Yesterday’s future, served up today… A Steam motorcycle, puppet opera, motorized velocipede and inside the biggest man made brain… Steam motorcycle (1936) – Link. The puppet opera (1940) – Link. Motorize your velocipede (1933) – Link. Vehicle oddities (1953) – Link. Inside the biggest man made brain (1947) – Link. This and more @ Modern […]
Despite some crummy rain, a lot of NY area makers made it to our MAKE/POPSCI/ETSY paper project night. Paper wallets were made, the drawbot cranked out dozens of portraits, experiments in powered paper flight were attempted – Thank you to everyone who attended, Here are the photos! Link.
Remember all those wonderful broken electronics ya’ll donated to the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) last weekend? Well, this weekend, they’re going to be resurrected. The ACCRC is holding a 24-hour event at which Makers will have access to all the piles of old equipment. The idea is to spend all night rebuilding, reworking, […]
REMINDER: tranzducer – April 27th Brooklyn, NY – TONIGHT The aural bacchanalia that is TRANZDUCER @ LEMURplex is looking quite special this month. For TRANZDUCER.004, we’ve got international representation straight outta Poland, a few surprises in store, and as always: interactive art from LEMUR! Come down to LEMURplex on April 27th to see and hear […]
In a MySQL Conference presentation with the subheading “How to store a hundred billion BLOBs without buying a single disk,” Mark Atwood described a new open source storage engine that he built which allows you to store data in Amazons S3 service using MySQL. It doesn’t (yet) allow you to create any generic table schema […]
This is a neat idea that might inspire others to run with it more, name badges made from old keyboard parts – Link.
For some reason this light bulb with propellor is oddly compelling – [via] Link.
