In honor of St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, might we suggest a lovely Green Mini Breadboard? It’s half the size of a half-size breadboard, this Mini Breadboard is perfect for tiny projects and for sticking onto the top of Arduino ProtoShields! Normally, we’d encourage you to choose from 5 colors, but today, please consider green!
In response to DIY Movie Making Month, one of our readers, Angela Sheehan, sent us this wonderful little movie she made with her (then six-year-old) sister: This is a stop-motion collage I made, based on drawings by my little sister (six years old at the time). Back in 2005, I was studying animation and taking […]
A study by Noah Fierer and co-workers at the University of Colorado at Boulder suggests that the mix of bacterial flora each of us leaves behind on, say, our computer keyboard or mouse, may be sufficiently unique to identify us:
“Each one of us leaves a unique trail of bugs behind as we travel through our daily lives,” said Fierer, an assistant professor in CU-Boulder’s ecology and evolutionary biology department. “While this project is still in it’s preliminary stages, we think the technique could eventually become a valuable new item in the toolbox of forensic scientists.”
The study was published March 15 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-authors on the PNAS study included Christian Lauber and Nick Zhou of CU-Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, Daniel McDonald of CU-Boulder’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, Stanford University Postdoctoral Researcher Elizabeth Costello and CU-Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Assistant Professor Rob Knight.
Using powerful gene-sequencing techniques, the team swabbed bacterial DNA from individual keys on three personal computers and matched them up to bacteria on the fingertips of keyboard owners, comparing the results to swabs taken from other keyboards never touched by the subjects. The bacterial DNA from the keys matched much more closely to bacteria of keyboard owners than to bacterial samples taken from random fingertips and from other keyboards, Fierer said.
Here’s the abstract for Fierer’s paper at PNAS.
When the daughter of Maya of Maya*Made was gifted a plain turtleneck from a sibling, she declared it “too chokey” and boring to wear. Mom came to the rescue with a brilliant and stylish solution by trimming the turtleneck down and creating a ruffled edge with lettuce stitching. The result was so nice that Maya […]
Matt @ Make: Online writes: Filmmaker and crafter Holly Klein combined her talents to produce this short, Maggie and Mildred. All of the set pieces and characters were cross stitched by hand, then scanned into a computer and animated.
I never tire of seeing new takes on building your own sample roaster. Keeping the beans moving is the key to an even roast. Tim Eggers decided to use a drill to rotate his drum, and even cut and folded vanes into the drum to aid the tumbling. A second soup can drum focuses the heat from his stovetop burner. Genius idea, and look at those lovely beans!
This animation, done by NYC’s Tronic Studio, for AXA, a French insurance company, is faux stop-motion, faux papercraft, all 3D Studio Max. Tronic Studio
