Standard Time is a giant human-powered clock
Here’s another human-powered clock, called Standard Time. Artist Mark Formanek and a team of helpers kept this clock running for 24 hours, updating the display by hand every minute
Year: 2009
Ten science party tricks
Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire in the UK shows you ten cool, quirky tricks of science you can show off at your next party. [via Boing Boing] Top 10 quirky science tricks for Christmas parties
Modernist Gingerbread Houses
For all you architecture fans out there, get a load of these modernist gingerbread houses designed by architecture firms. They’re auctioned off for charity! [via Core77]
AXM Paper Space Scale Models
Our own Rachel Hobson spotted this awesome collection of papercraft real-life spaceship models from AXM Paper Space Scale Models, which are freely available for download. [via CRAFT]
Hand-held bat signal
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr Pool. this hand-held bat signal based, in part, on the Alien Projector from MAKE Volume 16. From Flickr user Oceaneer99.
Impressive WH40K LARP prop set
The idea of “live-action” Warhammer 40K is, itself, so ambitious that somebody needs to give this guy and his buddies a medal just for trying. Check out Flickr user Lt.E.Watt’s photostream to see some more of the amazing props he/they have built to run their games. Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Spleens for the spleen pond! [via Propnomicon]
Portable vacuum synth
Flo Kaufmann used an old vaccum as an enclosure for his analog synth project, the “satrap activ” – It contains 2 cmos based VCO’s , a Moog ladder filter, a 555 based ADSR, a cmos based 8 step sequencer, a PIC based vc to midi interface and a PIC based auto trigger unit. There are […]
