TNNA, The National NeedleArts Association, along with University of Akron. is sponsoring a summer student internship program, PiPN, Pathways into Professional Needlearts. PiPN is designed to introduce young people to professional needlearts and to provide them with a pathway into this growing industry. From the site: This is the second year of the program. During […]
In the comments of the “Mechanical hit counter project” daan__ writes – “I built something like this from a old telephone counter: (it makes a nice sound in our lab )” – Link.
Tenderbutton would be proud- In case you need to create a monolayer of lipids inside a spherical flask and don’t to spend $3000 on a commercial rotary evaporator, this is the design you need. Justin Ingram and I set out to build such a device from things found around the lab for a small fraction […]
Raphael writes – Here it is: a box, yes, ladies and gentlemen, a box that can read your pulse and displays it visually as well as auditory. All of this in one simple box. The wireless aspect is still to come, this is the 1.0 version – wired. Look for the 2.0 wireless version next […]
Every now and then, I dust off one of the many classic games I never finished and give it another go. This time it’s Baldur’s Gate II. Every time I do this, I have to deal with the “Insert Your Play Disc” hassle. I don’t mind this when it’s my desktop computer, but on my […]
Chan writes – This is an experimental work to monitor a spectrum pattern in radio band, and is a continuous project from Audio Spectrum Monitor. To analyze the spectrum of an input signal, I chose an Atmel AVR microcontroller that used in the Audio Spectrum Monitor to process FFT. When think it easy, it can […]
Turns out rats are ticklish, and they laugh… It might even work using a bat detector like the one we showed you how to construct here @ MAKE… I supposed you could potentially tune in to the rat giggling… Aristotle declared that humans are the only animal to laugh, but then, he never saw this […]
