Math in your Head Or, Doing Useful Work in a Traffic Jam By Ross Hershberger Equations for electronics math are available anywhere. If you have the excellent Maker’s Notebook, with its reference section and a calculator, you can plug in numbers and get answers to many of your circuitry questions. So why learn to do […]
Hellenistic technology has always fascinated me, especially the work attributed to mathematician, engineer, and inventor Hero (or “Heron”) of Alexandria, one of the world’s first steampunks. Much of the documentation of his work (and likely those of many others of his time) come to us by way of The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (or […]
The rain has finally let up here in Northern California and the first hints of what could be spring are starting to emerge. What better way to celebrate the oncoming season of dresses and fair weather than with some fashionable crocheted bike love from Simeli — a bicycle ornamentation company based in the notoriously cycle-friendly […]
I know it’s winter and not really the season for ice cream, but I had a random craving for the “cereal milk” I used to get at Sunrise Mart when I lived in New York years ago. (It’s a packaged Japanese drink that tastes exactly like the milk in the bottom of your honey nut […]
Our pal Kyle Wiens of iFixit writes: Apple is switching to a new type of tamper-resistant screw across their product line. It is not a standard Torx, and there are no readily available screwdrivers that can remove it. They chose this ‘Pentalobe’ fastener specifically because it was new, guaranteeing repair tools would be both rare […]
You may have seen some of this stuff lately. Don’t let it slow you down! Instead, here are the ten most popular snow-related posts from our archives to inspire some snowbound creativity.
By Jessica Wilson On my most recent trip down to L.A., I found myself racing through the Ikea marketplace to meet the mister for one of our favorite cheap dates. I slowed down through bedding as I always do and spied the Polarvide throw in white with all its happy fringed glory. Last year I […]
