In this video and at this site, annoyingly good-looking Swedish videographer Jonathan Bergqvist details the construction of this clever shoulder-mount device for shooting video with a DSLR. Designed by Jonathan and his father Erik, the rig itself is made out of birch and includes a manual focus puller, actuated by twisting the left handle, that is hacked together from R/C control rod parts and a hose clamp.
Several months ago, some friends and I were discussing fond memories of the episode of Fraggle Rock in which the Doozers sing about knitting. I was tickled pink when I saw the video clip over on Abigal’s Crafts How To this week. So charming and fun – a perfect way to kick off a Friday.
Nice tip spotted in the BB comments for avoiding “Facebook malware” – In Firefox, install AdBlock plus, add these filters (above). Now you can browse the web without Facebook installing applications you don’t want or sharing information with sites you do not want information shared with, or at least only ones you choose. This will […]
I’m building an Arduino Nerf sentry gun. In the previous post, I showed how I wired and mounted the trigger connector. Next, I needed a circuit to fire the gun from the Arduino microcontroller. To me, the most straightforward way to do this is with a small, 5V relay wired to a digital pin and ground of the Arduino.
By now we all know that the iPad does indeed blend. But does it shred? Built to Shred host Jeff King and pro Chad Knight put the iPad through it’s paces. Does the iPad shred? You’ll just have to watch the video to find out.
This is just a commercial, really, but it’s pretty entertaining. Google advertisers wanted to push their whole “Chrome is fast” angle and so they set up and filmed a series of “tests” where they trigger some fast real-world event and load a page in Chrome at the same moment. Guess which process finishes first every time? Yeah, OK, that was an easy one. It’s hardly “science”–not even the watered-down television kind–but it is, in fact, fairly amusing to watch a potato get blasted through a fry-cutter and into a vat of cooking oil. They also spray paint onto a giant ear model using acoustic waves and zap a tiny pirate ship with a Tesla coil. The making-of video is recommendable, as well. [Thanks, Alan Dove!]
Rich Olson has a posted about his Peltier cooler based cloud chamber. He’s tested Americium, Carnotite, and Autunite samples in it. Peltier Cooler Based Cloud Chamber More: HOW-TO: Make a cloud chamber Inward-pointing scanner, cloud chamber from FMCG
