Via Discovery News: Scientists in California have developed a software algorithm that automatically creates a physical key based solely on a picture of one, regardless of angle or distance. The project, called Sneakey, was meant to warn people about the dangers of haphazardly placing keys in the open or posting images of them online. … […]
The ultimate gadget of 1930s – Jaeger LeCoultre Compass via NOTCOT. Is this real?
Beautifully designed prop documents in convenient .pdf form. Just download, customize the text, and print your own 1920s-style telegrams, ID cards, and more. These were created for live-action H.P. Lovecraft gamers, but anyone can enjoy them. Admittedly, this would have been nice to know about before Halloween, but I’ll bookmark it for next year. These […]
Heather Bailey has provided a downloadable pattern for her Flower Pinwheel that appears in the current issue of Creative Keepsakes.
Meredith from the Steampunk Workshop hipped us to this strange objet d’art from a deviantArtist named Astalo, a Finnish blacksmith and jeweler. Of his piece, Astalo writes (translated from the Manglish): Weird steampunk-themed “hand mechanism” that I made from brass, silver, steel, leather and some parts of one old alarm clock. (like gears and spring, […]
This is a cool way to incorporate an Arduino into your Thanksgiving dinner. Check out this site on Thanksgiving for live video feeds and core turkey temperature graphs thanks to an Arduino. [Thanks Michael] In addition to video, flickr and twitter feeds, probably the single coolest part of the site is the live temperature graph. […]
I dig this sweet bike hack. You’d want to be pretty confident in the tubing stability and mounting hardware before offering a ride to anyone you like. It is acceptable to require that they wear tube socks.
