Neat! This website has a Google maps object that lets you select a particular wall of a particular building on the face of the Earth, and then generates a custom sundial accurate for that latitude and longitude that you can print, cut, fold, and attach. Haven’t tried it yet, so I can’t vouch, but a cool idea in any case. [via Hacked Gadgets]
And we’re back with our eighteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. DanYHKim reminded us that junk can be a useful Tool for Creativity: Well, I really mean ‘junk’. That is, junk is the stuff you can’t figure out what to […]
DXF files freely available from Thingiverse user freakinhuge. Been thinking about designing one kinda like this myself, but with a release trigger.
Data is everywhere. Dedicated citizen scientists can advance “professional science,” even without any dedicated funding, by learning to intelligently navigate and draw conclusions from the oceans of largely un-analyzed public data that we swim through every day. This story from The Boston Globe is a fantastic case in point:
The Guardian is reporting on a recent change to the BBC’s editorial policy that calls for links to primary research from their online science articles. Without intending an I-told-you-so, this is something I’ve been doing since I started blogging, and I am thrilled that mainstream journalists are starting to do the same thing. There are tons of reasons why it’s a great idea, but these are my big three:
And we’re back with our seventeenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Over on Twitter, Justin Craft is ‘fixing’ a toy for his kids: Weekend project time, inspired by @make. Hacking my kid’s sadly low-powered race track. (photo) Math Campbell has […]
