Guido Daniele – Body paint art
Artist Guido Daniele has an incredible gallery of body paint art – the animal series is great! [via] – Link.
Year: 2007
HOW TO – $5 light probe
Falconphysics writes – “I teach high school physics and I use a lot of expensive probeware to collect data. The only reason I can do this is my school has been collecting the probes over a number of years, building our collection slowly over time. For those who aren’t science teachers, probeware refers to a […]
SquiPod iPod/portable player cozy
This is nice, a squid shaped iPod cozy tutorial… good project to start out with if you’re thinking about knitting… [via] – Link.
TAPR Kits
TAPR.org has some pretty intense kits for transmitting data over packet radio, you could use one of their kits with a PIC microcontroller to take serial data from a GPS receiver or weather station and transmit it as formatted packet frames… Here’s a bit about the organization and the kit store page… “If you have […]
HOW TO – Harbor Freight LED flashlight – of DEATH!!
Tool Using Animal shows you how to mod a flashlight with UV LEDs – good for mineral fluorescence, scorpion hunting and vaseline glass shopping. “Danger Will Robinson, This is a UV mod for my beloved harbor freight flashlight So here comes the disclaimers. UV is dangerous, it’ll give you cancer, cataracts, and steal your check […]
Self charging smoke alarm
In a proactive inspection it appears the smoke alarm in my hallway doesn’t work due to a dead battery, it seems like replacing batteries isn’t needed since it could be powered and recharged via a light socket right?. After a quick search, turns out there are ones that do just that. “Never worry about changing […]
HOW TO – Tea Stain Valentine’s Day Cards
The Feb how-to on The Sampler is from Aida of Two Busy Bees on how to tea stain your Valentine’s Day cards. Link.