This would make a great addition to your fish tank, and it’s a good starting point for a complete automation system. Alan admits a simple stick-on thermometer would have worked, “but what is the fun in that?” When the tank is cleaned the fish are removed and placed in a small amount of the tank […]
BREAKING NEWS FROM MAKE: The gang from Botanicalls (Kate Hartman, Kati London, Rebecca Bray, and Rob Faludi) used one of Adafruit’s new Ethernet shields for Arduino to make some plants talk – and now you can too! That’s right, having your houseplants Twitter you when they need water and more! “Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: […]
Here’s a 2 liter plastic soda bottle leyden jar, can be shocking, even dangerous, don’t do this unless you know what you’re doing (here’s what they’re all about, Wikipedia)… The Leyden jar is an early device for storing electric charge invented in 1745 by Pieter van Musschenbroek (1700-1748). It was the first capacitor. Leyden jars […]
The German translation isn’t perfect, but this site describes a privacy product that defeats security cameras. A simple IR LED array in a headband is able to oversaturate the pixels in the camera’s CCD to the point where even adjacent pixels are effected, shrouding the wearer’s face in a white halo. Infrared Light Against Security […]
DIY Maven on Curbly shows you how to make fabric stencils out of address labels. Link.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Treat your eyes to a swim in the photo pool as we enter the last week before the close of our MAKE Flickr pool contest. Remember to submit by this Friday 2/29, if you haven’t already! Schickard machine [above, top-left]-Link Optical theremin (from space?) [above, top-right] –Link Jumping cylinders game […]
Josh McKible has recently launched NaniBird, a site where you can download free paper bird patterns as well as design and submit your own. He’s done the first batch of patterns from designs his fans have made, and they’re nice and free – Link. Related: Free Paper Bird Pattern – Link.
