The latest Citizen Scientist is out and one of the projects is how to photograph the International Space Station – ” The International Space Station (ISS) is so large that the sunlight it reflects toward the Earth is highly visible for an hour or so before sunrise and after sunset. The Space Station is so […]
Homemade camera flash solution from Modern Mechanix, 1932 – “Synchronizing Photo Flash Lamp With a Camera Shutter. The difficulty of synchronizing the flare of a photo flash lamp with the click of the shutter is frequently encountered by enthusiasts of the camera art…The contrivance consists of a flat type pocket flashlight battery mounted between two […]
Here’s a great interactive periodic table of elements, Thanks Jason! – Link. – Updated November 2012 (Previous link no longer active)
Some Friday fun – Perhaps fitting for the Radioactive Boy and/ or Girl Scout? [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Csc934 writes – “It needs to be wider for stability. Here’s how it went during one class. The audio is a little rich on the trumpeting sounds, but most of the details about the design are on the recording.” – Build photos and audio. Related: Build your own hoverboard – […]
Pretty neat, using zippers as sensors, then making music – “”Zipper Orchestra” is interactive video installation: a combination of the “Conductor Musical Score” as a physical controller and the “Zipper Actions Collage Video” as musical display. Users can play music by zipping and unzipping the physical zipper. The screen is a fashion collage, filled with […]
Here’s a really interesting way to visualize plots via LEGOs, could be useful for all sorts of things. I am Jack’s LEGO collection, here’s Fight Club – “Time flows from left to right (at the end of each row it skips to the beginning of the next row). Movement up or down indicates character movement. […]
