London Hackspace spacewarming party
Good news for London makers/hackers- the London Hackspace just relocated to a newer, bigger venue, and is having a spacewarming party to celebrate the move!
Year: 2010
How-To: the Best Borscht
Apologies for the alliterative title, but I couldn’t resist, and I think it’s true! About four years ago, my freshly affianced boyfriend and I took an old Soviet train with some friends from Helsinki to St. Petersburg at the height of the white nights (it’s true, it never really get dark there in summer). We […]
Industrial Sound Controllers
Tristan Shone rolled out the ‘big guns’ for Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. His Industrial Sound Controllers are a musical force to be reckoned with and their sheer size and weight demand considerable attention upon seeing them firsthand. Tristan took a few moments out from setting up to speak with Becky Stern and myself before […]
Reading a PC fan speed with Arduino
Flick user Arms22 built this 7 Segment LED FAN Revolution Display to monitor the speed of a PC case fan.
Cutest Use of Photoshop Ever
When I was a child, I inhabited a fantasy playland that existed only in my mind. (Yes, I still spend much of my time there.) If only I had Photoshop to bring my magical visions to life! Forty-two roads took her daughter’s crafty creative play to a whole new level.
‘Splodin’ watermelons with 10,000 volts
[Via Jeri]
The unfinished dagger
During the Second World War, Mr. Warther put aside his personal projects to make commando-style fighting knives for American servicemen. He was not a government contractor and therefore had to scrounge for materials; even so, with the help of the community, he was able to deliver more than 1,100 knives. He was a pacifist, but wanted American servicemen to have access to the best equipment. He was working on the knife pictured above when, in 1945, news reached him that the war had ended. He put the knife down, unfinished, and never picked it up again. The Warther family treasures it to this day.