Design news writes – “Some of us remember the “good old days” when we banged out design calculations on a high-end TI or HP scientific calculator. And how we even wrote code to automate the calculations we repeated often! Thinking how cool it would be to do that again on a calculator he built himself, […]
Ken writes – “The past week, I’ve been holding a silent nighttime funeral ritual for an impressive piece of history….Andy Kessler wrote an article that I read some months ago regarding some radio telescope dishes near Stanford and the history that those dishes contain. Ever since then, I have been plotting to go there and […]
Ok, here it is our live coverage of American Inventor – if you saw the show, loved it or hated it – post up the MAKE forums here – Read for a complete list of the inventions and photos!Show opens with a lot of crying, reality TV style. It’s epic, lots of long camera shots, […]
Curious about Circuit blasting? Mark Pilkington breaks it down…OK, circuit blasting… this is quite a long story I’m afraid – the easy part is to explain what Circuit Blasting is. It’s actually a project that I devised with Disinformation/Joe Banks, who I’ve been performing with for a couple of years now. Disinformation is a sound/art […]
Here’s the latest on “Help save the Stanford dish antennas for citizen science” — To all Bracewell Observatory rescue supporters, I just received word that in spite of our best efforts, and in spite of an expected August 4th State hearing to rule on its historical status, Stanford began demolition of the five 60 foot […]
Under the wrist rest of this keyboard are 37 music keys for MIDI keyboard playing. For $44 it’s not a bad deal, but there aren’t any Mac/Linux drivers yet so I’m going to hold off for a bit – [via] Link.
Bre Pettis with the latest MAKE video! – “In this video Pablos shows me two new materials that makers really need to be aware of. The first is shapelock, a material for making anything. The second material is neodymium, which is a rare earth magnet that defies gravity. While talking with Pablos, I had a […]
