data is used to estimate when nectar flows begin in order to answer how changing climate effects honey bees. The goal is to build an accurate, electronic bee […]
Last year we posted about Mike Sheldrake’s stunning cardboard-ribbed surfboards, and, well, now he’s posted files on Thingiverse so you can build your own! He writes: The primary purpose of publishing these files is to enable the lowest levels of the board-building ecosystem (where I reside) to experiment with building these boards at the lowest […]
Earth globe transformed in to hovering Star Wars Jedi training remote …
OK, I’m a little crazy when it comes to decorating my kids’ rooms. I like the challenge of a theme — so far, I’ve redecorated rooms in Western, Spaceport, Octonauts, and Sporty Teen modes. If my husband would agree, I’d redo the master bedroom in a Robot theme, but so far he remains unconvinced. So […]
For MAKE Volume 24 I had the good fortune to be able to write about a very cool phenomenon that has exploded in the maker scene — geeks launching their own weather balloons into the stratosphere, carrying coolers packing cameras and sensors. To be sure, these recent launches are not revolutionary, hams have been launching […]
Artist and Eyebeam resident Aram Bartholl’s USB Dead Drops project is raising lots of discussion in the security and file sharing communities. The project release is now in full swing with this video showing how the USB drives were installed in different places around NYC. Aram writes: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to […]
Jody Farr’s garage status monitor, his very first ‘real’ project, was borne out of necessity: In the middle of July, I was wondering why the air conditioner in the house wasn’t keeping up. I must have spent hours looking things over, making sure the compressor was working, replacing filters, blah blah blah. After a while, […]
