Andrew Salomone figured out a way to make a ski mask that doesn’t hide who you are. He writes: It’s pretty easy to wear warm clothes on just about every part of your body except for your face. As far as I can tell, the main reason that cold-weather facial attire is somewhat socially taboo […]
Space colony artwork – 1970… A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been converted to jpegs and are available as thumbnails, quarter page, full screen and publication quality […]
Randy at Instructables scoured their site for the best Valentine’s day food tutorials to inspire you. Learn to make flavored marshmallows, dulce de leche, and even chocolate covered squid!
From the MAKE Flickr pool Connecting a relay to Arduino Hardcover hard drive with moleskine enclosure [above, lower-left] “Firsts” from the MAKE Flickr pool Tuning into wifi radio [above, lower-right] Converting a joystick to wireless [above, upper-right] Painted circuit sketchbook Sweet cupcake stepped tone generator (and more) [above, upper-left]
It’s no surprise that indoor plants help to reduce carbon dioxide and increase oxygen in the buildings they inhabit, but this TED presentation discusses a particular indoor planting strategy that is being used by a business park in New Delhi specifically to improve air quality above industry standards, while also sealing all external fresh air […]
It was a busy week in the Maker Shed. We announced 2 new kits, the Deluxe learn to solder kit and the Arduino controlled servo robot. We had a lot of great builds and reviews too! We started the week with my How-to Tuesday: Arduino 101 blink an LED, which seemed to be very popular […]
Jessica at How About Orange bends it like Valentine’s Day with her tutorial on how to make easy heart-shaped paperclips that can be used as little bookmarks and more.
