Year: 2011

Pixel Pour 2.0

Now in 3D! NYC’s secretly a video game, clearly evidenced by this leak in the matrix. We covered the first (to us) Pixel Pour back in 2008, and a reader has written in with these pictures of a new, more blocky version, photographed by Benjamin Norman. More photos after the jump. More: Pixellated water helps […]

How-To: Bird Thaumatrope

This simple project from Joel at Made by Joel will keep your kids (and you!) entertained for ages, and is a perfect activity for a snow day. He’s provided printable templates for making the bird thaumatrope pictured above, and all you need to add is a stick or drinking straw and some tape and then […]

Printing circuit boards lecture @ 27C3

Are you ready to wake up from the cult of Arduino? Tired of plugging together black-box pre-built modules like a mindless drone, copying and pasting in code you found on Hackaday? You’ve soldered together your TV-Be-Gone, built your fifth Minty Boost, and your bench is awash with discarded Adafruit packaging and Make magazines. It’s time […]