Michigan Mittens
It’s getting chillier here in Michigan… do you have your official, locally made Michigan Mittens?
Year: 2010
Print-and-fold vertical sundial generator
Neat! This website has a Google maps object that lets you select a particular wall of a particular building on the face of the Earth, and then generates a custom sundial accurate for that latitude and longitude that you can print, cut, fold, and attach. Haven’t tried it yet, so I can’t vouch, but a cool idea in any case. [via Hacked Gadgets]
Use a post-it to catch drill dust
OK, that’s clever. Similar to the drilling-through-a-coffee-cup trick for ceilings. [via There, I Fixed It]
Brewing beer on an oceanographic research vessel
Ever been stuck on a (presumably dry) research vehicle, and want to enjoy some sweet beer? Andrew of Southern Fried Science has some tips about how to make a passable beverage using only ingredients and tools you would find in such a situation, such as a coffee maker, cereal, and fruits and nuts for flavor. […]
Antimov competition results
The results from Sparkfun’s self-destructing robot contest are in, and there were some excellent entries: a teddy bear birthday party gone wrong, a lego robot that cuts through the wrong cord, and a ghost piñata that gets attacked by excited children.
O’Reilly author Alasdair Allan on citizen science, Perl, Arduino, and more
Amongst other emerging tools the Arduino platform has made building cheap sensor platforms within the easy reach of amateurs, and professionals, alike. One of the projects I’ll be talking about in the book is a pollution detecting hoodie which live logs geo-located level of pollutants to the Internet and alerts you to increased local pollution with embedded LEDs.
Making watertight cable connectors
Christian Liljedahl of Illutron wrote in to share their technique for making waterproof cable connectors.
