Wow, this might be the coolest thing ever – The astrometry pool on Flickr automatically adds labels to the astronomy photos you upload. Brought to you by the folks at Astrometry.net… If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an […]
While I was at Maker Faire, I picked up a new book from the Maker Shed called The Best of Instructables Volume I. It’s a really cool 300+ page book that’s filled with over 120 great projects. One of my favorite quotes from the book was written by Eric Wilhelm of instructables “Making things by […]
OnePrettyThing points us towards this tutorial on Attic24, showing how to crochet hexagons. So colorful, and a nice change from the usual granny square.
This looks like a cool project that uses an Arduino & Processing to generate LED graphics based on MIDI inputs. I really like how it is housed inside an old slide viewer. A while ago I found an interesting post on the arduino forums about a guy who made a 8×8 LED panel for his […]
Mark Newman’s, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan election maps based on population via Waxy. I suspect in 4 years we’ll see these on all the networks doing “live morphs” from geographic view to population view on a big touchscreen with a hologram operating it… Most of […]
Yes, you read the title correctly. Kris and Carly drove 1100 miles, each way, to Maker Faire Austin 2008. They have a really nice blog post about the trip. I really enjoyed reading about Maker Faire from their perspective. Oh, and thanks for making the trip, we really liked having you there! Check out Maker […]
Phil @ Make spotted Kate Cusack’s zipper jewelry via NOTCOT.
