Design news has their latest “Gadget Freak” up, make a 40-LED bicycle light – “To see and be seen after dark on his bicycle, Bill designed this 40-LED light. He configured a 555 timer IC to generate a continuous on/off timing cycle to alternately flash two groups of 20 LEDs. The device operates on four […]
“From brazen helmet and warrior’s shield of the ancient world to the modern flashlight cell and galvan-ized steel plate, zinc has worked in the service of man.” Experiments with Zinc, Popular Science 1947 – Link.
Over the weekend I checked out Ron Mueck’s sculptures at The Brooklyn Museum, it’s a pretty surreal experience. His work usually consists of huge scupltures of people that seem certain to move and chatter if you can just stare at them long enough, but they don’t. Some are small, some are just body parts. They’re […]
The MAKE forums are a great place to chatter and work on projects with other makers, check out this super-detailed series of posts on building a homemade tennis ball machine! – photos & info. Related: MAKE forums – Link. Join the MAKE forums – Link.
New Zealand based Chris Booth’s sculptures made from rocks, wood and natural objects… [via] – Link. Pictured here, Pumice from the Mountains – “Thousands of floating boulders of pumice were gathered, drilled and threaded with stainless steel cable into tall hollow helical forms. The pumice originally exploded from Lake Taupo approx 2000 years ago and […]
Earlier we posted up the instructions on dual booting to Linux on a Playstation 3 and now, here’s a video of the PS3 booting Fedora Linux… [via] – Link. And a bonus link for the gamers, how the motion sensors in the new game controllers work – Link.
hobbyman.se writes – “Don’t we all sometimes have problems folding back some of those big maps. You know the ones you have to fold like 5 times… If you are going on a trip somewhere, you can make your own map. Print it on a paper and fold it like a pro :-) This “instructable” […]
