Year: 2010

NES glitch art creator

NES glitch art creator

glitchNES is an open source software project for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This software causes graphical glitches similar to hardware circuit-bending. The current version is 0.2. Ben Baker-Smith of Vague Terrain explains a little bit better: glitchNES is a custom-built Nintendo ROM that uses software tricks to create visual effects reminiscent of hardware glitches. Everyone […]

How-To: Freeze Cookie Dough

I’m always ready to eat a fresh batch of cookies and always end up baking too much for my household to eat. (Either that or I end up gorging myself. You know what I’m talking about here.) Thankfully, Katie Goodman of Good Life Eats shows you how to properly freeze cookie dough. Then you can […]

DIY Space on Make: Online

DIY Space on Make: Online

The forthcoming issue of MAKE, Volume 24, is the DIY Space issue. It should be making its way to subscribers this week and will be on newsstands by Oct 26. It has all sorts of cool projects and articles related to do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others space exploration, from launching space balloons to building amateur satellites to […]

Kabbalistic spiral periodic table

Kabbalistic spiral periodic table

I love this Helix Chemica scanned from a 1944 edition of Hackh’s Chemical Dictionary. Besides the usual information about atomic structure and periodicity of properties, this variant on the familiar table displays the natural abundance of each element in living organisms, the sun, the sky, the ocean, and terrestrial and extraterrestrial rocks.