Today we visit the craft space of Diane Gilleland of Crafty Pod who as we all know is a crafty genius who can work on any kind of craft project. How does she keep all her various tools and supplies organized? Find out more after the jump!
Take a look inside Google’s brand new unlocked mobile phone, Nexus One, and see how it matches up to the Apple iPhone 3GS. More details at Google Phone
MAKE Flickr pool member shklaw found an old voltmeter in the trash and made it into this awesome Nixie tube clock. These Nixie tubes are NL-5440A’s. The banana sockets were replaced with switches to set the hours and minutes. When the rotary switch on the left is set to OP, the clock is off, when […]
Andy Holtin, Assistant Professor of Sculpture at American University, in Washington DC, just posted an in-progress video of an installation project he’s working on called Glance. He writes: I’m using the audio line from the DVD to sync eye movement with the Arduino (used the Pro Mini this time and loved it) through an opto-coupler […]
Filth Wizardry shares how she made these fun fleece superhero poncho capes for her daughters for Christmas. They give the feeling of a cape and the warmth and functionality of a poncho. Brilliant!
While Princeton University’s National Spherical Torus Experiment was shut down for improvements over the winter break, scientists and engineers availed themselves of the opportunity to recalibrate the reactor’s neutron sensors. To do so, they assembled a circular toy train track around the torus and ran a toy locomotive carrying a chunk of neutron-emitting californium-247 along it for three days. The New York Times explains:
I really enjoyed this post on photography over at the food blog Omnomicon and the ensuing discussion and thought you might, too. It’s about photographing food (and let me tell you, it’s not easy!), but the lessons and tips apply to photographing any still life, whether it’s chowder or a pair of mittens or a […]
