The popular competition-based reality show from TBS, “King of the Nerds”, is currently casting for Season 2. The reality show embraces and celebrates all things “nerd”, so the mere fact that you’re reading this probably means you’d qualify. You’ll have to submit a 5-10 minute video of yourself to apply, and must be at least 18 years old. The winner of the show will receive $100,000!
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The television show Breaking Bad has inspired a lot of neat craft projects – and most of them are pretty funny, to boot. I guess there’s just something endearing about the characters that makes people want to pay tribute them in cake, crochet, paper, embroidery, action figure, and Perler bead form. I gathered up my favorites to share with you here.
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Who ISN’T obsessed with Downton these days? A couple of weeks ago Lish shared this cool Downton-inspired headband on the blog by Madigan Made, and today I just have to share these jeweled ribbon accessories posted by our friends at Whimseybox. Just lovely!
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User AUTUIN at Free Geek Vancouver took apart a Coleman TV Lantern and mounted the guts inside a 1950’s era radio. In doing so, he used the Arduino TV Out library to make the screen stream Buckminster Fuller quotations that are saved to an SD card.
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Spotted in the MAKE Flickr Pool, this homemade fractal antenna for digital television signals by Roy Jacobsen of Fargo, ND. Instructions for, and discussions of, similar designs are available in this Instructable from William Ruckman. Judging from the comments over there, folks who have built their own fractal antennae are quite pleased with how they […]
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I don’t know about you, but I’m a little sick of hearing about the same people on TV over and over again. I came up with this Arduino-based solution to mute my TV so that I don’t have to hear about Donald Trump’s feud with whomever or Charlie Sheen’s most recent rant. Using the Video […]
Continue ReadingThis week brings us the premier of Design Squad Nation, the reworking of Design Squad, with new hosts, and a new approach. All material from the first three seasons is archived on the Design Squad site along with lots of great short video segments in the parents and educators section explaining lots of important concepts useful to makers of all ages.
After the jump, check out the first episode of the new season. Full shows are available on the Design Squad site and Youtube channel. While you’re waiting for each new episode, make sure you check out the new Design Squad section of Make: Online.
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