Lost Knowledge: Timbrel Vaulting
A 14th century method for creating vaulted ceilings with tiles getting some modern love.
Month: June 2009
Some recent FMCG vids
Our pal Jeri Ellsworth and her crew of restless USTREAM-ing hackers are at it again, exploring light polarization, sparking ions, and reversing time. The Fat Man and Circuit Girl
The first ethernet cable
Lisa Katayama writes on Boing Boing Gadgets: Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and copiers at PARC is the world’s first Ethernet cable. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe sent an internal memo to his colleagues at Xerox proposing a local system of interacting workstations, files, and printers. The devices would all […]
Make: Projects – Outlet-mount device charging pocket
Most cell phones are provided with a very basic wall-wart charger, and you usually have to pay extra for a proper charging dock. The bundled charger is often unsightly in use, being just a transformer with a cord strung out to an end table or something where the cell phone rests. If you have a […]
Hardware Chess Sets
Here is a collection of chess sets built from mechanical and electrical bits, mostly nuts, bolts, and washers of various flavors.
How-To: Weave a rope mat
I’ve seen this thing referred to as an “Ocean Mat,” a “Prolong Knot,” a “Ladder Mat,” and a “Sailor’s True Love Mat.” Whatever you want to call it, it’s a noble expression of the manly art of knot-tying, and this tutorial at the UK’s Scullion Enterprises will show you how it’s done. More: Rope bending […]
How-To: Droning machine
Randy Sarafan’s band has got to be set up by now, he built his own droning machine from the movie Eli Eli Lema Sabachthani.
