Fire alarm bell alarm clock
I could use one of these to wake me up in the morning! Alan at Hacked Gadgets made a nice tutorial video on how to hack a cheap alarm clock to ring a fire alarm bell, don’t-cha-know. – [via] Link.
Year: 2008
Knitted frog dissection
Etsy seller CraftyHedgehog made a great knitted frog… dissected!- Wow your scientist friends and colleagues with the coolness of this piece of knitted art. The frog is hand knit from a silk/wool blend, and his little innards were needle-felted by hand out of 100% wool. He comes pinned into his black wood 8 x 10 […]
Fabaroni: a homemade 3D printer
Outstanding! – The Fabaroni is a 3D printing machine that constructs 3D models with pasta dough. Fabaroni’s gantry has a moving Z-stage and a head with pasta-extruder moving in the X-Y directions. Fabaroni takes STL files as input, processes them using Python, and prints to the machine via 6 printed circuit boards. Fabaroni was created […]
Darkest material ever
I’d like a coat made out of this stuff, but that’s just me… In the iconic movie This is Spinal Tap, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel said of his band’s black album cover, “It’s like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.” He was wrong. A scientist at […]
Unlimited ripping of Netflix “Watch Now” movies
A while ago we wrote about removing the DRM from Netflix “Watch Now” movies. At the time, it involved wading through a bit of HTML source to find the target video URL. Since then, a couple of important things have happened: a Greasemonkey script was written that makes it a bit easier to download and […]
Best Sewing Patterns of 2007
The indispensable Pattern Review site just came out with a list of the 15 best-reviewed patterns of 2007. Follow the link to read the pattern reviews and see photos of the finished outfits made by Pattern Review members. [via] Link.
MakePhilly – Sunday, January 20th
Josh writes in with the infoz for the next MakePhilly meeting – The next meeting of MakePhilly (http://www.makephilly.com) will feature guest speaker Don Miller (also known as NO CARRIER) who creates fast paced, colorful visuals for live music events and interactive art installations by hacking 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) consoles with custom programmed cartridges. […]
