I am thrilled to be en route to the Maker Faire Detroit! It’s going to be a cavalcade of creativity. To make the most of my time away from home, I flew into NYC last week. While I’ve been in Manhattan, I’ve been drinking lots of whiskey and and lots of rye. It’s delicious! In […]
Our friend Zontee Hou of Lion Brand Yarn will be running three fun KAL projects on Knitting Daily TV. Zontee will be knitting the Fallen Leaves Scarf, the Little Lamb Sock Critter, and the Tabard Vest shown below.
Amateur biotech is starting to heat up — witness Biocurious, the new biology-focused hackerspace. DIY bio enthusiast Cathal Garvey analyzes the state of affairs: DIYbio and its more professionally oriented cousin, Garage Biotech, are undergoing a revolution at present. Essential equipment that used to cost thousands is now available at affordable prices, in many cases […]
My project was featured in local newspapers and TV programs as the “first video game system developed in Honduras.”
I’m fascinated by the process for creating these ghostly photographs that are featured over on Photojojo. Aditya Mandayam developed this exciting new way of making prints: press photo-paper against your laptop screen, flash the screen, and dip the paper in developer, stop, and fix. Read more about these Laptopograms on Photojojo and view more of […]
Armed only with information, I turn rocks and sticks into an electronic signal.
Via io9, Arizona State University has assembled the highest-resolution Mars map to date, the images drawn from 21,000 pix shot by the Mars Odyssey orbiter’s THEMIS camera. The maps show Mars as if sliced from a globe, unwrapped and flattened out on a table. Nearly 21,000 individual images have been smoothed, blended, fitted together and […]
