Bf5man writes – “Here’s a website with plans and dxf for clocks, he offers the “world’s simplest clock” and a Macgyverish CD-Paper Clip Clock! These clock are in fact escapement mechanisms, the heart of a pendulum clock. “ – Link. More: Brian Law’s Woodenclocks – Link.
Tom writes – “If you haven’t seen it, we have an exclusive large format schematic of Kyosho’s new MANOI humanoid robot at www.botmag.com, plus images taken in Japan — of the AT01 and PF01 being demonstrated. This was provided by our mutual friend, Lem Fugitt of www.robots-dreams.com.” – Link.
Trebuchet03 writes – “The first steam engine was invented by Herron of Alexandria around 150BC (actual date is unknown — that whole Alexandrian library arson thing :/ and books disagree on dates). The history channel (or was it discovery) called this person Mechanos – I’m not sure where that name came from, but it fits […]
401 writes – “A member of a forum I frequent (www.binrev.com) posted this article up today. It’s a great step-by-step process on enabling an RFID reader to open your front door. “ – Link. Related: RFID door – Link. RFID projects and how-tos – Link.
Jared writes – “I have wanted to do this project for a few years now. While it’s was a relatively quick build, the time from the photo shoot to publish has been an extremely long and rocky road. Regardless in the end we have produced the first ionic cooling system for your high end gaming […]
Ok Makers, map the human genome faster than anyone else and pick up a cool $10 million – “Two years ago, engineer Burt Rutan won the $10 million Ansari X Prize when his SpaceShipOne flew 62 miles into space. The second X Prize winner won’t travel nearly as far — but must traverse an unzippered […]
Joe posted up a bunch of slides on making your own wind turbine in the MAKE pool that are worth checking out… we also have how to build one in MAKE 05… [via] – Link. Related: DIY 1000 watt wind turbine – Link. HOW TO – Build your own wind turbine – Link. Wind Powered […]
