This fellow in Blaine WA spent 20 years making a bomb shelter under his house (which is now for sale…) The Underground Fortress is an 8th wonder of the world! It is an unbelievable feat of engineering. The Fortress goes a total of 45 feet under the house! That is below sea level! The fortress […]
Great round up of election day “mash ups” from Jason at hackszine…. Aside from the politics, opinions, and issues involved in this election, I’ve been really interested in how the current state of web technology, survey data, online conversation and public information would be merging together into web applications and utilities for the growing digital […]
From Phil @ Make: Elizabeth writes in – When I was a kid, I remember using crayons on a map as the election returns came in, as we tallied the votes for each state. I wanted to do that again this year, so I mashed together a map and put it on flickr to share […]
This amazing buddhist temple was built by Thai monks using discarded glass bottles – Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles […]
Jimmie P. Rodgers explains his Creepy Cave Crab light/noise synths – I made these for the Willoughby and Baltic Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. They use a single Hex Schmitt trigger inverter IC to generate the sound, and two RGB color change LED to generate the lights. I then encased them […]
Strannik converted 2 big ol’ fire extinguisher tanks into a pair of cylinder speakers. I bet they sound pretty hot! … ahem. A ton of build pics available in the original forum post
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: I love the yarn colors used in Gelbemirabellen’s striped knit cap, and the swirly stitching and sewn-on felt baubles just make it that much cooler.
