image by Ranjit Bhatnagar Next Monday evening (Nov 15), Alpha One Labs, the community hackerspace in Brooklyn, is hosting a DIY pasta sauce cook-off and blind taste test! Canned tomatoes will be competing against standard vine tomatoes from local grocers (and possibly San Marzano tomatoes for the ultimate palatial experience!) against pre-made jarred pasta sauces. […]
Renowned webcomic artist Randall Munroe built a submersible ROV starting with a commercially-available parts kit: The kit comes with a good set of underwater motors and a sensitive camera, and this summer I started modifying it to use an Arduino and joystick control, running the whole thing over Cat-5 cable (which significantly lightened the tether). […]
Flickr user even-star created and posted this fun Space Invaders Christmas cross-stitch chart. Get started now to make one for each of your geeky pals this holiday season! [via Mr. X Stitch]
Maker Media’s Education Director, Michelle Hlubinka, writes: We’re so pleased to share with you some more details about the new season of the Young Makers Program. For those new to our network: the Young Makers Program is a collaboration between MAKE, The Exploratorium, and Pixar. The purpose of the program is to inspire and develop […]
Which is a mouthful, but it makes sense if you think about it — a jig for a table saw that helps you make box joints with the help of a threaded rod controlled by a wooden gearbox. The maker, Joe Beuckman, began with a box joint jig from Woodgears.ca and then put his own […]
I was a huge Monkees fan when I was a kid, thanks mostly to MTV running weekend-long Monkee marathons back in the early 80s. (which, by the way, I recorded every episode on Betamax tapes) A few weeks ago, I needed a Monkees fix, so I downloaded a best-of album and enjoyed jamming out to […]
Retired Navy patternmaker and former shop teacher Charlie Kested was 71, in 2000, when he first fired up his scroll saw to start work on this project. He just finished. In the intervening decade, Kersted has survived and recovered from a stroke that left him without feeling in one hand.
Apart from all the human interest angles on Charlie himself–senior citizen, veteran, patriot, teacher, craftsman, stroke survivor–the piece itself seems a truly remarkable artifact. Each word is carefully cut from dark walnut, right down to the last flourish and detail of the script, and affixed to a light-colored baltic birch “page.” Hopefully there’ll be some nice higher-resolution photos available online soon. [via Boing Boing]
