Bread bag tabs art. Try saying that 10 times fast! I often feel a little bit of hollow sadness throwing away bread bag tabs. They come in interesting colors, and they would be so easy to save… but for what? Fine Diving arranged them on a piece of paper to resemble a hand, and I […]
Blackbird wind cart. Photo: Steve Morris Introduction By Mark Frauenfelder In 2007, MAKE projects editor Paul Spinrad sent me a link to a YouTube video of a wind-powered cart, made by a Floridian named Jack Goodman, that seemed to be able travel directly downwind faster than the wind. How could a wind-powered cart outrun a […]
A few weeks ago, we canned 60 pounds of dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes. My CSA sent along a recipe for oven-candied tomatoes, so we did a small batch of those as well. WOW! They were so good that we just got another 60 pounds specifically for oven-candying. Cooking them slowly in the oven intensifies the […]
Hack the new Xbox Kinect and collect a $1k bounty for open-source drivers… It was $1k but they doubled it after Microsoft didn’t seem to like the idea… Open source hardware company Adafruit Industries is offering a $2,000 bounty for the first person or group to upload code and examples under an open source license […]
The Lansing Noise, a regular read for me when I was a student at Michigan State University, posted a simple recipe for Baked Sweet Potato Fries for their regular tailgating recipe offering.
YouTuber SaskView is doing alright with this stunt: He’s coupled two Most Useless Machines together with a bar, at the switches, and turned them loose against one another. The result is highly amusing to watch (500K+ views so far), even without the whole “it’s a metaphor for the two-party system” bit. [via Boing Boing]
Beautiful Modeler – use an iPad to make 3D models… Beautiful Modeler is a software tool for gestural sculpting using a multi-touch controller such as an iPad. Each finger is used to control a single touch point in the model, with multiple layers working to build up 3D volume. As the controller is connected over […]
