Weather, traffic, news reports, etc – there’s a lot of important (and often stressful) information readily available through modern devices. Might be nice to get an update telling you it’s time to go outside and stare at a beautiful sky – For years I have struggled to find a good way of alerting me to […]
Here’s a nice how-to for making your animatronic teddy (read: ruxbin) speak your friends’ twitter feeds. Arduino powered and source code included. Via Hack a day.
Simple may be a relative term for this project. It takes some soldering skill and electronics knowledge to make this thermometer. Everything about this build is well documented, and it really is a good place to start learning about I2C communications and electronics. This thermometer can be used as a standalone thermometer with LCD display […]
In each volume of MAKE we have “major projects” these project pages are meaty step-by-step articles with start-to-finish photos, precise instructions and how-to learning that can range from making a VCR cat feeder to ariel kite photography. In MAKE volume 02 the projects are: Retro Game Heaven: The Atari 2600 PC by Joe GrandAfter fitting […]
ABC news explains the Mentos-Diet Coke explosion (Maker Faire photo by Schody) – “Water molecules like to be next to other water molecules, so basically anything that you drop into the soda that disrupts the network of water molecules can act as a growth site for bubbles,” Coffey told New Scientist. “And if you have […]
Simple photography light boxes, made by a Kenyan photographer, from little more than cardboard boxes, aluminum foil, and bulb holders. Building the Sun… [via]
Behind the scenes of Jason Tozer’s soap bubble photos via NOTCOT. Mark writes – Our recent post on photographer Jason Tozer’s images of bubbles prompted a fair few calls of “how did he do that?†Well, we were in his studio on the day of the shoot and can reveal all here… The shoot came […]
