Cereal box spectrometer
We’ve covered this simple kitchen-table science project before: how to make a spectrometer from a cereal box and a CD. Here, PopSci offers a 5-minute video on the project. More: A CD – cereal box spectrometer
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Victorian Star Trek
OMG. I love these Photoshopped portraits of the original Enterprise crew as Victorians! Victorian / Steampunk Star Trek Wallpapers More: Steam-Wars LEGO contest R2-S2 (R2 Steam Too) – The steam powered R2-D2
Open source Jay-Z video by Evan Roth
Evan Roth made this totally sweet open-code Jay-Z video! The word “Brooklyn” creates images on screen and it’s the fist rap video where you can download the source code. Via Buzzfeed. More Evan: Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners “New Era” hat Public domain donor Graffiti taxonomy
Navigate Flickr by color
This is fun and useful… Navigate Flickr by color! We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting†Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour
SpareBot music videos
Phil Clandillon saw a recent post about sparebots, and was moved to show his own work. Asked about his technique to make the animation, he responded with great detail and technical clarity: It was a very DIY operation. I’ve been doing these interactive flyers for around 6 years in my spare time for Sancho Panza, […]
Wired makes a scannercam
On Wired’s How-to Wiki, they decided to try their hand at building Mike Golembewski’s Scanner Camera project, featured in MAKE Volume 14 and in the Sept 19th episode of Make: Weekend Project (see both below). Charlie Sorrel, author of the piece, did what looks like a nice job with the build, but the results look […]
The Strobovj musically synched stroboscope
Gijs Gieskes’ experiements with sound and light continue with the animated Strobovj synched to Gameboy LSDJ sequencer clock signal. Features include – The left knob sets the speed for the rotating plate. The strobe frequency, and the bike lamps light are set in sequence, recorded with the knob with the two push buttons below it. […]
