New in the Maker Shed: Beginners lock-picking blend set by TOOOL
Discover the inner workings of a mortise and cylinder lock, first developed by the Egyptians over 4000 years ago, with the Beginners lock-picking blend set by TOOOL.
Year: 2010
BNC/LED lamp
Russell Jones from New Jersey wrote in with his cool-looking LED lamp: I had a bunch of BNC right angle, straight, and T connectors, so I decided to make another lamp. I didn’t want to purchase anything for the lamp except the polycarbonate diffuser rods, which is McMaster #8571K44. The 5/16″ diameter rods were cut […]
Etsy and NASA Space Craft Contest
Etsy and NASA have joined forces to launch the Space Craft Contest. Etsy artists can submit works inspired by the NASA Space Program. (And if you don’t have an Etsy shop, you can still enter. You just need to sign up for an Etsy account.) The Grand Prize winner will receive a $500 Etsy shopping […]
Yves Behar for Herman Miller
The latest from Herman Miller and possible your craft room at just $399, the SAYL chair by Yves Behar is an example in how the testing and design process really works. With more than 70 prototypes made, Behar was determined to see if a chair could be possible without a frame, allowing the user to […]
Power your NXT robot with solar panels
$90 buys a 9V/250mA panel from Dexter Industries, supplying enough juice to power a NXT brick and a single servo. dSolar Systems allow you to power your Lego Mindstorms NXT robot using nothing but the sun! This 9V solar power system is compatible with Lego Mindstorms NXT creations and includes everything you need to get […]
R.I.P. Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
Wired and others are reporting that Benoît Mandelbrot, the mathematician and father of fractal geometry, has passed away, just shy of his 86th birthday. On GeekDad, Matt Blum writes: I had the rare and amazing privilege of hearing Mandelbrot speak when he came to visit my high school about 20 years ago. Even at my […]
TV Bug
From the MAKE Flickr pool: 23N! (Flickr user zeni666) made this TV Bug noise instrument using a CRT TV, SN76477 noise chip, and 3 phototransistors. (Presumably) it works by feeding the output of the sound chip into the TV, where the resulting video signal then gets looped back into the circuit using the light-sensitive phototransistors.
