Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight Jillian @ Boston Herald writes – Instead of staring at the TV late Thursday night, how about staring at the sky? Stargazing is on the agenda for many people this week with the annual Perseid meteor shower reaching its peak late Thursday and into early Friday. While some local events […]
Sean @ Make: Online writes: It’s a portmanteau playground! “Skoons” is better than “spulls,” I think. They’re made from vintage silver by Tom Sale, aka Pinky Diablo, and are available in both tea- and table-skoon sizes. Of course, the numerous holes limit their utility as spoons; I wonder if the details could be embossed instead […]
Lish @ CRAFT shares her tips for getting on a plane with a sewing machine in your carry on bag. They’re also generalizable to any weird piece of maker machinery, even if you don’t sew!
This Lego Space Invaders, Star Wars edition, from Flickr user powerpig is knocking my socks off. [via Public School]
Pezi wrote in to share his single-tube nixie clock that is built into a model train, which sports working headlights. The clock is based on this sweet build.
Milkymistâ„¢ :: interactive VJ station… An open source interactive VJ station Design files, source and schematics included. Features: XC6SLX45 Spartan-6 FPGA 128MB 32-bit DDR400 SDRAM 32MB parallel flash VGA output, 24bpp, up to 140MHz pixel clock Multi-standard video input (PAL/SECAM/NTSC) AC’97 audio 10/100 Ethernet Memory card Two connectors that accept USB peripherals Two DMX512 ports […]
Let’s Make Robots user Rob “renkku” Re is getting some pretty good results from his sound-activated camera flash system, called the Picture-Axe.
