Awesometiny Lego chess set
This itty-bitty Lego chess set by Flickr user akunthita is only 12 x 12 studs, which makes it slightly less than 10 cm square. It even has little drawers to hold the pieces. [via The Brothers Brick]
Year: 2010
Sweet sounds of the 8-bit Shruti-1
Mobile music software developer Olivier Gillet recently turned his focus to hardware, founding the new Mutable Instruments brand. Mutable’s first device, the Shruti-1 uses an ATMega328p (of Arduino fame) and implements a number of features found in pro-level synths, including – arpeggiator, patch memory, assignable modulation, a step sequencer, & MIDI in/out. This all results […]
How-To: Atomic Cookies
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is at it again! The time they’ve made extrusion (spritz) plates for cookies that mimic electron probability clouds. These atomic cookies are sure to be a big hit at your next quantum mechanics-themed party!
DIY prop french fries
Eric Hart added a pic of these homemade prop fries to the MAKE Flickr pool. Natalie Taylor Hart took on this project. She began with an old scrap piece of upholstery foam. She set the fence on the bandsaw and cut thin strips out of the foam. She then ran these strips through the bandsaw […]
Embroidered Wedding Invitations
These gorgeous hand embroidered wedding invitations from Anna of Rifle Paper Co. are just the kind of thing I’d be giddy to see in my mailbox, and would set an incredibly fun tone for a wedding. For their invitation we decided to play up their love for handmade with a hand sewn invitation design. I […]
Data center pr0n
This post over at Hack N Mod is titled “World’s Most Stunning Data Centers.” In point of fact, only two are mentioned, but the photos are pretty stunning. Shown uppermost, the Skynet system core Microsoft Chicago Data Center (of which more and better pictures are available here), and immediately above, the Stockholm facilities of Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, which are located in a Cold War-era underground nuclear shelter. A video tour is available here.
Taking a Stirling engine out for a cruise
Ah, I remember the good old days, puttering around on the Thames in our Stirling engine-powered boat…