The BBC has an article about a better way to make Tamiflu, the ant-viral drug a lot of the world might need if/when we have a pandemic flu. The new approach uses the plant star anise, grown in the mountains in China – “A Nobel laureate has devised a new way to make the anti-flu […]
MAKE pal and Roomba hacker Todbot show you how use the Roomba as a MIDI instrument, maybe we’ll have this running at the Roomba fights – “The Roomba has a piezo beeper that can play tunes. You’ve heard it. And its motors make noise. Why not put them under MIDI control? So here is RoombaMidi: […]
NASA has a gallery of art online of what the future was going be like, back from the 1970’s, what a wonderful vision – “A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were […]
Ark writes – “How to build a simple propeller toy from LEGO parts. This simple project only requires two parts: 1×2952 Propeller 2 Blade 9 Diameter 1×3708 Technic, Axle 12” – Link.
Aperkins01096 writes – “Quick and easy self watering garden planters. Cheap, reusable, recyclable. All you need are: milk jug(s) (1 or 2 quart), scissors, planting foam (used for live flower arrangements), and potting soil.” – Link.
Padfoot447 writes – “Make a Glad-Bag pillow with only a soldering iron, baking paper, zip-lock bag, a pen, scissors, and a paper clip. Feel free to play the MacGuyver theme in the background.” – Link.
Minnesota Power and the Boswell Energy Center installed a platform and live camera so you can view the Falcons that live there, doing Falcon things – ” For the last 13 years, a pair of migrating Peregrine falcons has been returning to a nesting platform 220 feet up on a 350-foot stack at Minnesota Power’s […]
