Mitch Altman will be a guest on Adafruit’s ASK AN ENGINGEER live video chat tonight at 10pm ET (Saturday 1/16/2010) – He is inventor of the TV-B-Gone, co-founder of the hacker space NOISEBRIDGE and works with Adafruit & MAKE on the TV-B-Gone kit! We’re very excited to have Mitch in our NYC shop, he’ll be […]
Concrete Canvas shelters look like an amazing way to deliver shelter to emergency situations. The building arrives in an airtight bag, is pulled out with a vehicle and inflated. The building can be deployed by just two people (and a bit of machinery) in 45 minutes. After squirting with water, the concrete impregnated fabric sets up and is ready for use in 24 hours. Covering it with an earthen berm helps keep it temperature controlled, and the interior can be kept as a sterile environment.
(Photo by: Laura Malek) During our Craft Spaces interviews, we posed a couple of questions relating to crafting on the go to our spotlighted crafters. One of the questions we asked was: How do you organize your craft space to allow for quick pick-up-and-go crafting? (Possibly for workshop teaching?) Find out the answers from the […]
West Broad and Alps Bus Stop by Christopher Fennell… via . The Bus Shelter is made from 3 old school buses, years: 62, 72 and 77. The seat is from one of Atlanta’s decommissioned city buses.
One of a crafter’s best friends is no doubt the digital camera, and the clever minds over at Photojojo have a great suggestion about how to summon your lost camera — before it’s ever lost. They go through the steps of crafting a series of perfect photos that live on your memory cards and urge […]
We got 104 comments on our SparkFun Free Day aftermath post, several of which were rather… lively. This video shows what went on at SparkFun HQ during Free Day.
Making ice cream with cryogens stronger than water ice is a fairly common chemistry demonstration stunt. The ideal way to do it, as Theo Gray does in his book Mad Science<, is with liquid nitrogen, which is poured directly into the ice cream mixture, with stirring, and causes it to set up in about 10 minutes. Liquid nitrogen, however, can be rather difficult to get your hands on. Most major cities will have a supplier that will sell it to you, but very often they have large minimum orders and/or require that you own an expensive dewar flask into which they may safely dispense the liquid nitrogen. At -196 C, liquid nitrogen is also fairly dangerous to handle.
