The open source Video Game Shield from the Maker Shed allows you to create your own games, graphics, text, sound effects, music, and more on an Arduino! Make awesome black-and-white video games that you can play on your TV! It supports up to two Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controllers for an easy, and familiar, interface. Note: […]
Possibly the creepiest thing we’ve seen all season, here’s mercury(II) thiocyanate’s decomposition initiated by heating. The terrarium adds a nice effect, like we’re watching some kind of sand monster out of Star Trek. Video queued to 1:20, when the action starts. One Facebook commenter noted, “I guess when you burn mercury thiocyanate, it opens up […]
CasaSugar has an exclusive interview and photos with Decor Demon‘s Brian Patrick Flynn and his recent teacher’s lounge makeovers across the Northeast which he did free of charge. The results are beautiful and inspiring for any space. CasaSugar writes: Not unlike teachers’ lounges in public schools nationwide, the rooms had been severely neglected from floor […]
I wish I understood Japanese so I knew what this was about. On second thought, perhaps it’s better that I don’t. [Via Boing Boing]
China launches Moon mission… A Chinese rocket carrying a probe destined for the Moon has blasted into space. A Long March 3C rocket with the Chang’e-2 probe took off from Xichang launch centre at about 1100 GMT. The rocket will shoot the craft into the trans-lunar orbit, after which the satellite is expected to reach […]
Instructables intern Carleyy made these LED leggings and entered them in the Soft Circuit contest over there. Super cute, like a constellation on your legs!
Um, wow. Geometric death frequency-141, as its called, was created by Czech artist Federico DÃaz. It consists of 420,000 plastic spheres, each of which appears to be about 1.5″ in diameter, glued together by industrial robot arms. The subject is a simulated liquid splashing inside an imaginary 50x20x20 foot box. Reportedly, DÃaz wrote the software to perform the simulation himself, and the software to drive the assembly process, as well. More details over at designboom. [via Gizmodo]
